Shorter Golf Swing Drill 5 Two clubs for added weight and control (Video) - by Pete Styles
Shorter Golf Swing Drill 5 Two clubs for added weight and control (Video) - by Pete Styles

As you swing the golf club back towards the top of the backswing, the club will generate a certain amount of momentum particularly here quite a quick backswing. The issue is here you swing from the top and you try and stop at two o’clock because that’s what Pete told you to do. I'm going to stop at two o’clock. But the weight of the golf club just drags you over the top and you get a little bit too long and you cross the dreaded three o’clock line. So as you are swinging back, you build momentum but you haven’t got the strength from the top to control that. So we need to build a little bit more control at the top of your swing. The great exercise and a great drill to help you do that is take two clubs.

I've got 8 and a 9 on here, similar lengths to each other. I grip them in the bottom and I lift them nicely off the floor. So I'm going to cling together and hit the ground. And I then make little short backswings. And I feel at the top, the clubs have got extra momentum and I have to work really hard and be really strong to stop them where I want to. Now if you could utilize a mirror here as well, watch yourself in the mirror and make sure you don’t get any lag at the top. So we don’t really want to see the clubs going to the top and then dropping before they come back down again. That would be a mistake. That would show that your hands and your arms aren’t working strongly enough to keep control of the club. So we’d like the golf clubs to go to the top, stop and constrain back down. And you’re in charge of the golf clubs there. The golf clubs aren’t bossing you around and get all long and logy. Then when you go back to a single club exercise, this will now feel incredibly light and you should feel more powerful, more in charge of the club. So when I swing that back now, I can stop where I wanted it to and bring it straight back down. I don’t want to swing back and get a long bit before I come back.

So spend a little bit of time swinging with two clubs and it might be good warm-up exercise for you on the driving range, it might be a good warm-up exercise on the golf course. Ten swings, watching yourself in a mirror or a window if you can, making sure that you don’t get long and logy. Then pick a phenomenal club and feel how your swing is a lot crisper, a lot shorter, a lot more control at the top. Utilize that practice swing to get more control and a shorter backswing. 2012-11-29

As you swing the golf club back towards the top of the backswing, the club will generate a certain amount of momentum particularly here quite a quick backswing. The issue is here you swing from the top and you try and stop at two o’clock because that’s what Pete told you to do. I'm going to stop at two o’clock. But the weight of the golf club just drags you over the top and you get a little bit too long and you cross the dreaded three o’clock line. So as you are swinging back, you build momentum but you haven’t got the strength from the top to control that. So we need to build a little bit more control at the top of your swing. The great exercise and a great drill to help you do that is take two clubs.

I've got 8 and a 9 on here, similar lengths to each other. I grip them in the bottom and I lift them nicely off the floor. So I'm going to cling together and hit the ground. And I then make little short backswings. And I feel at the top, the clubs have got extra momentum and I have to work really hard and be really strong to stop them where I want to. Now if you could utilize a mirror here as well, watch yourself in the mirror and make sure you don’t get any lag at the top. So we don’t really want to see the clubs going to the top and then dropping before they come back down again. That would be a mistake. That would show that your hands and your arms aren’t working strongly enough to keep control of the club. So we’d like the golf clubs to go to the top, stop and constrain back down. And you’re in charge of the golf clubs there. The golf clubs aren’t bossing you around and get all long and logy. Then when you go back to a single club exercise, this will now feel incredibly light and you should feel more powerful, more in charge of the club. So when I swing that back now, I can stop where I wanted it to and bring it straight back down. I don’t want to swing back and get a long bit before I come back.

So spend a little bit of time swinging with two clubs and it might be good warm-up exercise for you on the driving range, it might be a good warm-up exercise on the golf course. Ten swings, watching yourself in a mirror or a window if you can, making sure that you don’t get long and logy. Then pick a phenomenal club and feel how your swing is a lot crisper, a lot shorter, a lot more control at the top. Utilize that practice swing to get more control and a shorter backswing.