Wide Glide Wide
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Wide - Glide - Wide. That's all you need to feel in your golf swing for incredibly consistent straight shots.
Theory is one thing, but I'm not a fan of golf theory, even though I've had more than my fair share of my own.
I like proof.
I want to see it really work.
I want to feel it really work and that's what I want to share with you right now is how to do that.
How to take this theory out into the real world, out into the wild and actually put it into play right away without making it complicated, without having to pound gazillions of golf balls.
Of course, you're going to take some time to learn how to integrate this feel and become really aware of it.
It's really just a sensitivity thing.
It's becoming aware of the timing and the sensitivity of feeling this club moving under its own inertia and getting your hands to move faster with it, not forcing the club head to move fast.
So as you start to get a feel for this, the easiest way to start putting this together is with a drill I call wide glide wide.
And it just, Those three words tell you everything that you really need to know about the golf swing.
In my mind to swing exactly like the early 2000s version of Tiger.
What I mean by wide, glide wide is that on the backswing, you're going to be as wide as possible with everything.
And that includes making a little lateral shift.
Your head doesn't have to move six inches off the ball, but a little bit of movement is fine.
You can see in Tiger's 2000 swing, his head moves a couple inches off the ball.
Don't freak out.
It's okay.
So you can go wide, this heel shift to the back on the backswing, and then this stays wide too.
This is the challenging part for many of you because you're going to want to start to pick your arms up and especially your trail arm.
Remember we started with the lead arm for a reason.
The lead arm provides the structure and the shape and the support of the golf swing.
So this hand staying flat, this arm staying straight, this wrist angle staying wide.
There's no reason to get it like this.
It's just harder to time everything.
So keep it nice and wide.
And then at the top, this trail arm also needs to stay wide.
And even this angle in your wrist needs to stay wide.
If you're used to getting like this, most amateur golfers bend their trail arm way more than pros, about 15 degrees more.
The average tour pro at the top is only 77, 78 degrees of angle between their bicep and their forearm here.
And the average amateur is about over 90 degrees or even more than that.
So if you feel that you're staying wide with both this angle and this angle, you're on the wide glide wide path.
Wide going back.
Keep this all super wide.
As you're going back, keep this right arm, your trail arm on top of the left, above the left, lead arm and straight.
Just keep it wide.
Wide, wide, wide, wide, wide, wide.
That's all you need to feel.
Now, once you're wide at the top, glide back to the left.
Just like the song, slide to the left.
We're going to wide going back, glide coming down, and then wide coming down.
That's it.
If you start feeling wide going back, wide, wide, wide.
And again, not straining, not trying to force my arms.
You've heard Tiger say in his book, I try to push my left hand as far away from my head as I can.
That's true, but it shouldn't be under strain, right?
The most important thing is producing speed.
We need to create force in the swing.
And if we're tight, we can't generate as much force.
We can't accelerate as fast.
So if I'm wide to the top and then I'm gliding back down while I'm throwing the club from the top, I've got a golf swing.
That's it.
Wide, glide, wide, golf swing.
That's it.
If you can put those three things in your mind and start to feel wide, glide, and wide, you're widening immediately from the top.
You're not trying to drop your arms down close to your body or any of those things.
You're trying to keep the club head going wide to accelerate it, to give it as much time to accelerate with your hands as humanly possible.
And so you're creating a wide swing arc on the way down.
And at first, what I want you to do is just try and hit without really adding a lot of speed.
So go wide, glide, wide, and just start holding off your finish for a moment.
Because what I want you to start to feel is club face control.
If you're not doing any of this crazy crap with your arms and hands, or trying to twist your body, or any of those things, and you're just going wide, glide, wide, you should be able to hit the ball dead straight, very consistently.
From down the line, you're just going wide, glide, wide, wide, glide, wide.
You should have immediately control over the golf ball, immediate control.
If you're doing something else, then you're doing something crazy with your hands or what have you, or you're missing the entire concept.
Right now, if we're just staying wide and gliding and staying wide, you can see my hands and arms are not doing anything.
