Here’s an effortless golf swing drill that will loosen you up with both irons and driver.
Hopefully, by now you know that tension can wreck your golf swing. The tighter you are the more you lock your wrist and manipulate the clubface creating shorter inconsistent shots. A looser swing hits it longer. This is a simple drill you can be doing that will loosen you up before you take the club back.
If you are looking for an effortless golf swing then it all starts at set up. So give this drill a try the next time you go out. Focus on the feelings I talk about as I do it then watch from them when you try it.
Ben Hogan Magic Elbow Drill – The Best Golf Ball Striking Tip You Need to Know
Ben Hogan and the magic of the trail elbow – one of the best Ben Hogan golf ball striking tips you need to know.
This Ben Hogan golf tip comes from his book Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf. More specifically, in the Stance section, Ben Hogan discusses the importance of tucking in the trail elbow to allow it to stay “glued to his side” in the golf swing. Ben Hogan’s “elbow tucking” setup serves many important purposes:
1. It allows the golf club to travel on the same path every single time for a consistent, automatically repeating golf swing with amazing golf ball striking. 2. It creates an automatic wrist hinge and stores up power in the trail arm in the backswing – for powerful golf ball striking. 3. It stores power and lag on the downswing – preventing casting and early extension in the process and opening up room to hit really clean golf shots. 4. It allows the trail arm to powerfully FIRE through the golf ball after impact – sending all of your energy through the ball without wasting any power and creating amazing golf ball striking feelings. 5. It prevents slices and ultimately fixes the slice because the elbow staying tucked prevents the club from swinging over the top in the downswing. 6. It helps keep the lead, left arm straight in the golf swing for crispy, clean contact and improve your golf ball striking. 7. It allows for EFFORTLESS POWER because of the trail arm loading I mentioned earlier. 8. It promotes a proper inward hand path and prevents golfers from lifting their arms – increasing consistency and power and improving golf ball striking.
There are SO MANY MORE BENEFITS in this Ben Hogan golf ball striking tip that I don’t have enough time to list all of them!
Improves your ball striking by helping you learn a better impact position with your pelvis rotation, how to get your body more open/towards the target and a straighter arm release and extension through impact into the follow through.
This isn’t the first video we’ve done explaining and demonstrating how to do this weight transfer golf drill, but because we feel it’s such a useful drill, we try to answer every question we get about it.
Using your hips properly in the golf swing is essential for clubhead speed. But, how do tour pros make it look so easy? Should your hip turn or should your hip slide in the golf swing?
Well, In this this video will show you the key move so that your moving your hips correctly in the golf swing.
There’s not much in the golf swing that turns level and the hips are no exception. In this video, we look at two of the most common causes that force your hips into bad positions both in the backswing and downswing.
