Effortless Power Release Drill adds 20 yards

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In this lesson, Craig Jones shows you how to unlock effortless power in your swing by using the golf club the way it was designed — as a tool. You’ll learn why most players are releasing when they should be holding (and holding when they should be releasing), and how to flip that pattern for more distance with less strain.

Craig breaks down the “inverted chicken wing” method, keeping the elbows close and pointed down throughout the swing to prevent the over-the-top move. With a towel-under-arms drill, a strong grip setup, and a closed stance adjustment, you’ll see how to create a natural inside-out path that sets up the forearm rollover release for true speed and compression.

You’ll also see the swing in slow motion, with a clear look at the lag, inside path, and rapid clubface rotation that make effortless power possible — even with a shorter swing.

⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 – Why effortless power matters for distance and scoring
0:25 – The golf club as a tool: efficiency vs. wasted motion
1:12 – What most golfers do wrong with release
1:40 – How to build effortless power in your driver swing
2:05 – The “inverted chicken wing” elbows-down concept
3:03 – Why over-the-top players struggle with release
4:25 – Using a closed stance to promote inside path
5:08 – Iron + towel drill for elbows together
7:05 – Strong grip and stance adjustments for driver setup
9:06 – Adding the hip bump to set up spine angle
9:32 – Short swing, big drive demonstration
10:06 – Key checkpoints: depth, elbow down, inside path
11:04 – Slow-mo look at the forearm rollover release
12:14 – Elbows down and synchronized hands/arms/body
13:10 – Final thoughts: effortless power is real and learnable

What You’ll Learn:

