Create More Power With This Key Move – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Create More Power With This Key Move – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you how one key move during your golf downswing could lead to a significant improvement in your ball striking accuracy and distance, specifically with your iron shots. Not creating or maintaining lag in your golf downswing could be a seriously detrimental part of your key golf swing movement. Matt and Pete will explain the correct movement of the golf club by utilizing a one-handed drill, and how this could seriously improve the way you hit the golf ball and should have positive repercussions on your golf score.

One of the key differences when we see good golfers and high handicappers hit the golf ball is the distance they're going to hit the ball. Yeah I'm probably also the efficiency of that swing whenever I watch a good player they never really look like the trying to hit too fast, it is effortless. I think would be a word I'd use effortless so we could think about effortless power or how about powerless effort. To move quickly graze on the sides see golfers that have power well as effort they're putting as much into it as possible and it's powerless and then you get Ernie Els probably one of my favorite back in the day there big easy smooth looking swing with lots of power coming from an effortless swing. Talk to me about why what's the difference? So they're generating this effortless power through lots of lag in the golf swing which is the lead angle created between the shaft and the lead arm as Pete is demonstrating there and generally higher handicap amateurs will tend to spend this angle a little bit too quickly we see that it's all lost in the downswing too early on and then we get their power this effort and ironically they're getting that by trying harder on this.

So yeah it's a golfer not going to throw it more from the top of all to get this effort but it's powerless because the effort is in the wrong place. Exactly and what I am going to do is to even go back even more into this a effortless power going to go 100 for this Pete. Well I like to sometimes just going to peg this ball ever so down slightly there for me talking about that lead angle between lead arm and lead wrist by we're going to switch to the the trail arm here, and what we're going to think about is what are actually going to create as our hands are now level with the golf ball and even there for myself of automatically gone into it. What we tend to see for a lot of the amateurs it would be this throwing the golf club almost in you can feel I feel totally under control as we're doing that, and almost what I want you guys here to imagine who are watching this if we also had a table out here now that was a waist height for me. Yet to be somewhere like that now if I were to swing down and you were to lay the table here what we want to see is my hand now get into the center of my chest is that that club would sit on the table there and then from here I'd use the force and it be whipped into the golf ball here as I'm going through. So I'm going to make some one handed swings where I'm getting that stopping on the table as we go through. So again I'll be there and I can see my hands coming down and I've still got this angle created if I were to play. Yeah exactly if I place my lead hand on there in a great position and I could then get that effortless power coming in.

I've done that drill in the past you know with both hands you focus on the right hand and you're asking to do that with both and feel a similar and definitely hear hear and even feel and you can go through a feels a real unload of the club as I stop and let it go on the 3rd one. So even if I did it with my lead hand I'd be 12 and 3 and we started to even hear you can hear a little bit of washed out thing the microphones will pick it up back and feel some real speed as I'm going through there even just one handed as opposed to that one feels very arduous as I do it. It's like that that's the back maybe the bottom hand it's been over dominant in terms of clicking. Yeah so put in this way each hand learns it's own role exactly put them together they should work better as a unit. Rather than arguing and then do that but it's going to come yet we see something as I do it 2 handed now loads of lag if I just click away even if I were to go for a half swing here and just feel this would still see hopefully a solid strike and some real distance generated from quite a small effortless golf swing. Necessarily with a one handed drill you practice with 100 put them together then typical it's just just going used to the feeling I mean if you are confident enough to hit some small ones with one hand peg it up just to make it a little bit easier for yourself and then I do you know I do it. Rehearsing one hand with both feel the different ones and just get into here in a couple like this one with 2 hands, and actually a really solid little move actually see the tee peg and there's probably an inch maybe inch and a half before the did it came out which shows a really good example of the club still going downward. Yes which we get here but we definitely don't get it with flicking. So there's a lag releasing early was scooping up you never get that if it happened we get the divot before the golf ball. Generally so we know we need a lag that's a great way of looking for it to see if it is that the goal well and if you're struggling with the lag you're not striking the ball well and you feel like it's big and how all this effort that we talked about right at the start maybe this one handed drill that Matt just explained is a great way to improve your lag and strike your irons better.

