The Golf Swing Transition That Will Change Your Game Forever

The transition in your golf swing is only as good as your loading sequence allows it to be. This drill will teach you how to load and unload fast and safely and move into a tour quality impact position.

0:00 What we’re fixing
1:51 – Load up properly
4:25 – Adding the club
5:27 – How Pros Change Direction
6:50 – Trail knee and hip action
9:56 – Putting it together

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Is this not the epitome of golf instruction these days in golf just as a whole? My goodness, people. Can’t we just finally agree on something? Especially when we have data and science to back this stuff. Facts based information, people. Come on. All right. Now, I want to welcome everybody back to the channel. It is a very big week for a lot of us because we had a big week last week where we talked about the release. We talked about how to get the club to go really fast from one side of the ball to the other. And a lot of you had sort of that epiphany or that light bulb moment. Today, what we’re going to do is we’re going to help you add a whole lot of power back to that movement by learning how to use the lower body. Learning how to make that really good, solid, powerful transition move in your golf swing come to life. Where a lot of you really screw up the party here and you start overusing the smaller muscles way too early. the stuff that I’m about to teach you here today, if you do this stuff right and you marry it back to what I taught you last week’s video, then you’re going to have a golf swing that you’ve always wanted to have. But the key here is that you learn how to go through this step-by-step process and understand that you’re not going to own this movement after one day. You have to learn how to practice it properly, and you have to set your expectations in line and try to get 1% better every single time you practice. So, strap on your seat belts. Let’s get to work. We’re going to be trying to create a lot of awareness of how the pressure is moving through our feet. Our feet are the connection point to the ground, but we’re also going to have heightened awareness of what our trail knee and our trail hip are going to be doing during the loading and the unloading phase of the golf swing. And we’re going to start out real small and you’re going to kind of feel like you’re a small child and I’m holding your hand while you cross the street here. And what this video is designed to help you do is be able to come back and revisit any of these steps so that you can make sure that you have the heightened awareness. You got it? Okay, good. Now, in step number one, what we’re going to do is we’re going to isolate and get our body warmed up for about 10 to 15 reps max. And when I say isolate, we’re going to take the golf club out of the mix and we’re just going to set it off to the side. But we’re going to go ahead and take our normal setup and we’re going to put our ball position to where it would be off of the logo on our chest here. That’s a good stock ball position. I want you to imagine you’re holding a golf club. And I just want you to take your arms and I want you to cross them across your shoulders here. Now, the focus point here is going to be moving pressure to our right heel, right ankle by nudging your belt buckle and your chin to your trail side about an inch or so. That’s it. And when you do this, what I want you to do now is I want you to take your body and I want you to turn your rib cage as much as you possibly can. And as you’re loading up, I want you to do your very best to keep the weight back underneath that trail heel, trail ankle with your trail knee staying flexed and facing forward. Now, I’m not going to cross my arms fully over my shoulders here because I have a microphone on. But what you’ll start to feel here is when you make that initial pressure shift and you turn and coil up is that pressure that you moved originally to about 70% is going to go upwards to about 80 to 90%. You’re going to feel like your trail foot is kind of getting screwed into the ground. You’re going to feel a lot of muscle contraction through your midsection. You’re going to feel some stretch through your back. You’re going to feel some stretch up through your right leg. That’s the muscle fiber recruitment that we want to have. engagement in and so that we can start to use that to be able to do what? Well, to be able to fire off of and move off of. Okay, so we’re going to do 10 to 15 reps only that are very focused with our arms across our shoulders. Okay, good setup position. Nudge your belt buckle and your chin slightly to the trail side. And then keep your head really quiet after you do that. And then just turn your rib cage as much as you can. One. feel like that right leg stays flexed and facing forward. Okay, a lot of you are going to have desire to start to straighten that up. And what that’s going to do is it’s going to allow your trail hip to over rotate. Another key point here for a lot of you that may have too much restriction in your hips is don’t allow your lead leg to have too much activation and feel like it’s very light to the ground. That’ll allow the right side to rotate a whole lot easier. So, little shift. Now, what I want you to do is I want you to grab any golf club out of your bag. And yes, those of you at home that always ask me if you can do this drill with your driver. Of course, you can. You’re working on sequence. It’s the same sequence whether it’s a driver or a pitching wedge in your hand. You’re working on a stock swing here. So today I’ve taken my favorite sixiron out of my bag and I’m going to do the exact same thing for another 10 to 15 reps. Now holding on to the golf club. And what I’m going to do here is I’m just going to feel like I’m making a real back swing. I’m just going to feel like my hands are lifting up above my trail shoulder. And I’m going to make sure that I nudge my weight first, turn my body, and I’m going to stop. This is just the warm-up of step number one to get us ready for step number two where things are going to start getting a little bit more complicated. So make sure you do this right. Okay. Okay. So, little small shift, big turn, stop. Step one was a piece of cake. Very easy to get yourself kind of loaded up. You should have the big muscles all warmed up and be ready to take on step number two. Now, in step number two, this is where things are going to get quite a bit more complicated. And this is really driven around those players that have overused their trail side of their body the wrong way most of their golfing lives. But before we get into this step, kind of the makeorb breakak step of today’s drill, I want to head back into the studio and I want to show you a visual representation of what what you’re going to learn here with Adam Scott. Now, when we look at Adam from a down the line perspective, I’m going to draw a line straight down in front of his body that covers the front of his right knee. And I want you to watch this right knee specifically as he goes through his loading