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Eric Cogorno demonstrates how to increase club head speed and hit the ball farther with a simple three-step golf drill that helped one student gain 20 yards with his 7-iron in just one lesson!
⏱️ 0:00 – Introduction to creating more club head speed and hitting farther with less effort
⚙️ 0:41 – Student gains 25 yards (155 to 180 yards) with 7-iron using three-step process
🎯 1:11 – Focus on speed through the ball vs early in downswing for better results
🔍 1:48 – Step 1: No backswing drill – setup to finish as fast as possible
💪 2:40 – Learning to generate speed from setup position to follow-through
⭐ 3:04 – Step 2: Short backswing drill from parallel position with maximum speed
🏆 4:33 – Recruiting big muscles and ground-up motion for increased distance
✅ 6:36 – Step 3: Full swing integration maintaining the same speed concepts
📈 8:29 – Final feels: hands away from ball while pressure shifts to lead foot
🔄 9:30 – Complete technique summary and 20-yard distance gains
In this video, Eric Cogorno teaches the same method he used during a golf lesson to dramatically increase swing speed and distance. The lesson demonstrates how shifting focus from generating speed early in the downswing to creating maximum club head speed through the ball transforms distance immediately. Using progressive golf drills starting from no backswing to full golf swing, this systematic approach activates larger muscle groups and improves ball compression for significant yardage gains.
What You’ll Learn:
• How to increase club head speed through progressive no-backswing drills
• The three-step process to hit the ball farther with less effort using proper timing
• Golf swing mechanics that recruit big muscles for maximum distance
• Advanced golf drills for developing speed through the ball versus at impact
• Golf swing techniques that can add 20+ yards to your iron shots immediately
• How to integrate speed training concepts into your full swing for lasting improvement
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In today’s video, we’re going to talk about a recent lesson that I gave and how I showed my student how to create more club head speed and hit the ball farther really with less effort. The key was this little three-step process that I’m going to show you and how you want to get the speed through the ball into your follow through versus early in the down swing. Let’s dig in. All right, guys. So, recently I had a lesson with a player who came to me who was really struggling to get the ball to go farther. And when we implemented this little drill and this three-step process, he had his seven iron originally going about 155 to 165 yards, which is still good distance. But after we implemented this, he was able to hit his 7iron like 180 yards. And here’s the three-step process we used. And I’ve got a 7 iron for this. The student that I had that came in, and a lot of students try and do this, was struggling to hit the ball farther because they were he was really focused on trying to create speed early in the down swing. Okay? And while in reality you do create speed early in the down swing, I find that in training, if you put your focus on creating speed through the ball and into your finish, that for your brain to create that speed later, it will have automatically started earlier. Okay? We want to focus on putting speed through the ball into my finish position. A lot of players that I work with, and this gentleman in particular, was putting a lot of speed at the ball and they’d sort of have this like fake follow-through position. Whereas, if you watch any good players who hit it really far, they’re putting speed all the way through. And this drill is the way I showed him to use that that I want you to do the same thing. So, first I say, “Okay, let’s grab your seven iron and take a normal setup.” Now, I walked in and I put my foot behind the club head for him because I didn’t want his club head to literally move back at all. So, I’m just going to grab a bucket of balls here to have an object. And when you do this, you don’t need to have this there, but I think it helps helps sort of serve the point. I said, “Okay, let’s take your setup position and without making a back swing, get this club to your full finish as fast as humanly possible.” And most players when I show them this, they like don’t even know how to start. They’re like, “What? No back swing. Like, how do I even start it?” And that’s exactly my point, right? Is your brain needs to learn how to put speed from here to the follow through. Now, I’m going to feel like I move this really fast. It’s not going to look that fast, but it’s going to feel fast from here into my follow-through position. Should feel fast and rushed. No back swing at all. I put my foot there. Got the bucket. Fast into the finish. Okay. And we did those a couple times. He’s like, “Okay, I kind of get where you’re going there. I kind of feel what that feels like.” I took my foot out of play. as to not get injured. I said, “Okay, let’s do step two of this.” After you can do speed with no back swing at all, the next phase is to do speed with really as short of a back swing as possible. And so what we did next is we take our club, put it parallel to the ground. I want you to do this with me. And I want you to get your club from here to your finish position. Same thing, as fast as possible, without your hands really moving back away from the target yet at all. So here through lots of speed through the ball kind of fast and rushed here. No back swing. Speed through. You’re going to want to pull your hands up and back as you do that. I want you to resist that in your practice. Okay? And that’s where we started to actually hit balls from there. And when you actually start to hit balls, we’re going to put the club in right about here. And now as I’m hitting, I am gonna allow a little bit of the hands working up and back as I try and swing forward as fast as humanly possible. I’ll explain why that works so good. So remember, a couple reps, no back swing. So just from here, as fast as possible, one or two reps from right here, get through as fast as possible. And now we’re going to hit from that pause position, but I’m going to allow the hands to work slightly up and back. So, I’m going to set the club parallel to the ground like so. And as my hands are going to pull up and back a little bit away from the target line, I’m going to feel like I go forward and create as much speed as possible. So, take my normal setup, club’s parallel. There’s a slight up and back motion as I’m swinging down and forward. And the reason that works so well is for me to create speed from such a short position, I have to recruit all of those big muscles for my body and I have to recruit and start that from the ground up. So if you’re someone who has a very inactive lower