This Is How I Build The Easiest Swing In Golf

Swinging harder and still getting worse? Here’s how to build an effortless golf swing that’s smooth, powerful, and repeatable.

In this golf lesson, Danny Maude breaks down the exact steps to help you swing with less effort and more speed. If your golf swing feels tense, inconsistent, or like you’re working way too hard for not much reward — this could change everything.

Whether you’re a beginner golfer, a high handicapper, or you’ve just lost your rhythm lately, this simple golf swing lesson will help you:

✅ Strike the ball first — every time
✅ Gain effortless distance without swinging harder
✅ Improve your rhythm and timing
✅ Build a repeatable, consistent golf swing you can trust
✅ Learn how your hands, arms, and body should really work together

You’ll also learn a key drill to free up your hand and arm motion, how to create a natural pivot without overthinking, and how to build *real speed* through rhythm — not force.

This is golf swing basics made easy, designed to help you play better without overloading your brain.

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Timestamps:

00:00 – Why swinging harder doesn’t work
01:30 – The goal: relaxed, repeatable power
02:10 – Golf swing basics: arm and wrist release drill
03:52 – Trail arm swing drill for better flow
04:56 – Lead arm drill for effortless release
06:21 – How to pivot for consistent contact
07:46 – Strike the ball first every time
08:54 – How to create effortless swing speed
10:48 – Rhythm and timing drill for golfers
12:10 – Putting it all together: the simple golf swing
12:43 – What to do next to improve your game

👥 What golfers are saying:

“This lesson helped me stop topping the ball and finally enjoy my swing again!” – James, 12 handicap

“The rhythm drill made everything feel smoother — immediate difference!” – Laura, 17 handicap

