Creating Torque in the Golf Swing - Pt 2
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Part 2 of 3 of the Creating Torque series on how the GOATs used their body in the OPPOSITE way most are being taught to swing the golf club.
Something that might surprise you is that all hitting and throwing sports come down to the same common denominator, and that is how the wrists work.
Nothing is more important, and nothing is less understood as it relates to the golf swing than how the wrists work.
You felt it at times in your swing, where the club head just kind of like rips through the ball and your body feels like it did.
Nothing.
So you know it's in you but you don't know how to conjure up these magical shots on command.
After today, you will.
Because there's nothing else that I'm more passionate about when it comes to golf than helping my students feel that oh so sweet feeling of a ball properly compressed.
To master this feeling, we need to understand a couple very simple concepts that are most easy to understand by looking at other sports.
But first let me ask you a question.
What do you think about the Scheffler shuffle?
You know when Scotty Scheffler slides his feet around after impact like he's about to tip over.
A lot of golfers think this is some sort of anomaly and just proof that you should just swing your own swing, but I completely disagree.
It's not a strange move at all.
In fact it's an absolute fundamental of not just the golf swing but all hitting and throwing sports.
Let me show you.
All right, I've drawn a line on Scotty Scheffler's toes here to give you a reference point, and I want you to focus on his right foot.
So for those of you who haven't seen this move, it may seem strange, but I promise you, it is a fundamental of the golf swing.
Now watch his right foot.
It's going to go back away from that target line, so it's sliding diagonally this way, and it's the opposite of the Gary Player walkthrough drill.
If you've ever seen Gary Player talk about swing, he wants your hips and your feet to drive forward and around and rotate around.
The modern power player does the exact opposite.
They're trying to create torque and resistance with their feet and their hips.
And as you'll see in just a moment, this is fundamental to all hitting and throwing sports with power.
As I mentioned in the first video, you weren't going to believe me what the most similar movement in all the sports is to the golf swing.
It's not the baseball swing.
It's not the tennis forehand.
In my opinion it's the underhand softball fast pitch.
So take a look.
Watch as she strides off the mound here.
Notice her right foot.
She's not trying to walk through like Gary Player talked about.
She's literally dragging the foot behind as an anchor.
It's trying to act as a braking device and, just like you saw in Scheffler's swing, watch the direction of her foot.
What's it doing?
If we were to draw this line and trace this pattern, you're going to see it go like this and like this.
Watch.
Going back behind because she's bracing and creating torque she's not trying to turn her hips.
In fact, she's trying to do the opposite, and you'll see, by doing that.
That's what allows the wrist to snap, which is the most important part of the golf swing.
And you're going to see other similarities to this movement.
Note in softball they'll tell you to keep the the ball facing the center fielder.
You don't want to start internally rotating or pronating that wrist early.
They want to keep it open.
So that right here that wrist begins to pronate and snap, and that's where the release and speed comes from.
You'll see there's no huge follow -through with the arm.
There's just momentum that's pulling the arm and shoulder forward.
But they're trying to stop that arm, snap it and release it, and they're using that left leg to be a firm left leg.
How many times you've heard that in the golf swing?
Hit into a firm left side.
This is what's so important in understanding how to move your body correctly in the golf swing.
This motion is basically as close to the golf swing without actually having a stick in your hand to hit a ball.
This is as close to the motion that you can get for understanding how to create effortless speed.
Your body has to create torque, which is resistance to rotation, and understanding how to do that correctly is what's going to give you effortless speed.
Now this concept of torque has been around since golf has been invented.
Here's Bobby Jones, who I think was probably one of the best releasers of the golf club of all the goats and watch his hips.
They're done stalling out posting up.
If you were trying to turn your hips to the target they would keep turning.
There's just too much momentum but that's not what Bobby Jones is doing at all.
He's trying to keep that right hip back and that's what stalls the hips.
If you create momentum rotating the hips this way they won't stop.
You'll just keep spinning yourself, screwing yourself into the ground and screwing up the power in your golf swing.
But if you want to snap the release of the wrist you have to create counter rotation.
You have to create resistance to rotation.
You have to create torque in the golf swing and that's what allows the wrist to snap.
It's exactly like snapping a towel.
If you relate the golf swing to snapping a towel the motion becomes a lot simpler to understand.
When you're snapping a towel, as you can see here, the wrist is going to move forward and then it's got to move backwards.
You've got to reverse that direction in order for that momentum to travel through the chain and create that energy at the end.
Where it matters, which is the golf club head in the golf swing.
What you want to feel is that your body.
As you're going to see in just a second from the greatest towel snapper on the PGA Tour, is that you're creating torque.
You're creating resistance that's got to get your body to feel as if it's creating movement in the opposite direction of what you feel like you're supposed to do.
You're not supposed to try and turn your hips to the target.
You're actually supposed to try and feel that you turn them away from the target.
Now let's look at the king of counter rotation.
The king of torque in the golf swing.
The best driver of the ball in the game right now.
Watch Rory McIlroy's hips.
Now, you've probably seen this before if you've studied much of the golf swing.
But for those of you that haven't, Rory's hips don't just stall, they actually reverse direction.
Now think about that for just a moment.
So here you see his hips are done.
His hips are not turning anymore.
He's actually going backwards.
His hip is actually reversing direction.
You can see the the yardage book in his pocket or the pin sheet locator is moving backwards.
Again Gary Player wants you to drive through and walk through this way.
But no modern power player does that.
There's no way to snap the wrist.
There's no way to generate tons of power unless you just rotate faster, which is, of course, super inefficient and very hard on your body.
But when you look at what Rory's doing, Rory knows how to snap those wrists.
To create tons of power in his smallish, relatively smallish frame compared to the modern long drive guys.
And from this view you can see it even a little bit better.
You'll see his belt loop actually reverse direction there.
So he's turning this way with his hips.
Which means if he kept turning and did the Gary Player walk through that, this belt loop would keep moving in this direction.
But it's not going to.
It's going to go in the opposite direction.
It's going back toward the target.
The only way to do that is to create torque in the swing.
So if you're trying to turn your hips to try and create power in the swing, not only are you completely missing the best part of the golf swing.
Which is actually releasing the golf club.
But you're working 10 times harder to hit it shorter.
And once you understand how to create torque, you will finally understand how you're able.
How guys, my size, Rory's size, are able to swing a well over 120 miles an hour.
Because we're doing the opposite of what you're doing in your swing.
And, best of all, you likely already know how to do this, you just don't know how to feel it in your golf swing.
Have you ever snapped a towel?
Then you've experienced torque.
Have you ever thrown your golf club?
Then you've probably felt torque.
Have you ever gone bowling?
Then you're closer than you think to that effortless golf swing.
In part three of this video, I'm going to share with you my formula for hitting effortless shots on command.
And best of all it will take all the stress off your body.
It will actually help protect your back from injury.
It'll help protect your hip from injury.
It'll even get rid of your elbow and shoulder pain in either arm if you're suffering from that right now as a result of your golf swing.
And, best of all, once you master this, it will allow you to increase your swing speed to tour level speeds.
And you will do it all while feeling completely effortless.
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When you're ready to truly experience what the golf swing could and should feel like, and own your golf swing that will last you the rest of your life.