body, it feels like maybe it’s all arms, you can’t quite get your body moving. This is how you can create that speed. Again, with all of the intention being past the ball into the follow through. Now, like any drill, it took him a couple swings just to get used to this. And it’ll take you a couple as well. So, seven iron here. Set it. I’m going to feel like as my hands go up and back away from the target, I’m actually going to start to be shifting into my left foot. Hands up and back with a little shift forward. I’m sort of disassociating my body motion. That’s the key for speed. So, parallel to the ground. And there’s a really solid high and far one. And literally when we did that drill, which probably for me is about the same distance, he was hitting his seven iron, literally 20 yards farther from that drill than when we started that day. Now, what happened when he was doing this drill and we were looking at video is once he started doing the drill and the hands went up and back, his lower body started activating. His body started turning. He started shifting towards the target. All of a sudden, there was some shaft lean. He was really compressing the ball by feeling that same thing. Now, we were doing that. We probably did about 10 to 15 reps of the same thing. So, feeling like the speed’s all out here in front, right? Don’t get that fake follow through finish. Make sure you feel like you’re swinging all the way through. All the way through with speed to a full finish. That was concept number one. Concept number two was let’s learn how to create that speed from there through and it should feel like man I’m really going fast I’m really feeling rushed. Now the point is in training you feel that you feel a little bit uncomfortable to be able to create that speed. Then we take that into our full swing. I said okay let’s make a normal swing. Let’s make a full length back swing. Now, once I feel like my hands get all the way to the top of my back swing, then feel like I’m creating that same momentum as if my hands are going away from the target as my pressure starts shifting into my lead foot. That was really the concept that we went home with. So, I’m going to feel that same thing, but still make a full back swing. And the sensation that he told me he felt when he was feeling that, again, these golf balls are all going like 20 yards farther. And what I want him to do is push himself far enough when I’m in LS, I want to push you to like 120%. Because when you go back by yourself and you go on the course, it’s going to ramp down a couple levels to find normal, right? So you want to get uncomfortable here and then find sort of a middle zone that helps. But if you want to hit the ball farther, you’re going to need to feel a little bit more energy, right? A little bit more speed. And this is how you train that in. So same thing we did full swing. Once my hands get to the top of my swing, I feel like my hands keep going away from the target or away from the ball as my pressure starts going forward. So my hands are going one direction and my pressure is going in a different direction. And this was the drill that helped him again about 20 yards with his seven iron. So same feels and you’re going to feel when you do that like that ball feels like it pops off the face farther. And we again, you know, in a lesson sometimes you get a little bit detailed and we talk through the details, but you want to simplify that at the end as much as possible. So I said, “Hey, when you go play, that’s your feel. Get the hands, the hands are working away from the ball, the pressure is going into your left foot.” The hands are working away from the ball. Your pressure is going into your left foot. And that’s happening at the same time. Let’s do one more. Hands away as the pressure goes forward. I know you guys like it. That’s as solid and high and far as I can get my 7 iron. I hit my 7 iron probably like 180, 183. I bet those are more like 195 when I do that drill. So, I like to give you guys some of these stories when I’m working with someone, right? So, the things that work for them will probably work for you as well. He told me he’s been trying to hit the ball farther for like three or four years with really no improvement. And in literally like 40 minutes of us doing these drills, he gained like 20 yards. And that feel he had of the hands working away as the body’s working forward is the main thing you need to feel to train it. And a lot of players I see will get their speed at the ball. At the ball at the ball. Get your speed through the ball. Right? Even if you just hold the club parallel to the ground, get your speed through the ball. Feel the pressure going into your lead foot as your hands are working away and you’re going to get that speed and compress the golf ball. If you ever want help with this, would love to have you come see me in person. We’ll have that link down below and have a ton of spots. um available for that. But if you can’t do that, goolfolf.com. Send your swings in. We could build a plan like this. Obviously, get access to all of our videos, practice plans, community for a way, way, way reduced price. Would love for you to take advantage of that. Any questions as always on the stuff. Leave a comment down below. Appreciate you guys watching. I can’t even believe I’m going to say this, guys, but golf schools are back. For the first time in over six years, we’re going to be hosting two-day golf schools. Myself and Craig Hansen from WorldClass Golf along with a couple of my great coaching friends are going to be hosting two-day golf schools at the beautiful Woodstone Country Club and Lodge up here in Pennsylvania this September. There’s going to be two schools. There’s a limited number of spots. There’s going to be a ton of coaches there. It’s going to be like a 2 to1 coachto student ratio. So, you get a lot of work on your game, but it’s really about having a great two-day full experience. You’re going to get lodging at Woodstone. There’s gourmet meals that are included, unlimited play and practice, plus all of the coaching with myself, Craig, and my coaching friends. It’s going to be unbelievable. We’re going to work on every part of your game. You get plenty of time on the golf course, and it’s really uh designed to be a two-day transformational event for you and your golf game. We identify the big root issues in your swing, really help you put a plan in place to be able to solve those, ideally cutting your handicap in half this year. So, I want you to check this out. Craig’s not in the US a lot. He’s here very, very rarely. So, I wanted to grab him and make sure we got him in September. Who knows if we’ll do more or not, but we are going to do these two schools. We’ll put the link in the description down below. If you have any questions, send us messages, but would love to see you there in September.
