“Magic” Knee Move Gets You SMASHING The Ball Like a Tour Pro

Struggling with inconsistent ball striking or weak contact? The issue might be your lead knee. In this video, Coach Carolin breaks down how correcting your lead knee position can immediately improve your consistency, power, and ball-first contact.

In this video, you’ll learn:

Why a collapsing lead knee ruins your swing

A simple at-home drill to build a stable lower body

How to use an alignment stick for structure and rotation

The key lower-body move that tour pros use for effortless power

Key takeaway: A stable lead knee helps you create coil, maintain structure, and deliver powerful, consistent strikes—without swaying or collapsing.

Try the drills and leave a comment: Did this help your contact improve?

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hi performance golfers I’m Coach Carolyn and today we’re going to talk about why it’s not you but it’s knee All right so we’re going to talk about your lead knee And this has been a hugely controversial discussion between my followers and the videos I’ve shot So we’re bringing it back because it’s also super impactful for your impact quite literally So it’s going to improve your hit It’s going to improve your consistency It’s going to improve your contact And it’s going to do that immediately And here’s why A lot of you guys don’t pay attention to your lower body because it’s just kind of there right it’s not something that’s in the center of your swing Much more attention is usually being paid to your arms and to your upper body because that’s what swings the club But guys we can’t underestimate and forget the foundation that we’re building with our knees and with our legs with our feet So that’s why we’re going to talk about this today Too many times I see that lead knee collapsing when you take the club back And this is what it would look like It kind of looks like this Some people even kind of lift their left foot You can see that sole coming off You can see that lead knee really kind of lost its structure It’s come in and it’s basically collapsing It doesn’t look like a strong position The Tour Pros don’t look like that When you see the Tour Pros it looks much more like this And it looks powerful right you can see the power in this position If you just look at my legs this is braced This is bent There’s some movement in here but what it is not is this collapsed look So I’m first going to jump into a dry drill here for you guys And you can do this at home You don’t even have to be in a range which is why I love that You know I I like a good hallway drill But I want you to stand up straight I want you to put your palms together I want you to flip them And I just want to like bend over like you were in your golf position in your setup position Now make sure your left arm and your lead arm goes down as your right arm travels up And you’re going to press against that lead knee with that left hand And you’re going to actually feel a stretch down your right side if you’re doing it correctly Again let’s set up Put our hands pointing down Now pull them apart Feel that stretch I actually feel a stretch in my hip I feel a stretch up my right side And that creates coil That creates structure It creates tension And it creates if you now took it to the top it creates what gives you this boom sound and this really nice and strong motion Again let’s just kind of feel this It pulls you back into impact If you were doing this with this collapsed knee now there’s nothing pulling you back into impact There’s nothing that kind of snaps you back You actually have to put a lot more energy to try to get through the target So that’s why it’s super important for you guys to feel that lead knee pushing this way Hey guys if you’re watching today’s video and you enjoy the tips but you really want to take your game to a whole another level my friends here at Performance Golf are hosting beautiful two-day immersive golf schools with the best golf coaches in the world all around the United States You know I find a lot of golfers come in to see us and they’re really not able to identify and fix their real root cause And usually there’s like four or five main swing issues we have but finding the real one main root flaw that can domino effect and fix all the rest of the pieces of really the thing that makes or breaks someone’s improvement So if you want to make like one or two years worth of improvements in two days I highly recommend you check out my friends at Performance Golf these golf schools down below Click the link down there See if there’s still a spot left in a location that works for you could be the thing that transforms your game Look forward to having an awesome experience So if you’re on the range next time and you’re hitting balls make sure you put an alignment stick on the outside of your left foot I kind of like putting it right where my heel is Shove it into the ground Here you go So it touches your calf And now what we’re going to do is as we’re swinging it back we want to make sure that that lead hip and knee don’t really leave that alignment stick If anything you feel like you keep pushing it into that alignment stick As you’re at the top of your swing it’s going to come off and that’s okay But I want you to still feel like you’re pushing it towards that alignment stick You’re pushing it towards that target What we don’t want to feel is like you’re just collapsing So it really activates the right muscle group We want to make sure as we’re going up feel like you’re pressing this knee towards the target and into this alignment stick It’s going to do a couple of things without you even noticing it It’s going to also help you shorten your swing if you’re an overswinger which you likely are if you’re losing that leg structure And as we talked about it’s going to pull you back into impact much more naturally It’s going to shorten your swing It’s going to increase the quality of your contact just so simply And I got this on some of my videos My followers were commenting “Oh my gosh this improved my contact instantly.” And I know it does That’s why we’re here That’s why we’re talking about this It is your knees Make sure you pay attention to your lower body when you’re working on your swing It’s not just your arms that swing the club So I’m going to do this now I’m going to show you I’m going to do some waggles I’m going to feel like that knee keeps pushing towards the target From down the line you’ll see that that knee then kind of actually goes forward And that’s totally fine You don’t want to lock this knee because then you lock your pelvis Make sure that you feel like you’re pushing it towards the target You can let it go forward a little bit That’s totally fine We just don’t want it to come in and really kind of sway off the ball because it’s going to create this loss of structure and sway Let’s hit a ball with this Let’s feel the power Get into this powerful position Gosh I really hit that super well I hit the ball first And that’s exactly what you’re going to feel as well Here’s also a little bit of a funny thing I had a couple people in my comment section saying “Oh my gosh but Ben Hogan he did it differently His knees were going all over the place.” And these people aren’t wrong but they missed the point of the hip The structure did not break down Ben Hogan’s swing was yes there was a little bit more motion in this knee but his hip stayed super steady And guys if you were Ben Hogan you wouldn’t be watching this video Let’s be realistic So let’s work on something that’s going to work for you guys that’s going to improve your contact immediately And I’m super excited for you guys to try this because I just love this drill It’s going to change your golf life It really will I know this I’ve been told I’ve had many students tell me boom I could stand here and just do this all day and it feels so good All right guys I hope you love this video and make sure to leave us a comment below and let us know how you feel and how this improved your golf game because I know it will Let us know below Thanks guys See you next time