Most Golfers Swing Too Hard...Try This Instead (More Power, No Pain)

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Most golfers I meet are trying to swing like a tour player, but their body just won’t allow it. Maybe you’re a little less flexible than you used to be, maybe you’re carrying a few injuries, or maybe you just don’t move like you once did. But here’s the thing—you can still hit the ball longer, straighter, and lower your scores. The key isn’t forcing a perfect-looking swing, it’s learning how to move in a way that suits your body and creates effortless power.

What I see time and time again is golfers not maximising what they’ve already got. In this lesson, I want to show you how to create a more natural, pain-free motion that actually gives you more speed and control—not by working harder, but by moving smarter. And the best place to start isn’t with the driver… it’s with a simple chip shot.

When we swing a golf club, real power doesn’t come from hitting at the ball—it comes from momentum. The key move is learning how the grip end of the club works. As the club swings down, the handle should begin to move upwards. That motion is what creates speed, stability, and that beautiful strike you see in great players. Most amateurs keep the handle level and throw the club, which leads to a flicky, inconsistent strike with very little control.

To train this properly, we use what I call a “helicopter” motion with the body. In a simple chip shot, your shoulders gently rock—your lead shoulder moves down on the backswing, then rises through the shot. This upward movement supports the club, allowing it to flow through the ball with control rather than being thrown at it. It creates a lovely rhythm and gives you complete control over the bottom of your swing.

Once you’ve got that feeling in your short game, you can start to build it into your irons and longer clubs. The motion becomes slightly more angled, but the principle is exactly the same. Instead of just rocking, your body moves on a tilted plane—back and through like a helicopter on an angle. This allows you to store energy on the way back and then release it efficiently, without needing to force anything.

For golfers with limited flexibility, this is a game-changer. You don’t need a huge turn—you just need the right motion. Even a small version of this tilted “helicopter” movement will help you generate more speed while keeping balance and control. And importantly, it helps the club move naturally upwards through impact, which stabilises the strike and improves consistency.

The big difference you’ll notice is how effortless it feels. Instead of heaving the club around your body, you’re allowing momentum to build and then guiding it. That’s where real power comes from—and that’s what helps you hit your best shots more often, not just occasionally.

So start small. Begin with chip shots, really feel that rhythm and control, then gradually build it into your full swing. Get that balance between the club’s momentum and your body supporting it, and you’ll start to see more distance, better strikes, and a swing that feels far more natural to you.

