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In this video, Adam breaks down a downswing sequence that could completely transform your golf swing! These simple, step-by-step tips make it easy to understand and apply, helping you generate more power and consistency with every shot.
Whether you’re a beginner or looking to fine-tune your technique, this downswing sequence will make your swing smoother, more fluid, and give you that extra confidence on the course. Don’t miss these game-changing insights!
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Other sports don't necessarily correlate to golf as the ball is stationary, on the ground, we want to transfer energy into the shaft, and we're trying to contact the ball at a with a particular angle of attack with a clubface that is also angled.
The baseball examples you used the players have yanked their torso open and have just left the arms passively dragged behind. The tennis one is a better parallel in that has back stayed facing the target longer with his chest facing away from target while the arms came down.
There is not a single decent ball striking tour pro that I've ever seen open their chest to the target like those baseball players. All the good striking tour pros I've ever seen have their back to the target and chest pointed back away from the target at least until the hands reached around hip high in the downswing. They attacked from inside the ball to target line (as Nick Faldo would say). Their hands are slowing down from around hip high into impact allowing energy to transfer energy into the shaft.
AMG has said from their analysis of pros in Gears 3d that the hands and handle of the club are the first and fastest moving thing from the top of swing down to hip high. As you said there used to be and still is a lot of he said she said when it comes to the golf swing and much of what is taught is still wrong.
There are people out there spouting that there is a kinetic change in the body that the feet transfer energy to the legs, the legs to the pelvis, pelvis to the torso, torso to the arms, and arms to the clubhead. That's not the way muscles, joints, tendons, bones, or anything else in the human body works. The human body is not a rubber band, and it's not a spring. If you stretch and load a muscle (putting tension in it), and then you relax that muscle it doesn't spring the other direction with a ton of speed. It does next to nothing when relaxed. Would you agree or disagree with those points?
Ernie Els' How to Build a Classic Swing book illustrates thing excellently. Look at Erine Els downline with the driver at the top of the swing. Then look at the next driver picture in the downswing. As Ernie says his right elbow and arm go to his right side and he recenters his balance. He did not rotate open before bringing his arms down. Adam Scott is another excellent example he has his right arm reconnected to the right side very early in his downswing. Rory Mcilroy's grip and hands go straight down along the line his forearm occupied ad the top of the swing while his back stays turned to the target until his hands are near hip high down. The same patterns can be seen in a ton of good ball striking tour pros throughout history. (I have pictures of Rory doing that I can share if I can find a decent free site I can upload them to).
The hardest thing for me, Adam, is to not focus (concentrate) squarely on that ball. I can manage, with fairly consistent results, to feel confident while directing my gaze to the very front , or maybe half an inch ahead, of the ball. I could use a drill to inculcate that habit into my swing—have you got one?
What you said about putting the ball down is 100% spot on. i can make so many perfect practice swings with no ball but as soon as i address the ball, all of it goes out the window and I manage to do some funky stuff with my swing. especially my driver. Great video as always
Ball fixation is a real disease LOL. I'm slowly incorporating your tips, Adam, and they do help. Throwing the club down range is really an eye opener.
Can’t wait to try the drills tomorrow ( I’ve seen #1 elsewhere but I really like the way you’ve put the whip in conjunction with the ground force element )
If someone is not athletic, and has not played sports their whole life, it is nearly impossible for them to achieve this sequence.
Throwing a frisbee is another activity that uses the same sequence. Thanks Sensei!
I like to think of a bullwhip, how the back and downswing sequence pulls the tip through last, which I call lag. The more lag the better it seems. It just feels good to swing that way but I am still not getting much distance so now I am trying and enjoying a more natural instinctual baseball type swing letting my front foot come all the way off the ground going back and then stamping it down on the downswing. I transfer weight that way nicely and get a good push of the rear leg while still using the lag mentioned earlier. Just started that so we'll see. Feels great, like hitting a baseball but will I get any more distance?
Mechanically the rotation of the body mass is the engine of the golf swing, analogous to the crankshaftn in a car engine. What the lead arm and club shaft to is amplify it via mechanical leverage to accelerate that small mass, which can move much faster because it is smaller. The magic mojo of the physics is the formula for striking force = 1/2 (mass x velocity^2) which allows a club head that whips down around the feet 5x faster than the hands are moving to generate 25x more strikes force and why the downswing sequence needs to be hips firing and pull lagging shoulders with hands lagging behind shoulders and club head mass lagging behind hand but then somehow triggered to whip down around the hands.
The weird thing about the golf swing is if you ask a person to thrown a ball with their dominant hand at the ground in front of of their lead toe their biomechanics will be near perfect for a golf swing. But the when a golf club in their non-dominant hand which then feels the swing force of the mass on the end of shaft that INTUITIVE understanding how execute the task of getting club head into the ground on the same path as the thrown ball seems to disappear! 😂
The reason is that most humans don’t perform many tasks with both hands together like a golf swings. Once I realized this and started helping other learn to swing a golf club I would:
1) first statically pose them in a pro ‘impact position’
2) statically pose them in the ideal finish extension <—=== 🤷🏼♂️ position with LEAD arm and shaft pulled horizontal, club head outside the hands, toe forward, just before wrist cock.
3) statically statically posed them in the ideal take away extension 🤷🏼♂️===——>position with TRAIL arm and shaft pulled horizontal, club head outside the hands just before wrist cock.
What that those three ‘waypoints’ do is give their CONSCIOUS BRAIN a blueprint to follow to train their REFLEXIVE subconscious brain where the club head needs to be move with their body to create a well balanced swing. I then have them move between them BACKWARDS up to the top of the backswing position and back down SLOWLY 3-4 time before ever letting see the ball on the ground setting the goal of just whacking the same spot on the ground, taking a shallow divot then swinging the club through it 5x in a row. Then I place ball just behind the start of the divot and watch them hit very good golf shots with the proper sequence.
Their reaction? Some version of “Wow, I had no idea a golf swing was supposed to work like that?” Why? Because the intuitive brain’s solution for maintaining balance swinging a golf club is what all unschooled beginners, myself included, to— swing it back toward inside then lift it up by ‘curling’ with trail arm which caused it come over the top on way down.
Just showing the proper takeaway solves 33% of that conceptual misunderstanding, the impact position 33% and extension 33% leaving only 1% to work out with practicing hitting those marks about 1000x before swinging a club any other way ‘doesn’t feel right.” 😂
My biggest challenge is the weight transfer without swaying, keeping my head roughly in the same position instead of moving toward the target. Causes me to hit the ball right
Thank you.
I'm right hand dominant player and confuse if it is the lead hand pulling down, the trail arm pushing down or both hands working together? currently I feel like pulling down with my lead hand, when using both hands it feels so confusing for me to figure out. Do you have drill for this issue? or the drill above will do? Thank you.
Thank you sir!! On my way to the range!!
After years of wrecking my swing by trying to get in positions. I'm seeing great improvement from getting back to these core athletic movements. This was a clear and concise video with some great drills I'm going to try.
You have a beautiful swing and equally beautiful grass from which to hit all those balls. This is the perfect way to spend the day. Every thing else are minor details and distractions which interfere with the beauty.
Randy was left handed????
Good drills!
Really good 👍👍👍
Great Video, thank you for sharing
Another great drill. Doing it right now. Heading down in a month, looking forward to more lessons.
"we'll turn to golf, here's Roger Federer" ??
Excellent job, Coach!
Lee Trevino have some advice for pitching which was just to turn left therefore clearing the hips …that helped me immensely to get my sequence correct
Love the smooth transition in your opening swing ❤
Excellent