I'm just slight bowing of the wrist.
I can hit the ball straight immediately.
Now, as I start getting comfortable with this and you can start hitting the ball very, very straight, very consistently, then I want to start adding a little speed to it, and that's with our trail hand.
So now, I'm going to go wide, glide, wide.
All I did there was that exact same motion, but I threw it from the top with my trail hand.
I didn't try to turn my body.
I didn't try to turn my hips.
I moved laterally.
I went wide, glide, wide.
The faster I throw it from the top, the more speed I'm going to get.
But of course, once you start getting a feel for this, you'll realize that you don't have to work that hard to create speed.
Just what's going to feel like half speed to you?
Once you're getting it from a very efficient source like this, is going to be producing way more speed than you're probably used to now.
So now, let's put the one last finishing touch on this.
Now, when you look at golfers who are great players, and especially Tiger, who's always made it look so easy and had this really balanced, relaxed, aesthetically pleasing follow-through, I'm going to show you how to create that.
So that you start getting a feel for the overall shape of how the club's working through the ball and into the release, into the follow-through.
So once you're at the top and you're sliding back to the left and you're throwing the club, once you get into this release point, take the club and work it vertically is what it's going to feel like.
So you're going to go here, and instead of going this way, take it up the wall and around.
I'm going to show you again.
The club's in the release point, roughly parallel to the ground, and from here, as my left wrist is fully releasing, That's moving the club vertically into this release point we talked about earlier, with the logo pointing down, left wrist fully released, club face starting to look toward the ground.
As I do this, that's what gives me that beautiful stylized release like you see in Tiger Swing.
When we watched him in the 2000s, man, it was fun to watch.
He just made it look so beautiful, so effortless, and just sitting here hanging out all day.
That's how you get there.
So at least while you're learning this feeling, you're going to look really good.
So here, take the club.
As the club releases, let it work up.
So just imagine there's a wall right here, and of course it's not exact.
Don't try to get the, oh, if I put it myself up against the wall, you're going to bang it into the drywall.
It's not exactly like a wall right here.
It's to get the feeling of how the club should be releasing, and what it's really going to help you understand is what you're doing back here.
Because if you start releasing it correctly back here, and you're not turning your body, that's going to stick the club in the drywall.
If I'm releasing just with my hands, the club is naturally going to work up that wall and get me into that fully released, beautiful Tigerettes-esque follow-through position.
So this will help you start to understand, am I doing something wrong with my body?
If you feel like you can't get the club to go vertical, you're not letting this left wrist re-hinge on the other side.
And that's important because if you do that, that's speed.
That's showing you that you're getting speed down here.
But if I hold my wrist off, now we can do this too.
And when we're trying to hit knockdown shots, that's exactly what we're going to do.
But if you're going to get this feeling of the club being properly and fully released, and you can listen, listen to how fast I can get speed down here with my hands.
And my body is just trying to provide stability.
So as I'm doing this, the club should be moving fast down here.
My body should be basically being stable.
And then my hands and club are what are moving still.
And then the club is pulling me around.
And so as I get this feeling, I should have the same fully released position with both hands that we did at the beginning with the left hand.
And that's going to get me into this balanced position where I feel like I have control and stability in my swing.
And if you start just from, again, the wide glide wide, you should have immediately control over this golf ball.
And as you start adding speed, start getting your balance, start finding yourself being stacked over this leg without tension.
If you feel like you're fighting yourself, you're not getting speed enough from your hands.
You're trying to get too much from your body and you're missing the balance of this.
This should feel effortless.
That's the whole point of this.
That's what it's all about.
And that's why I've been so obsessed with Tiger Swing for so long is because he's had such a simpler move than everybody else.
And he's made it look so easy.
And now we know why.
So put this together in your swing, start getting a sensitivity and a feel for this throw, how your hands and body can move fast, get yourself to fully release into this nice, perfect balance follow-through.
And you too can know what it feels like to swing like the greatest swing of all time, the early 2000s Tiger Woods.
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