GOAT Power Sequence

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As you progress through your wedge shots, we need to begin to add power to your swing and that is all down to sequencing.


As you progress into longer shots, we need to start adding power.

And power is all about one thing, and one thing primarily above all else, and that is sequencing.

And in this video, you're going to learn the GOAT sequence, exactly how Tiger creates power effortlessly in his golf swing, and it's very, very simple.

So if you struggle with hitting your driver, you know, 280, 290 yards, if that just seems like a pipe dream for you, you're going to understand how to finally create that power with control.

And that's huge, because having a lot of power with no control doesn't do us any good either.

So you're going to learn the two keys on how to control that clubface, which you should already have a great sense of by now.

You should know exactly how to control that clubface through the hitting area using this GOAT arm.

But now we're going to start adding power to it, because as we move into these longer wedge shots, we're not going to be able to stay on our lead side so much.

We've got to start making a natural weight transfer and start moving through the whole sequence of the swing.

Now, as you've seen in my force plate studies, most all great ball strikers follow the same simple pattern.

That is lateral movement first in the downswing, then rotation, and then vertical force.

And if you think of the golf swing in that sense, that will help you really understand what you're trying to do.

But trying to think through that and all less than a quarter of a second simply doesn't work.

So what I'm going to do today is give you the proper feelings, a drill to start working through this, several key checkpoints to help you understand how to do this, and have ultimate control of the ball and the power that you know that you always should have had.

So, now obviously you can tell with my incredibly white feet and my golfer's tan, I am barefoot.

The reason I'm barefoot is because I want you to understand, I want you to be able to see what's really happening, because I want you to practice in front of a mirror like I am here.

I'm going to be looking in the mirror and showing you checkpoints that I want you to pay attention to.

But I want you to be able to see my feet.

You've always heard, you know, power starts from the ground up, the golf swing starts from the ground up, and that's totally true.

But it's a little bit more complicated than that, in the sense that how you move your body, and how the ground is reacting, and how your feet are directing force and receiving force is very important.

So I want you to literally be able to see my feet, and I'm going to exaggerate some things that make it very easy.

So when you're practicing at home, indoors, in front of a mirror, you're going to be able to see and know what you're doing correctly or incorrectly.

So, the first thing is understanding this first key.

As I mentioned, there's lateral, rotational, and then vertical.

And those three things both kind of overlap a little bit.

They're all kind of setting one up for the other, but they should also happen completely automatically, just like swing plane.

You've seen my swing plane.

It seems like it moves just pretty much on one plane back and through, but I never, ever work on swing plane.

In a trailside dominant pattern, swing plane happens correctly by default.

It's not something you have to try and shallow out or any of that stuff.

And if you sequence your swing correctly, like I'm going to show you now, then swing plane is something you don't have to worry about.

You're just simply going to understand that all these things, swing plane, posting up on the lead side.

I know some of the people have a bent leg at impact.

They don't understand how to get this thing straight.

It's because you're firing out of sequence.

So what is the sequence of the golf swing?

Well, in its simplest terms, if you've played any other sport, they're pretty much all the same.

The sequence is almost always the same.

If you think about, I like to relate the golf swing to fast pitch underhand softball.

This is very similar to what we're trying to do in the golf swing in terms of both, how we strive forward, then we rotate, and then we post up.

Baseball, a baseball swing, same thing.

There's a lateral step, and then there's rotation, and there's posting up, and then the hands finally fully release.

All sports basically do the exact same sequence.

It's because this is the most efficient way for the human body to move, to generate speed.

And so what you're going to learn right now is how to move your body correctly in a very simple sequence of drills.

We're going to do it without a golf club first, and then we're going to add the club into it.

So what I want you to do first is start with a pretty relatively narrowish stance.

You know, my feet are just a little bit wider than my hips here.

And what I want you to do first is take a step with your trail foot laterally to the right.

And I want you to do this kind of quickly.

So watch as I do this.

You'll see I'm just kind of planting, and as I do this, my left foot comes in the air.

And the reason for this is that humans are bipedal.

We need to be on one foot or the other.

Where most golfers struggle, and they don't sequence correctly, is that their weight is close to 50-50 at impact.

Most Altura pros have about 90% of their pressure on their lead side at impact.

We need to be on one or the other.

So what I want you to get comfortable with is taking a step and then lifting your foot.

So you'll see as I plant my right foot, my right foot plants.

And as we'll see in just a moment, my mass, my pressure is going to move a little bit toward the outside of my foot.

If you stay too much on the inside of your foot, you're not going to be able to rotate.

You're not going to be able to get into that trail hip very well.

So it's okay.

Of course, we don't want to be out like this.

You'll see my big toes are coming up off the ground where my big toe is.

And my feet are very, my toes are very light.

They're not connected to the ground.

That's obviously too far.

But for a tiny split second, there is a slight amount of pressure shift into the outside of that foot.