2018-12-21

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you how one key move during your golf downswing could lead to a significant improvement in your ball striking accuracy and distance, specifically with your iron shots. Not creating or maintaining lag in your golf downswing could be a seriously detrimental part of your key golf swing movement. Matt and Pete will explain the correct movement of the golf club by utilizing a one-handed drill, and how this could seriously improve the way you hit the golf ball and should have positive repercussions on your golf score.

One of the key differences when we see good golfers and high handicappers hit the golf ball is the distance they're going to hit the ball. Yeah I'm probably also the efficiency of that swing whenever I watch a good player they never really look like the trying to hit too fast, it is effortless. I think would be a word I'd use effortless so we could think about effortless power or how about powerless effort. To move quickly graze on the sides see golfers that have power well as effort they're putting as much into it as possible and it's powerless and then you get Ernie Els probably one of my favorite back in the day there big easy smooth looking swing with lots of power coming from an effortless swing. Talk to me about why what's the difference? So they're generating this effortless power through lots of lag in the golf swing which is the lead angle created between the shaft and the lead arm as Pete is demonstrating there and generally higher handicap amateurs will tend to spend this angle a little bit too quickly we see that it's all lost in the downswing too early on and then we get their power this effort and ironically they're getting that by trying harder on this.

So yeah it's a golfer not going to throw it more from the top of all to get this effort but it's powerless because the effort is in the wrong place. Exactly and what I am going to do is to even go back even more into this a effortless power going to go 100 for this Pete. Well I like to sometimes just going to peg this ball ever so down slightly there for me talking about that lead angle between lead arm and lead wrist by we're going to switch to the the trail arm here, and what we're going to think about is what are actually going to create as our hands are now level with the golf ball and even there for myself of automatically gone into it. What we tend to see for a lot of the amateurs it would be this throwing the golf club almost in you can feel I feel totally under control as we're doing that, and almost what I want you guys here to imagine who are watching this if we also had a table out here now that was a waist height for me. Yet to be somewhere like that now if I were to swing down and you were to lay the table here what we want to see is my hand now get into the center of my chest is that that club would sit on the table there and then from here I'd use the force and it be whipped into the golf ball here as I'm going through. So I'm going to make some one handed swings where I'm getting that stopping on the table as we go through. So again I'll be there and I can see my hands coming down and I've still got this angle created if I were to play. Yeah exactly if I place my lead hand on there in a great position and I could then get that effortless power coming in.

I've done that drill in the past you know with both hands you focus on the right hand and you're asking to do that with both and feel a similar and definitely hear hear and even feel and you can go through a feels a real unload of the club as I stop and let it go on the 3rd one. So even if I did it with my lead hand I'd be 12 and 3 and we started to even hear you can hear a little bit of washed out thing the microphones will pick it up back and feel some real speed as I'm going through there even just one handed as opposed to that one feels very arduous as I do it. It's like that that's the back maybe the bottom hand it's been over dominant in terms of clicking. Yeah so put in this way each hand learns it's own role exactly put them together they should work better as a unit. Rather than arguing and then do that but it's going to come yet we see something as I do it 2 handed now loads of lag if I just click away even if I were to go for a half swing here and just feel this would still see hopefully a solid strike and some real distance generated from quite a small effortless golf swing. Necessarily with a one handed drill you practice with 100 put them together then typical it's just just going used to the feeling I mean if you are confident enough to hit some small ones with one hand peg it up just to make it a little bit easier for yourself and then I do you know I do it. Rehearsing one hand with both feel the different ones and just get into here in a couple like this one with 2 hands, and actually a really solid little move actually see the tee peg and there's probably an inch maybe inch and a half before the did it came out which shows a really good example of the club still going downward. Yes which we get here but we definitely don't get it with flicking. So there's a lag releasing early was scooping up you never get that if it happened we get the divot before the golf ball. Generally so we know we need a lag that's a great way of looking for it to see if it is that the goal well and if you're struggling with the lag you're not striking the ball well and you feel like it's big and how all this effort that we talked about right at the start maybe this one handed drill that Matt just explained is a great way to improve your lag and strike your irons better.