Straighten and Lengthen Your Tee Shots w/ the Driver

If you want to start driving the ball better listen up because this one simple thing I'm going to show you in this video that you can see the student here on the left he's standing up losing his posture and he's hitting big hooks and blocks and can't really put the speed into the driver that he knows he's capable of and I know so many of you are struggling out there with that you want to go to hit the ball harder you can swing harder but you just can't control it you block it off the planet you hit a blise a big block slice and it doesn't even feel great on your body but you can see on the picture on the right that he achieved in this lesson how much better his posture is how much his spine angle he's maintained his spine angle his tush line all of this done with one simple move you can see his trail arm isn't stuck back behind him this is a big common issue for people who block the ball and hit these quick snap hooks so in this lesson you're gonna learn one simple fix if you do this move you'll be able to get into the same posture and positions that you see this student and it will help you get your path with especially with the driver this is so important the driver that you're gonna be able to get your path closer to square as close as you want it to be even being able to swing you know to be able to hit a controlled pool fade if that's the shot you're looking for but for those of you who really struggle with losing your posture not getting this hip out of the way and not understanding what to do this video is gonna be a game changer for you kc hey how's it going man hey buddy sorry it's a few minutes late i got like lessons like non-stop like 10 in a row so i'm running a couple minutes behind i apologize no no worries man how have you been i've been good super busy but more importantly how have you been we did some good work on your swing last time where are we now i just wanted to tell you first of all seriously like thank you so much for that like that transformed like the way i've been playing like i was a weak little slappy cut you know and i've been playing like a little push draw now and even like on the misses i feel like i can gather it in you know and it's not just crazy but that was that was really good so thank you for that first of all awesome yeah that's what i want to hear yeah this is the first time i feel like uh i'm getting like i want you to just kind of tweak some stuff you know what i mean not like i don't have to have everything overhauled you know just kind of that's my favorite that's what i look forward to so thank you for that but i just wanted to say uh i've been hitting my irons great wedges great and uh the one thing i really wanted to work on is just my driver because i usually like to try to go after my driver a little bit and i tend to when i do and i want i wanted to just see how straight and like how far i could get my driver this lesson that was just my goal if that's okay with you yeah it's my favorite club in the bag man you have a specialty see you crank out those like like those uh one mid 120s drives i'm like shoot man i want to give it a rip it's it's funny i was talking to a buddy of mine i i my swing speeds pretty much stayed the same since i was like in college seriously yeah like i'm 44 now but i you know i i had a bad injury i broke my neck and nerve damage and broke my hand all kinds of bad stuff and so my body's been really messed up but so during that time that was like 10 years ago when i did that i got my swing speed dropped to like 100 because i could barely move and lost 30 pounds whatever but once i got healthy again my swing speed came came back pretty pretty easily but my goal has always been now as i've gotten older things that you think about as you get older you know the things i didn't think about 20 years ago i'm like how long can i maintain this speed because for me like those videos i posted on youtube or on the side of you know me swinging in the mid 120s those are like like i feel like i'm swinging not fast at all for me it's like i can ramp it up but that's like my stock warm-up swing well so but that's always been my goal is like i want to feel how easy i can swing but how hard can i hit it right that's that to me but how long can i do that can i swing like this into my 60s right if you do something like each chamboye that's that's i love what he's doing but that probably isn't going to be like a longevity thing you know his body and all that it's for sure not going to happen i love watching it but you can't swing like that when you're when he's not gonna swing like that when he's my age you know it's just it's pretty unlikely but i can swing this way at my age with scoliosis and a million other things and i want to see how long i can maintain you know carrying the ball at 320 in the air i think that's that's kind of the point of the game it's a game for a lifetime you know so right yeah you want to talk driver this is this is my jam yeah let's do it man so i uh i'm usually if i hit like a stock driver i'm like 110 usually which i don't like but if i try to crank it i can get to like 115 ish but that's when i get those like those hooks start coming in pretty like i can't really ramp it up that fast because i hit a big hook with it or a big push and stuff like that so i just kind of want to see if we could straighten it out and if possible i just want to you know you're very inspirational with your drives because i don't mean it's bad at all but i mean you said you're like five nine two like one yeah you're something i'm like the same so i'm like shoot man i want to try to do that too you know for sure man it's so fun it's fun crushing the ball it is yeah yes is that all right with you absolutely let me see you swing with the driver and let's see what's going on man all right can you see from there okay if you could tilt the camera down it'd be a little better because then i could see the path of the club a little better yep money all right yep whenever you're ready okay okay i see that and then face on okay okay okay perfect so yeah this this we can definitely get you a lot more speed sweet so what's going on here uh you basically