My Golf Power Secret
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How do the pros hit the ball so darn far? I tell all inside with this power secret!
For me, one of the most enjoyable parts of the game, and I'm sure it's the same for you, Is puring a perfect drive as far as humanly possible and feeling like I barely had to put any effort into it.
Now sometimes we do those shots and sometimes we don't.
Why is it that we feel like we have to work so hard when swinging the longer clubs to produce power in the swing?
And it generally produces the opposite result.
I'm going to tell you why.
Today I'm going to show you my power secret.
What it is that I have used for so many years to hit the ball well over 300 yards, being a pretty small guy, relatively.
So I don't have any physical advantages over you, But what I do have is an understanding of where power and speed really comes from in the swing.
And it's the exact opposite of what you think.
In fact, I think Hogan once said that.
If you just do the exact opposite in the golf swing of what you think you should do, or what feels right, it's probably right.
And he's a hundred percent true.
It's so weird that golf is the exact opposite in so many ways of what we naturally want to do.
And those of you who have attended the clinics have heard me talk about how much we want to dominate the swing with our right side and why that is.
Well, the vast majority of us are right-handed golfers.
So naturally, it makes perfect sense that as you get to the top of your swing, what do you want to do from here?
Take this right side of your body, your right leg, your right arm, your right hand, and push that club as hard as you can.
Now, what happens when you do that?
Well, there's only one thing that can happen.
The only thing that's going to happen if you start pushing against the club like this is you're going to widen this angle and cast the club.
If you cast the club, I can almost guarantee with a hundred percent certainty that you're overusing the right hand.
How do I know this?
Well, I've been doing this long enough to know that if I take somebody's right hand completely off the club and make them swing, just left-handed, they look like Sergio Garcia halfway down.
Hmm.
Wonder why that is.
The power secret in the golf swing is simply this.
Two-thirds of your club head speed comes from just the release of your left wrist.
Two-thirds.
Sixty-six percent of your speed comes from just the release of this angle.
So now think about that for a second.
You're doing everything with your right arm because it feels good.
It feels powerful.
But as soon as you push against the shaft with the right wrist, the only place this club can go is out.
It's going to widen the angle.
So the reality is, is that your job in the golf swing is one thing.
So three things.
It's to create, to maintain, and release lag.
It's the most important part of the golf swing, because two-thirds of your power comes from just that thing.
It's all about having the proper angle in this left wrist and releasing it at the right time.
That allows you to hit the ball a long ways with no effort.
It's not any more complicated than that.
If you keep trying to dominate the swing with your right hand, you will always, always keep fighting the forces of physics, throwing the club away, having no lag, And then you feel like you do have to rotate your body really hard to produce any power because you don't have any leverage left.
It's all about leverage.
That's the power secret to golf.
All of my power comes from my left wrist angle and really my left leg.
As I post up, which I talked about in the you hit the ball with your legs video, as I post up, that's what forces this angle to go down.
Remember, you're always moving in the opposite direction that you want the club to go.
When I talk about the takeaway, what am I talking about moving?
Your right shoulder blade, right?
Taking this right shoulder blade, pulling it behind your head.
In other words, you're pulling it toward the target, right?
Which direction is the club going?
Away from the target.
I'm moving the club by moving my body always in the opposite direction.
The same is true when you want power in the swing.
If I want this club to go down this way forcefully with a lot of speed, what direction does my body need to be moving?
Up.
Now the club's also moving in three dimensions, obviously.
So it's not just moving down, but it's moving out away from my body, which means I should be moving in the opposite direction.
What am I moving in the opposite direction?
As I move my left hip and rotate my left hip out of the way, that's what makes the club go down and out.
Now, if you're a typical average amateur golfer, you're trying to move your body in the same direction you want the club to go, and all that does is create club head throwaway.
That's where you lose power.
So understand this.
Your job in the golf swing is to create, maintain, and release lag.
Everything else is secondary to that.
That is your job description.
So the things that we focus on with Rotary Swing are teaching your body how to move correctly and move from the left side.
So that that is automatically taken care of for you.
I don't want you to try and go to the top of your swing and then create this unnatural down cock.
That's not what we're doing at all.
This happens as a byproduct of making sure weight transfer is the first thing that happens in your swing, not rotation and not pushing from the top.
It's weight shift, this lateral shift that pulls your hand down as your hips start to unwind a little bit.
You're keeping your hands doing nothing.
As they stay relaxed, look at this angle I have.
I have a ton of potential energy right here to release with my left hand and my leg, that's going to produce all the power in my swing.
So like Ogun said, do the exact opposite of what feels right and you'll probably be on the right track.
And remember, your number one job in the swing and the true power secret is to create, maintain, and release lag in the golf swing.
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