How To Shallow The Golf Club In Golf

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   Paul O'Neil 3 years ago

   The best way to learn how to shallow a golf club is to watch a professional tennis player hit a looping topspin forehand, how the racket comes more back and up (not in), and then drops back and down, as the elbow fires – and the most critical part is how they rotate the face of the racket CLOSED as they do this – the golf equivalent is getting the club into a toe-down position coming into impact as you are laying it off / shallowing it / looping it. It is this critical part that amateurs, who are already mostly big slicers, just don't naturally do but REALLY need to actively do if they want to access the added power of 'looping' the club, as they drive the elbow – otherwise, the clubface will be wildly open and the added power will cause MASSIVE slices. I have found the best way to learn this move is to pretend your golf club is a tennis racket and remove your left hand from the grip, keeping only your right hand on the grip in the place that it would – this will also highlight that you really need to get your right hand firmly on the grip to apply the power and torque through the grip in order to do this move (think bigger tennis grips and 10-finger golf grips – and midsized Plus 4 golf grips). Now practice this looping action – straight back and up, turn the Right Palm to face BACKWARDS as you do the loop as you drive the elbow – and then check if the club is square when you arrive at impact. You want to be able to arrive at square WITHOUT having to roll your forearm bones at impact to square the face (otherwise it will be too late) – you really need to be having that right hand facing back during the loop and then down coming into impact. With the added speed that this loop creates, you won't have the time to square an open face – thus you need to have a more shut-faced-feeling that sharts as you're looping your right hand if you hope to be square at impact. If you now watch a Matt Wolff video (he is just hitting a tennis forehand) or an old-school Lee Trevino swing (he's doing the same), you will SEE the tennis looping forehand in their golf swing. I have found learning this move will completely transform your understanding of the golf swing. It will highlight, in an almost brutal fashion, how little understanding you have of the importance of what your right hand wasn't doing, what it should be doing, how you need to improve your right-hand grip for power application, how important getting the golf club-face square is – and finally, how much power you haven't been accessing because you really weren't using your right hand to its full capacity.

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   Robert Middleton 3 years ago

   Good job explaining this by the PGA Pro and you asked great questions.

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   Roy Close 3 years ago

   My swing is shallow but you can get stuck sometimes

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   Stephen Carlisle 3 years ago

   New to your channel and Really enjoying it . Keeping it simple