Now, why would we want that?

You've been told that getting to the outside of your foot is bad.

First of all, you're there for the tiniest amount of time.

It's not even something that's really perceptible, but think about what you're trying to do.

If we know that we need lateral force to initiate the downswing, then if I'm on the inside of my foot and I can't get into this hip, well, I don't have these big muscles to help me drive off of it.

So if I'm, if I keep my leg more neutral, you know, versus what Hogan talked about, Hogan wanted you to kind of set up like the almost knock need.

This gives you a lot of freedom of movement in this fashion, but it does not give you any stability or allow you to load into this glute very powerfully.

So keep your knees more neutral out over your toes.

And then as you move into it, you'll see that if I go into the outside of my foot for just a second, you'll see my foot roll just a, and again, I'm exaggerating this.

But if you look at somebody with shoes on like Tiger, we'll look at him here on the screen.

Now, you'll see just a tiniest amount of a swoosh, the Nike symbol roll to the outside with a bigger swing with the driver.

You're going to see more of that because there's more lateral movement in a bigger swing.

But as we start moving into these bigger wedge swings, there still has to start to be some.

And so what I want you to be comfortable with is just split second, roll into that so that you can drive off of it.

You'll see that you'll feel like once you lift your, if you take that step and you lift your lead foot, it becomes very natural for your foot, your, the ground to push back against you.

So you're getting free energy here.

It's pushing back against that leg.

And that makes it very easy to get back to your lead side.

Golfers that tend to struggle with getting onto their lead side at impact.

They're either a very upper body dominant.

That's a completely different set of issues.

Or, What I see very often is they don't ever get fully into this trail side and they don't get that free energy of the ground pushing them back over here.

And that's what I want you to feel as you're doing this step.

You should feel that as you step in, flatten that foot and just a tiny split second onto the out, you know, towards the outside of your foot, it's natural that your body wants to go this way.

To me, this feels very similar to, again, any other sport, but I really like to think about it like a tennis forehand.

And you're going to see more about that in just a moment is that you would take a step and then drive forward, keeping this arm supinated, this wrist arched back.

That's basically how you hit a tennis ball.

It's the same as how you hit a golf ball.

So this movement of getting your foot and lifting this one is very important, and it's a very simple drill.

But if your golf swing doesn't have this sense of dynamicism, You don't feel this quickness and this pressure and this ground pushing back against you to get you over here, then you're missing out on the entire beginning of the golf swing or the downswing.

The transition is really led by this, this lateral movement.

Without this, you will always move your arms and shoulders, upper body out of sequence too soon.

And that will throw the entire golf swing off, and you'll have powerless effort instead of effortless power.

So get used to this feeling of this.

And now once you've got that feeling and just lifting your left, your lead foot up, as you take that little step back and step into it, and you'll see that my leg is still anchored in.

I'm not getting way outside of my foot.

But as I take that step, I'm just getting braced into it and then it's driving me back.

Now, once that lead foot is in, Now this is when we need to bring the arms back into it, to start to understand how do we start sequencing after we've got that lateral move, which again happens very, very quickly.

How do we start understanding how to rotate?

And that goes back to this GDP, this goat delivery position.

Once you understand that this is the key to clubface control, And once you understand how to use this, all the way into the follow through and where it needs to be, which is what you're going to learn now, then this becomes the only thing that you really focus on.

And this, Understanding how to move this throughout the entire golf swing will make you rotate correctly and will make you post up correctly.

The one piece that you've got to add into here is that lateral movement of loading into that trail leg so that it naturally wants to push you back over to the lead side.

So now we've got this step, take a little bit of a lead step forward.

Now, what I want to focus on is my GDP position.

So now as I bring this elbow pit down to where the elbow pit's pointing straight at the mirror.

So I'm looking in the mirror, it's pointing straight away from me.

My wrist is still arched back here.

And so now from this position, I want to feel as if I maintain this.

Now, what would happen if I tried to maintain this with no pronation?

And you'll see that essentially my entire theory about why Tiger Woods was the greatest iron player of all time.

And before he changed the swing, when he was still with Butch, he was the greatest driver in the game, longest, most accurate, hit lasers, hit bombs, because he stopped having a lot of clubface control.

As he started changing his golf swing, he started adding a lot of clubface rotations.

He started getting into swing planology, if you will.

And that kind of stuff doesn't really matter.

It should all happen as a byproduct.

Before he did that, he was the most accurate driver of the ball.

And he used to have a huge lateral move off the ball and then had a big lateral move coming back down, and he still hit the ball way straighter than he did later in his career.

Lateral movement is a good thing in the golf swing.

So don't be afraid to move your body and load and start, because it's going to make your transition so much more natural.

And once you have this, Now, how do we get that clubface, or the GDP position, all the way through the swing with perfect clubface control?

Watch what happens.

