The Secret to the Golf Swing – It Feels Nothing Like You’d Expect

What does the correct golf swing feel like? Many golfers like you have tried to answer this crucial question. Today you discover that what you feel in the golf swing is nothing like you’ve been taught.

Back in the early 2000s, Tom Watson revealed what he called “The Secret to the Golf Swing”. It’s also been referred to “Tom Watson’s Secret”. In his secret, he shares what you must do to strike the golf ball well AND how the body works in the correct golf swing.

Watson arrived at his secret after years of struggling to control his ball flight. Eventually after many hours of practice (and probably 1000s of practice balls) he figured out the golf swing. And it revitalized his game as well as his golf ball striking.

Many golfers are familiar with Tom Watson’s drill used in his secret. You see it everywhere – on the first tee, on the driving range, at the supermarket. It’s a popular drill… yet there’s a crucial flaw. Most golfers implement this drill incorrectly. They get the drill part right BUT when it comes to doing it in their swings, it doesn’t work. So most golfers can’t access Tom Watson’s secret no matter how hard they try.

I’ve seen many golfers doing this drill on the range recently and felt compelled to make this video. A video that will help you move your body correctly in the golf swing and finally access Watson’s secret. The moment you do my drill you will experience the secret. No more guessing. The golf swing finally revealed to you.

Hint – the correct golf swing feels nothing like you’d expect it to feel like. Let’s dive in.

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00:00 The Secret to the Golf Swing
01:14 The Flaw With the Most Popular Golf Swing Drill
02:20 Goal – Apply “the secret” Correctly
02:42 What a Great Golf Swing Feels Like
05:25 Senior Golfers Must Feel This in the Golf Swing
06:02 Do This Golf Swing Drill – It’s the real secret to the golf swing
07:16 How This Drill Changes Your Golf Swing
08:27 Real Example – Senior Learns The Secret to the Golf Swing
09:42 This “Shoulder Drop” Feel Works Wonders

go out to any driving range today and I seem to be seeing a lot of people doing this drill, the classic shoulder turn club drill to get you feeling the correct swing. And it reminds me of a video that Tom Watson did many years ago called the secret of the golf swing. And he described that the secret of the golf swing was getting his shoulders to turn in a barrel on a tilted angle to the ground. If you can make your shoulders work this way there on your back swing and then return this on the same plane as this right here, this line right here there like that. That’s the secret to the golf swing. So, you can think about this drill as being probably the most basic but most popular golf swing drill ever taught because you see it everywhere. And it’s really a good drill because to strike the ball well, you need to turn your shoulders in a relationship with the ground. That’s how that’s the only way the club is going to find the ground. That’s how you take a nice crispy divot after the ball. So, there’s a flaw with this drill, and it’s something that never gets talked about, and the flaw is not necessarily the drill, but it is the way golfers are implementing it. So, I’ll see a golfer do this drill correctly. They’ll get over it, they’ll turn their shoulders, and you’ll see this beautiful tilt down towards the ground. You see the front shoulder lower than the trail shoulder. Everything looks good, but then they get a club in their hands and it’s like we’ve lost the drill entirely. So instead of this, I see all sorts of things. This this pick the club up shifting nothing like the drill. And so, while this is a great drill concept, it’s one of the worst implemented in golf history. That’s why today I want to take this drill that is so popular and turn into something useful for you so you can recreate the perfect feeling shoulder turn time and time again. This drill will get you much more consistent contact. It’s going to increase your shoulder turn, get you a bigger back swing, more power, less effort. Your body will be working so much better, just like it does in the drill. This brings me to what a good golf swing feels like. And it feels nothing like you think. So, a lot of golfers when they do this drill, your body is being put into a few different positions. I’m going to put it basic for you, but your spine is going through a process of tilting, turning, and extending all in this move. When a golfer gets a club in their hands, it’s kind of hard to take this feel now. And then I got a club down here. So where’s the There’s nothing across my chest. I can’t just put something across my chest and swing. So now I’m stuck. What do I do next? We have to train the spine to do those moves. And what does that feel like? Well, I’m going to go back to Tom Watson in the barrel example. He feels like he’s turning his shoulders in a barrel on a tilted angle. What does that look like right here? If I have a cylinder, I rotate it. Let’s just say my shoulders are this cylinder. I’m going to rotate them in a circle. Think about your spine as being that cylinder. Where golfers get this wrong is that they think too linear in their swing or they swing just their arms. The correct golf swing feels like you’re rotating a cylinder on a tilted angle. It feels like you’re upside down. So when I swing this club, when I get to the top, my body is in an entirely different position. That cylinder makes me feel like this. I feel like I’m down here. My lead shoulder’s touching my lead knee. My chest has then shot up to the sky as a result. And this is how you get your body working. This is really what the drill does for you. The drill is this cylinder. The swing is in a feel dipping the shoulder down changing my spine in this cylinder. So, when you hit golf balls, and this goes out to a lot of my senior players out there, because your body, you might think your body is stuck or it can’t turn. It can’t, you don’t have much range of motion, and that’s because you’re so used to swinging your arms and your shoulders, and nobody showed you how to turn in a cylinder. Nobody showed you how to turn while keeping your tilt to the ground. That’s why I want every golfer out there to change to a crazy feel right now. If you’re watching this video, do this crazy feel. Just do it for fun. Watch what happens to your body. I want you to take your front shoulder, dip it down to the ground, and as if we’re going to the middle of the stance. So, I want to touch this shoulder down here. A few things you’re going to be feeling right now. You’ve got tilting down. Another really cool thing is the hip turn. Look at that. The lower body reacts. Everything’s connected. So, this is that same thing you’re getting with the shoulder turn drill. Dip it down. and try and harness this upside down feeling. Chest is at the sky. Your spine is more extended when you grip a club. Now, do the same thing with me. Get the shoulder down to the ground. This is going to impact some serious change in the way you guys move the club. This is how you turn on a tilted angle. Get that shoulder down. It’s one of the reasons why not only Tom Watson said this is the best key to the golf swing, but it’s why Arnold Palmer said lead shoulder pointing at the ball. The whole idea was keeping your swing on a tilted angle. That’s the golf swing. And to do that, you’re turning in this cylinder that we gradually keep tilting more and more down to the ground. And that’s how the entire body works. When you don’t, if at any point you stop this tilt, you stop feeling upside down, that’s when you get into your old arms only swing that looks like this. It’s the most common position you’ll see a lot of senior players get here because they’re afraid to open up their body. And if you’re a senior player and you’re afraid of this, it’s just because no one’s taught you to get there. But that’s where you need to go. I just taught a guy the other day. I said, “Hey, got to nudge that front shoulder down.” That is entirely different than the old. It’s like you’re trying to get your shoulder to touch the stick on the way down. On the way back, doing a practice motion where you do that. You’re really trying to touch that stick. Yes. Yes. That’s it. What’s that feel like? Um, yeah. Feels different. Very different. Like I’m getting my my chest that direction. Okay. Yeah. It’s like you’re like Yeah. Yeah. Your chest is up in the sky. Dropping that shoulder to here. I’m going to remove the stick once. All right. Nice. That’s better. Way better. Okay. Good strike. Wow. That was really crisp. That was nice. Pretty amazing. Yeah, that felt really good. And uh I haven’t hit a ball like that in a week and a half. Attach an anchor to your front shoulder. What happens? You do that, boom down, and he drops that anchor. You see the hips turn and the whole body responds. And there’s the back swing. It’s the cylinder. Boom. [Music] [Applause] [Music]