In this video i'm going to show you how to optimize your shorter golf swing so
you can play the golf of your life. So if you've got a shorter golf swing i'm
going to show you three keys that you can use to optimize it
so you can get enough distance you can still play this ge well and compete
with your younger rivals that you play with. So three keys I want you to work on.
I'm going to assume you've got a good grip and set up
as we begin the setup I want you to use your belly button as a reference point.
So as you turn I want you to turn and have a one piece takeaway so
everyone move everything moves in one piece. You can see my belly button lines up
roughly with the grip it can go a little bit higher that's okay
but you're turning getting a bit of hinge in the club
and you're turning everything together. Now the next part is making sure you get
a bit of hip depth. As you're getting that hip depth you're
getting more pressure into that trail instep there
and I also want you to make sure you get some depth in your hands as well. So not just
getting hip depth here which gives you more space on the downswing but you're
getting your hands a bit deeper and the club a little bit laid off not so much
like that. More laid off like this i'll go into more detail on this on the
downswing but what that'll enable you to do is give you more space to shallow that
club in the downswing so the keys for a great backswing for a short back swing
it's getting everything to turn to that belly button height getting hip depth
we're getting hand depth getting a little bit laid off
now we're ready to make a great downswing all right let's take a look at
the down swing now i'll quickly just show you that back swing from face on
that looks to here turning everything together
getting that hinge getting that pressure into that trail side
and getting those hands deep and we're getting that trail hip deep as well so i
thought to show you that from another
angle let's look at the downswing so as we go to the top here
now the reason i want your hands to be a little bit deeper is it makes it much
easier to get this club
shallow so it's splitting somewhere near that trail forearm i can't see myself on
cera there but it should be fairly close to splitting that trail forearm
if you shallower you'll have a very good chance of making
solid contact more often now this is the big key i
want you to do when you're down sing i want you to feel
as we start down i want you to feel that trail elbow
closer to your body that'll help shallow it and the first thing i want you to do
is feel your lead shoulder and lead hip goes down
only be a small movement lead shoulder lead hip go down
what that does is it gives you get your pressure on your lead side
so you can really crush your golf shots it's incredibly important with your
irons also works for your driver and hybrids let me show you from face on
just so you know what i'm talking about made a back swing
left shoulder left hip down
getting a mass onto that lead side okay
that trail elbow is staying tight and tucked
that will shallow out the club let's do it again let's just make our short
back swing
there getting pressure into that lead really into that lead in steps
in a great position to get the most of that shorter swing
and from there you can really crush that golf ball i
just want to touch on one small thing on that down swing i left out your grip
pressure needs to be light enough that your trail wrist
this right which is my right hand for me i can maintain some of that hinge that i
had at the top i can maintain more of that as i get that move forward
that way i can shallow it bring the club through on plane if i
keep that wrist very tight i could cast it
even worse the importance of keeping that right elbow close to you
it stops you from getting out like this you can keep that
right elbow close to you you won't come down steep
and you'll be able to shallow it
and get into a much better position at impact okay the final part of our
shorter golf swing so you can really optimize and get the most out of it and
that's impact through the follow through so
i'll show you this in a couple of different angles
so we've made our back swing we've shallowed the club on the way through
i want you to have these feels as you come through to get the most out of your
swing now the first one is going to be as you come through past impact
i want you to feel like those arms in fact i'll just show it over here first
feel like those arms they remain straight
okay they'll obviously hinge eventually but i want you to feel like
they finish straight okay that's the
first feel i want you to have from this angle here
we we're to here and we're finished as we're rotating we're shallowing the club
okay you want to feel those arms and are extending out i don't want them
flipping like this too much now the other feel i want you to have which will
help you hit a lot more straighter golf shots
i feel like this handle is more
inside the club head like that rather than
i feel like the handle is inside the
that club head the reason why that is so powerful
it helps maintain a lot more club face stability the clubface won't move around
as much through impact help keeps it more stable
more consistent golf shots more santa face golf shots as well
so those are some keys for you as you go through feel like you can maintain some
angle in your wrist like that we got into that wrist position up here
we've got our hands nice and that light grip pressure but we're swinging through
i feel like you're maintaining a bit of cupping with that trail wrist
so we're going through to here
we're shallowing it to here and then through
one final piece i want you to think about
and i know this seems like a lot but once you
build muscle memory and these all become automatic is this lead leg
it should straighten out past impacts as you come down
it'll still be bent here it'll be straightening and impact and
then after impact that lead leg needs to straighten so
let's have a look from here we go to here
impact straighten
and then through
now in your follow through talked about that handle being inside the club head
again depending on your flexibility and what you can do
feel like that handle matches up with the belly button again so we're using
our body this is very much a body a body golf swing it's a body rotational
swing we're coming to here we're rotating
and the handle is finishing again roughly in line with that belly button
belly button rotates through with the body
and we're finishing about here somewhere so it's a body driven swing that's not
going to rely so much on your wrists and it will encourage you to do a lot
more rotation so this is what it looks like
to here to here
this is a repeated a repeatable golf swing
that you can do over and over which will result in a lot more
consistency so let's have a look at a simple drill you can do to practice this
and build this into your ge all right let's look at how you can practice your
shorter golf swing get the most out of it first thing i want you to do is grab
a club grab the handle put it into your belly button we're going to reference
that again choke up on the club like this
and you're going to turn and make your back swing you'll notice everything
stays connected and together and then turn through
this is a great drill to practice this shorter golf swing keep everything
connected and that body turning it forces you to rotate
an excellent one to do you can do even do it as a pre-shot routine before you
hit your shot the other thing you can do is do some slow rehearsals
so you can practice getting your stance you're just going to come to here
and you're going to swing through and do everything we spoke about nice and slow
to here and through
all right let's hit one now we're going to put all those three keys into
practice and see how it goes
set up to one here going to get that ship
shift going to get that that depth
pretty good strike you can absolutely make a shorter golf
swing and still get plenty of distance and play
great golf so if you have any questions about that video anything you didn't
understand about the backswing the downswing or that follow through
please let me know we'll get back to you got an important video coming up that
you need to watch because this talks about how to stop standing up through
impact now when you combine that with this video you're going to play some
fantastic golf so i'll see you on that video it's coming up.