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Have you ever had that really horrible experience 
where you’re putting so much effort and time into trying to hit driver straight? Or hit driver 
longer, but the more effort you put in, the wider it goes, the further it goes into trouble, 
or or maybe you’ve been given a golf tip with your irons, and you’re trying really, really hard, 
but you just can’t get it. It doesn’t need to be that difficult. In this golf lesson video, what I 
want to do is I get so many students come and see me with these all these problems, right? And by 
the end of the golf lesson, they often say to me, “Danny, that feels much more relaxing. It feels 
much more effortless. It feels like I can go and take that to the golf course.” I want to show you 
the steps I take people through to first of all, give them a motion that helps you create 
consistent contact. Then two, take that consistent contact and start to generate that effortless 
power. you’ve seen the power with the great players and the good players maybe at your golf 
club where you’re wondering how do they hit it so far when they don’t look like they’re trying. 
There’s something that they’re doing I’d love to share with you. So, that’s what we’re going to 
cover in this week’s video. We’re going to help you basically make the golf swing feel a lot more 
effortless whilst at the same time creating more consistency in the way you strike it. Before I 
do though, look, if you’re new to the channel, when your first listen to mine, please consider 
subscribing. I release videos just like this one every single week to try and help you improve your 
game. Plus, you never have to remember a thing. Everything we do here, I’ll put into a free 
download or practice guide in that description box below. So, my goal for you by the end of this 
video is for you to be able to go out on a golf course and have a golf swing that you can really, 
really enjoy. A golf swing that feels just yours, feels relaxed, feels effortless, kind of helps you 
consistently make strike time and time again. And we’re going to cover three things that are going 
to help you do this. The first thing I’m going to do is I’m going to share with you something 
that a lot of people have been told not to do and it’s actually ruining any chance of you being 
effortless. The second thing I’m going to show you is something that kind of really helps you 
get a guaranteed strike. And the third thing is ultimately the secret to an effortless golf 
swing. The thing that actually creates that effortless motion which is often hidden by most 
people. So step one, the first thing I want you to do is is do something that you may have 
been told not to do. See, a lot of people, they don’t use their hands and arms correctly. 
They don’t use them sometimes at all. So, what I want to do is I want to give you a drill 
I give most of my students. It’s a very, very, it’s just a great feeling. And what I want to do 
is hold the clip. If you could pause the video and stop it right now, it will really help. Hold 
the club out in front of you and just grab your bicep like this is my trail arm. And just lock 
it into your side. And all I want to do now is swing the golf club. And the aim here, look, 
notice what I’m doing. I’m allowing my elbow to hinge and everything’s pivoting around my elbow 
and my wrist. Notice I’m not letting this arm go out at all. I’m literally just swinging the club 
beautifully, freely here, backwards and forwards. Notice how my arm naturally goes down and up, down 
and up. It doesn’t go look around. Most people are making a golf swing. The arms are doing the around 
bit. Your arms don’t create the round bit in a golf swing. The turn creates the round. The arms 
create the up and the down motion to this golf swing. But it’s too complicated to talk about. 
So learn to feel it. Grab that bicep, lock it in, just swing the club backwards and forwards. And 
suddenly look, I’m pivoting beautifully. Look, around my elbow, and I’m now got a wonderful free 
release of that hand and arm. That is simple as that, right? Most people are hanging on track 
control it. You don’t need to. This is a free flowing motion. Watch what happens now when I 
just start to turn my body. Hey Pressa, I’ve now got my hand in a great place like it’s holding 
a weighted straight at the top. My elbows in a great place and I’ve just swung to the top without 
any worry about positions. Right? Then I just come down and let that club swing again beautifully 
freely. So that’s the first thing to train. Well, just as you you have two arm, you got to train 
the other side. So, what we’re going to do, yeah, exactly the same thing. Going to get you to hold 
the bicep now of your lead arm. Lock it in. Now, most people when they do this, they do stuff 
like this. They’re trying to almost guide the club here. You’ve probably been taught 
sometimes, keep the handle ahead, all that kind of stuff. All that does is force this 
unnatural motion, right? What we’re doing here, look, watch. I am just going to imagine, look, I’m 
almost giving blood. This bottom part of my arm here is facing up to the sky. I am giving blood. 
And I’m now got, look, a wonderful free release of the hand. Notice how my hand is working upwards. 
It’s not working this way. I am pivoting around my elbow. And I’ve now got a beautiful free release 
of the hand, which I’ve added rotation to that. We have now got a wonderful free release of that golf 
swing with both the right and the left arms. Okay, this is stage number one. Learn to feel that. 
I’ve often said to people, swing the club freely. But sometimes they swing it and they’re swinging 
the arms freely. They don’t know how the arms are supposed to work. This will give you a wonderful 
feeling of how those arms are beautifully folding on the way back and on the way through. And 
then what I do with all of my students said, look, just try and hit some balls like that. 
So do a few exercises. You could do this for a few seconds before on the golf course. Just 
maybe with just one arm, one get that sensation. add a turn and away we go. Right. So, all 
I’m going to do is get that sensation. And all I’m doing there is just beautifully 
just swinging my arms nice and easily. No real massive effort going in there. But the thing 
is this, a lot of people are trying to take their hands and arms out of it. And they 
create swings now that have absolutely no power. They’ve been told to rotate their body, 
keep everything in line. Where’s the power? it disappears. You’ve got to learn to get those 
