The GOAT Drill
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The GOAT Drill is how to gain instant consistency and clubface control in the golf swing for a trail side pattern.
The number one thing I've been told over the last 30 years of giving golf lessons that every golfer wants is to be more consistent.
Consistency is really the name of the game in golf, but it's the one thing that almost everybody struggles with.
And in this video, I'm going to show you how to have instant and complete control over that club face through a move that you've never heard of before, you've never seen before, But that's why it works, because it's just doing the exact opposite of what you're probably doing right now.
And that's one of the natures of golf is that it truly involves you doing the opposite of what you think you should do.
Or what feels right in order to actually have a proper golf swing.
And in this movie, in this video, you're going to see exactly that.
You're going to see that you're the way that you square the club face and the way that you gain instant control over that club face.
To be able to guarantee that you can have it square at impact every single time is a strange and even somewhat unnatural feeling.
But as you're going to learn, it's what all the greatest of golf have always done.
It's just a not a natural or intuitive move.
So to feel this, I want you to get up with me and walk through this very quickly.
It's going to be very, very simple.
You're going to be blown away how simple it really is.
I want you to start with your trail hand.
So if you're a right-handed golfer, you're going to start with your right arm.
And I want you to focus on two different things.
One, your elbow pit.
So if you were kind of taking a pseudo golf setup position here, I want you to have the pit of your elbow facing directly away from you.
And then I want you to have the palm of your hand facing directly away from you.
This is critical.
And this is setting up what we call the Goat delivery position, or GDP, that all the greats get into just before they deliver the club into the ball.
And this is key.
This is the final checkpoint, And the most important one, as to whether or not you're going to have both consistency and control of that club.
Face and speed.
So getting this right is not optional.
And what's the difficult thing about this for most golfers is it's the opposite of how they generally swing.
Their arms tend to what we call pronate or internally rotate.
And to do this move, you're going to have to supinate or externally rotate.
So your palm is facing away from you and your elbow pit is facing away from you.
Now, I want you to feel that you exaggerate this motion at first.
I'm going to give you a few different exaggerations that are going to help you feel this movement.
And then once you have a good grasp of it, you can begin to alter it for your preferences.
But for right now, I want you to exaggerate externally rotating, supinating that arm.
And if you stick your thumb out, like you're hitchhiking and you twist it even a little bit more, so it goes past 90 degrees if you have that much mobility.
If not, it doesn't matter.
I just want you to get a feel for how this locks your arm in to this part of your body.
So you'll feel if you take your arm this way that these muscles have to relax.
And the moment you do this, your arm is going to come into your body and that's going to feel a great sense of connection.
And this is absolutely the most important thing for squaring the club face, Because what you're going to realize is that in order to square the club, face every single time at impact, you have to not unsquare it in your swing.
And that's what really.
What happens is golfers don't know how to use their arms and hands, and the arms and hands can move the club all over the place.
And that's a death move in the swing.
And as you're going to learn, your arms and hands do almost nothing in the golf swing when it comes to squaring the face.
So from this position, so I've got my hitchhiker thumb, my palm is out facing the camera and my elbow pit is facing the camera.
And now because this arm is kind of internally rotated and kind of locked in place, it doesn't have a lot of free range of motion.
You'll feel that if you're supinating it, it kind of locks that shoulder and arm in place.
And so now how would you move the arm?
Focus on moving your shoulder right now.
So if I can't move my arm free of my body, I've got to move my shoulder back.
I'm going to go into a little bit side bend, extension, rotation, and that's going to move my arm into this position from down the line.
So again, I can't move my arm all over the place.
So I'm just going to move my shoulder.
Obviously my entire body's moving to help transport the arm up there.
But as you get up here, I want you to see that your palm is looking back at you.
If you start doing stuff like this, where your palm's facing this way, you're going to start pronating too soon incorrectly, and it's going to completely change the face angle.
And you'll always struggle to be consistent.
Make it simple on yourself, palm, elbow pit together.
And note that your arm is roughly 90 degrees to your chest.
I want you to maintain that relationship, maintain that supination as you go back.
So halfway back, my elbow pit's still facing the sky, palm's starting to go up because I'm supinating that hand, hitchhiker thumb.
I keep going.
My elbow pit's still facing up towards the sky, so as is my palm.
And from this position, all I need to do is move this package.
I call this the Goat Power package because this relationship of your arm and wrist and shoulder and chest is what drives the power in the golf swing.