So now if I try to get this pointed out away from me, and I try to keep moving with no pronation, again, this is my whole theory on Tiger Woods swing, Is that he's just delaying pronation of the arm as long as humanly possible, and longer than anybody else.

And the longer you can delay this pronation, as we add the clubface back in here just a minute, as long as I'm doing this, the clubface is de-lofted and it's square forever.

There's so little toe rotation that that is what allows you to hit the ball very straight.

So what you have to learn to do now is that once I have this GDP position, so I've taken my step, it's shifted me back over, and now I'm in this position here, what do I do?

As I keep moving this, eventually there's not going to be, I can't go any further.

I'm going to enter some side bend that helps keep this square or longer, but at some point the wrist is going to snap.

And that happens through the hitting area.

Really, it's starting to happen as you strike the ball, but it's very little pronation.

It's happening super fast.

You can't think about that.

Where most of the snap happens is just after the strike.

The bulk of the release happens after contact.

And what most golfers do is they release everything before contact.

And that's why you don't have any shaft lean.

That's why you hit the ball really weak and floaty and spinny and high, and it doesn't go anywhere.

Once you're here, you're able to maintain de-lofting that club face and you're getting the release, but you're only getting the initial part of the release of the arm, which we'll talk about more in a little bit.

So GDP position, wrist arched back.

You see my fingers are, my palm is pointing at the mirror here.

Now, once I'm here and my wrist snaps, what I want to focus on is the relationship of my elbow pit to my chest.

Right now, it's pointing directly at the mirror as is my chest.

Now, as I keep rotating, I want this relationship of my elbow pit pointing straight away from my chest to be maintained all the way to the follow through.

And if you understand this and you do this, You will be able to hit the ball dead straight consistently every time because it's literally not changing the face.

Your wrist is going to rotate, but watch my elbow pit.

So now I'm here, continuing.

Now, right here, my chest is pointing at the target, as is my elbow pit.

As I continue to go through that follow through, my elbow pit's pointing at the sky.

It's still essentially the same direction that where my sternum is pointing.

So I'll turn down the mirror or turn down the line, up the line here.

So now you can see that my elbow pit and chest are pointing together.

And now, again, my wrist would be released at this point, but my elbow pit hasn't changed.

And as I come up to the follow through, I want to keep this pointing straight at the sky, which is going to feel very vertical into the release.

And that's exactly what you want to feel.

So as you're practicing this, get that GDP arm.

So you're shifting back to the left.

Now, as I continue to maintain this, what do I have to do?

I have to rotate.

If I don't rotate with my core, what happens to my arm?

It has to go into pronation.

There's too much momentum.

The club's still ripping through the hitting area.

It's slowed down about 40% from where it was after it struck the ball.

But that's still a lot of speed.

And so your arm's going to get ripped over, and it's going to pronate too much too soon if you don't keep rotating.

So I've done my lateral GDP, maintaining that GDP relationship to my chest.

And then as the wrist snaps, the arm does rotate a bit.

But you're going to feel that it never does.

You're going to try and maintain this position of your arm the same throughout the entire swing.

And the only way that you can do that is to rotate.

You can see my core has to rotate in order to maintain this elbow position.

Again, if I start pronation, then my rotation's done.

This is what most golfers do.

They swing.

They start pronating early.

They're chicken wing scooping, flipping, all that stuff.

But from here, you can see the only way I can maintain that goat delivery position as long as possible, and I kind of feel like I'm leading with this part of my elbow and this part of my hand, as long as I can.

And as I keep turning, I can keep this relationship.

So now, when I keep rotating, so now we've got lateral, then rotational, and then what happens after rotational?

It's vertical, right?

So now, I've got the lateral, rotational, because I'm just trying to maintain this GDP arm.

And then as I keep rotating, I don't have a choice but for my left leg to snap.

It snaps straight.

So if your leg isn't straightening, you're pronating.

That's what's causing this stuff, is that you're using your arms and shoulders too soon, out of sequence, and so now everything falls apart.

But once you understand that you're just trying to maintain this as long as humanly possible, all the way into the follow-through, then you'll see that everything that you're trying to do in your swing, once you have that lateral initiation, rotation, vertical, boom, you've got the whole golf swing.

So now, let's add the club into this and take a look at what's happening with the club.

So now, as I go back, I'm still feeling the same thing throughout the entire backswing.

I feel that my elbow pit is always pointing in the same direction as my chest, essentially, out away from me.

So as I go back, my elbow pit is facing the sky, but as you look at it from down the line, it's still in this perpendicular relationship or parallel relationship, however you want to think about it, to my chest.

So my elbow pit is up, and now you can see I have a great swing plane, but I didn't do anything.

I literally am just taking the club back with my right hand, keeping this elbow pit up.

I've shifted laterally, and now I'm going to shift laterally again.

So the ground's helping pushing me back, and I'm letting this arm fall into GDP.

If I start pushing too soon, I'm going to start pronating.