i see this pretty commonly that you know somebody who's young and fit and athletic and strong can can make the club go fast you know even if you're you know your swing mechanics aren't perfect like you can still like swing with some pace to it but you kind of run into a wall and that wall happens from sequencing and not using the right muscles it's basically about it so let me just use this as an i'm going to put my mouse cursor right here on your butt and then we're going to step through here and you'll see as you go back you load up that left side pretty well and then watch as you come down now your pelvis is moving into the ball into the ball into the ball into the ball and now you're almost vertical right so your left or your right hip your lead hip has has not moved out of the way and this is why you're losing your posture this is where all your hooks are coming from is because your spine angle i'm going to i'll demonstrate all this stuff in a second but you'll see that your your right leg watch your right knee here so if you watch just your lead leg it should already during this phase of the swing this puppy needs to be going back out of the way a lot sooner but it doesn't really have time so the arms bring the club down the left hip pushes a little too hard too soon and the right hip hasn't gotten out of the way and that will always change your posture and when you change your posture you come from the inside now you're afraid to swing hard because you know you're going to hook it because the harder you swing without getting that lead hip out of the way the more you lose your posture the more you come from the inside and so it becomes this perpetuating cycle like yeah you can swing a lot faster but you can't control the ball so you start toning it down without fixing the problem right totally true so here we got a bit of arm swing here so you're you kind of quit on your turn right in there you're turning a little flat and the arms kind of take over so right here if you just watch your rib cage it doesn't really move that's all arm swing for probably six seven eight frames right and then as you come down that right hip you move laterally but you don't ever move rotationally so when you're out when that right hip isn't getting back around and your arms are firing hard we're capped so let me show you with demonstrating it what all this stuff means so if i go to the top of my swing and i start to fire my arms and i push hard off my trail leg i'll get in the old puppy dog humping the fire hydrant thing right so my right hip moves into the ball because the left hip is blocking it or lead hip is blocking it right so if i try to now you can use the trail leg to push to help speed up this hip turn but you can't do that if this left hip isn't rotating if the left hip is stationary and you push the off the right or the sorry if the lead hip is stationary and you push off the trail leg where's your pelvis gonna go straight in the ball it's the only place it can go physically right i block it with the lead hip and i push off the trail hip where's my spine going upright right now you'll have a driver that's already got your spine angle more upright because it's a longer shaft flatter lie and then as you swing back and you get loaded up and then you drive in here well of course your spine has to stand up this is where the hooks are coming from it's that simple right so if you understand that your spine angle is a big determinant of swing plane and path right if i swing if i stand like this i really want to swing horizontal if i was like this i want to swing with a vertical swing plane and obviously with golf we're somewhere in the middle right and that's the trick to it but when you change that spine angle dynamically during part of the swing well now all bets are off right you have to get this lead hip out of the way it's that simple as soon as that lead hip gets out of the way by going back behind you now what happens to my spine angle right i maintained it or anything i might even increase it depending on how how much i get this left hip back behind me right so now my path goes from this to this you see the difference yeah and then i can use this trail light leg to help speed up this motion to get my hips even more open faster so you know i put when i'm hitting the driver i'll use my right leg to help speed up this left side a little bit but i don't do that by blocking it with the lead hip the lead hips always getting out of the way first and then i just speed them up so you're you're doing the trail side push without the lead side pull you need the lead side to get out of the way and that's why you're getting away with it with your irons especially the shorter irons because you inherently have a steeper swing plane right and you're not going to try to hit them as hard so you're not going to lose your posture as much okay so all we need to do is during the backswing prioritize getting this lead hip out of the way and if that happens then you can the rest of the stuff will fall into place a lot easier but if this doesn't stop blocking the trail hip from clearing then you'll keep standing up out of your posture so all i want you to do during the backswing from that for for right now is think about during the backswing forget about everything else going on back here because your brain needs to focus right here on the lead hip what would you need to do in the backswing what would you need to feel in the backswing to load this up to make it easier to get it out of the way because that's the main that's the only thing really missing right so so that's what you're going to focus on is during the backswing i know that my number one job in life as a golfer right now is to get this lead hip rotated out of the way and back behind me and turning and if i do that if i know i need to do that then what i do in the backswing directly impacts that i don't want to go to the top of my swing and feel all of this weight you know might feel this trail leg really loaded up and nothing over here because then i can't do anything with it i got to all of a sudden try and re-engage those muscles that's why you saw like the old school guys who like nicholas and weiskopf who had these big