Intro to the GOAT Delivery Position (GDP)

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The GOATs all brought the golf club down into the delivery area in the same way as you will see in this video.

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On the surface you may think that Ben Hogan and Tiger Woods don’t swing anything alike but when you get them down into the delivery area like you see here they’re in almost identical positions and you can see this amongst all the greats you can see this in Bobby

Jones and Jack Nicholas and you when you look down the line you can see this in all modern players as well you’re going to see this in Rory mroy Dustin Johnson look at Tiger Woods Ben Hogan Bobby Jones look at the position of their arms the right arm and the left arm notice

The internal rotation of the left arm the right arm being tucked in with the elbow pointing out away from the elbow Pit and the wrist that’s what we’re going to talk about how to understand how to get into this position and why it is so important when you look at the

Swings of the greates they tended to all do certain things very much the same and the delivery position is something that’s consistent amongst them all and when we talk about the delivery position what we’re really talking about is roughly when the hands start to get back

In front of the leg the trail leg and the club shaft is roughly parall to the ground that’s what I call the delivery position because from there things are happening much too fast for you to try and control as Hogan liked to say it was a devilish thing to try and control the

Impact area as the club is releasing through but understanding how to get into this delivery Position will help you not only get more control and stop flipping but it help you also stop coming over the top because when you move into this goat delivery position it’s basically the opposite of how you

Would swing over the top so let’s first look at how to get yourself into into this position what it’s going to feel like and first understand that there’s no physical special uh flexibility or strength or anything like that that’s required and what I want you to do first

Is with your Trail arm so if your right-handed golfer your right arm simply stand in a normal posture and then get your elbow pit facing straight away from you and turn your palm so that it’s also facing straight away from you and then just simply bend your wrist and

Your elbow a little bit what I mean by that is just Flex the elbow a little bit and bend the wrist back a little bit that’s it that is the goat delivery position as far as the trail arm is concerned so once you understand that

This is what you’re trying to do to get down close to the ball now you’re halfway there to understanding what’s really happening in the swings of the greatest because what they’re doing is getting into this position with the lead arm in a internally rotated position so

What we mean by that is the arm if you just take it and take your whole upper arm and twist it out so that your elbow is pointing straight down the the target line and you combine that with the elbow pit pointing away from you so you can

Kind of think of these things as 90° opposing each other this elbow pit pointing straight away this elbow pit painting pointing this way or your elbow pointing straight down the target line your arm has to be internally rotated for this to happen and your shoulder actually has to be protracted a little

Bit so this would be normal posture where my shoulder is back in neutral posture but what you see in the position of the goats is that there arm their lead arm is protracted and internally rotated while this one is basically close to neutral so from here all I’ve

Got to do is release that golf club and once I I’ve got this position understood and I’ve got this position locked in when I have the club in my hands you’re starting to be able to very easily Square the club face and get yourself into a proper release position now this

Delivery position isn’t that complicated the hard part is how you get there that’s the tricky part because what most golfers want to do and what feels really natural is to start rotating the shoulders to get that club back to the ball from down the line you can see this

Immediately starts creating the old over-the-top move and so now everything starts to go this way and we’re in trouble the greates of course we saw we know that the none of the greates had a big over-the-top move they all came down this way because what they were working

On is getting into this delivery position with this Trail arm in a position where it can release that right arm right hand with some speed and that is what you’re going to have to feel in order to stop to break that habit of wanting to swing over the top so how do

We get there I want you to do this with your Trail arm only at first go to the top of your swing not too worried about where you are roughly just kind of get it in the ballpark to where your this part of your arm your forearm is kind of

Pointing straight down the ground and your arms roughly in front of your body now from here the trick is I want you to feel what it would take to get your right arm your Trail arm back into that delivery position well you wouldn’t want

To go this way at all right as soon as you start trying to push with your right arm extend this right arm or push with your right shoulder to move your hand fast that gets your hand moving out toward the target line toward the ball and get you steep and over the top

Instead what you want to feel is that your right your Trail elbow and your shoulder work down into that position where your elbow pit can now face away from the T Target or away from your body you’ll see that as you start going to go this way your elbow pit will start

Wanting to point this way and that’s when you’re really over the top so instead go to the top and bring it into that delivery position where your arm is tucked into your side your elbows pits sting away from you and your palm is facing away from

You so from there from the top to here is this motion and you can see that it makes sense for me to naturally shift my weight back to the lead side cuz I’ve got to make room for this arm to get in close to my body if I go this way then I

Obviously I don’t have to shift and I can do all sorts of things but when you move correctly when you move this arm from that position at the top to going down with the shoulder down with the elbow that gets you into this position where it’s very easy to have this elbow