Why effortless power is about efficiency, not strength

The “inverted chicken wing” method to keep elbows down

How a strong grip and closed stance promote the inside path

A simple towel drill for training release at home

What a proper forearm rollover release looks like in slow motion

How to sync up your hands, arms, and body for max speed

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One of the greatest things about this game is that you can take this stick and you can swing it at this ball and you can make it fly two and a half three football fields. So that is that feeling that we are all after in this game. And it’s not just that it makes it more fun, but it has a huge impact on your scoring. If you can hit this club long and you can keep it in play, you are going to score so much better. So, the other day somebody commented and said on one of my videos and said, “Effortless power is nonsense.” And I’m thinking they might as well be saying that humans learning how to use tools is nonsense. I mean, monkeys can learn how to use tools. So, and that’s all that effortless power is. So, I always think of this like a like a hammer as a tool, right? So, if you use it efficiently and you break your wrist and you release your wrist, you’re going to hammer that nail in. You’re going to figure that out pretty quick, right? That’s efficient use of a tool. And that’s all that the golf club is. It’s a tool that you can learn how to use efficiently. But most players are doing the exact opposite. Okay? What they’re doing is they’re releasing when they should be holding and they’re holding when they should be releasing. Okay? So, in this video today, I’m going to show you and I’m going to get into some real detail about exactly how to incorporate all of these changes and at the end of this, you are going to know how to have how to build effortless power in your driver swing. So, let’s start with I love this other comment that somebody said that they said that as players get older, you should swing with a chicken wing both in the back swing and in the follow through and keep your elbows close to the body. And of course, what they were saying is something that I talk about a lot, which is elbows together, elbows pointed down throughout the swing. They were just calling it a chicken wing. So, they were saying most older players should swing with a chicken wing right here. They were calling this a chicken wing and a chicken wing right here. And keep these elbows close to the body. And I couldn’t agree more. Of course, what I always call a chicken wing is this move and this move, right? So, we see a lot of flying right elbow in the back swing and the shaft of the club gets in this kind of angle. Everything stays too far out in front of the body instead of getting a little bit more deep or around behind. And then, of course, we see the release of that in the over the top. And then we see the elbow up over here. So most players are kind of elbows up, elbows up. And we want to be elbows down, elbows down is a great way to think about this. So it’s kind of an inverted chicken wing, right? So if we call this a chicken wing, you just invert it. And if we call this a chicken wing, you just invert it. So maybe that’s what I should start calling this, the inverted chicken wing method for effortless power. But all we’re really talking about there is that we want the elbows staying close together and pointed down throughout the swing. Elbow elbow down, trail elbow down, lead elbow down. And if you can do that, you’re going to avoid a lot of those problems that players have that real swinging over the top kind of move. That’s another thing somebody said is, “Oh, if you try this, you’re going to pull it all the time.” And you’re not going to pull it with this method that I teach of keeping these elbows together and making this effortless power forearm roll over release. You’re not going to pull it unless you come over the top and you cast and you flip, right? So, and if if if it were the case that rolling your making an effortless power forearm rollover release makes you pull it, every tour player in the world would pull all their shots cuz they all release it pretty hard, right? So, but the difference is they’re coming from inside and releasing it. But most players, the players who say, “Oh, you’ll pull it every time when you do this.” They’re the ones who are swinging over the top. And yeah, if you swing like this and you swing outside over the top and then you try to release it, yeah, you’re going to pull everything. That’s why it’s so important to get this feeling of the low elbow at the top of the swing. Get you that little bit more depth. We also do this little closed stance thing that I’m going to take you through here in a second. All of these changes, all designed to be able to get you to swing that path from the inside so that you can get the benefits of the effortless power forearm rollover release instead of swinging over the top like almost everybody is. So, that’s what we’re going to get into here today. And I want to start with an iron. I want to show you a great way to work on this action of what I’m talking about just with an iron and with a towel. Okay? So, this is going to really help you get the feeling of so many of the things that we want. Elbows together, elbows pointed down. Elbows together, elbows pointed down. Elbows together, elbows pointed down. Elbows together, elbows pointed down. The uh the reverse inverted inverted chicken wing method here. So, and I’m aimed at these bunkers right in the center of the fairway right here. So, I’m on a little bit of a forward T- box. And so all we’re going to do with this is elbows together, elbows pointed down. And there’s just a nice solid little draw with a pretty short little swing. So, I just wanted to talk about that’s a great way to start to work on this is just to use something like a towel under the arms with irons to start to get the feeling of these elbows kind of staying close to your body, swinging the club more with the body, more around the body and with release. And that’s a great way to think about it. You need to swing the club more with the body, around the body, and with release. With the body, around the body, and with release. What’s everybody doing? They’re this, right? And the hands, arms, body are not working together. Swinging over the top, no release. That’s why they don’t have effortless power. So, let me grab a driver here. And it’s really just the same thing except we are going to incorporate some setup changes that you’ve maybe seen in some of my other videos. So, this is just exactly the same thing, putting the towel under the arms to really help exaggerate and make sure that you don’t make that over the top swing. But we got some setup adjustments that we got to make here. First, the first one is that strong grip. I’m never going to stop harping on this. Another, this is another one of these things people say, “Oh, you grip it like that, you’re going to hook it every time.” No, you’re not. You’re not going to hook it unless you come over the top and flip at it. If you’re coming from the inside, you’re not going to hook it with what is called a strong grip, which should be called a closed face grip, which just which just means taking this lead hand, moving it over a little bit so that the V between the lead thumb and trail the the V between the thumb and finger of the lead hand points towards the trail shoulder. And you’re seeing that third, maybe even a little bit of that fourth knuckle on the back of that lead hand. that encourages that club face rotation, which is what we’re going to need when I take you through this little setup and we go through this little drill for this here. So, the next piece to the setup is so we’re walking in and we’re starting with the feet together, positioning the ball right in the center of the stance. We are taking that strong grip. Now, we’re going to take a smaller step with the lead foot, a little bit bigger step with the trail foot, and we’re going to step this back a little bit to close the stance and really help that path swing more from the inside so that when we do make this effortless power forearm roll over, release, we’re swinging from in here instead of swinging from out here. Okay? So, and those are the little changes. Now, we’re doing this with the towel to really feel that club. That really, it makes it really hard to square up the club face. Makes you really feel that club swinging around the body. So, we walk in here, feet together, aim the face. Good strong grip right here. Small step, little bit bigger step. Flared. Oh, yeah. And I forgot this little hip bump right here. This really helps set your spine angle so you can swing up at it more. So, it’s feet together, aim the face, small step, little bit bigger step, little hip bump right here. Now, with the towel around, that’s really going to force you to swing this club more around the body here. And there’s a little bullet up that right side right there. And you know, that is that’s effortless power right there. I mean, that ball is that’s a tiny little swing. Maybe I’ll slow this down. will look at this. Somebody requested that too where they wanted to see these swings slowed down. This is the actual swing that I make during the lesson. This is the actual swing. So, you can see I’ve got the towel under the arms right here. When I go to the top of the swing, one of the things that I want to see here is that I want to see that butt end of the grip of the club over the heel. That’s where I always talk about getting these hands a little bit deeper at the top of the swing. Of course, keeping this elbow pointed down and that feeling of elbows together and pointed down is going to help with that. Once you’re in that position, you can swing it more from the inside on the down swing where that club head comes down inside the hands. That means that I’m swinging a little bit more into out through impact, right? Everybody always says, “Oh, if you roll your hands over, you’re going to pull it.” Well, yeah, you are. If you swing over the top this way like most players are, right? That’s why it’s so important to swing that club path more from the inside on the down swing. Now, one other question that a lot of people ask when they see this swing is when does the club face really roll over? Here’s what I want you to see. You can see I’m coming into impact. It’s squaring up. And then look how quickly that club face starts to rotate over at this point in the swing to then where it is in this position right here over on this side. So that is that pop that I’m talking about that you get from the effortless power forearm roll over release that I always am talking about. And we’ll look at it here from the front view as well. You can see tile under the arms there. This is the same swing. Exact same swing. I just pulled it from the front camera video there. And you can see even though the back swing’s pretty short with the towel under my arms, I’m making a fairly full shoulder turn. Maybe a little short of a full shoulder turn at the top of the swing. But then here’s where you’re going to see a lot of that lag angle held coming down into impact. And then this is where you’re going to see boom. See how that toe really kind of really pops past the heel of the club? Now you’re going to start to see that effortless power forearm rollover release right here where we’re seeing a lot of that lead hand under that I’m sorry, a lot of that uh yeah, that lead hand under that trail hand right here. And you can see that elbows elbow down position with this lead elbow. See how it’s pointed? You can’t tough to do it from this angle here, but you can see where this lead elbow here is pointed down. And so that is those are the real elements for effortless power there. If you can swing it from the inside and you know one other thing that I should mention here too is the importance of hands, body, arms all working together and all synchronized. That’s what the towel under the arms really helps. Watch how the chest turns and the club kind of stays in front of the chest through out the swing here. Right? So, that’s another big element of effortless power is having all of the hands, body, arms all synced up and working together through the swing as well. And this shot right here, I mean, this is one that uh it was like when I went out there, my guess would be it’s about 250 with just a short little swing like this that is really no effort, but it’s super efficient. Effortless power can be yours. Those are the elements for it. Somebody requested to see these swings in slow motion, so I thought I would share that. So, there you have it. Th this effortless power can be yours. Effortless power is a real thing. It’s just using this tool in the way that it’s designed to be used. Hit like, hit subscribe, enable those alerts. This is a continuing conversation that you want to be a part of. If you want to get started with some free lessons, go to facefirstgolf.com. You can learn effortless power. It’s just about using this tool efficiently. Anybody can learn how to do it. It doesn’t happen overnight, but you can do it. And you can’t have more effortless power and more fun on the golf