hip turns and they you know they lifted the heel off the ground but their first move was to smash that puppy in the ground and reactivate that lead hip and get it the heck out of the way right so that's what you need to focus on is during the backswing wake this thing up so that you're aware that it needs to get back rotating in a circle around and away okay that makes a lot of sense so let's do a couple practice swings like that uh do you want to do it with the club we're going to do it with both but probably without the club for just a second yeah just tilt the camera down a bit that's it and i just want you to i'm not going to say anything i want you to focus on feeling your right hip your lead hip focus on what you need to do to get it out of the way in the downswing so even if you made like a little half you know like little half swing for a moment just just enough to you start to feel like okay i need just get my hip out of the way on this swing what what do i need to do so i need to like that yes and no here's here's the catch to what you just did you you showed me what most people the way that they drill the swing right which is not incorrect but it's not exactly correct you went here now what did i show you there oh like a closed hip slide well a little bit but there was just a lot of lateral movement right there's not enough time in the golf swing to make that big of a lateral movement right the guys that you see who do make big lateral movements like fred couples for example somebody has a lot of lateral movement and a lot of rotation so what does he do to buy himself time to get his hips out of the way he has this massively long lethargic kind of swing right so he's he has time to make that huge lateral shift but we don't need to add all that lateral movement in the swing and plus i you know from my research on the force plate stuff that was one of the things i ended up finding the most pain in my body was when i would have a lot of lateral movement because it starts to shift your pelvis it moves your centers right like if you thought about the center of your body up here like your sternum and then like your sacrum down here obviously and then and i start getting these things out of alignment and then i add rotation it starts becoming more and more painful the more you do that stuff especially the faster you do it right you can you can add pace to it so we don't want a crap ton of lateral movement we want to be more rotational so the wider your stance is the more lateral movement is going to be necessitated in your swing the higher your hands are in your backswing the more that you're going to tend to have lateral movement because that's a shallowing move it helps shallow out your swing plane your swing path is already too shallow your plane is too shallow right because you're coming too far from the inside so why would you ever want to add more shallowing moves to your golf swing right doesn't make any sense right that it you're you have a problem of a path that's too far from the inside and then you add a lot of lateral movement to it well now you just exacerbated the problem so what i want you to think about is rotational moving rotationally don't make this big lateral shift think about you know you obviously you know you need to get 90 of your pressure over on this lead side right but think about doing that by unweighting the trail side not by shifting and pushing and driving laterally right if i do if i do this right now i'm 50 50 right now here's all it takes for me to go from 50 to 100 not this big move right i just lifted my foot up it's hardly any lateral movement there at all now 100 of my pressure is on the lead side and i can pivot that left tip out of the way okay that makes a lot of sense so i need to go from here so you're still kind of pushing into that lead hip right and that's just it's normal for you right and this is why we're going through this exercise i want you to we're not going to use this leg for for a moment the trail leg and i want you to just put 100 of your weight on your uh lead leg put the trail leg just up on the toe like virtually no pressure on it and now you can only move from this hip there you go start feeling rotation get that left hip to start moving back towards the garage door or excuse me your trail hip your right hip back behind you towards the garage door right that axis tilt that you just showed me secondary axis tilt that's a shallowing move right you already have too much shallowness in your swing so you are going to feel a bit more upright there you go okay so now you can see that 100 of your weight's on that lead hip and you can move it back and forth out of the way let this foot and this hip just kind of pivot and get moved around don't try to keep it anchored down just keep it nice and light and then you can see how you could add some speed to it from the trail leg to help do it a little quicker like that we're getting there so now if that's your priority to move this lead hip out of the way and not be making this big lateral move and then this big shove off of this because again if your hip doesn't rotate out of the way and you just move laterally your spine is going to tend to tilt tilt back a lot which again is going to shallow out your path too much and then you're going to hit these hooks again so instead of thinking that you're just going to start feeling much more rotational that you're trying to get this lead hip back behind you and try to get your arms now to swing but more get swung by your lead hip and your arms are a little bit more chilled out okay good so now you're much taller at impact instead of being way back like this you're much more on top of the ball and that's going to bring your path closer to zeroing it out i don't know what your path is right now but you know if you're hitting pretty severe hits probably five or six degrees into out or perhaps worse you know so so now grab the club and let's try to get that same feeling and just watch how the club works through the hitting area you know in terms of how straight it is compared to what it was before okay so just focus on that yep there you go you'll see that your arms have got to wait just enough time to get that