What is more power and why golf drill 3 Snap front knee at impact (Video) - by Pete Styles
What is more power and why golf drill 3 Snap front knee at impact (Video) - by Pete Styles

Generating extra power down the point of impact when you're hitting the golf ball, that's where you need the extra power, that's where you need the extra club head speed to get the extra distance. So, if you've wound yourself nicely to the top, you're releasing down very quickly with your hips. If you kept this hip moving and going forward and forward and forward, you actually feel like now you're in your own way. You can't get out of your own way to generate the extra club head speed.

So, it's quite important that, yes, we're moving down towards the impact area, but then your left hip stops, gets out of the way and opens up some space for the hands and the arms and the golf club to release through this area. If you kept running past the golf ball, you'd never be able to hit it very fast. But if you stop, you can release through. We utilize the snapping of the left leg to get that left hip to stop and get out of your way. So, we swing to the top, pull down moving laterally, snap that left leg back out of the way, then release the golf club through the ball and that's where there's extra club head speed.

If you watch a lot of other sports, you'll see someone maybe throwing a ball, they'll stop and throw and this leg will straighten up, or a javelin thrower. They run as fast as they can. Yeah, I appreciate they got a line to stop on. They have to have a very big stopping left stride where they come over and around to generate maximum power. We can utilize the same approach in golf, coming through impact, we snap, we release around that key point, generating maximum club head speed.

So, snap your left knee for longer shots. If you watch how this happens in slow motion, to the top, shift and at the point of impact, my left leg is snap straight, my club head releases through, around through a nice, big balanced finish, standing on that firm left side. If the left leg slides into the ball, you're not going to be able to release the golf club as quickly, you'll lose power. Snap the knee for longer tee shots.

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Generating extra power down the point of impact when you're hitting the golf ball, that's where you need the extra power, that's where you need the extra club head speed to get the extra distance. So, if you've wound yourself nicely to the top, you're releasing down very quickly with your hips. If you kept this hip moving and going forward and forward and forward, you actually feel like now you're in your own way. You can't get out of your own way to generate the extra club head speed.

So, it's quite important that, yes, we're moving down towards the impact area, but then your left hip stops, gets out of the way and opens up some space for the hands and the arms and the golf club to release through this area. If you kept running past the golf ball, you'd never be able to hit it very fast. But if you stop, you can release through. We utilize the snapping of the left leg to get that left hip to stop and get out of your way. So, we swing to the top, pull down moving laterally, snap that left leg back out of the way, then release the golf club through the ball and that's where there's extra club head speed.

If you watch a lot of other sports, you'll see someone maybe throwing a ball, they'll stop and throw and this leg will straighten up, or a javelin thrower. They run as fast as they can. Yeah, I appreciate they got a line to stop on. They have to have a very big stopping left stride where they come over and around to generate maximum power. We can utilize the same approach in golf, coming through impact, we snap, we release around that key point, generating maximum club head speed.

So, snap your left knee for longer shots. If you watch how this happens in slow motion, to the top, shift and at the point of impact, my left leg is snap straight, my club head releases through, around through a nice, big balanced finish, standing on that firm left side. If the left leg slides into the ball, you're not going to be able to release the golf club as quickly, you'll lose power. Snap the knee for longer tee shots.