process and gets that weight moving underneath his trail ankle. Now, what you’re going to see is that trail knee pulls back inside of that line quite a bit. And as that pressure starts to move off of the trail foot and starts to move to the interior portion of the trail ankle, watch what the trail knee does here. You’re going to see that it comes back to that line all the way to it. And as he’s doing this, what you’re going to notice is that all that pressure is now moved over to his lead foot. 80 to 90% of his weight is now moved underneath his lead ankle. Now, if you watch as he starts to complete the movement here, what you’re not going to notice is is that that trail knee never goes through that line as the right hip continues to move in and the left hip clears out. So, I call this kind of the make or break step. And it’s going to feel like there’s a lot of moving parts here, but you’ve got to make sure that you use these reference points to get the weight to start moving back to the lead side. I want you to kind of think about that baseball pitcher analogy that you’ve seen me use in the past. If I load my pressure to my trail side, then I’m going to immediately lift up my lead leg and I’m going to start striding towards home plate. And what’s really happening is that weight that’s parked underneath my trail foot, underneath that trail heel, trail ankle area, is that the pressure is going to start to rotate to the inside portion of the foot, which is allowing my entire body to move to my lead side. So that’s going to be the engine of this movement is that you’re going to start that process by rotating to the inside portion of it. And when you do that, you’re going to feel like you’re kind of sitting down simultaneously into your lead leg. You want to feel the pressure going down through your lead ankle as you start to make that movement happen. But here’s the key is that as you start to make that movement happen, you want to imagine that trail knee comes back to the line and as soon as that trail knee hits the line, you’re going to take your trail hip and you’re going to turn it in the direction of the target. You’re going to take that trail hip socket and point it out in front of you as much as you’re possibly capable of while keeping your head and your chest down here. That’s the reason why we have a golf ball down on the ground is to focus there. So, it’s going to look exactly like this. And we’re going to do it kind of slow and choppy at first just to kind of get the hang of it. So, we’re going to make that little pressure shift to our trail side and turn. I’m going to start to roll to the inside portion of my trail ankle and sit down. And that trail knee is coming back to the line. And as soon as I can kind of see and feel it like it touches that line, I’m taking that trail hip and I’m turning it towards the target as much as I can. keep my head and my chest down here at the golf ball. Because I use this trail side, it forced the lead side to be reactive. In a perfect world, we can use this function because again, you’re moving quickly through these positions. The whole point is to move fast through transition and get yourself to impact where you slow the body down and let the arms release like you learned in last week’s video. So, let’s go ahead and do about 15 to 20 reps just like this. Small pressure shift trail side turn. Okay, we’re going to do it very slow. Right ankle, right knee to the line. Soon as it gets there, hip turns in. So, it should start to get really smooth. You want to try to get it to the point where you feel like you’re doing it kind of what you visualize how fast your golf swing to be. What you notice is my trail foot is moved into a position where I’m up on my big toe here, but my trail knee has not come through the line. I’m not coming up and out of posture. A very powerful and a very dynamic movement. So, here we are. Step number three, it’s time to start designing kind of a little practice protocol that we can follow along with. Do this on the range, do it in your simulator, do it in your garage, wherever you like to practice. What I would suggest that you do is go through a good series of reps like you did in step number one, step number two, and bring out a golf club. Don’t grab your longest golf clubs in the bag here at first. But what we want to do is we want to start making some golf swings here where we basically move from a dress all the way to that impact position, but we’re not going to let the club swing through. We’re trying to take the speed out of the mix here. So, I’m going to take the golf club and I’m going to flip it upside down. And the reason for that is is because the golf club is going to become pretty light. And now I can stay focused on what my body’s doing. We’re trying to move smart. We’re trying to move fast. We’re trying to move safely into the positions that we just learned. So, I’m going to have a golf ball set up down on the ground here off the logo on my chest. Okay. I’m going to do it maybe a couple slow choppy reps just so you can see it. Okay. I’m actually a leadside dominant person. I bright left-handed, but I love being able to use the trail side of my body. It feels very powerful because I just learn I mean I learned how to do a lot of hitting throwing sports from the trail side of my body. I really like this feel. So, I’m using my weight to go to the interior portion. Knee comes back to touch the line. Right hip starts to turn in and we’re cooking. So, I feel pretty connected to it right now. So, I’m going to start trying to do some swings now where I’m going to do it kind of like 80% of my normal speed. That may be a little bit too high, but I’m going to see if I can keep the integrity of the movements in place. Then, I’ll start trying to hit some shots. Okay, that felt pretty good. Okay, that did two. So, the visuals are lining up hopefully with my feels. Now, what I would probably do after you’ve made a few practice swings and you’re getting ready to embark on the journey of trying to add the ball back in the mix is go set up a camera from a down the line perspective and watch it. Watch your trail leg and your trail hip action and look to see if it mirrors what Adam Scott was doing. If you have the connection to the movements and the visuals are lining up with it, there’s no reason why you can’t start adding a golf ball back to the mix. And what I like to do is kind of work off of like a like a 2:1 or a 3:1 ratio. Make two or three good practice swings where you know you’re connected to it and then hit a shot and then repeat that process over and over again. And then periodically, what I want you to do is I want you to stop and go back through the entire protocol just to continue to heighten your awareness. This is the piece of the puzzle that so many of you are missing. You get to that final piece of building a really good golf swing and you can’t find it because you go out there and you put your expectations in, hey, I own this movement. Take your time and practice like a pro and you will start hitting the golf ball better day in and day out.