Hit Every Club Longer...By Swinging Slower?

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You’ve probably seen great players on TV or even at your local club who seem to hit the ball miles without even trying. Yet when you try, it feels like you’re putting everything into it — rushed, tight, and still not getting the distance. In this lesson, I want to show you how those players create that effortless power. You’re going to learn how to build a smooth, rhythmical swing that feels calm and controlled but produces effortless speed and distance.

Now before we dive in, if you’re new to the channel, please consider subscribing. I release videos like this every week to help you improve your game, and I always include a free download or practice guide in the description so you can take what we do straight to the range.

So, let’s get into it. The secret to that effortless look comes down to rhythm and how your body moves in sync with the club — not fighting against it. To help you feel this, I like to use something really simple — a bag. It could be a 10-pound gym bag or even a bag of shopping. Hold it like your golf club, palms facing each other, and let your arms hang naturally. Most golfers reach too far and get tense, but when your arms hang, everything becomes much more fluid.

Now swing that bag back and forth, creating momentum — not with your arms, but with your legs and body. Feel that rhythm: one and two, one and two. Notice how it’s not rushed or forced. The bag almost swings itself, and that’s exactly what we want with the golf club. When you do this, your body naturally stays centered, even though it feels like you’re moving dynamically from side to side. That’s the key — rhythm and balance without tension.

When you bring this to your golf swing, the same principle applies. Don’t be static over the ball. Feel that energy flow into your backswing and let the club gather momentum. Then allow that energy to flow through naturally. It’s not one… two (a stop and a heave). It’s one and two — smooth and connected. You’ll be amazed how much easier it feels and how much faster the club actually moves.

Once you’ve built that rhythm, you can start working on controlling the clubface. A simple one-handed drill helps here — hold the club with your trail hand, let it swing back over your shoulder, and then just let it fall back down to where it started. You’ll feel the club naturally shallowing and staying behind your hands. That’s effortless sequencing — the body and club working together.

Then, try the same thing with your lead hand — just sling the club back and through, feeling how your body reacts. You’re not forcing rotation or movement — it happens automatically. When you put both hands back on the club, it should feel like a long, flowing putting stroke — one and two — smooth, rhythmic, and powerful.

It might feel at first like you’re giving up control, but trust me, you’re actually gaining it. The more you try to control the club with effort, the less control and power you truly have. When you find rhythm and let momentum work for you, everything becomes easier.

So, grab a bag, work on that swing rhythm, and start developing that effortless power you see from the pros. If you enjoyed this, give it a thumbs up, share it with a friend, and check out the video right here where I show you how to take this same concept and apply it to your driver. Until next time, have a great week and play well.

Full Transcript- How often do you see great players, whether on TV or at your local club, and they are hitting the ball a long way with what feel looks like that they're not even trying, yet you are putting everything into it. You feel like you're trying really hard. You even feel a bit rushed in that down swing and you're not getting any yardage. What I'm going to show you in this video, I'm going to show you how the best players develop this kind of effortless look in their swing. So, I'm going to show you how you can create a lovely rhythmical swing, one that doesn't feel rushed. It feels calm, elegant, and smooth. So, you still got that control, but creates effortless distance for you, effortless power. Okay? It's a lovely feeling when you get it. I can't wait to share it with you. Before I do, though, if you're new to the channel, your first lessons of mine, please consider subscribing. I release videos like this one every single week to try and help you improve your game. Plus, you never have to remember a thing. Everything we do here, I'll put a free download or practice guide in the description box below. So, I'm really excited to share this lesson with you. I I just love it because it's so natural. It feels so good. And by the time you finished, you're going to hopefully get what my students get out of this, which is the feeling like they are not really trying. They does it doesn't make sense that the ball's going that far with what feels like half the effort they're putting in before. But it does require a bit of practice. Okay. Um, so let me start with there's two steps to this. Let me start with step one. I'm going to show you how to develop that sensation first and how the body's moves in a really rhythmical way compared to this kind of way where you get here and it really feels like you're trying really hard but you're not getting any distance. So, where do we start with this? I'm going to grab a bag. Okay. Now, if you are regular to my channel, you'll see me use this before, but I'm gonna don't have a few alterations with this. So, I've got a bag here that probably wears around about 10 pounds. You can use a bag of shopping. You can use anything, right? But this for me is one of the simplest things that anybody can do to really feel how to organize their golf swing in such a way that provides rhythm and timing without having to think of lots of body positions and swing positions. Right? Then I'll show you how you can transfer this very easily to things like your irons and your driver. So what I do is I grab a bag here and I hold it with my palms facing towards you. And I do actually hold it my golf stance. So notice this. This is important. When I stand forward now, you'll notice my arms hanging directly downwards in front of me. Most golfers, without realizing, they're kind of stretched out here. They're stiff. If they were to let their arms hang, they'd be down by their sides. So, we put our bodies in a position where our arms can hang very naturally. Now, all I'm going to do here now is this. I'm going to get that bag swinging towards you. And I want to create some momentum on this back swing like this. And I'm going to do it in a really kind of m quick way. Creates momentum. Now, I'm not swinging this with my arm. This is really important. Most golfers when they're swinging, they're trying to swing here. That's what feels lots of effort. What I'm doing here, using my legs, I am tossing this bag in a straight line. Look, towards you. Now, what do you notice with the transition from my back swing to my down swing? It's very calm, isn't it? It's effortless. It's smooth. Why? Watch again. Look.

