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The culmination of the GOAT Code - use this simple drill to swing the club like Jack and Tiger and fix all your swing flaws while adding real, measurable swing speed!
Today's video is going to sum up the entire boat code in one video.
That's really what today's video is all about.
Throughout my study over three decades of obsessing about the golf swing, I've come to the conclusion that there are basically three basic ways to swing the golf ball and release the golf ball.
There's the classical, traditional way of lead side dominant, let that left hand rip through, use the body to help create some rotational speed, your left wrist stays soft, your arms stay soft, you had a little bit of a right arm and hand in there.
That's a basic way to swing the golf club.
It's very, very common.
Many, many of the greats play it that way.
There's also the hitting pattern.
If you're familiar with the golf machine or Homer Kelly's word, he defined the two basic swings, a swing pattern like I just described, and a hitting pattern where you use a lot more right arm, right hand, right side, what have you.
That tends to look a little bit more in the body.
It's open a little bit more through.
You see a little bit more aggressive driving through that arm.
That's also a way that many greats play.
However, through the go-code, I believe there is a third way to swing the golf club that is probably the least talked about, least understood, but I think is actually perhaps the most common in at least many of the greatest of all time, in particular, Tiger and Jack.
I believe they both swung this third way, and that is it's neither necessarily a swing or a hit.
It is a throwing of this.
Throwing the club head is what I would define as the third most basic way to swing the golf club, and it is exactly what I believe Tiger and Jack have done throughout their whole careers.
Now, I'm going to show you exactly what I believe that movement feels like, how I used it to play in tournaments myself, and if you follow this very basic, simple pattern, I'm going to show you this swing pattern with the half motion data, and this drill, and the feels that I'm going to give you throughout this drill, are going to be good enough for you to play scratch or better golf.
That you have the data, and you know exactly what my hands are doing, I'm going to show you exactly what it feels like, and I'm going to show you exactly how to practice it.
So, the first thing you're going to need is some sort of hitting surface, whether it's a carpet, a towel, something that you can strike the ground.
No nerve swings here.
I want you to literally be able to swing and hear how the club interacts with the turf.
So, I have a hitting mat here in my gym, And I think this is the best way to kind of give you a feel of how that club should interact with the turf and how it changes.
That I'm going to show you in a minute with your body, with your hands, with your arms, change and how this club interacts with the turf, Because that's going to be your primary feedback device when you're practicing, when you're not hitting balls.
So, the whole key to this is understanding really what we're trying to do.
If you're swinging, that's one pattern.
If you're hitting, that's one pattern.
If you're throwing, that's another pattern.
And, of course, you'll see golfers who mix all of these in one way or the other to find a way that works for them.
I believe it's simplest if you understand how each of these have their own unique components that you need to feel.
And so, What I'm going to describe primarily is the throwing of the club head, because I believe it's the easiest for most golfers to learn.
Because it truly involves just your right hand.
And I'm going to explain more about that in a moment.
Because most golfers play golf as a right-handed golfer, and they're right -handed and learning this lead-side pattern.
I love such a beautiful, effortless field.
It's just a challenge for most golfers.
This, if you can throw with just your right hand, and really what we're going to get down to is these three fingers.
This is going to define your golf swing from this point forward, if you want to have that feeling of Tiger and Jack throwing that club head at the ball.
So, The first thing that we're going to do is I want you to stand up with stagnant snakes.
Because what I think is the most important missing thing for most golfers is having a real visual of your golf swing.
Like, when I did the RST five-step system, I really made it really simple that you just go to the top and you shift a little rotation and let that left hand release.
And that's the entire visual of the golf swing.
For a lead-side traditional golf swing, that's exactly how simple it should be.
For a throwing motion, Really, All you're trying to understand is you're throwing the sweet spot at the ball with these three fingers.
That's it.
And everything else that you're going to do is working in response to that.
And what's ironic is that when you start doing this correctly, as I'm about to show you, all of the things that you try to do in your swing, like get your hips deeper, maintain your posture, they all happen automatically.
They are truly a result of how you throw the club.
And that's what's really interesting to me is that all of these things that everybody tries to copy in Tiger swing, he's not trying to do this.
He didn't try to learn how to do a Tiger squat.
He didn't try to learn the shit.
He didn't try to learn how to get shatting.
He did it instinctively because it was all just a basic throwing pattern.
And so the first thing we're going to do is understand how to get that feeling of what your body should do as you're throwing the club.
And the easiest way to do that is a staggering stance.
You'll notice I'm wearing socks.
I'm going to explain why later to deal with what it is.
But one, I'm going to do a little practices inside, so I'm not going to shoot at the house.
That's fine.
But I'm going to explain how I want your feet to work in a moment.
