Common fault of coming over the top!
Many golfers who come over the top will struggle with slice shots, fade shots, lack of distance and poor strikes. Zach shows you something that could be causing this in your backswing, and two moves within your downswing which can lead to the over the top move.
This video should help you establish exactly why you swing over the top, and then more importantly allow you to fix your swing.
When we look at how the lower body or the hips rotate during the downswing, there’s two key parts to the downswing movement. Number one is how much should I shift pressure or weight to my lead side during the downswing? And then part two is the rotation part. How much should I rotate? When should I do it and how should I do it? The secret to getting your downswing pivot right is marrying those two pieces together. Marrying those two together means my pressure is shifting forward as I’m turning.
Everyone’s afraid of the slide. What is a slide? My hips are going forward, my pressure or weight is going forward. What am I not doing? Turning! If I just get my right hip to rotate with it, I look like a tour star. You guys that slide don’t necessarily need to take out the left motion. You’ve got to add the turn.
The goal is to try to get my hips square and up over my left leg. I’m trying to get my hips, my right hip, even with my left hip in terms of the target and I’m trying to get my hips forward. I’m not keeping my hips back. I’m going forward with my hips up over my left leg. As a drill, I can take a golf club and put it across my hips. By the time I get to impact and pressing forward – by the time I get to my finish -I want the club even and I want to end up over my left leg.
You are absolutely under no circumstances supposed to shift your lead hip forward without turning. No one watching this should do that. What you are supposed to do is as you’re shifting forward, you’re turning.
None of you guys slice or hit bad shots because you have too much rotation. Every single golfer in the history of golf who plays well has a lot of turn. If you hit bad shots, you might have a really bad downswing pattern. You might have really bad risk condition or really bad grip. You do not hit bad shots because of rotation.
I want to get that message across that you are trying to shift pressure forward – really early. Don’t be shy with that! You can shift pressure really hard and early, so long as you turn with it.
If you are struggling with a steep golf swing and feel you can’t control the clubface through impact this is the golf lesson for you. In this golf lesson Matt Fryer talks about how the golf club should swing in particular the shape of the golf swing and how the clubface should work within this motion. It sometimes get confused that the clubface and club should always be staying in line with the target, which will cause some faults and in consistent shots.
By following the drill in this video you will get a better shape of swing and release of the clubhead and soon be swinging it like the likes of Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods or even the legend Gary player.
Impact and Release:
If you want to learn how to release the golf club with your driver or iron golf swing then this release golf lesson could be the video that helps you start letting that golf club go.
These simple golf swing basics talking releasing the golf club at impact will help to lower your golf scores out on the course.
Flipping the club at impact increases the chance of pulls and pull hooks. This drill will encourage a more square face through impact offering straighter more accurate shots.
ANTI-FLIPPING DRILL! How to stop flipping the golf club at impact. A simple technique and can make quick and simple changes to your golf.