This motion or this package is what's going to be released.
And so you have to store up energy in this package in order to have something released.
And you should feel that as you go to the top, the back of your shoulder is going to kind of feel loaded up and stretched.
And that's fascia that you're feeling, that's going to create an expendable energy that's going to load as you go back.
And then it's going to want to rebound really quickly.
So if you feel as you're supinating and exaggerating the supination to the point where my thumb's actually pointing back at the wall behind me, I'm going to feel tension in my arm and shoulder.
That's what we want.
So from here, if I can't move my arm because it's kind of locked in due to the supination, I then have to somehow get my arm and the club in a moment back down to the ball.
How would I do that?
Well, I've got to unwind what I did with my body.
So now, instead of turning and swinging straight over the top, like most golfers do, I'm going to side bend.
And as I come into side bend, I'm going to keep that motion, that supination.
In fact, I'm going to start to do it even more.
So as I've gotten my hitchhiker thumb, it's now doing this.
For those of you who are familiar with the axiom, it's that clockwise motion.
So as I go from here and I start moving my shoulder to move my arm, I'm moving my entire rib cage, my spine, Everything is moving this package back down to the ball, to the point that my elbow is kind of leading my hand into the back of the ball, but I'm not just ripping my arm down there or my arm, if it's supinated, feels locked in.
So I've got to use my whole body, my rib cage, my legs, my hips, everything to move this power package down into impact.
And from here, as soon as we have a club in our hand, just a moment, you're going to see the club face is going to be dead square, instantly de-lofted.
You're going to have shaft lean, you're going to have compression, and you're going to be able to know exactly where that ball is going all by doing exactly this.
Keep this out, move the shoulder back, move it down into side bend.
And now that's all you have to do to have instant control of that club face.
Now let's grab a club and see how this works showing the club face and the shaft lean at address, at impact.
All right, are you ready to see the magic unfold?
If you have a club, there's a couple things I'm going to have you focus on with the club.
The biggest key is understanding that you don't want that club to have a lot of momentum during the backswing because it's going to pull you out of position.
There's just too much inertia with it.
So you're going to have to learn how to control it.
And this is very simple.
I'm going to give you one simple trick to feel that.
Take your normal trail hand grip, but notice before we were starting with our palm facing out like this.
Now, if I grip the club like this, that's going to be a super strong grip.
We don't want it to obviously be that strong.
You can see that my fingernails would be kind of be sitting to the side of the center of the shaft.
I want you to get your fingernails on top of that shaft.
So it's still going to be probably a stronger grip than you're used to.
Again, once you get used to this, you can adjust it.
This is really important to get the feel of how the club has to be loaded in the backswing, how we load the muscles and how we move the club correctly to be able to keep it square.
So my fingernails are going to sit right on top of the shaft roughly.
So that's going to be, instead of being like this, I've come back about halfway.
Now from here, I want you to take your wrist and bow it.
So this is bowing.
This is what we'd call flexion and extension.
So I want you to get the club, the butt of the club to touch you in the forearm.
So the shaft is actually going to be leaning away from the target at setup.
Now this may seem strange at first, But you're going to understand that what most golfers do is they immediately start extending their wrist too much in the backswing in an incorrect way.
And then the club face is now completely changed angles.
And you hopefully have got to get that all squared back up.
I'm going to show you, you don't have to do that.
And if you want consistency, it's the last thing on earth you want to do.
So take your grip and get the butt of the club to touch you in the forearm, elbow pits still out.
My wrist is now bowed.
Now what I want you to do as you're going back, you still have the supination feel, the locked in feeling of the trail arm.
And as you're going back, I want you to try and keep this club on your forearm as long as you can.
Now, at some point you can see here, my arm is still straight.
My wrist is still bowed.
That's keeping the club face in line with my hands.
For those of you who take the club way inside, that's all you're doing.
Just getting sloppy with your wrists.
So we're keeping it here bowed.
Now, as I keep turning at some point, this club is going to start to feel awkward.
And so I'm going to let it set just a little bit.
So it's going to come off my forearm.
I'm going to go back, still going in the side bend, extension, rotation.
And then my wrist is going to set just a little bit.
I want you to feel like it sets the absolute minimum amount.
Because the trick to understanding how to really square the club face is understanding how to release it.
And you can't release it when your wrist is doing all sorts of crazy stuff at the top.
It makes it much more difficult.