So that's why I'm wearing socks.
So, The first thing you're going to do in understanding how to create this throwing pattern in your golf swing is take a staggering stance.
A closed stance, You can drop your foot where your toe is about halfway toward the middle of your foot, or even a little bit further back.
And the reason this is important is because what you need to understand is that in a throwing motion, what your body is really trying to do is release.
If you're trying to rotate through, you can't release.
Watch what happens to as I turn and pivot on this hip, my wrist doesn't want to release.
But when this leg braces, my hand has to work.
And that's the feeling that you're looking for.
So with the staggered stance, it's very different than trying to get hard onto the inside and pivot very quickly.
You can do that as well, but it will tend to slow the release down, which you really want is an aggressive throwing motion with these three fingers.
So start out with a staggered stance, closed stance.
And this is going to help not just with the bracing motion, but what do you do going back?
The golf swing really shouldn't be as complicated as we've made it.
And I think, again, it's complicated because there are multiple different ways to do it, multiple different release patterns that really have things that mix about as well as oil and water.
Some things don't work well together.
So when you get this feeling, you then have to understand, okay, I understand that I'm going to brace into this leg to push back.
And I literally feel as if I'm pushing the ground away from me in this way.
with my lead foot when I'm throwing because that's going to get my wrist to release more quickly.
As soon as I turn, I drag the club through.
So what I want is this being stable, pushing the ground away from me almost as I'm trying to push the ground toward the ball.
And that's going to get my snap.
But what this staggered stance is also going to do is help you understand how to move your body in the maximum.
And what I mean by that is that as you're going back, a lot of times people don't know exactly what they're supposed to do.
and all sorts of things.
And for certain swing patterns, that works really well.
But with the throwing motion, it doesn't.
What I want you to feel is a diagonal movement.
And that's why this staggered stance is important.
Because what I'm really trying to do is get back into this trail leg, which helps me make it easier to turn.
The more I hang on the left side, it'll limit my shoulder rotation.
You can see just by making this one little move, makes it way easier for me to get a better turn.
But then as I go, as I'm doing this, I'm trying to feel that I'm moving this way, diagonally back, and then diagonally forward, bracing this leg.
For those of you that swing over the top and you've never, ever been able to fix this, this drill is going to be a godsend, Because you're going to finally understand what the heck your body and your arms are supposed to do together.
So, with this staggered stance, as I go back, with just trying to get ready to throw, and we're going to talk about the hands in just a minute, but with the body movement, I just go back this way, and then I throw from here.
How would I ever swing over the top?
You can see that my path, I've got three dots here for the T-holes in here.
I'm going to use that as my path marker.
If I was to swing over the top, it was really hard with the staggered stance.
Really hard.
How would I get from here to there?
Pretty tricky.
The only way that we're really going to do that is either A, start to rotate.
Rotation and a throwing pattern don't work well together.
Rotation and a lead side pattern or a pushing through the trail shoulder hit, it works great.
In a throwing motion, your body needs to stabilize.
It needs to provide support.
If you're rotating and trying to throw at the same time, those two are oil and water.
You're going to find this.
The more powerfully you throw with your right hand, the less you need to rotate.
Remember, I always said in the golf swing, you've got rotation, you've got leverage, and you've got width.
It's an algorithm of how you choose to combine all of those things to produce power.
If I have a really powerful right hand throw, I don't need a lot of rotation.
And that's what I want you to feel here.
So this staggered stance, again, helps you feel like I don't need to do this anymore because watch what happens to my hand.
Where's it going?
I'm going to be straight over the top.
So what I want to feel is here, I shift it into the right, and as I shift back to the left, I'm bracing here, and I'm just throwing with my right hand into these three fingers.
No way I'm coming over the top.
The reason people start coming over the top if it's not rotation, is that they're using their right arm and shoulder incorrectly.
I want you to think of this throwing motion as these three fingers.
This is it.
This is the golf swing.
All of your feel is coming in these three fingers as the club sits in the cradle of these joints.
So when you start to get this feeling, back, stagger, understand that the speed is what you're looking for is coming from these three fingers.
You can try and use your arm or your shoulder, but you're going to tend to come down straight.
That's why I want you to have a map that you can hit so you can start feeling this.
So I'm going to have, I'm going to do one here with both hands on.
I have my second stance.
I'm going to use both hands, and this time, on this one, I'm going to swing down a little bit aggressively trying to push with my arm shoulder.
And I've got a secondary mic set up here right next to the ground, so you can get a little bit better auditory feedback.
So you know what you're starting to listen to when you're practicing this at home.
You hear kind of a heavy hit there.
I kind of threw my right arm and right shoulder at the ball.
Still could be a fine shot, but you can hear compared to when I shouted out.
