Stop RUSHING Your DOWNSWING – Secret to Effortless Power in Golf

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In this video, Adam shares simple tips to help you stop rushing your downswing and find a smooth, consistent rhythm in your golf swing. These easy-to-follow drills are designed to improve your tempo, keep you in sync, and help you hit the ball flush every time.

Whether you’re struggling with quick transitions or just want to refine your timing, these feel-based downswing tips will give you the confidence to swing smoother and strike the ball better on the course.

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Hello, Adam Basiljette here, founder of Scratcholf Academy. Today, drills to help you stop rushing the down swing. Tips that’ll be easy for you. Field tips I think will help you. What is rushing the down swing? John Rom swings pretty quickly. He doesn’t rush his down swing. And what isn’t it? We’ll give you three drills and some simple tips. So, Lanny Watkins, there would be an example of a great player from yesterday year with a really quick move. We just mentioned John Rom. Now, most people could never create the kind of speed he does, period. But he’s not rushing the down swing because he’s doing it in sequence. We like speed. Let’s have a little bit of a look at this subject. Then we’ll get to our three drills. So, we have Randy Johnson, baseball pitcher on the left and Roger Federer, a famed tennis player there on the right. Just a quick note, if you’re watching this video shortly after it was made, we’ve really had our struggles at the ScratchGolf Academy website and I sincerely apologize. All the backend stuff got messed up. We have worked very very hard to get the new stuff up. It will be we’re sending emails out to you. You need to go to the link at the new email even though it’s scratchgolfacademy.com. Uh the domain address is different. Your sign in is all the way at the bottom of the page. Thanks so much. Okay, Randy Johnson. So, let’s have a look. Ball’s in his left hand. Here goes the body. Ball not moving at all. Lots of aggression though. I can tell you at full speed he’s moving. And then the ball gets thrown. Roger Federra again. Racket. If anything, it’s moving away from the tennis ball. Good aggressive move and then the ball gets hit. That’s the sequence we’re looking for. Reasonable. Okay. So, throwing a ball, we’re just looking at sporting motions there. Listen, if I just move my hand quickly, I can create a little bit of speed for sure, but if I let my body lead like a quarterback or a pitcher, there’s exponentially more energy once I do it. Similarly, a towel. We’ll look at this in one of our drills. If I move my hand, I can create more snap in the towel. And if I just try to get that end moving quickly. Let’s have one more look from here. Then we’ll get to our three drills. So, a frequent symptom of this rushing the club and getting out of sequence is players mentally are trying to hit that ball. Their golf club goes towards the ball. It doesn’t come down to the side of the body. They’re not playing enough out to the target. They’re playing too much at the golf ball. When you do that, typically your shoulders will be too rotated and you won’t be your weight won’t be shifted to the left enough. So, as we look at this first drill, it’s going to help you with that. In fact, it’s going to exaggerate that. Put the thing on a T. I have it on a T there. I’m going to set up normally. I’m going to make a little 3/4 swing, 3/4 speed. I’m going to take a normal back swing, normal plane. I’m going to pause for a split second and just try to pop the ball diagonally out to the right. Not by leaving the face open, but by changing my swings. Pretty easy to do. Let’s try one here. So, here’s my takeaway. And just shove one out to the right there like that. That will help you. I’ll show you in a moment from the face on. Get this delayed look in your upper trunk there. But it in order to do this, you cannot rush those arms. So, let’s try one more, then we’ll move on to our next two drills. Pretty normal little three quarterback swing. Pause long enough to get the direction changed and then hit one from there and then go back to normal. Let’s check it from face on. So, as I said, if you’re going to throw to right field, you really have to have the hips forward, the body more closed, the arms more behind you. Never things you see from people that rush the start of the down swing, getting out of sequence using their arms and torso too much. Not a bad thing for slices either, by the way, in terms of swing, working on your swing direction. Okay, number two. This is one I picked up from my friend, National PGA teacher of the year years and years ago, Michael Hebrron. And this is one we’ll use a T again where he takes it back. You can use this in chipping or bigger swings. In this case, we’ll go to about arms horizontal. And then you’re literally just going to let gravity drop your arms to the ground. I’m not suggesting your arm should be that loose and soft when you hit a really good golf shot. But here’s the drill. We let it drop. It’s dropping to the side of my body, not towards the ball. And on the third or fourth one, as it drops, I use my body to get the club to the ball. It’s a great way to teach you, as I say, not firmness in the arms that you need in real golf, but delay, lack of thrust in the arms. So, let’s try one. Here we go. Back to the target. Club drops. There’s a little bit of movement in my body. All the thrust to get it going was coming from the ground up. That’s drill number two. Drill number three, I like these towel drills. If you’ve watched some of my videos before, you’ve seen these, but this is a little bit different. You need a medium length towel, my Mediterr. And I just want to take trail hand only and pop the ground over here on this side of the ball. There’s no way you’re doing that unless you get weight shift first and then you pop it. It really is a fantastic way to feel that sequence and feel that movement. Now, once you worked on these drills, and most probably these are things you have to go back to, you want speed after that. Again, John Rom, we used him at the beginning. Unlikely you’re going to have that kind of a speed. Certainly, I’m not, but you like speed and energy. But if you catch yourself thrusting and rushing, symptoms would be bad sequence, bad contact, poor balance, things like that, not getting to the left side for the right-handed golfer. If you see those things happening, go back to some of these drills. I hope they’ll help you. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]