lead hip out that's better good can you do that down the line for just a second i want to see something all right let's just take a quick look at that okay how's that feel bizarre it feels a lot better it feels more like uh zeroed out kind of you know i'm not really trying to do that yeah you shouldn't be trying to zero out your path that's typically going to be done with your arms and hands if you're trying to do it that way this should happen as a result right going back looks really great now if we look at look at where you're so now earlier it was hard to see because you're wearing black behind a black truck but it was hard to see but you were losing your tush line right now watch so i put my mouse cursor about where your lead hip is at address now your hip is an inch and a half two inches further back behind where it was where it started address that's the clamshell drill video i put on the site right before you weren't doing that before your lead hip was blocking we couldn't really see it that much and it was causing you to stand up now you're maintaining your spine angle more which is why you feel like your path is more zeroed out and so now you can see as you come down the club comes down this is obviously just a short little swing but it's coming down much steeper obviously we don't want to be steep with the driver but much steeper it's going down through the forearm down through the hands and then as you come through it's pretty zeroed out and going to start to work more good yeah it's really good all right so i'll just put my well that was stupid circle yeah oh i see okay gold in there that's i feel like that's a lot easier to repeat over into because my pelvis didn't go right in the ball i can kind of control like club face a little better well that's just it right like when your body starts moving correctly your arms and hands have to do way less compensations right like when you're coming from the inside too far then your arms and hands are busy right because you're always trying to time like okay okay i just gave a lesson to a guy just a minute ago who he's with his driver he was about five and a half degrees into out and so he's happy hitting this big drop but like five and a half degrees is is massive you know like maybe you can get away with a few degrees but then you gotta start really adjusting your setup and alignment stuff but but really we we want it closer it doesn't have to be zero but we want it closer so that we're just trying to do less we're trying to compensate less but when you're five or six degrees into out then your hands you have to get that club face closed in relationship to the path and start start trying to time a draw is what it comes down to you know how much how fast you are with your hands and and how much you come from the inside and all that stuff it's always dynamic it's changing and when it's changing that severe a nice subtle draw can turn into a massive block or a massive slice or a massive snap hook really quick right and and all of a sudden just just one day where your timing's just a tiny bit off even though you're still doing the exact same thing as you get your path closer and closer to zeroed out where you're having where your body is doing more to get your body in the right positions the right angles then your arms and do less then your timing dependency just becomes less right so you start becoming more consistent on a day in and day out basis because you're just not relying on your your hand eye coordination right so that's why these these big structures your you know what your hips are doing and your rib cage is doing and those types of things really your pelvis is paramount when your pelvis is doing the right things then all of a sudden golf just becomes a lot simpler because you're just not trying to time everything yeah yeah that makes total sense so that's all you that's all i would tell you to focus on for right now is if you just keep prioritizing getting this hip out of the way and then as you keep doing that as long as you keep doing that you can start feeling more comfortable swinging more aggressive right but swinging more aggressive for you doesn't mean pushing harder off the trail side right now we already know that's in there and not swinging your arms hard from the top that's in there right when you're going to swing faster right now you've got to get this lead hip to move faster to to keep up with everything right because right now it's it's the sluggish kid on the bus right we got to wake that one up and get him to participate and then you once this starts moving out of the way quicker then you'll find that gosh if i keep my arms softer and i don't have tension to my arms and shoulders i can move my hip quicker that's kind of a conundrum of the swing like typically when we want to hit the ball harder we swing harder and tighter with our arms and shoulders right we create tension there the reality is we want our arms and hands to be softer because they can move faster when the muscles are soft right that means that something else has to pick up the slack which is your pelvis your pelvis has to move faster to get out of the way but it has to move faster is not putting more muscular effort into it it's moving quicker it's lighter right like this is golf not i'm gonna do a deadlift right like that's not what we're trying to do we're trying to be how quick can i move how fast can i get this hip out of the way yeah do that then my arms get whipped through for me yeah that makes total sense because like when i was watching your videos like you're saying on your driver and stuff like that it looks like you're just seriously like doing like a little practice but you can see your hands get whipped through there i'm like wow that's it right i don't want any speed until way down here right so that's why somebody said i look like i swim like an lpga player which i guess is a compliment so so yeah so just work on this get this lead hip out of the way and you're on and let me know how it works out okay sweet i'll do it man thank you i might come back in a few months or something for another checkup that's okay i'd love to see it awesome i appreciate your time man you bet buddy talk to you soon