Can you see? It's like

there's a real rhythm to that. Now, what do I normally see with golfers who are putting lots of effort in? They look more like this.

Can you see the difference? When you go slow on the way back, all the effort then needs to go on the way through for me to throw this. But when I just create rhythm, like this bag has a life of its own. What else you notice? I feel like I'm moving a hell of a lot to my right and then to my left. But what do you see on camera?

You should probably see my body staying quite central and under under control, yet I'm feeling like I'm using pressure to swing right and swing left. So, I really feel like I'm dynamic here, which is giving me the feeling that I'm putting lots of effort in. But what you are probably seeing is a rhythmical effortless motion. When I feel like it's effortless,

it actually has no rhythm and therefore no power. So, what I want you to do once you've done that a few times, what I get my students to do, and I often get them to give a carry something like this in the in the boot of their car just before they go, what we're going to do now is we're going to start to get some energy going into your back swing. Because when we can get the club swinging away with a bit of momentum, what your body does, it can feel the momentum of the club going this way. So, naturally, look, automatically goes forward. This keeps the transition slow and relaxed. And then from here, it throws the club forward. We'll show what you do with your arms in step two, but right now, I just want you to help organize the body. Slower players who feel like they're trying really hard, they look more like this. They swing to the back swing almost like they're stopping and then they just heave it on the way through. They really rush their down swing. But here, notice this. There is no rush. You can see it's like a one and two, one and two, one and two. It's like a speedy on the way back. One and two, one and two versus one or more one, two. That would be another way of looking at it. Right? So, we're trying to sense that rhythm. Grab something heavy, get that sensation, and then begin to alternate between throwing the bag and a golf club. And what I'll often do with players to start with, I say, don't worry about the follow through. To start off with, let's just focus on getting the arm hang here. So, we're not stood like this forcing this position. We'll let our arms hang. Then, what I'm going to do is I'm going to throw the bag. Imagine throwing the bag or this golf club directly towards you. Now, I really feel I have to get my legs kind of ready and I'm dynamic to do that. And you'll see with the players, they'll see them often moving. They are dynamically moving this club away. But on camera, it just looks beautifully smooth and effortless. Okay. So, feel that momentum. I'm rear. One, one and two. One and two. It's not one, two. That is a very different rhythm. So, let's start with an iron and then we'll move to a driver and then we'll move to step two. This is stage one in getting that rhythm. I'll just move that back actually while we do this. Okay. So, get myself set. I notice this. I can't stay static here. I'm going to have to really feel like I'm going to get some momentum into this golf club in this direction. Not around here. Up there. Just right back towards you. And notice it wasn't swaying, was it? There. Let's get some momentum straight back in that direction.