To release it correctly is generally the opposite of how most people do it.
The release of the wrist is actually supination, deviation, and then pronation.
What most golfers do is start pronating their arms right away, their wrist.
And so that starts getting the club steep and over the top and casted.
I want you to feel that you're trying to keep that exact same relationship all the way to the top.
And again, at some point it's going to fall, it's going to feel too awkward and heavy.
And so it's going to set a minimal amount.
Now, once I have the club in this position, my arm is still supinated.
It's still roughly 90 degrees to my chest.
Now, all I want you to do is keep that exactly like it is.
Don't do anything at all with your arm or hand and start side bending to get your trail shoulder going from, at the top of your swing, it's going to be stretched, this side of your body is going to be stretched.
You're going to have a big space between your belt and your shoulder.
And now you're going to compress that space.
And now I'm in GDP, goat delivery position, the same position that all the greats get into right before impact.
And I did it by doing nothing.
I didn't try and move my arms or hands or any of that stuff.
I tried to keep them from moving as much as I can.
I lock this in, it gets a little awkward and heavy.
I let it set just a little bit.
And then as I start to side bend, my arm's going to naturally move back into my side a little bit.
My elbow pit, palm are facing directly away from me.
And if I continue this motion, look at the club face.
It's dead square, completely de-lofted.
And all I had to do was nothing.
Let's do this from down the line.
So I'm going to exaggerate.
I'm turning, opening up my body, Club face is in line with my hands because I'm keeping that butt of the club locked into the forearm.
It's going to feel a little awkward, a minimal set.
Now I'm going to side bend.
Look at the club face.
It's already squared up for me.
I'm in GDP.
And now if I keep moving that trail shoulder down, the club face is completely de-lofted so you can compress the ball like you never have before.
But what did you do with your wrist to do that?
Nothing.
You're trying to maintain these angles.
So I'm not trying to start, you know, doing something goofy with my hands immediately to start the swing.
I'm getting it here.
Now, of course my wrist is going to throw a little bit from the top, But what you really need to focus on right now is how to move this power package as one piece down into the ball.
Until you can keep the club shaft that de-lofted, that angled forward with that little loft on the club face.
And that is the key to consistency.
You can see the club face will come down dead square every single time.
And all you have to do is focus on how to move your body, which we've talked about.
We extend, we open this side up, then we compress, we side bend.
And the more that I side bend, the more that I bring this shoulder down, the longer I can keep that club face square and generate a square or path through the ball.
So what I mean by that, watch what happens with most golfers' swings.
They kind of get sloppy with their wrists, club gets off playing at the top somewhere, and then they start turning instead of side bending.
And as you turn, the club comes out over the top and then you're trying to save it.
And the club's going to swing across the line.
It's going to come in with a different club face angle every single time because you're trying to time everything with your hands, which is just too difficult.
Things are moving too fast.
Tour pros and the Greats know that they try to do as little as they can with all of these parts.
So that they can get everything to be consistently brought back down the same way every time.
So you'll see now that I'm here, I'm in GDP, from here what I need to do, if I keep that shoulder going down to keep moving my arm and club the power package forward, the club face stays square.
And the more that I keep that shoulder down, the more side bend I have, The longer I'm able to keep that club face square to the target line and the path of the club straight down the line.
So you don't see any over the top move.
That's all coming from incorrect rotation.
If you're coming too far from the inside, you're using your hips incorrectly and your arms are getting stuck.
The moment you get this feeling, it's truly just this, the hitchhiker thumb supination, move that with your body, move it back down with your body and then the club face is already squared up.
You're going to instantly be consistent and you're going to instantly have complete control over the club face.
From there, once you're in this position, Now, of course, this is going to feel a little bit more awkward and heavy because we're doing this really slow.
And the truth in the real swing, things are happening super fast, right?
So we're not just picking this thing up and holding it and trying to fight it off.
There's momentum, there's speed, there's all sorts of things happening.
This is to get you the feeling of how to keep that club face square with supination of your trail arm.
From here, once I'm, if I was making a real swing, I would just simply let it release.
So I'm here, I'm going to continue that axiom, that clockwise motion, because that's how you release the club.
And you'll see that as I do that and I let the club release, the club is going to do all the work for me and it's already squared up.
I don't have to try and do anything funky with my hands.
I just have to let it release and I will have instant control of the club face and instant club head speed, all just through supination of my trail arm.
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