If I start trying to power the swing with my arms, shoulders, chest, upper body, I'm going to start pronating too soon.

Think of this like a tennis forehand.

If you've played tennis, you don't go to a tennis forehand and start doing this.

That seems stupid, right?

That's what we do in the golf swing.

We do this to start the swing.

It's this, keeping that elbow open, the chest open, the elbow pit up, and turning through, and that's the exact same feeling you need here.

So now as I start down, as I shift back laterally, that makes room for my elbow pit, my elbow to fall into place here, and now my elbow pit's pointing out away from me, and now as I keep coming through, I'm trying to maintain this relationship of my elbow pit and my chest.

Now you'll see that the club face is very quiet and very square through the hitting area, and the longer I do this, the longer I maintain this relationship, the longer I'm able to hold the club face square.

The moment I start doing this, the ball is going to start sniping off the planet to the left, and that's what happens when you start adding speed too soon, and you don't have the feeling of maintaining this goat arm all the way through the strike.

So now let's look at this from up the line.

It's a little bit easier to see the club face.

So I'm going to go back, back to the lead side.

Now I'm starting to get that elbow pit here.

The club face is square and delofted, and now from your perspective, I'm trying to keep this pointing at the mirror.

Now again, as I add speed, the club face is going to rotate, but it's my wrist that's rotating, not my arm.

My arm is rotating too, but again, You're trying to maintain the feeling of holding this from road from going into pronation as long as possible.

You're delaying it as long as possible.

As I continue to do this, my elbow is pointing in the mirror, and now I want to keep it pointing at the sky all the way through.

Now it's pointing straight back at me, but again, the relationship I haven't pronated where it's pointing out away from me.

It's maintaining that same perpendicular relationship all the way to the follow through.

So now let's start putting all this together.

I think it's very important to make as many practice swings as you're learning this movement, trail arm only, Because this is going to help you start to understand what the overall sequence and the feeling of the golf swing is when you're doing a trail side pattern, Because it's very different than a lead side pattern, where your body is much more involved with creating rotation very early in the swing, because that's what you need to sling the arms out away from you.

That doesn't happen here.

So what you're really focusing on is more linear force.

So I'm taking a lateral step back.

I'm getting my arm back, just trying to maintain that GDP position, which forces me again to rotate.

And then as I come back down, I take a step and this left leg braces.

As I stomp it into the ground, maintain this position, GDP position, maintain it all the way through as long as I can.

And again, it's going to rotate and release, but I'm still maintaining the feeling of this never pronating.

Once you have that, start doing trail arm only swings with some speed, but take a little step and take it kind of easy at first.

I'm going to take a step to the right and through.

Now you'll feel if you start doing this, which is very common, you may start hitting it fat.

The club will come in a little steep.

If you hit balls like this, the ball will go very left.

So you want to get comfortable with the feeling of this, where this arm is never pronating.

And this, this forces you again, to rotate and sync with that club all the way through.

So get a feel for back through, and you should come through really shallow as you, If you can, Try and hold this position to where you're checking this elbow pit to make sure it hasn't rotated from up the line.

When you're looking at yourself in the mirror, that's a lot of pronation.

You can see my arm is now internally rotated, and that's going to change the clubface angle dramatically through the strike.

What I'm trying to feel is this wrist is going to release, but my elbow pit has not pronated.

That's going to give me a more vertical feeling release when I have a trail hand only.

So take a step.

There, you should feel that there's only speed very late in the swing when you're swinging trail arm only, because you don't have the power to start using your upper body, which is what most golfers do when they throw their sequence off.

So there's a very late boost of speed right at the end.

But from the top, your arms and shoulders are having to fall into this GDP position.

If you start pronating, that wrecks the entire swing.

So don't be in a hurry from the top.

Give yourself time, and then you'll hear, as I release, there's a boost of speed down at the bottom.

That's where you want the speed.

You don't want to be going hard from the top.

That's why you always hear guys like Tiger say, well, I feel like my arms are falling to start the swing.

If you don't have this powerful lateral, start where you're loading into the side and then driving off of it, then you're going to have to fire with your arms and shoulders from the top.

That's why this move is so important.

You see my feet kind of roll just a split second.

It's really loaded.

And then as I get in here, this left foot is planting and bracing to be able for me to pivot.

And as we start adding more speed to this, we're going to start putting all of these things that you've learned together, and it's going to start all happening at once.

So one of the keys is understanding how this core rotation works.

Again, you're not turning your hips.

I think that's one of the biggest misnomers, at least in a trail side pattern.

You don't try and turn your hips.

In fact, Your hips are actually trying to resist and create rotation or torque so that they're actually trying to move in the opposite direction.

So if you're trying to turn your hips, that's going to wreck your swing and your back.

But if you're trying to turn your core, well, what happens if I'm rotating my core fast, as you've seen in the core activation video, is my lower body actually wants to create torque and go the other way.