hands working and then we coordinate the body so you don’t have a handsy golf swing. Right? 
Which brings us to step number two. Spend some time doing this. Don’t rush to step two straight 
away. Spend some time doing this. Then step two, and this is how I would do this to start with, 
right? If you are somebody who struggles with like inconsistent ball striking, this is what I would 
do first. Step three is once we’ve got the strike, then I’ll show you how we then generates 
more effortless speed and power to this. So step two is very simple. When you’ve got 
those hands and arms working beautifully, right? Rotation isn’t around and around. It’s 
a lot more almost like we’re walking. Now, if we walk, rotation becomes easy. And notice how the 
trail hip moves back, the lead hip moves forward, and then look at the changing flex. My lead 
knee goes down, my trail leg goes back. Right? we create that’s how rotations creates. Look 
how this you’ll see with all the top players there that it’s just this. It’s not this. Right? 
So that’s the first thing. And the way to achieve this is when you get yourself set up just get 
a sense here because we want to make sure we strike the ball. And to strike the ball, we want 
to be nicely over this side of the golf ball. We want to push our weight more favoring our lead 
foot here. When we do this, keep your head in the middle of your stance. And all I’m going to 
do is keeping that pelvis nicely forward, make some swings. And notice here how this section here 
stays quite in the same position. It’s rotating. It’s not moving massively off the ball. We’ll come 
to that in step three. But what this is doing is going to help you guarantee ball first contact. 
One, two. But now what we’ve got, we’ve got the hands working backwards and forwards, but we’ve 
got a beautiful pivot where the lead nigh flexes, the trail leg starts to extend as we pivot 
around. And now look, I let the club flow through beautifully. So we now have two things working. 
We have much more of a consistent position where we’re striking the ball than the ground with 
beautiful rotation plus a free uh flowing release. This is the place I would always start with 
any of my students who are struggling with effortless power and strike. Right? So, let’s 
have a look at this in action. So, I get myself set and maybe just rehearse that free free flowing 
motion. Imagine this kind of motion here backwards and forwards. So, look at this. Weight stays there 
and away we go. Look at that. Simple as that. So, now I’ve got strike weight favoring forward. 
Get that feeling of the free flowing wrists. Let’s have a look at this in action. There we go. 
Look comfortably. So, speed just gone up a little bit there. 173 miles uh in total with 79. Right. 
So, you start with that first. You’ve now got the hands working. So, you’ve got some natural speed 
there. You’ve got the body working correctly in terms of a rotation. But the final bit here is 
this is you’ll see the guys who think they’re really knocking it a long way. How are they 
doing it with very very little effort? Well, they don’t do what I’ve just done there, which 
is fix their weight and turn. There is a gentle, beautiful pressure shift. And the best way 
to learn this, right, isn’t to try and think about it, right? It’s a feeling that you need 
to learn and feel and experience yourself. So, if you grab a golf club and hold it in front of 
you here, most people when they’re playing golf, they look a little bit like this. One, two, one, 
two. And there’s no momentum in this golf club. So, they go, “I’m not hitting it far enough, 
Danny.” So, then they go, I try to swing faster and all they do is go lunge at the golf ball 
even more. So, they’re not generating effortless natural speed. So, I teach them the rhythm, right, 
and the timing of this. And it’s a feeling, right? So, I get them to do this. Just notice what 
do you see? I’ve now got momentum in this club. What do you see? You see that? Now, notice 
how my weight is always proceeding. It’s always ahead of where this club is is. So, when the club 
gets to here, look, my weight’s over here. Now, I don’t want you to think about that. This is 
what this drill does, right? Watch this. Feel it. One. Feel the momentum. Then once you’ve 
got that feeling, start to pick it up. Feel. Can you see how my body is 
always ahead of that club? And now can you see the timing of that? This is 
the final piece, right? that gives golfers that beautiful free flowing effortless speed. Now, I’ve 
got to be careful. I’ve actually I won’t go into all the details, but I had a little operation on 
my tummy. So, I’ve got to be careful about how much speed I generate. But this is the secret to 
what I would say that beautiful flowing rhythmical action. So, what you’ll see with a lot of 
players is you’ll see them moving. And from here, all I’m going to do is get that sens. Now, I 
don’t try to think about this. I do the drill. I can now experience that club swinging and I 
can feel my body’s relationship to that club head swinging. Right? Don’t overthink 
this. I get myself set and away we go. And you look at that there. Look, didn’t quite 
strike that one as well, but my club SB went up five miles an hour by just doing that. I caught 
that a little bit off the top. I’m a little bit nervous about um my tummy. But those three things 
start with, let those arms get a feeling of that free flowing release. You won’t see the best 
players working on this because you know what? They don’t need to. They’ve already built that 
into their swing. They’re on this side of the spectrum. If you’re not a tall player, you’re on 
this side. You need to get more hands and arms working effectively so you can generate that 
speed. Then what you do is so it’s not a hands and arms swing. You then coordinate that with a 
beautiful body turn as we’ve just done here. And then suddenly you’ve got the arms and the hands 
and the body working beautifully together. Then you that’s step two. Then you can start adding 
momentum into this by having that natural shift and you start to create this beautiful flowing 
easy effortless looking golf swing. So start there. And if you know anybody who’s struggling 
with this who looks like kind of cumbersome stiff wooden golf swing, please share this video. 
It will really really help. If you love to know how this kind of how you could apply this 
to maybe a driver, this is very very similar. Press this video right here. And of course, 
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until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.