Full Transcript- How many videos have you watched where they're trying to get you to swing like a PGA Tour player and you just don't have the body to do that? Maybe you're a senior golfer that maybe likes to bit flexibility now and you can't turn like you once did or do you know what? You know, we're all getting older and you've got some battle wounds and you don't maybe you got some injuries that are just restricting your golf swing, but you still want to hit the ball longer, don't you? And you still want to hit it straighter and you still want to lower those scores. Well, look, I teach golfers just like you every single week. And I I it's an absolute privilege to do so. And what I see is is you're not maximizing your potential regardless of the injuries. And in this week's video, I want to share with you some of the things that I give my students to really kind of get that effortless motion in their golf swing so they can generate more speed whilst keeping the control because everyone deserves more distance. more importantly, they deserve it painfree. Okay? And in this week's video, that's what I want to do. I want to share with you how you can basically develop a pain-free golf swing that feels a bit more effortless and a bit more you, okay? So, you can really enjoy that game of golf. Can't wait to share it with you. Before I do, though, look, if you're new to the channel, it's one of your first lessons of mine. Please consider subscribing. I release videos just like this one every single week to try and help you improve your game. Plus, you never have to remember a thing. Everything I do here, I'll put to a free practice guide that will pin to the top comment below this video or scan this QR code. So, I really think you're going to love the feeling that you get from this lesson. I think my students absolutely love it. It just will give you a sense of what you've been missing in terms of power and just that just it'll just feel great. Now, the funny thing is is uh one of my students, George, this week he came to want to hit driver longer, but I said, "Put that down for a second. We're going to start with your wedge and we're going to go to the chipping green. It looks a little bit surprised and I'm sure you are right now, but I'm going to show you getting you to learn how to feel this with a wedge and chipping. You'll massively improve your short game. So, you'll get like a almost like a great chipping for free, but it will be easier to transfer through the clubs to your irons, fairwoods, and then your driver. So, here's what I want you to do. This is the first fundamental block in generating this beautiful effortless motion. So you'll maybe if you're regular to my channel, you'll see me do something like this before, but this is really important to understand. I gave this to even Adam uh you might have seen the Adam video where he added almost 50 yards to this one drill. So here, look, we've got a swinging golf club, and that's all it is right now. It's just a swinging golf club. It doesn't have a huge amount of momentum right now. It's just swinging backwards and forwards. But in a second, we're going to add some momentum to this club. And we're going to do it. Look, by pulling the grip upwards, upwards. And what this is about timing this motion. If I pull it upwards too soon, that won't feel right. But there's a momentum momentum to this. And I'm going to accelerate it by pulling the grip up. Okay, that's super important because what most people aren't aware of is is the butt of the golf club when you're swinging it is is at its lowest point opposite your trail leg from here. The butt now works up as the head works down. This is what gives the beautiful momentum to the golf club. It's what helps the players look line the club up beautifully here with a lead armon club just after the golf ball and it's what gives them that beautiful look on the way through. So they've got this momentum and they're also controlling this golf club. Compare that to most uh players. So this is what George was doing. Even with his short game, he's here like this. He's basically turning through. So the butt is basically staying at the same level. So there isn't this momentum. The other problem is is it's staying at the same level. He's in now throwing the golf club at this level. He starts to get this kind of flicky look, a breakdown of the arms. But as soon as we start to work on the butt now working upwards now, suddenly he creates this look, space and stability in this motion. Super important. I want to show you an image of this in a second. So Leo, just jump in for a second. This is a great thing to kind of just kind of picture in your mind. So Leah's going to act as the golf club for a second. Yeah. Now, what creates the power and stability and control is is the harder Leo moves in this direction, the more I'm going to push the butt needs to move where? Backwards and upwards. Okay, make sense? The problem is if Leo's pulling in that direction and I'm going with it, suddenly all this is really loose and kind of unstable. Yeah. Which is where most people are. If it's unstable, it's not powerful. Make sense? So, you could have the club traveling really fast, but you haven't got control over it. The butt needs to move upwards. But how do you do this in a really naturally flowing way? Well, this is why we start with chipping. So what I did with Bo uh George is I said look let's just feel that first feel this momentum. So I got him to really sense that in the body and you you can do this if you do this with me but then I got him to hit some chips and I introduced him to the first part of the helicopter drill. You see if the body needs to support this motion. Now in chipping for the basic chip show we're going to get the shaft quite vertical right. So here the club in a sense is going to work uh up and as it's working down before it strikes the golf ball we're not going to move the butt end of the club look upwards through the impact area. This is super important. Now this needs to be supported by your body. So do this with me. Put your arms out like this. And the first part of helicopter drill is simply just going to go almost like a rocky motion. Yeah. Now why would this really really help you? Well, now suddenly if you imagine the body doing this, we'll get ourselves set here. Balls steady back in my stance. I'm now going to rock my body backwards. My lead shoulders gone down. I'm in the helicopter exercise. Now, this is important. As I'm coming down here now, I don't just stay there and just throw my arms down. What's going to happen? I'm going to bring the uh the shoulders back to normal. And as I'm coming through now, where's my left shoulder going now? Helicopter. It's moving upwards through the impact area. Can you see that? So, this is what's going to bring the club out of the ground. It's going to allow the momentum of the club golf club to come through. And now, look, I'm throwing the club with control. And it feels so rhythmical compared to see the difference in the pattern of this. Watch this. I've lost it. I've lost complete control over that golf club now. Or even this. Now, I've lost again complete control. Whereas this, look, there's the helicopter, the shoulders rocking and the club being thrown. So, I've got the feeling of momentum, but me controlling that momentum. Does that make sense? Let's have a look at this in action.