Phase 1

1.1 The Most Important Video You'll Watch - Learning

1.2 Introduction to The GOAT Code

1.3 The GOAT Delivery Position (GDP)

1.4 The GOAT Grip

1.5 The GOAT Setup

1.6 GOAT Ball Position

1.7 Trail Hand Putting Drill

1.8 Tiger Woods Tee Drill

1.9 Add Lead Hand to Putting Stroke

1.10 Skills Assessment Challenge: Putting

Phase 2

2.1 Clubface is KING

2.2 Trail Hand Chipping Stroke

2.3 Trail Hand Ripper Chip

2.4 Add Lead Hand to Chipping Stroke

2.5 Progressive Drill to Add Lead Hand

2.6 Add Lead Hand to Ripper Chip

2.7 Skills Assessment Challenge: Chipping

Phase 3

3.1 Transferring Power from the Core to the Hand

3.2 The GOAT Takeaway

3.3 Fundamentals of Compression

3.4 The GOAT Pitch Shot

3.5 Pitch Shot Starting Line Drill

3.6 Skills Assessment Challenge: Pitching

Phase 4

4.1 Core Activation - Chair Drill

4.2 Core Activation - Medicine Ball Throws

4.3 Core Activation - Slam Ball

4.4 Core Activation - Punching Bag Power

4.5 20 Yard Wedge Shot Basics

4.6 Skills Assessment Challenge: 20 Yard Shots

4.7 40 Yard Wedge Shots - The Magic!

4.8 GOAT Power Sequence

4.9 The GOAT Drill

4.10 How to Increase Hand Speed - J Release

4.11 The Importance of the Waggle for Speed

4.12 How the Lead Side Works for Power

4.13 Magic of Supination

4.14 80 Yard Shots - Down the Line

4.15 80 yd Shots - Face On

4.16 Tiger Woods 80 yd Face On Reference Video

4.17 How to Coil Around the Trail Leg

4.18 GOAT Backswing

4.19 Rotation & Footwork

4.20 GOAT Downswing - The Whip Effect

4.21 The GOAT 9 to 3 Drill

4.22 160 yd Shots - GOAT Speed Sequence

4.23 Instant Over the Top Cure

Webinars

Webinar 1: The Core

Webinar 2: Core Power & Putting

Webinar 3 - Compression & Clubface Control

Webinar 4 - Fascia & Effortless Power

Webinar 5: The GOAT Hands Webinar

Q-n-A Webinar 1: May 7

Q-n-A Webinar 2: May 14

Q-n-A Webinar 3: May 21

Q-n-A Webinar 4: May 28

Q-n-A Webinar 5: June 4

Q-n-A Webinar 6: June 11

Q-n-A Webinar 7: June 18

Q-n-A Webinar 8: June 25

Reference Videos

Is Tiger Woods Golf Swing a Baseball Swing? Pt. 1 of 3

Throw the Club or Push the Club? Pt 2 of 3

Squish the Bug for Effortless Power - Pt 3 of 3

The GOAT Release

The GOAT Release Intro - Endless Conveyor Belt

GOAT Code Secret to Effortless Power - Pt 1 of 4

GOAT Code Effortless Power - Head Movement - Pt 2 of 4

GOAT Code Effortless Power - Using Your Head - Pt 3 of 4

GOAT Code Effortless Power - Take it to the Course - Pt 4 of 4

Creating Torque in the Swing - Pt 1 of 3

Creating Torque in the Golf Swing - Pt 2

Creating Torque - The Magic Pill for the Feel - Pt 3

The GOAT Code Podcast