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Moving the Fulcrum & Hitting Shots off the Toe
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It's one of my most important golf instruction videos ever, this will completely transform the way you think about hitting your irons.
if you struggle with inconsistency in your golf swing listen up because I'm going to show you one thing that you've probably never ever heard before and in fact if you're taking golf lessons there's a good chance that your instructor is actually teaching you to do it wrong that's making it virtually impossible for you to play consistent golf and hit your irons consistently in the same spot and get them to go the same direction what is this concept I call it moving the fulcrum when you think about it think about a grandfather clock for a second a grandfather clock has a fulcrum at the top and then it swings on a very slight arc right goes up going back down bottoms out in the exact same spot every time and then comes up in the same spot and it never misses the bottom of its swing arc does it now if you think about it that's the whole secret to iron play is getting the club to bottom out in the exact same spot in the exact same way every single time that's all iron play is if you can do that golf's really simple however what would happen to my grandfather clock in the bottom of its swing arc if I started moving its fulcrum or its pivot point so right now I'm going to keep it constant pretty constant constants I can keep my hand here and now I'm going to move it oh man club hasn't bottomed out in the same spot once or maybe every now and then I get lucky and I get it to bottom out in the same spot man how many times I do that maybe one out of 20 sound like your golf swing if so listen up because I'm going to teach you this concept you've never heard about keeping your fulcrums staying in the same spot so you can be the best iron player that you possibly can so what is this fulcrum how do we relate this back to the golf swing and what does it really matter well we have lots of pivot points in the golf swing really but the one I want to talk about primarily is this left shoulder now you've probably heard me talk about this concept of pushing versus pulling and you get by now that makes a ton of sense you must be using the pulling side of the body to get the club to travel behind and do the same thing every single time if not go back and look for my pushing versus pulling video now if we're pulling in the downswing what side can we pull with well pretty obvious it's the left side and you know I've talked ad infinitum about releasing the club with the left hand so think about how that would relate to the grandfather clock again what would be the fulcrum in your golf swing well give you a second to think about this but it's not a trick question it's your left shoulder socket left shoulder socket is moving in the and the left arm in the club a heck of a lot like a grandfather clock now of course it's not exactly the same there's obviously stuff happening in 3d space here but what I want you to understand is that when you start moving that fulcrum in your downswing and an impact like so many golf instructors are teaching you to do by rotating your shoulders through you're making it virtually impossible to hit the club and they get the ball in the same way every single time just like the grandfather clock couldn't possibly hit the bottom of its swing arc the same way every single time so let's let's do this as an example I'm gonna just try and pivot the club from my left shoulder socket I'm gonna try to relax my hand as much as possible and you should notice that as I'm doing this the club is starting to take a little divot in the same spot starting right here virtually every single time now what happens if I keep doing this and I move my left shoulder whoa can't even hit the ground because rotation inherently shallows out the swing and if I did hit the ball I'd be wiping across it I'll show you from down the line so we'll go back and do the same drill here try and relax my arm get the club to do the same thing starting to bottom out in the same spot right underneath my left shoulder and now I'm gonna move my fulcrum whoa club swung right across the top would have whacked the ball off the toe completely missed it it whacked it off the toe and would have hit it terribly so many golf instructors teach their students to take their chest and rotate it to the left why on earth would you do that when you have one fixed point in space to use as a fulcrum to get the club to release the same way every single time doesn't make a lick of sense to me I hope it doesn't make a lick of sense to you either so how do we get this fulcrum to start staying in place so that we can more consistently get the club to swing the way it was meant to be swung great question I'm glad you asked so the most important thing as you're starting down in your downswing is to not rotate your shoulders if you start rotating them right from the top they're not gonna magically stop at impact of course not they're gonna keep turning moving your fulcrum in 3d space away from the ball which means you've got to make some sort of compensation to get the club to work back out and actually make contact without whacking it off the toe so what you want to do from the top is make sure your chest stays shut in relationship to the target as long as humanly possible I always stand behind my students when I'm given a lesson and I say okay once you turn your chest back here to me keep it there as long as you can you initiate the downswing with your weight shift in your hip turn and that pulls your shoulders back to impact and since you didn't start rotating your shoulders from the top aggressively guess what happens to your fulcrum at impact it stays nice and quiet if I start rotating really fast I'm dead balls gonna all clubs gonna get thrown out I'm gonna lose lag and they're gonna start swiping across the ball or I can even get the club stuck behind if I use my hips really well but either way the fulcrum is moving if I keep my shoulders nice and relaxed and just shift my weight as I get into impact there's no momentum for my shoulders to keep turning so all I got to do here release the club release my forearms golf swings done easy peasy Bob's your uncle's piece of cake stop moving your fulcrum and start becoming a better ball striker
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