Laid Off Golf, How To Fix Top Of Swing (Video) - by Dean Butler
Laid Off Golf, How To Fix Top Of Swing (Video) - by Dean Butler

Okay. I want to show you how to fix laying the club off at the top. First of all, let me describe what laying that club off at the top is. Laying the club off at the top is basically created when your hands and arms move away from the body and then we end up here, so the club is very, very low behind, just laying the club off. Remember, a typical sort of backswing would be much more in this position, so if the arms are here and we push them away, then we end of almost kind of drawing sort of shape pushing it out here and that’s laying the club off and from this position here as you can imagine getting back to the ball is when we’re sliding back into it and the clubface wide open and it’s almost, I hate to use the word, but it’s almost a shank is going to happen here, it’s certainly going to go down the right hand side that’s for sure because there is no way you’re going to get to here and loop it back on the outside, so it’s got to come here laying off and your hips are going to get miles ahead and its going be…at best it’s going to be a push, a straight ride at the best, but that shank, that’s a dangerous sort of thing to happen in a game of golf as we know.

So, how do we cure it, how do we get away with this? It’s a lot easy then you think. If I set up to this behavioral here and I concentrate on bringing my arms into my body, you can see automatically that the club has actually moved inside. If I do that again, all I’m dong is bringing my arms, I’m brining my arms into my body. The hips are shifting, the trunk is shifting, the shoulders are shifting, everything is moving, so it’s working, but I’ve got the line of balls here.

So, let’s just imagine you’re over that, you’re working very, very hard and all of a sudden you go back and the balls go, the balls are gone, so that emphasizes it, highlights the fact that as you’ve gone back, you’ve pushed the club, because without those balls being there, if I took those balls away and put that there, you might swear to God that I didn’t actually go out there, but it only needs a little bit to go outside the line and then you’re back in to that possibility of laying the club off, so a good exercise. Line the balls up. Put the ball very close. Line them up a good one-foot behind the ball and if that club does move just literally an inch outside, you’re going to catch that ball and the evidence can’t lie.

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Okay. I want to show you how to fix laying the club off at the top. First of all, let me describe what laying that club off at the top is. Laying the club off at the top is basically created when your hands and arms move away from the body and then we end up here, so the club is very, very low behind, just laying the club off. Remember, a typical sort of backswing would be much more in this position, so if the arms are here and we push them away, then we end of almost kind of drawing sort of shape pushing it out here and that’s laying the club off and from this position here as you can imagine getting back to the ball is when we’re sliding back into it and the clubface wide open and it’s almost, I hate to use the word, but it’s almost a shank is going to happen here, it’s certainly going to go down the right hand side that’s for sure because there is no way you’re going to get to here and loop it back on the outside, so it’s got to come here laying off and your hips are going to get miles ahead and its going be…at best it’s going to be a push, a straight ride at the best, but that shank, that’s a dangerous sort of thing to happen in a game of golf as we know.

So, how do we cure it, how do we get away with this? It’s a lot easy then you think. If I set up to this behavioral here and I concentrate on bringing my arms into my body, you can see automatically that the club has actually moved inside. If I do that again, all I’m dong is bringing my arms, I’m brining my arms into my body. The hips are shifting, the trunk is shifting, the shoulders are shifting, everything is moving, so it’s working, but I’ve got the line of balls here.

So, let’s just imagine you’re over that, you’re working very, very hard and all of a sudden you go back and the balls go, the balls are gone, so that emphasizes it, highlights the fact that as you’ve gone back, you’ve pushed the club, because without those balls being there, if I took those balls away and put that there, you might swear to God that I didn’t actually go out there, but it only needs a little bit to go outside the line and then you’re back in to that possibility of laying the club off, so a good exercise. Line the balls up. Put the ball very close. Line them up a good one-foot behind the ball and if that club does move just literally an inch outside, you’re going to catch that ball and the evidence can’t lie.