Beautifully simple. Now watch this here. Comfortably 91.2 mph club head speed. Did that look quick to you? I don't feel but I feel there some energy in that golf swing there. When I got that club going back, it wasn't Come on, Danny. Nice and controlled back like this. There's always instinct. There's always energy going into the golf swing. I need you to feel that. So, quickly go back to the bag, get yourself set. I'll get people on the car park doing this for the round. So, you go create that swing first. Can you create momentum? Feel what your body's doing in the lower body. I'm not doing this with my arms. They're very passive. Throw it. Once you've done that bit, you almost get the down swing. Look for free. One, two. And you'll notice, look, on the way down, when I throw this bag forward, is my head going this way? No, that's the biggest killer of speed. This bag naturally doesn't. You just never You'll never do it. You'll always technically look so much better when you throw a bag because look, one, as I throw this bag here, it's I hang on to the bag, I let the club in reality fly miles through. And what I'm doing is I'm increasing the speed of the head while I naturally stay back here versus this way. One, that's the rush swings. That's when you feel like you're putting loads of energy in here. Here, swing the bag here. My body reacts and then as I'm coming through, look, it goes forward and then I swing it through. Notice this. I in my head naturally stays back here which allows the club to speed up and that's what gives that silky smooth effortless looking motion. So I get myself set nice and dynamic in my legs. There's the bag. Swing that bag away. One and two. Simple as that. Okay. 92.4 miles an hour now worth of club head speed. So once you've got that sensation and by the way it takes practice this develop it be patient with it but just really see what the bag the bag's the one of the greatest trainers you can get out there and it's free just a bag of shopping will do now a lot of students when they do this they still want to understand how to control the club face. So what I'll then do and this is again a super super simple thing you could do even before a golf shot on the golf course. Hold the club out in one hand. We'll do both hands in a second but just in my trail hand here. And as I'm getting myself set up, notice how there's a little bit of shafting. Just move this out the way so you can see there's a little bit of shaffling. And you'll notice my trail elbows just kind of almost like I'm giving blood to you here. Now, all I'm going to do is I'm going to let the club swing back over my troll shoulder. And then all I'm going to do now is just imagine the club just falling back down to return back to that place there. So, it's one, two. Now, as I do this, notice this. I feel the club head always stairs look behind my hands very naturally because of my intention to bring the club back to there. If I was to do what most people do, let's say come over the top. I will that's just a just a completely different position. If I'm somebody who in a sense casts the club, that's going to be me flicking it here. I mean, I'm in completely the wrong position, too. So, here it's just a simple drill. Get myself set here. Handle slightly ahead. Elbow in position. Swing back. I feel the club just fall down there. And that's a simple practice swing that I could do each time. I really feel the club naturally as a byproduct of my intention to get back to here. Would never in a million years go this way. It stays behind my hands and falls down. I do exactly the same here with my lead side. Look, my arm is just hanging down in front of me here. And all I'm going to do, look, is sling the club back now towards you. Sling it back with that momentum we've just worked on. And I'm back into impact here. And notice as I do this, notice here, look how I'm slinging the club. My body doesn't go like this or like this. All I'm doing, the arm's hanging. I sling momentum. I get back to that impact position here. Where's my left shoulder naturally going? It goes up because I'm slinging the club this direction. my body naturally stays more centered because I am swinging the weight of a golf club just like we do with the bag. So now we hold the both uh both hands on the golf club. And to start with it just feels like a very long putt where I'm slinging it back straight back here, back here and through. One, two. And you'll notice my body's naturally turning without me even trying to turn it because it has to do. Right? So again, dumb rehearsals, create some momentum. One, two. Let's keep I'll count this one down. Really smooth this off. But I'm really feel here. This instinctively happens because of my intention to really get some energy into the back swing. The more energy I create here, the more smoother that transition becomes in the down swing. Very, very natural.

Don't want what it look like to you, but again, I feel like I've got a lot of energy going into that golf club there. I feel like there's some energy in my feet traveling that away, but I bet it looks really, really smooth. So, that is how I create rhythm in the golf swing. Use a simple training like that. Create that sensation. And then what we'll do is I'll show you how this works with a driver next week. Um, but in the meantime, I also use uh tools like towels as well to kind of help create this motion here. Check this video out right here to do this. This is one of the most important things you can do. It feels great if you're willing to put in the time and patience to create that rhythm in your golf swing. It feels like you're giving up control when you do this. This is really important. That's what our students say. But you get control back in abundance. The more you try to control the club, the less power you have and actually the less control you actually have on the golf club. All right, so if you enjoy this video, give it a thumbs up. Maybe share it with one of your friends. Check this video out right here with a towel and join me next week where I'll show you how this works with a driver, too. But until next week, have a wonderful golfing.