Pro Golf Tips:
Let’s take a look at how your hips work away from the ball to make room for your hands at impact.
Whether you are looking to stop your sway, clear your hips in the downswing or simply looking to understand how the hips turn in the backswing and downswing then we cover it all in this video.
Click Here: “Ben Hogan’s Pane of Glass”
The best mental image ever devised to keep your golf swing on plane is “Ben Hogan’s Pane of Glass”. Hogan spends a whole chapter in his book “Five Lessons” on the swing plane using this “pane of glass” imagery. This tells you how important he felt swinging the club on plane is to becoming a great golfer.
Look at the drawing above and burn it into your psyche! This large pane of glass is angled from the ball all the way through the golfer’s shoulders and beyond. The angle of the pane is dictated by the golfer’s stance. Imagine a hole in the center of this large pane of glass just big enough for the golfer’s head to poke through.
Hogan liked to imagine this pane of glass when he swung because it allowed him to swing the club under this imaginary “pane of glass” in the back swing as well as down into impact and into his finish – without breaking the glass!
The truth is Hogan’s golf swing was always on plane and he is considered by most to be “the best ball striker who ever lived”!
This image alone has helped me tremendously in learning how to attack the ball from the all powerful inside. When you learn how to swing down from the inside, you develop that all important “lag” in your golf swing – and lag is the secret to effortless power in your golf swing!
If you have an “over the top” swing (aka casting), you can see how you would break this pane of glass at the start of your down swing. By being aware of the pane of glass your hands will drop down to your side during the downswing, maintaining your lag (aka the slot – illustrated beautifully by Hogan in the photo on the right).
You will be attacking the inside quadrant of the golf ball – a very powerful image to have for your golf swing.
The “pane of glass” image also helps your backswing. If you swing the club too much to the outside during the initial part of your backswing, you will break the pane of glass. By keeping Hogan’s image in your mind as you start your backswing your arms will stay connected to your body – you are almost forced to swing the club on plane! The wrists will cock by themselves without you giving them any thought.
The other nice thing about using the Hogan “pane of glass” image is it will help with your alignment. As you settle into your stance, imagine Hogan’s pane of glass being perpendicular to your target line. This will help you align your feet, your hips, and your shoulders to the target line – all crucial components for proper alignment.
Hogan’s pane of glass image also keeps you centered and stacked during the golf swing because your head movement will be minimal – remember your head is poking through the hole in the glass.
So work Hogan’s “pane of glass” image into your regular golf routine and learn to become a great striker of the golf ball – just like Ben Hogan!
Strong iron play is an often overlooked key to a consistent golf game. Use these 3 “must do’s” to start hitting clean, crisp and consistent irons today and watch your golf scores plummet.
In this video I’m going to show you my favorite compression drill, one that I use myself and in my practice to really hit the ball more solid.
Learn How To Get Better Golf Club Head Contact For Better Accuracy and Distance with Your Golf Swing in this great Golf Swing Lesson that will have you striking the golf ball pure.
For those looking to make consistent contact, this video on Hit The Center Of The Club Face is for you.
We’ll cover the center of the club face, while improving key fundamentals! Start having real control of your game. Be able to hit any shot in golf!
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.
