Thumbs Up to Groove Powerful Late Release (Video) - by Pete Styles
Thumbs Up to Groove Powerful Late Release (Video) - by Pete Styles

If you want to hit the golf ball a long way, it’s really important that you not only create power, but you store power and then you release power all at the right times. Now your back swing is the point in your swing where you create power, so as we turn back rewind everything up, and we’re creating power.

Now as we pull down towards the golf ball, we want to store the power, in preparation to release the power. Now one of the biggest things is I think that costs people distance in the golf game, is not only they don’t create the power, but it’s the fact they don’t store the power. So when people’s backs swings, I often see this movement, where they’ll turn it to the top and create the power, but then there is an early release of power. The corner that accelerated here, in this angle particularly, the lag angle, between the left arm and the golf club shaft for the right handed golfer, has been released too early.

That therefore means that coming down to the golf ball they don’t have the lag to release of the ball. So you’ve created power, you haven’t stored power; therefore you can’t release the power. So here is a little move for you, which I hope will help. You create the power by hinging your wrists on your way back and you have about a 90 degree or slightly more wrist cock. Then on the downswing, you need to keep this left thumb feeling like it’s pointing up at the sky, keeping your left thumb pointing up at the sky here, keeps the power, holds the power and stores it, before and then releases. So let’s look at that move with the club, to the top and pull down and feel how you’re trying to keep the left thumb pointing upwards.

If you can grab it now, with your right index finger and pull the shaft back, that’s the storage of power that we want to see, for as long as late as possible, before the club head releases down through the golf ball in the tee-peg. So it’s up to the top, maintain the power, force it back if you need to, then at the last second that will release down at the golf ball. When we hit a golf ball with that movement, it’s up, create the power and release the power.

And if you can just do this little exercise, creating the power, releasing the power, when that comes together at full speed, you’ll feel that there’s a lot more whip and action through the ball, that gives you a lot more distance out here, down the golf course.

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If you want to hit the golf ball a long way, it’s really important that you not only create power, but you store power and then you release power all at the right times. Now your back swing is the point in your swing where you create power, so as we turn back rewind everything up, and we’re creating power.

Now as we pull down towards the golf ball, we want to store the power, in preparation to release the power. Now one of the biggest things is I think that costs people distance in the golf game, is not only they don’t create the power, but it’s the fact they don’t store the power. So when people’s backs swings, I often see this movement, where they’ll turn it to the top and create the power, but then there is an early release of power. The corner that accelerated here, in this angle particularly, the lag angle, between the left arm and the golf club shaft for the right handed golfer, has been released too early.

That therefore means that coming down to the golf ball they don’t have the lag to release of the ball. So you’ve created power, you haven’t stored power; therefore you can’t release the power. So here is a little move for you, which I hope will help. You create the power by hinging your wrists on your way back and you have about a 90 degree or slightly more wrist cock. Then on the downswing, you need to keep this left thumb feeling like it’s pointing up at the sky, keeping your left thumb pointing up at the sky here, keeps the power, holds the power and stores it, before and then releases. So let’s look at that move with the club, to the top and pull down and feel how you’re trying to keep the left thumb pointing upwards.

If you can grab it now, with your right index finger and pull the shaft back, that’s the storage of power that we want to see, for as long as late as possible, before the club head releases down through the golf ball in the tee-peg. So it’s up to the top, maintain the power, force it back if you need to, then at the last second that will release down at the golf ball. When we hit a golf ball with that movement, it’s up, create the power and release the power.

And if you can just do this little exercise, creating the power, releasing the power, when that comes together at full speed, you’ll feel that there’s a lot more whip and action through the ball, that gives you a lot more distance out here, down the golf course.