• The slice is a common fault in golf, but is easily fixed with weight shift and using the left arm correctly
• Many right handers allow the right arm to dominate the downswing, causing the club to come over the top
• Pull with the left to naturally shallow out the swing plane
• Getting a proper weight transfer also shallows out the path

WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.580 --> 00:00:07.080 One of the most frustrating faults most 2 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:09.300 golfers struggle with is coming over the 3 00:00:09.300 --> 00:00:11.419 top and slicing it, leaving the club face 4 00:00:11.419 --> 00:00:13.259 open. And to be honest with you, it's one 5 00:00:13.259 --> 00:00:15.839 of the easiest things to fix in golf. You 6 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:17.920 just have to know two critical keys that 7 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:19.219 are going to help you stop coming over 8 00:00:19.219 --> 00:00:20.179 the top immediately. 9 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:22.679 The first thing is, unfortunately, and 10 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:24.800 what makes golf so difficult, is that 11 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:25.120 it's 12 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:28.519 predominantly a left-arm, left-sided 13 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:30.039 dominant game. It doesn't mean the right 14 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:31.739 side doesn't do a huge part and the right 15 00:00:31.739 --> 00:00:33.679 arm doesn't do a huge part. It absolutely 16 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:35.140 does. If you've watched other videos, you 17 00:00:35.140 --> 00:00:35.520 know that. 18 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:38.280 But in terms of controlling the club face 19 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:40.179 and the angle and the swing plane and a 20 00:00:40.179 --> 00:00:42.520 lot of those things, a lot of it is the 21 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:44.479 left arm that has to do a lot of the 22 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:46.079 heavy lifting. And if you don't know how 23 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:48.119 to use the left arm, that's where the 24 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:49.100 difficulty comes in. 25 00:00:49.859 --> 00:00:51.640 And so what I'm going to do today is show 26 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:53.960 you one simple key that if you do this 27 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:57.079 correctly right away, your left arm will 28 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:59.179 change your swing plane and path so that 29 00:00:59.179 --> 00:01:01.439 it will make it almost impossible for you 30 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:03.000 to come over the top. And so what I'm 31 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:04.480 going to show you first is what typically 32 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.480 happens because most golfers play golf 33 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:08.159 right-handed and they're right-hand 34 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:10.900 dominant. So what happens is they way 35 00:01:10.900 --> 00:01:13.340 overuse the right side when it comes to 36 00:01:13.340 --> 00:01:15.099 the downswing. And so what I'm going to 37 00:01:15.099 --> 00:01:17.379 show you is what happens when you overuse 38 00:01:17.379 --> 00:01:19.480 the right side and underuse the left. And 39 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:21.299 so, of course, a lot of the stuff on the 40 00:01:21.299 --> 00:01:22.700 website is talking about pushing versus 41 00:01:22.700 --> 00:01:23.780 pulling. And that's what we're going to 42 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:26.219 go back to now is to show you what 43 00:01:26.219 --> 00:01:27.700 happens when you push with the right 44 00:01:27.700 --> 00:01:29.420 side, the right arm in an effort to try 45 00:01:29.420 --> 00:01:31.180 and get power from the swing instead of 46 00:01:31.180 --> 00:01:32.659 learning how to get speed and using the 47 00:01:32.659 --> 00:01:34.459 mechanics. What you're going to see is it 48 00:01:34.459 --> 00:01:36.819 changes the pitch of the shaft and that's 49 00:01:36.819 --> 00:01:38.379 what steepens the plane and causes you to 50 00:01:38.379 --> 00:01:39.480 come over the top. So let me show you 51 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:41.180 what that looks like. If I go to the top 52 00:01:41.180 --> 00:01:43.000 of my swing with my right arm only, my 53 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:44.939 right arm and the musculature that I have 54 00:01:44.939 --> 00:01:47.140 available to use to me here is really 55 00:01:47.140 --> 00:01:49.340 strong at doing this. And you can see 56 00:01:49.340 --> 00:01:51.439 what's going to happen if I take my right 57 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:53.819 arm and twist it this way, which feels 58 00:01:53.819 --> 00:01:55.159 really powerful and trying to get the 59 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:57.540 club to move really fast, the shaft is 60 00:01:57.540 --> 00:01:59.120 going to steep and the pitch of it is, 61 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:00.680 and that's what's going to get me coming 62 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:02.780 over the top and lead to a chicken wing 63 00:02:02.780 --> 00:02:04.340 and all these other things. The same 64 00:02:04.340 --> 00:02:05.879 thing is true if I want to overuse the 65 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:07.879 right shoulder, which again feels really 66 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.300 powerful. I heave my right shoulder at 67 00:02:10.300 --> 00:02:12.300 the ball and again, the shaft is now 68 00:02:12.300 --> 00:02:14.259 coming out over the top of the swing 69 00:02:14.259 --> 00:02:15.960 plane. And now I'm going to come across 70 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:17.860 it again and run into the same problem. 71 00:02:18.020 --> 00:02:21.240 So it's almost predominantly overused to 72 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:22.539 the right side that causes you to come 73 00:02:22.539 --> 00:02:23.939 over the top. Now let's look at the 74 00:02:23.939 --> 00:02:26.199 opposite of that. If I go to the top with 75 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:29.000 my left arm now and I try and use my left 76 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.240 arm really hard, guess what happens? The 77 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:33.819 shaft shallows out automatically. It's 78 00:02:33.819 --> 00:02:35.939 very difficult, it's a very weak, awkward 79 00:02:35.939 --> 00:02:38.319 feeling and you wouldn't do it to use my 80 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:40.780 left arm and try and heave across the 81 00:02:40.780 --> 00:02:42.719 ball like this or throw the club into a 82 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:44.699 steeper pitch position. What's going to 83 00:02:44.699 --> 00:02:47.879 happen if you pull with the left arm, the 84 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:49.240 club shallows out and that's how you 85 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:51.080 start coming too far from the inside. But 86 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:52.719 if you're an over the topper, that's a 87 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:54.280 dream come true. You're going to, you'd 88 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:56.159 love to hit a big snap hook, which a lot 89 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.180 of golfers are terrified of, but as you 90 00:02:58.180 --> 00:03:00.379 start using the left arm, that's what 91 00:03:00.379 --> 00:03:01.819 allows you to shallow out. You start 92 00:03:01.819 --> 00:03:03.979 using the right arm, you get into that 93 00:03:03.979 --> 00:03:06.000 motion. It's very hard to get your right 94 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.319 arm to do this to come from the inside. 95 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:10.419 Unless you take this right shoulder and 96 00:03:10.419 --> 00:03:12.379 drop it under like this. And then you're 97 00:03:12.379 --> 00:03:14.180 going to swing out into out too severely 98 00:03:14.180 --> 00:03:16.060 as well. We don't want to do that either. 99 00:03:16.219 --> 00:03:17.599 We just want to learn to use the left arm 100 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:19.639 correctly, especially at the top of the 101 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:21.219 swing. And that's what's going to allow 102 00:03:21.219 --> 00:03:23.699 us to shallow out. Now the second key to 103 00:03:23.699 --> 00:03:26.439 this is your weight transfer. The weight 104 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:28.500 transfer shallows out the swing, 105 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:30.419 shallows out this pitch of the shaft, 106 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.500 shallows out the plane. And all that is, 107 00:03:32.539 --> 00:03:34.039 is going from being loaded up on this 108 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:36.180 right side to shifting our weight back to 109 00:03:36.180 --> 00:03:37.719 the left. This little move here of 110 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:40.360 shifting your pelvis from your right leg 111 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:42.300 