You should feel that and experience that in this drill.

And what I mean by that is, as I go back, I take a step and I begin to rotate.

Where's my right foot going?

You'll see that my right foot's not going this way.

That releases all the energy in your core because now they're all moving together.

But if I've got this base and my right foot's actually driving back, because that's what's going to allow this to drive forward more powerfully, which is going to allow me to maintain that goat arm longer, which allows me to hold the club face squarer longer through the strike.

So as you start putting all these together, you don't have to take a step, but it's still helpful to do so to feel that load into that leg.

Take a step, a step, and release.

Keep this feeling all the way through.

I try to feel, again, that I'm basically as open as I can.

Now, again, once you put the lead arm on there, this is impossible to do.

But this would be the way to keep the club face square the longest time.

Now, as we go to adding the lead arm in there, I still want to feel that I'm making kind of that tennis forehand stroke motion.

Don't let this lead arm start to beat up your backswing.

That's what happens a lot of times for most golfers because it's in a powerful position to push and they turn really flat.

The club goes way inside.

What you're going to feel of your lead arm in this drill, and for the most part in your swing, is nothing.

It's trail arm dominant.

So as you put your lead arm back on there, feel that you're still focusing on using your trail hand and trail arm to take the club back.

You're loading into this trail side.

And now as you start down, you're letting this arm fall into GDP and go through the motion just as you were before.

So now if I do this from down the line, you'll see that my trail foot is going to slide out as I do this a little bit of an exaggeration.

So now as I come down, as I'm rotating, this foot is sliding out.

Just like you see Scotty Scheffler, you see Tiger, Any powerful player who creates a lot of torque from their core as they really get aggressive onto that lead side and they're trying to rotate and there's no more weight on the side, it's going to slide back.

And that's a perfectly normal.

It's a good thing.

And that's why you've seen that in these core activation drills.

So as you start working on this movement and you're doing it with a short club and with shorter shots, the main thing is you're not creating that much rotational speed.

So you're not going to have your foot sliding back on a 60 or 80 yard wedge shot.

That's the only one we're trying to apply a lot of force.

But on a shorter shot with a shorter club like this, you're still going to have weight transfer, transfer back, fall into GDP, maintain that GDP, that good arm all the way into the release.

And that's what's going to give you control and power on all your shots.