So this time, instead of trying to push with my right arm and hand, I'm going to go back here and just throw the club with my wrist.
Just my three fingers and my wrist.
I'm not going to feel any arm shoulder Do you hear how different the strike was?
I just barely clipped the grass, barely touching it at all.
And you can hear that club ripping through and my body ain't doing anything.
My body is just That's.
What's so cool about this throwing pattern to me is that it's truly just my fingers.
It's just my fingers and my wrist.
The whole golf swing is just my fingers and my wrist.
If I add anything I'm going to come down steep again Not only is it slower and it doesn't feel good, my club's coming in really steep.
Take the right arm shoulder out with my fingers.
Super shallow.
I can just barely skim the very tip tops of the grass, which is what you want to feel with this pattern.
So now, that gives you a feeling of if you just throw it from here, there ain't no way you're coming over the top start rotating, start pushing with your shoulder, start firing your tricep, your fingers, your fingers and your wrist.
That's it.
You can see, even though it doesn't seem like it's very powerful, listen to the speed that I can get my fingers.
That's ripped with a six iron.
That's a 210-yard six iron all day with no effort three fingers.
So now let's get more into how these hands and arms work in the swing.
So we're going to stay in out of this in just a moment.
But now, how do we get these hands to work correctly?
The first thing that you've got to feel is that as you're going back at the top of your swing, and I'm going to stand over here so you can see it with this perspective, when I'm looking back at my fingers, I want that club to sit in the cradle and on this pressure point, just like I talked I also want the club to sit in the cradle of my fingers like this.
If you're gripping it like this, guess what you're going to do?
A, you can't release your fingers So guess what you're going to do?
You're going to push that club with your arm and shoulder, and that's going to slow you down, cause you to come down to speed, hit fat shots, Get the club sitting in your fingers, because again, you're just trying finger and wrist, finger and wrist.
That's all you're trying to feel.
That's where all of your sensitivity is going to come from.
I really feel the club sitting primarily in my middle finger, right here between the first and second joint, and then these two pressure points on my other two fingers.
Now as I go back, all I'm trying to do is feel that sitting that way at the top.
So again from here, I'm just feeling like this with my club face.
That's what I can throw.
Throw it with just my fingers.
Now, part of the trick to this is that as I'm going back in order to feel this, one of the things that's really different for me probably for many of you, from all the time, is that a lot of times developers are going to push the club back over your left arm.
And so when they do this, this takes this right hand out to be able to throw.
And it tends to inside, and then you start picking the club up.
Your hand's not in the position to throw here.
So it's really important as you're is to do a lot of right-hand.
You get a feel for that right hand kind of being in control throughout the swing.
mean you just take the club back with your right hand.
That'll lead to other types of problems.
So what you want to feel is that the arms, hands, And shoulders are all working together to help bring the club back in a relaxed way.
So that your hand is in a position to be able to throw.
Try and just take it back stiff with your right arm.
You're going to throw it that way or with your shoulders.
If you push it back with your left arm, you'll see this whole talk about a lot in online lessons because it happens all the time.
If you imagine forearm, as you start the club back, it should stay on that pain of glass and go to the inside.
But a lot of times you get active with this left arm.
shoulder will be elevated too soon with our arms that pain of glass.
So I feel like everything's going back together.
But the only thing that really matters is getting the sensitivity and the feeling for you being able to throw with your fingers in the right hand as you go back.
Now, One of the you're going to feel that might be a little bit different is that in order to give you a proper throw, I personally have to feel what I would call a flying right elbow.
Now it's not a flying right elbow like jacks or like But for me personally, I'm always a little bit more tucked in with this arm, keeping it more in check rather than letting it fly away.
Because as I was coming down and pulling down drops my arm into GVP immediately.
But now, in a throwing pattern, it's a little bit different.
That arm's going to work down a little bit more what I would call actively, whereas pulling pattern, I want that arm to stay a little bit more passive and just add a little bit of speed at the bottom.
When I'm going to throw, the a flying right elbow is because this is a really powerful position to throw from.
If I was going to throw this club at it as well as fast as I can, I wouldn't do it from here.
Then I'm going to want to use my shoulder turn to help speed it up because I don't feel like leverage.
right back like this and Freddie like this, there's a ton of power.
I'm not advocating get your arm as far away from your body as you can.
I think Tiger has the perfect blend and the perfect balance of this.
He gets up to the top and it's just instead of being tucked in here like this, where you want to use your shoulders, He lets it come away just a little bit, so that it's in a position where the elbow is a little bit outside the wrist.
And the reason I mention this, if you're used to having this elbow directly under the hand like this, it's actually easier to get the club, turn these three fingers than my elbow is out.