to your left leg, shifting your weight 112 00:03:42.300 --> 00:03:44.680 over shallows out the shaft. So from face 113 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:45.979 on, it's pretty easy to see. It's just a 114 00:03:45.979 --> 00:03:48.280 little move like this from down the line. 115 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:50.639 Now watch what happens as I shift my 116 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:52.819 weight. That's what pulls my arm down. 117 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:54.699 It's not that I go to the top and just 118 00:03:54.699 --> 00:03:56.840 rip my left arm down by itself. That's 119 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.259 not happening at all. You're using your 120 00:03:59.259 --> 00:04:01.740 mass, your body mass and your weight to 121 00:04:01.740 --> 00:04:03.620 change the direction of the club because 122 00:04:03.620 --> 00:04:05.080 there's a lot of momentum going back. So 123 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:06.719 we've got to use some big muscle mass to 124 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:08.979 change the direction of the club. And 125 00:04:08.979 --> 00:04:12.560 once we do that, that club will drop down 126 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:14.080 into this delivery position. And that's 127 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:15.580 when we start to fire with the arms and 128 00:04:15.580 --> 00:04:18.040 everything else at that time. If you 129 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:20.379 don't shift your weight first, you'll 130 00:04:20.379 --> 00:04:21.699 still run into a lot of other swing 131 00:04:21.699 --> 00:04:23.339 problems. So it's critical that you put 132 00:04:23.339 --> 00:04:25.259 these two things together. You're going 133 00:04:25.259 --> 00:04:27.939 to shift your weight and pull with the 134 00:04:27.939 --> 00:04:28.519 left arm. 135 00:04:29.100 --> 00:04:30.620 Obviously, you notify with the right arm. 136 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:32.680 Where you got to learn how to use the 137 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:34.660 videos on the side is when you're 138 00:04:34.660 --> 00:04:35.939 struggling with one or the other. So if 139 00:04:35.939 --> 00:04:37.759 you need speed in your swing and you use 140 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:39.160 the left arm really well and transfer 141 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:40.079 your weight, it's something you don't 142 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:41.639 struggle with, but you need to get more 143 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:43.800 speed. That's when you focus on the right 144 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:44.939 side movement. That's what's going to 145 00:04:44.939 --> 00:04:46.860 help give you speed and energy transfer 146 00:04:46.860 --> 00:04:47.420 and those things. 147 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.699 If you struggle with plane and path and 148 00:04:50.699 --> 00:04:52.220 are coming over the top, typical more 149 00:04:52.220 --> 00:04:54.680 high handicap kind of problems, then you 150 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:56.600 need to work on using the left arm and 151 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:58.000 working on your weight shift and those 152 00:04:58.000 --> 00:04:59.939 two things together. The higher the 153 00:04:59.939 --> 00:05:02.060 handicap typically, the more these 154 00:05:02.060 --> 00:05:03.699 problems are severe. The more you're 155 00:05:03.699 --> 00:05:05.319 going to tend to shift your weight less 156 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:07.480 and not use the left arm correctly. The 157 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:09.180 higher handicapper is going to kind of 158 00:05:09.180 --> 00:05:10.459 hang back here on the right side and 159 00:05:10.459 --> 00:05:12.720 throw the arms at the top and get stuck 160 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:14.199 back here on the right side. Because 161 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:15.620 they're creating a lot of force with the 162 00:05:15.620 --> 00:05:17.420 arms early, that causes the body weight 163 00:05:17.420 --> 00:05:19.579 to get trapped back here. The lower 164 00:05:19.579 --> 00:05:21.600 handicap guys may be focusing a little 165 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:23.100 bit more on getting some speed back into 166 00:05:23.100 --> 00:05:24.579 their swings as they learn to do these 167 00:05:24.579 --> 00:05:26.699 fundamentals correctly. So again, two 168 00:05:26.699 --> 00:05:30.180 keys, weight shift, left arm, and you'll 169 00:05:30.180 --> 00:05:31.699 never be able to come over the top again.