DEAD Drill Step 2 - The Transition - Junior Program
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How to learn the perfect golf swing transition with one simple move.
Once you're loaded up correctly in the backswing, the next move, the transition, will be a piece of cake because the transition is really dependent on how you load it up in the backswing.
And really, the transition is a really simple move.
When you load up correctly in the backswing, you're going to find this to be really, really easy.
There's a couple really simple checkpoints that I want you to focus on.
So, what do we need to do during the transition? Well, you can think about this like you were throwing a ball.
If you were going to throw a ball, you would load up all your weight on your back foot, you would take a step with your lead foot, and you would turn your hips and then throw the ball.
That's kind of the same sequence of the golf swing in a simplified way.
The transition would be that move where we're going from having all our weight back here to taking the step.
But in golf, we don't get to pick up our feet, right? So, we have to make that same type of feeling without actually moving our feet.
So, what we're going to do, as you go back, we've got our backswing here, we're loaded up on the right hip, head stayed nice and centered.
As you're turned back, you've made a nice full shoulder turn, 90 degrees.
All you're going to do is what we call squat to square.
And I'm going to show you both face on and down the line what that looks like.
So, the first move, remember, if we're throwing a ball, we got to take that step and start shifting weight back to the lead leg.
Well, without a step, we still have to shift weight back over to the lead leg.
So, your hip and your knee are going to move back over your front foot.
So, it's just a little sit move into this.
So, you really kind of feel your feet driving into the ground, feel your feet gripping the ground.
So, you turn back and you start to shift your weight back over to the lead side.
Be careful, you don't want to drive off this right side because that can move your hip out past neutral and lead to injury.
So, you're just going to move a tiny bit back over to the left, getting your knee and your hip close to being over your foot.
And as you're doing this, you're going to squat to square.
What that means from down the line is that your hips at the top of your backswing, you've turned them about 45 degrees.
And now, we've got to get them back to square where they started.
So, you'll see here as I squat with both feet, pushing both feet into the ground, my hips have turned almost back to square.
But notice that you can still see the logo on my shirt.
That's because I didn't turn my shoulders.
This is super important to maintain this leverage and power we've built up in the swing to be more consistent and have more effortless power.
So, as we're going back, keep your chest pointing away from the target, pointing back behind you, and squat to square.
And you'll notice that my whole body kind of compresses.
It kind of goes down just a little bit.
And I really feel my glutes, my back of my legs and the front of my legs here, starting to load up for some power.
And you don't want to just squat down with your knees.
That's going to change your spine angle.
So, as you go back, squat to square.
Your hips are now square.
You can see, if I put a shaft across my legs as I come back, they're more or less back square to the target.
And my chest is still closed.
If you do those moves, you've got the whole transition licked.
