The Transfer Of Power In Your Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
The Transfer Of Power In Your Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

If you’ve done a good job of loading your right hand to the top of the back swing you should feel that your right hand and arm are here behind the back of your head and storing loads and loads of power. The elbow is bent, the wrist is bent back, the shoulder is drawn back from the front of the chest and you've got a position here where the right hand just wants to deliver the golf club down to the ball as fast as it possibly can. And this is where a lot of people go wrong, they’ve got all this power stored up and then effective they use it in the wrong way. They throw it away from them, so many right-handed golfers club in a good position here and they chuck it away from them in that way they throw the club over the top. They probably so desperate to release the power, they release it on the wrong way downwards. We see a lot of golfers particularly with a driver slicing the ball because they're over the top and outside the line. So how do we get this club to come down effectively? Well once we're at the top, got the club in a good position, if we transition with the hips to the left and pull the right elbow down at the same time, we really bring the club into a powerful position, a position a lot of people call the slot.

We sort of slot the club into a position; the back of the golf club, the handle of the golf club points directly at the ball then it's in a good position to be delivered instead of throwing it here over the top. So if we look at that from the front on up to the top nicely, drop that right elbow into the slot, the club stays nicely behind me, nicely engaged, the hips are starting to move to the left and now I can deliver the club from the inside instead of taking it from the top, throwing it over and delivering it from the outside. So try and work really hard on not only loading that club to a good position at the top but then dropping it into the slot and attacking the ball from the inside line to bring that right elbow in to deliver maximum power from the inside. And that’s how your right hand can encourage more power through your down swing by loading that right elbow correctly into the slot. 2015-11-06

If you’ve done a good job of loading your right hand to the top of the back swing you should feel that your right hand and arm are here behind the back of your head and storing loads and loads of power. The elbow is bent, the wrist is bent back, the shoulder is drawn back from the front of the chest and you've got a position here where the right hand just wants to deliver the golf club down to the ball as fast as it possibly can. And this is where a lot of people go wrong, they’ve got all this power stored up and then effective they use it in the wrong way. They throw it away from them, so many right-handed golfers club in a good position here and they chuck it away from them in that way they throw the club over the top. They probably so desperate to release the power, they release it on the wrong way downwards. We see a lot of golfers particularly with a driver slicing the ball because they're over the top and outside the line. So how do we get this club to come down effectively? Well once we're at the top, got the club in a good position, if we transition with the hips to the left and pull the right elbow down at the same time, we really bring the club into a powerful position, a position a lot of people call the slot.

We sort of slot the club into a position; the back of the golf club, the handle of the golf club points directly at the ball then it's in a good position to be delivered instead of throwing it here over the top. So if we look at that from the front on up to the top nicely, drop that right elbow into the slot, the club stays nicely behind me, nicely engaged, the hips are starting to move to the left and now I can deliver the club from the inside instead of taking it from the top, throwing it over and delivering it from the outside. So try and work really hard on not only loading that club to a good position at the top but then dropping it into the slot and attacking the ball from the inside line to bring that right elbow in to deliver maximum power from the inside. And that’s how your right hand can encourage more power through your down swing by loading that right elbow correctly into the slot.