Pit point away from you if you go across and high with your Trail shoulder you’ll find the opposite and that’s where you start coming over the top so now with a club do the same thing turn to the top and now bring your arm down into that

Delivery position my palm is out my elbow pit is out my arm is close to my body and I’m working this Trail shoulder not across or out toward the ball but what it’s going to feel like down and you can see as I move down watch what happens to my

Hip you see how my hip gets moved out of the way without me having to think about it I don’t have to think about oh pushing really hard or whatever to shift off that trail foot getting my feeling of getting into this delivery position helps me make that weight shift really

Natural so from there if I put my lead arm back on there now my back of my hand or if I had a glove on the logo of my glove would be pointing away just like the palm of my trail hand is those two should be working in opposites so now my

Elbow my lead elbow is down the target Line This one is pointing pit is pointing away from me and right here from here if I go back to the top and down now you understand how simple it is to get into a prop delivery position if you do anything different from that

You’re going to find that you’re going to go over the top or if you start trying to shallow out the club in an unnal way it’s going to throw everything off make it simple and first get yourself in this position your palm out elbow pit out that’s it now go to the

Top and bring it right back down to that position get your shoulder to go down to get that hand closer to the ground and if you’ve struggled with flipping this is one of the keys to Breaking that bad habit is a lot of times when people flip

With their hands and if you don’t know what a flip is just your wrist breaking down at impact too early adding Loft to the club when that happens is because you’re running out of extension with this arm and wrist eventually the club H your wrists have to break down and if

You run out of something to continue to drive that club forward then you’re always going to start flipping because there’s nothing left to hit with there’s nothing left to keep that club moving forward but you’ll see when my shoulder goes down as long as like you know again

I’m not trying trying to really exaggerate this it’s a feeling of getting my arm down so that my elbow kind of gets down into my pocket and then my palm is facing away from me as I do this this makes it so that this arm can stay bent and this wrist is staying

Bent but I’m closer to the ground than I was when I started that’s why you see good golfers especially golfers like tiger and other great players their head goes down cuz they’re maintaining this angle so now as they continue to drive down I’m not running out of right arm or

Right wrist to keep the shaft de lofted if I was up here and my head didn’t go down my body didn’t go down and I started going to release the club well eventually I run out of stuff to hit I run out of stuff to to release and so

The club’s going to start releasing and flipping but if I go down and get this elbow down and my head down now it’s very easy for me I still actually have angle in my wrist to keep that Club De lofted and that’s a great way to start

Feeling how to hit balls from here is get get into this delivery position and then work down to where you can get your hands still Rel or still staying arched back or your lead wrist flat and this one’s still arched back this would obviously be a very low shot but this

Will get you the feeling of how to get your arms into this delivery position and releasing the club without flipping you’ll see if you stand really tall and you start extending this arm early in the wrist early you eventually run out of things to hit with here of course

You’re going to flip and scoop but as soon as I work on getting into this delivery position Palm out elbow pit out shoulder down now I’m in a position where I can maintain those angles and have a lot left to release with all the grates do this let’s take a closer look

At both the greates and some Modern ball Strikers to see this in action so you help to visualize it a little bit better and understand exactly what you’re trying to do in your down swing all right we’ll start with Nelly Corda I know many of you are big fans of her

Swing me included I love her golf swing it’s amazing take a look look at first of all as she gets into GDP note the external rotation of the left arm and the right elbow pit facing straight at the camera so the left elbow is pointing down the target line the right elbow is

Pointing straight at the camera now you can match that with the logo on the glove pointing straight at the camera the right palm facing straight at the camera this is the delivery position that you’ll see all great players get into when we look at her from down the

Line you’re going to see the same thing the right elbow in close to the body the left arm in an internally rotated position where the left shoulder you can see is protracted notice how it’s out away from the body the right shoulder is in close to neutral position and this is

What allows her to get into that delivery area to be able to deliver the club driving it through with that right hand you can see an obvious release and strike with the right hand there through the ball and that gets her to that full follow through one one other thing to

Note you’ll see this in some golfers Tony fow is an example Cordo is another example notice how the lead arm is bent this is being driven or pushed by the trail arm and hand really the trail hand and shoulder body working together but that’s why that left arm is bent it’s

Internally rotated and it’s in a bent position because the force the driving force is coming from the trail hand that allows it to stay in that more soft position as she comes down into impact and again you see the GDP position right there as the hands get

Back in front of the thigh the club roughly parallel to the ground logo of the glove pointing toward the camera right palm facing the camera left elbow down the target line right elbow pit pointing at the camera and then continuing to drive that into the release as we look at her sister Jessica