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Kinda crazy how the body works naturally and athletically to properly incorporate the lower body from an abbreviated backswing position like this. Proves that a lot of things go wrong in the top off of that backswing! Haha.
Bonjour
Quel est le prix de votre stage de deux jours ?
Great lesson.. I was watching golf yesterday.. I am in amazed how Tony Finau it’s the ball so far with a short swing. Your video just reminded of his swing. Very good lesson and I can’t wait to try it!
Perfect drill!!! Will work on this
one thing I like about golf is the rabbit hole is so deep there's always something new for you to learn no matter how long you've been into golf.
Nice, but why not show a video of that student you helped, before and after?
I like the way Porzak does it. Showing the student. Maybe take a piece of his teaching and use it.
Also, you’re not mentioning the professional in the little clip that you’re using here. Who is it?
So, SO good!! VERY, VERY FUNDAMENTAL positions, too!!
This is very similar to the "turn and burn" drill but he is adding in the power element of weight shift. GREAT DRILL!
This drill – promote “weight shift” early of swings. Most of my golf buddies – don’t shift weight early enough – result in fat shots. Uncock wrists too early result in fat shots too. Golf is not easy. Many Thanks.
Great drill Eric ! Thx
Go help that guy in the white shirt
It’s funny not funny, I had an ear infection, banged my head pretty good and caused a vertigo issue. Long story short after exercises I wan able to hit a ball again. But it’s a positional Vertigo so when I go back / backswing coming forward I can get dizzy especially with the ball below my feet. My Dr who is a good golfer, said try hitting balls with a halfway back backswing put yourself in a great position and start from there much like your drill. I played the whole round like that- yes embarrassing but… my buddy was commenting on my ball striking how crisp it was… distance was dead on and some irons farther… love it! Another fav is the hit hard stop fast. Thanks Eric your the best
Great drill using irons. Does this drill work for the driver/ fairway woods?
For the first time in 6 years… Eric Cogorno Two-Day Golf Schools are BACK! – Limited Spots Available to work with Eric Cogorno and Craig Hanson on your golf swing IN PERSON this September. Get the details and register Here: https://bit.ly/4mppPHg
Get off the Matt’s and see how that changes things. We don’t play off mats!
Will try tomorrow. Whats chance it will help my over the top issues.
This is good stuff!
Reserved my spot for the golf school! Can't wait to meet my favorite golf instructor.
Seems so simple but I've never thought of practicing this way…makes so much sense ! I'll try it for sure on my next golf sessions, thanks a lot Eric ! 😇
Brilliant
Coach EC. Got at the range after the video posted.
Yup the ball exploded off of the face of the club.
Thanks
Such a great video, cant wait to go practice it on the range!!
Cheers Eric, really love this. Definitely my fav channel, keep up the great work!!
Hi brilliant video. Did it today and wow amazing. Thank you 🙏
For Iron do you still use tug Inner Elbow theory? I'm really Impress for It but I want to find the theory for driver right now.
It’s 0300 HRS Indiana time, I’ll be taking this drill to the range later today. Same drill for the driver? Thanks
For me, this was a major missing link. I could hit ok but felt like I just wasn't getting more out of my irons. I started doing this drill…major gains. For me, this drill trains the correct body movement at the correct location. Love it. I've added this to my daily routine. Just took $30 off my buddies since adding this in.