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Steve
The progression from video to video is marvelous. Well thought out and well organized. What is the key to any organization? Its organization...is the answer. I think that you might collaborate with a tennis website to implement your vision to tennis. Tennis is sorely lacking when it comes to a vision for instruction. Thank you.
July 10, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Thank you, Steve. I don't know if Chuck or I have the hips any more to chase that fuzzy yellow ball. At least golf we don't have to run anywhere ????.
July 10, 2025
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Steve
When I teach tennis, I call it golf on the run. There is a lot of similarities in the motions. This website would serve as an excellent blueprint for a motivated tennis person. Progressive steps. I have no desire to chase the ball either.
July 10, 2025
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Teva
So at impact, your right hand Palm is facing where?
July 8, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Teva. Towards the target.
July 8, 2025
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Anthony
When in the swing/release is the "J Release"? Is it when the club head is coming down? Immediately before ball contact? immediately after contact during release? Thank you. Anthony
July 6, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Anthony. Did you take a look at the J Release Video? I think that will do a better job with visual and explanation. https://rotaryswing.com/goatcode/112568-how-to-increase-hand-speed-j-release
July 7, 2025
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Michael
I filmed Tigers swing with a slow motion camera and noticed his lead leg doesn't completely straighten out until his club is about 2 to 3 feet beyond the impact zone. It's almost as if his impact zone is past the ball as opposed to at the ball. Mike
June 26, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Michael. Max speed won't happen until just after impact. Good catch on this one. But, he's already peaked much sooner on his vertical force.
June 26, 2025
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Michael
Does the rotation start by contracting the trail side of the torso?
June 24, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Michael. Yes. As you start to bring your trail shoulder down. Think like getting ready to hit a punch as described in the GOAT Drill.
June 24, 2025
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Michael
Hi Chuck Great videos, very informative. I feel like there is a little contradiction in this video, in showing the sequence of the swing vs the sequence of the swing you talk about in video 4.9 the Goat Drill. in this video it seems like you are showing a fairly strong lateral shift to the left side in the downswing, but it The Goat Drill video, it seems you are saying a strong lateral shift to the left is a killer of speed. In The Goat Drill,it seems you want weight to stay on the back foot and just doing a pressure, not mass, shift to the left in the downswing. Emphasizing in pushing off the right big toe (squish the bug), and keeping weight on the left foot light to be able to more easily straighten the left knee that then would help with rotation. I understand that late in the swing all the weight is on the left, but it seems in this video you are dong a strong lateral shift in the beginning of the downswing. Am I missing a point that you are making, Thanks for any clarification.
June 19, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hey Michael. Go to the 160 Yard 8 Iron. Chuck has this exact same discussion with Jeff (scroll down a bit). Should help clear this up.
June 19, 2025
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Benjamin
Hey chuck great video…. I think the term you’re searching for why all the great powerful golf swings down get to the outside of the foot without actually losing the big toe is the that they are using the qboid bone on the outside of the foot that then allows them to keep the trail glute but also gain range of motion for their hip while the trail leg remains internal! For anyone that hasn’t felt this you can usually gain between 15 & 30 degrees of thoracic turn when you actually use this part of the foot
June 9, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Thanks for the post Benjamin. Some great insights there.
June 9, 2025
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Hello Chuck. How much of your power do you think is attributable to your muscle fiber breakdown. Since you were able to dunk a basketball (with over a 40inch vertical) as a high school freshman is an indication that you most likely have a much higher percentage of fast twitch muscle fibers than normal, probably 2 standard deviations or more outside of average. Does you muscle fast twitch muscle fiber percentage help you generate more clubhead speed, all else equal? Should someone with a lower percentage of fast twitch fibers, expect to hit shorter? If so, to what degree? This is probably another reason for Tiger's insane clubhead speed in his 20's. That is all. Peace.
June 6, 2025
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Chuck
That's a great question that I wish I had the answer to. I have to imagine the simple answer is yes. I've always had a slight build, but was very quick. I started wrestling and playing baseball at age 6 and played every sport imaginable from then on. So, I continued to reinforce fast movement. However, as I got older and stopped playing most other sports, I only focused on becoming stronger and bigger. I went from 138 pounds when I graduated high school to 178 pounds at my heaviest. I started moving really heavy things really slowly. I became very strong relatively, squatting 400# for sets of 6, but if i'm honest, I think it hurt my golf swing more than it helped. I didn't lose any distance or control, I just tended to muscle the club more because I could, so I became less efficient. As I recently turned 49, I've shifted my thinking regarding how I train and lift. I do almost exclusively kettlebell workouts now and all multiplanar movements very ballistically. I now try to move as fast as I can in every direction imaginable. This has resulted in me feeling more youthful again. I have come to the conclusion that we start feeling old when we stop moving fast. The golf swing, when done at it's peak in efficiency, is all about speed and quickness and requires relatively little effort in the sense of what you feel when done correctly and that is what I'm moving back towards. Moving fast and light instead of slow and heavy.
June 7, 2025
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DARRYL
Ugh. I feel like I have 3 left feet! I have been working on how to practice Chuck’s dance steps at the beginning of the video to help with pressure shifting. I’m getting confused with the sequence: if I take a step laterally with the trail foot, I know my lead foot automatically comes off the ground then replants. After that, I don’t know how the rest of the dance goes. Am I supposed to do something with the lead foot once it comes down to help the trail foot roll medially/inwards?