You’re going to see the same great technique you’re going to see that right shoulder starting to work down the right elbow starting to work down to put the elbow in the pocket the the left arm maintaining that internal rotation and now as she gets into GDP the left elbow

Is pointing down the target line glove logo of the glove and palm facing at the camera right elbow pit facing out and this allows her notice how much she’s maintaining the flexion in that wrist actually that would be deviation would be the proper term but you can see how

The right wrist is still bent back and that’s what is allowing her to continue to drive the club forward without flipping is by getting that right shoulder and right elbow down lower to the ground that allows her to maintain those angles if her right shoulder was

Higher that right El wrist would have to be releasing a lot earlier because that would be the only way to get the club back to the ball now let’s take a look at Tiger coming down into impact watch first of all notice how his right shoulder is visible behind his head here

Watch how quickly it disappears you see that this is working that right arm and elbow down into GDP and that’s what gets his right shoulder so much closer to the ground which allows him to make maintain angle a lot longer to avoid a flip now he’s driving that wrist forward that right

Wrist forward with that right shoulder low and that’s maintaining the angle until after impact but you can again see that this delivery position is consistent amongst all great ball Strikers the same thing the left arm internally rotated right elbow pit out palm and back of the hand facing toward

The camera here’s an awesome view of Jack Nicholas from up above now Jack was famous for having that flying right elbow so now would it be harder with that elbow position to be able to get that arm back into GDP nope watch note how that right arm tucks right back into

The body gets him into the perfect delivery position at impact well Sergio Garcia has always had a pretty unique swing but you can see the exact same motion and this is a great angle watch his right shoulder and arm note how that’s basically the only thing moving to initiate the downswing

You see that he’s getting that right elbow elbow to start to work back down into the pocket and getting ready to get into GDP and of course he does just like every other great ball Striker note how his right elbow is actually still back behind his pocket he’s got it down and

Now he’s going to begin to rotate everything together and start to move that right arm forward to maintain that angle and now he’s in the perfect delivery position the left shoulder still protracted left arm internally rotated gets into the release and then a tremendous amount of rotation of the

Hand right hand releasing over the left aggressively through the strike I mentioned Tony fow earlier let’s take a look at his swing first of all you’re going to watch his right elbow drop big time he’s getting ready to get into GDP a powerful position to throw that club

Head from so his first thing he’s doing is moving that right shoulder right arm to get down and now as he gets into GDP you’re going to see the exact same thing notice how internally rotated that left arm is elbow pointing down the target line right elbow pit straight at the

Camera back of the glove facing straight at the camera he’s in the exact same position and because he’s going to continue to drive with that right arm he’s going to be able to maintain that bend in that left arm and keep that club face nice and square for a very long

Time through the strike and then release and a tremendous amount of hand rotation after the strike last and most certainly not least one of my favorite swings of all time Bobby Jones from up the line it gives you a much better View of just the difference of where the lead arm is and

The trail arm notice how much lower the trail arm is than the lead arm uh this is a view if if you’ve studied anybody else like Mo Norman Mo Norman believe that this was he described this as his magic move and basically it was in a overs simplif simpli simplification of

It is that it’s dropping that right elbow below the left so that the club can approach the ball from the the inside and it also is that right shoulder drops lower it allows you to maintain a squarer path with that club longer so a long story short uh I I’ll

Get more into that in a video another time but this view helps you understand how much lower that right arm Works down into the ball into the delivery area like right here he’s in GDP right basically there where he’s clubs roughly parallel to the ground that right

Elbow’s in his pocket the left shoulder is protracted and then he’s going to be able to release the club with that trail hand from there and then you can see it the left wrist breaks down so quickly in order for that to happen you have to have very very little tension in that

Left wrist so a lot of times golfers who flip start trying to hold on to that club really tight with the left hand and this causes you to start to Bow the wrist uh early in the back swing and then as I talk about in the uh the lead

Wrist extension video on regarding the hack motion you’ll find out that you’ll run out of wrist and then you’ll actually start trying you you will be forced to flip before impact by trying to Bow your wrist too much too soon unless you have a lot of body rotation

Which I talk about in that video as well but long story short this is obvious that they are throwing that club head at the ball from this GDP obviously from the top and into GDP and releasing it very aggressively and that left wrist is relatively soft and that’s why you saw

In the swings of like Tony phenow and Nelly Corda that that left arm actually tends to stay really bent at it can’t do that through tension per se the the right arm has to be driving it and the left arm has to be uh relatively not working super aggressively super hard in

Order for you to maintain that position so work on visualizing this in your swing getting that right arm and shoulder and elbow down so that you can release the club from the inside and stop swinging over the top and start having a powerful position to be able to

Drive that club head forward drive that hands forward drive the handle forward so that you can get rid of your flip