So, all I'm doing there is simply kind of just swinging back and swinging through. And when George did this, do you think he got it straight away? Of course, no. Of course he didn't. You know, he's the habits of wanting to hit the ball with your arms and stay still. That's another one. But you do all those things, you lose the momentum and the feeling of that. And what you if you don't do this in chipping, you won't do it with your irions. If you don't with your irions, you definitely won't do it with your driver. So learning this kind of motion first of all in the short game and really sensing, look at how much control I've got of the bottom of that golf swing and the arc by me just now allowing the club to drop. And look, I've got complete control. Look how left down. Complete control. Versus if all this stays still, I don't have the helicopter. I'm now I've lost control and that foundation will spread right into your irions and then your driver and you've lost you'll lose your power and therefore the control of your ball. So once you've done that, spend some time chipping, learn that sensation, really feel it. You'll really love the feeling of the momentum of the club going down and it will you'll just connect to it. I promise you. Now with your irons and your hybrids, fairwoods and driver, it's pretty much the same with a small twist. So with the uh chipping here, we saw the shaft quite vertical, didn't we? So ultimate, as the club's coming down, we stabilize it by the book moving upwards. But with irons, hybrids, ferry rewards, etc. driver, we have a shaft more on an incline here. So as the club comes on a circle, it needs to work upwards and inwards towards the body. Yeah. So you see here, look, the club gets the same here. Lowest point here, but now look, it's working up and in to accelerate that golf club. Okay. So, how can we apply the helicopter drill? Well, as opposed to just now a rocking motion, we do have a rock. There's also look a little bit look of an arc to this. So, it's much more of this motion on the way back and this motion on the way through. Now this is where it will basically in a sense see how flexible you are and how much you can move but allow your body to move so it feels comfortable and this is important. So if you put your arms out like this and I actually gave this to as well as George Rodney um this week where got him to stand forward like this and I got him to simply just move his face is forward. I said look just move into helicopter motion here. So your eyes now are at this angle your shoulders are at this angle. Now, why is that important? Well, the problem with a lot of people who struggle with flexibility, they're turning and turning and therefore that's not the motion that's going to bring this club out of the ground. If you're turning and turning, which is where most people sit, unfortunately, it becomes this. It becomes a heave. So, you feel like you have to put well you do you have to put loads of energy in to get any form of distance. Whereas when you have more of the helicopter on an angle, can you see how the body now is working in a sense this way? So it's working upwards and backwards which then look helps you look catapult the club through versus when it's working around and around. It's just a heave and that's what makes it feel effortless effortful. Okay. So getting yourself working on this motion where we're going to move into this helicopter motion here, eyes at this level. And then as you come through, and this is where I would say those who are less flexible won't get completely to where I am here, where my eyes are at this level, my shoulders are at this level. So leave shoulder high, trail shoulder low. I can stretch. Most of the senior players I get to will probably get to probably around about here before eventually they'll do this. And that's fine. Remember the ball's gone after that point. Yeah. So why is this important as well? Well, think of it this way. If I'm doing this here, the first thing I've got now is as my body's moved on this on this inclination, I've stored more energy to throw into the ball. That's the first part of the equation. But that energy, if we just stay down, just gets wasted and gets unstable. It's useless. Yeah. So, we now need a way to, as we said, to stabilize it. So, as we're throwing this down here, we need to stabilize it by allowing the body look to work upwards and backwards out of the way. That then throws the momentum as the as I pull this club naturally here, the book comes up and throws that club beautifully through the impact area. Can you see that? So, for many of my students when they do the helicopter, they go, I've never been there anyway. So just m just pl just just doing this just before you swing just understanding how everything the shoulders they're working on a tilted axis here that's huge. If you do that you'll probably find that you will naturally pull this grip as it should be completely out of the ground anyway which will then explode this golf club. People worry about topping it. You don't need to worry about that. Ultimately this is about balance. If your body's over here as you lean back, well, yes, you'll fat it. So, yes, you do have to pay attention to where your location is. We'll do that. That's for another video. Right now, it's about you feeling where this momentum is first of all, and then look how I stabilize it. Look at how this lead arm club and naturally forming a straight line. Not because I'm trying, I've got a force going in that direction. I'm in a sense moving this direction, which stabilizes that force, which gives me that power. And that's what it will help you do too. So let's hit a couple of shots for you. Showing this in action. So again, face down with Rodney particularly, one of my other students this week. He kept looking like this. This is in a head position is in a rotational motion. We want the head tilted down here so that it's ready to work on the helicopter motion here. Okay. Oh, trap man keeps switching off on me. So let's have a look at this in action. So get myself set. head facing downwards and I'm going to imagine the helicopter motion back and the helicopter motion through. Look, I do a few rock motions here. Left shoulder down, right shoulder down. Really feel like I'm moving that uh butt up through the shot and accelerating.

Just like that. Okay. So you can see here it's super super simple but it takes practice and timing. Yeah, I often relate golfing to like balancing on a bike. You know, you won't get this balance uh to start with. One minute you'll have too much rotation, next minute you might even do too much of this. unlikely, but the balance is really in a sense trying to get that balance between rocking here vert to allow the club to be pulled out the ground so that momentum can go rather than that shove with your body. All right? So, just feel it. Spend some time with some short shots to start off with. Chip shots first. Really feel that. That's the most beautiful thing. Yeah. It's just beautiful rhythm with this motion here. It feels so relaxing. Then build it up to your irions. Look.

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Can you see that? Just even picture that. Feel that momentum. Feel how that is controlled with a helicopter motion. And you should start to see some really effortless yards starting coming back into your game. And here's some data that really shocked me that I got from my shots gut watch which said amateurs don't need to hit the ball longer. They need to hit their longest shots more often. Yeah. So don't change distance. You need to hit your longer shots more often. This will help you do that. It will help you create that natural power and therefore get more of your potential more often. So I really hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, give it a thumbs up. Maybe share it with one of your friends. And if you'd love to see that video that I did with Adam where we gained like 50 yards with his driver, check this video out right here. It's super fun video. If you want to know how this applies to chipping, click this video right here. And of course, look, if you want to visit me on dannymore.com for more personalized advice, head on over there. I'll put links down below. But until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.