May 27, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Darryl. Once you plant you need to make the post a little more dynamic. Think like the Clubhead Whip Effect Video. You can't wait too long once that pressure is there to get the leg posted or it will get too lazy and both legs wont recover.
May 27, 2025
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Eddie
Is there a video that addresses the GOAT sequence with the driver? I know it is the same sequence that stresses the GOAT delivery position but because the set up is different with a slight spine tilt back, it feels a but off for me.
May 22, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Eddie. Same sequence with the minor setup adjustments you mentioned. Chuck will have GOAT Driver out soon enough .
May 23, 2025
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Everett
I have circled through this entire course multiple times now... watching some videos 3-5 times not really making any significant change in my swing. My attention span and arrogance prevented me from following the course step by step and I realize now that I could have saved alot of time instead of piecing the puzzle together my way. I have finally had a breakthrough in my golf swing. Its incredible when you sequence the body correctly and the release just happens like a spring as a result. I have 3 years worth of swing videos on my phone that show a history of "flaw fixes" but never had significant change until this now. It took me a bit to get there but I am blown away by the results I see/feel in my swing. Putting it altogether I understand each video and how they build into the totality. You really have to start from the grip and dont skip around because chances are you will miss the message being taugt. This goat code course is absolute GOLD. THANK YOU!
May 19, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Thank You Everett. Happy to read you started the program from the basic fundamentals and saw how important they truly are to see great results. Keep up the hard work. We are here to continue helping you
May 20, 2025
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Zhengyang
At around 12:12 it seems Tiger snaps after the ball is inflight, how would that add power to the release as previous videos mention ?
May 12, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello ZT. The bulk happens after contact (max speed will be there) because there are parameters necessary for impact to yield compression/straight/etc.. It will feel much earlier to the player though.
May 12, 2025
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Scott
I'm confused again by what is advocated in this video versus other videos. In this video, Chuck says to feel as open as you can with your chest… But elsewhere, he talks about keeping the shoulders/hips shut at a 45° angle on the downswing. So which one is it?
April 27, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Scott. That is for practice major supination with the trail arm. With both hands on the wheel you don't want to pop the body open too quickly so it would be more the latter.
April 28, 2025
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Tony
i feel like i'm getting close, but i'm hitting a controllable fade, but losing some distance with that. is it a grip issue or maybe not releasing fully?
April 16, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Tony. Could certainly be a grip issue. But, sounds like you may be spinning the body a bit and leaving the face open. Could potentially be steep swing plane as well.
April 16, 2025
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Chris
Hi Chuck, I have a question about the role of the hips during transition. Once you've done the move back to the lead side do you feel in your hips that your trail hip is quite stable and you are bringing your lead hip back up to the same level as the trail side rather than the trail hip moving down/collapsing and then coming back up to follow the lead side? I've always suffered from early extension no matter how much I focus on the lead side but this seems like it might be the right idea.
April 14, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hey Chris. I can't speak on that "feel" for Chuck. However, I know he focuses on the snap of the lead leg/hip movement. Trying to think about two hip movements may be a challenge. Happy to take a look at your move to see if I can help.
April 15, 2025
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Scott
On this idea of lateral movement being key for a trailside pattern… How much weight should be on your right foot ideally when you are squishing the bug, versus how much weight/pressure should be on the left leg/foot? In this video, you talk about lateral movement being utterly essential, but given that this is a trailside pattern, and it is imperative to stay behind it with your upper COG, how it is all that to be squared with the need to have lateral movement?
March 31, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Scott. Your COG needs to move ahead. Your lateral motion still needs to take place. You will see in most players. By the time the transition is completed (lead arm parallel to the ground) 75% of pressure is in the lead side. Unless you are using a force plate it will be tough to discern the difference in weight/pressure. That's why you should feel you still move the weight back into the lead side (laterally) during the transition while keeping the lead foot light so you can post (pull the leverage from the ground quickly). You can see some data from Justin Rose below at the transition.
March 31, 2025
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Alex
This looks so similar to a tennis swing - almost down to the mechanics and form. Great video, will try it out!
March 23, 2025
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Scott
Chuck, I am having trouble reconciling two things: keeping the goat arm supinated and extend it all the way through the strike (as you talk about in this video), and the other idea of the "throw" and suppleness of the wrists...these two things appear to be contrary and have very different feels, i.e. the right wrist being fully extended versus going into full flexion. Can you please demystify this for me?
March 16, 2025
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Chuck
The wrist is extended because the body is driving it forward not because you are trying to hold it in extension
March 17, 2025
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Jeff
After watching this lesson, I noticed I was rotating too quickly on the downswing. That is, not moving laterally first, then rotating. So thought I’d focus on the lateral shift first and see if I’m in the proper sequence you showed in the video. Thoughts on my swing with respect to weight shift and elbow pit positions? It felt much better thinking of one thought…lateral shift first on the downswing. I was hitting a 9-iron.