When I go in, notice how it changes the ankle of my wrist.
And since that's really all we care about is the wrist and these three fingers, Getting that elbow a little bit out and a little bit more underneath this way, instead of tucked directly under.
It gets you in a position where it's very easy to throw with your hand.
So again, if I wanted to shallow out, if I'm throwing this right hand, I'm never ever going to come over the top flying, I'm going to exaggerate this for a moment, a flying right elbow, as soon as I go to just using my fingers and my hand and my wrist to throw, instead of turning or pushing, I'm always going to swing down perfectly on the plane, even with that flying right elbow.
Again, what I call For me, it feels like I'm like this, but I'm really like this because I'm used to being like this, right?
So that's how So one of my points to this is as you're going back, as you're taking the club back, You want it to sit and fall right on top of that first joint and feel like your middle finger's holding onto it with some control.
The elbow comes away from you a now you can throw.
So now you've got the basic body movement, you've got the basic arm It truly is this simple.
Now let's start shifting our feet back up to the normal position.
I want to start helping you feel how to really generate crazy speed with just your hand and just your fingers, and getting your body to work correctly.
Those of you who bought the Axiom Power Program are going to be familiar with this.
I'm not going to go into the same depth I did in that video, But it'll get you the same basic idea that from here, when I'm throwing, there's two basic ways how people are going to move their body through.
This one, lots of rotation around this if I'm having socks.
So now if I just pivot on this knee side and just have a lot of rotation, you'll see my foot and everything this way.
That's great if you want to swing like Dustin Johnson to have a lot of body rotation.
I don't want to do that anymore.
My body's too beat up.
I want to have a really simple and I want to feel my swing that I can unleash this right hand as hard as I can, as hard as I want.
I don't want to feel like I have to hold it back.
So now when you're doing that and you want to add speed to this right hand, what you're actually going to feel is.
What I talked about in the which is counterfear.
Now watch my feet here.
Where did my foot?
It went this way.
So now what you start to understand is, instead of getting hard on the lead side and pivoting and turning the body through, I'm actually throwing back here and the most powerful, fastest way for me to throw back here is for my foot to go this way, not to go this way.
You can imagine if I was throwing slam on the brakes post up and throw to rotate through.
You want that torque so that your arm, for this risk to react against.
So when you're practicing on a mat in socks like I am, you want that foot to go back as you throw this way.
So this if you're practicing in socks on the mat.
This will help you start to get the feeling of generating torque.
And so that you have the power to throw with that right hand.
So long story short, the whole golf swing in a nutshell.
And Jack and a lot of these great players are doing, who are throwing the club at the ball, that's it.
Now I'm going to show you a couple more little things about how to dip it bottoms out.
So many of you are going to start struggling with this because you're not going to realize how much you use your right arm instead of your right wrist.
And so you're going to start pushing the club down to the ground and that's going to change the dynamics of the swing dramatically.
So I'm going to give you a couple simple feels to help you understand this.
First one, when I did the video on the four pressure shifts, that video should really be one of the first things you start to understand.
Not to do it perfectly, but you do need to understand that as you're going back and through.
Weight shifts should be a dynamic, very quick and something you don't have time to think about, but you need to understand how to feel it so that the club.
So if you find that you're just no matter what, you're throwing your right arm, your right arm to move.
You've got to wake up your feet, you've got to let pressure shift very, very quickly.
So watch what happens here I'll move this over here so you have a little bit of I'm going to just kind of stay static with my body with my lower body I'm not really going to shift my pressure very much and listen to the strike pretty heavy hit I came down pretty sharp because my body is just in the way my arms my shoulders have to go this way because my hips are blocking me out so now as I go down for my arm to go so it's going to go that way it's going to drive the club into the turf now this next one I'm going to do my four pressure shifts I'm going to go left right automatically make me want to go left secondary tilt and watch what happens to the strike so it's going to be a little bit more dynamic swing barely touch the grass just by shifting pressure just by getting my body to wake up and move don't be afraid to move when we're doing that staggered drill as I was talking about earlier I want you to move back into it to get loaded into it to make room because as your foot is dropped back for your arm really easy but now once we get into a normal stance that you've got to make room for the arm by shifting your pressure back to the lead side to get out of the way and that's how you should think about what your body's doing in a throwing pattern is that your hips are just trying you're just going to out of the way they're just a problem they're providing more stability than anything and you're just trying to get them out of the way to make room for this elbow to come out here to be able to throw so in a nutshell if I was to sum up the go code in one video what I believe Tiger and Jack are doing that's it I hope it helps you if you look at my half motion data that I posted recently it's from this exact and just going to the top on my fingers throwing it easy peasy and you'll shoot in a $60 time well maybe a little bit more to it but that's the big picture
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