March 8, 2025
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Chuck
Hi Jeff, I need you to fix that right grip before anything else!
March 9, 2025
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Jeff
Funny…I’ve been trying but not on that clip!
March 9, 2025
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Jeff
Next attempt after rewatching this (a few times) and other previous lessons. I think I’m progressing with the grip but noticed my trail thumb is not quite in the correct position. Been focusing on the sequencing to fix old habits. My club face in backswing is still a little inside my hands…but not as flat. Comments? Thanks.

March 15, 2025
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Ben
At ~ 7:00 you talk about some players that have a hard time getting to the lead side bc they arm upper body dominate, and "that is a whole different set of issues"... I'm wondering if you have a video or some direction to point me, as I believe this could my issue.
March 4, 2025
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Chuck
check out the goat drill video
March 5, 2025
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Mike
Is it possible to use the core (lead side) too early? I feel like the club wants to come down very quickly (passively) when pulling with the core during transition or near after transition. In other words, do you have to full be on your lead side before using your core to pull yourself through.
February 15, 2025
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Chuck
You can definitely do it too early and be out of sequence and will lose power efficiency
February 16, 2025
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Mark
Oh My God. I had one short warm-up session on the range, thinking only about the elbow pit facing forward for as long as possible, and then went out to play. I have NEVER hit my woods and irons straighter and more consistently in my life...and I've been playing 53 years. My drives were all 260-280 yards, effortless, and to where I was aiming....every time. I was repeatedly shocked when I'd look up and see the ball soaring straight or with a draw. No more hoping and praying. This lesson was a true game changer for me at age 66. Even with a bunch of missed putts, I still shot 79. So many thanks, Chuck! (I did have a hard time with the right hand putting through tees module!)
February 8, 2025
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Chuck
that’s fantastic. Great job! The putting drill takes time so stick with it. It will help you have a great sense of feel over time
February 9, 2025
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Drew
“ELBOW PIT IS THE CHEST ESSENTIALLY” The only swing thought recently. You could not have said that more perfectly.
January 28, 2025
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Alex
Hey Chuck, I've just started the 3-9... I'm comparing this video to the Goat 3-9 Video...I'm either reading too much into this or missing the point. The 3 -9 (to me) implies all this weight shift happens naturally by rotating the core and the legs and chest are a bi-product. . This video is about lateral and then rotation.. I'm just a bit confused. Thanks,
January 23, 2025
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Chuck
Take a look at the 80 yard shots face on video where I give you a shadow view of how the hips work
January 24, 2025
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John
I will have to say that holding off the pronation of the trail arm and keeping the pit of my elbow facing out as long as possible has cleaned up A LOT of my current swing issues. Obviously I'm still going to work on everything the video series, but the way I hit today was very different and encouraging. This was a great video for me.
January 21, 2025
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Chuck
Awesome John! Keep at it!
January 21, 2025
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Mark
When in the backswing do you step to left/lead foot?
January 8, 2025
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Chuck
Pressure moves to the lead foot very early in the back swing long before it is completed, but this should happen completely as a result of how the body is loading and not something you are ever trying to time
January 9, 2025
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Reed
Great vid Chuck! This one is a has a better description of what my last question had to deal with on the release of the hand for speed. So holding off the release of the hand here is the key to club face control and accuracy and the feel of keeping the hand from rotating? Where does the club head speed ultimately come from?
December 28, 2024
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Chuck
You're never trying to hold anything off. The late release happens as a result of proper sequencing. I'm starting my acceleration immediately from the top and never letting off the gas. The speed comes from hand speed- how fast you can release the hands.
December 28, 2024
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Mike
Chuck, what exactly are you accelerating? you said that you are pulling from your core after you get onto your lead side. Are you just trying to keep the GDP in position as you pull from the core? or are you accelerating the arms down as well.
February 13, 2025
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Chuck
The simplest answer is everything. I'm accelerating my hands, more core, my feet, knees and hips
February 14, 2025
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Richard
Isn't all the side bend on this (which I get why it's necessary in this swing and why it's so accurate) causing back issues? The swing you touted a few years ago with little side bend and the shoulders square at impact seemed to be amazing on the back. Am I missing something?
December 18, 2024
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Chuck
Side bend with rotation is what i said will herniate a disc. Side bend by itself is totally fine for the back
December 18, 2024
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Atle
Hi Chuck. Brilliant! You are not mentioning the trail hamstring in this video. I feel it plays an important role in sequencing as it contributes to both pressure shift and rotation, and it sets a posture making it easier for the core to drive the GDP position through. This is covered in the squeeze the bug instruction. Is it a more advanced move since it’s not covered here?
December 14, 2024
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Chuck
Thanks Atle. I didnt cover it here to avoid repeating myself too much. Trying to keep each video a bit more concise
December 14, 2024
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Okkie
Hi Chuck, I am learning so much from you. One thing I am finding so difficult to change is that my lead arm (left) wants to break during and after impact. Anything I can focus on to change this muscle memory or is there a wrong muscle I am using to swing. Maybe I have been hitting the golf ball instead of swinging......
November 17, 2024
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Chuck
You are pushing the trail arm through instead of rotating the core. Watch the new goat drill video to understand this further
November 17, 2024
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Nick
Would the rotary connect still be applicable with these new movements?
November 12, 2024
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Chuck
It can definitely still help with the arms and keeping them in sync with the body
November 12, 2024
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Mark
I'm cheating a little bit by looking forward in the videos. I am back at the 20 and 40 yd wedge shot. You make the comment about the elbow pit pointing outwards, but isn't that also true in the chipping, pitching and wedge shots? I've been practicing all those believing that is where my elbow pit should be pointing.
November 11, 2024
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Chuck
Yes absolutely, the trail elbow pit needs to face out and avoid pronation as long as possible
November 12, 2024
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Mark
How are your triggering the lateral shift? Is it a gentle push off the right heel or is it due to core movement when the shoulder drops? I can do the shift in a practice swing but things tend to lock up on a full swing. I get the what am I doing here and what do I do next sensation. No flow.
November 1, 2024
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Chuck
Hi Mark im working on a follow up video specifically to on this and how to do the tiger squat. But the short answer is you drive pretty aggressively off the trail glute laterally.
November 3, 2024
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Steve
This all is truly coming together!!! Baby steps are getting us there! Once you have it all wrapped up into the final drill that encompasses everything (Setup, hand throw, Pressure shifts and release) it is going to truly bring it all together! Great work my friend!!!
October 19, 2024
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Chuck
Very close now, putting the final pieces together each day.
October 20, 2024
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adam
This all makes great sense - but how do you reconcile the ‘fall into GDP’ with the ‘throw aggressively from the top’ Live Lesson emailed out today? Those seem in conflict but I'm probably missing something.
October 18, 2024
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Chuck
The throw is just with the hands, not the arms
October 19, 2024

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