Once He Understood This Concept, His Golf Swing Felt Effortless

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Transcript Summary- 

In this lesson, I’m working with Leo, who was really struggling with the consistency of his ball striking. Despite putting plenty of effort into his swing, he wasn’t gaining any extra distance and his contact was incredibly inconsistent. What I wanted to show him was how a really simple change in the way he felt the golf club could transform his swing without having to work harder or force anything.

The key was getting Leo to feel the weight of the clubhead and allow gravity to help it release naturally through the golf ball. Rather than trying to hold lag or force the club into certain positions, I wanted him to experience how the clubhead moves and learn to react to its weight. We started with some simple exercises, using one hand to swing the club and feel the weight naturally falling behind him before allowing it to release.

As Leo began to understand this feeling, something really interesting happened. His swing started to organise itself naturally. He was creating better positions, improving his low point and striking the ball much more consistently, all without feeling like he was trying to control every movement. In fact, he described it as having less control over the club but somehow feeling much more in control of the shot.

Once we started hitting golf balls, we could see just how effective this was. His strike became much more consistent, and his distance started to increase without him putting in any extra effort. We went from seeing shots around 138 yards to 147 yards, simply by getting him to feel the clubhead and allow it to swing freely. The important thing was that we weren’t sacrificing consistency to gain distance.

For me, this is one of the simplest but most important feelings in the golf swing. When you become aware of the weight of the clubhead, your body can start to organise itself around it much more naturally. Rather than constantly thinking about positions, holding lag or trying to make a perfect swing, you’re actually experiencing the movement. And that’s where better rhythm, timing and more consistent ball striking can come from.

Full Transcript- So, you're going to see a lesson with Liam, who was really struggling with the consistency of his ball striking. No matter how much effort he put in, he couldn't gain any extra real distance and was just very, very inconsistent. What I'm going to be amazed at is just how simple and effortless this little move I gave him did to his actual golf swing. In his own words, it didn't feel like he was trying, yet he was achieving a wonderful looking golf swing that great consistent contact and without trying to hit the ball further, it naturally happened. The drill is simple. You're going to love it. You can see here as you're coming through, there is this very much this real the lag's gone. Yeah, push out. Yeah. And I think um all we're really after is the club trailing for longer. I don't think there's no such thing as lag cuz actually I want this club to be doing like unbelievably just free falling and releasing, right? Yours is doing that to a certain degree, but it's just doing it too early, right? And part of the reason is we've just got haven't got the timing, and we want this kind of, in a sense, lag happening. And so that when it does when, it's when it finally, in a sense, gets to its longest point, it's naturally after the golf ball versus slightly before, so right? So, what I want I think this is a generally just a sensation that we've got to start start to feel. So, all I want you to do just for a second, find a way where you you haven't quite got complete hold of it, but you're just holding it somewhere in the fingers there. Now, just swing it back for me. Sure. So, you feel it almost falls down your back like this. Feel that. Yeah. Got it? Perfect. Right. So, let's feel that it's falling down the back. Now, can you see it? So, this is almost like you can imagine almost like a an archer with a a quiver inside his or is it quiver or an arrow inside his quiver, right? And the idea is it see here with a weight falling behind as you move it, can you see how you just feel that? Can you There you go. Feel that. Yeah. So, do that again for me. And then it falls, doesn't it? Yes. Right? Great. And again. Brilliant. And again.

Now here, are you trying to keep hold of lag or anything? No. No. No, it's letting it letting it gravity assist it. So, the first thing I as a as a woman I do here is this. We want to in a sense get a sense that you can feel the swinging head. Sure. That's really, really important. So, when we're making this golf swing here like this, just get a sense of that club swinging. Yeah, okay. Just without follow it if This is a key bit. Let it fall. Yeah. So, you really feel the head of the weight weight of it. Now, from this position, just let it fall back down. Yeah? Move that ball out of the way. Yeah. So, let it fall, but drop it behind you. That's it. And then brilliant. And again.

Yes. Yeah. Also, I'm left-hand light dominant. So, it could be I don't know, something to Well, you could also do this with the left hand. Yeah? Sure.

You got that?

What do you There you go. Right. Hold it in both hands now. Or maybe you just hold it in your left hand for a second. Yeah. Do the same thing. Swing back for me. Just get a sense of that left allowing it just to drop. Now, with your left hand, that's it. Feel that. And then come through. Let it just Yeah. What's that like?

Yeah, I mean, it feels like Yeah, it's got a lot more power. And I'm not putting in nearly as much effort or control. I'm sort of just letting gravity balance it. Yes. And those forces unbalance it, I guess, and chuck it. Exactly. In a way. Exactly. So, yeah. Yes. Good swing. Isn't amazing? [snorts] Yeah. I'm not even trying. Just let gravity sort of So you're not guiding me I guess in this sense. No. The correct position or you think. Just guiding it.

I'm reacting to the weight of that club I guess.

Release.

That that that one was perfect now.

There we go. You can see there already we and we've got to hit them golf balls, right? Already what we're starting to see here. I'm just naturally hitting all these positions. Without trying. So we know if we look at this here look watch this.

Yeah.

Yeah. It's almost dead on. [snorts] This mentor. Boom. Boom. Yeah. Boom [snorts]. I'm just reacting to gravity in a way. What are you noticing though to create that? I just really feel the weight of the club and how it wants to release naturally. Do you know what? I, for years, I've been...I, I've often thought I will... feeling the weight of the golf club, yeah, is one of those things that is so simple, but it's sometimes too simple for people to believe how good it...she [snorts] is. But once your body can experience the weight of the head, it's incredible how it organizes itself around it. Sure. Yeah. But when you don't feel the head because you're trying maybe hard to be correct. Yeah. It just becomes a bit of a problem. Definitely. So what am I doing now is just we want to try and do the same thing. Now hit some golf balls. Yeah. Just with this. Just getting a sensation of for you for now just imagine the feeling that the club's dropping. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. At the top.

I thought it really good. Yeah.

And you're talking now shuffling back by just two. Just two. Just two. So, just exaggerate this a little bit more. Okay. Yeah, so So, what I'm saying is what I would do now is this with this. Play around with it. Sure. Right, so really in a sense as you're doing this, just kind of get a sense of like when you swing to the top, swing to the top for me. Yeah. Feel the weight, just feel like it's falling, dropping. Yeah. There you go. Yeah? You follow? So, get a sense that that weight here is dropping. Sure. Just on this exercise here, so that you can really sense where the momentum of that golf club's going to be, right?

Like that. Great exaggeration. Sure. Great exaggeration. [snorts] Yeah? Yeah.

Look at your low point there. Yeah, just done it. Don't worry about direction for yet. We're just purely talking ball striking for now, right?

It don't [snorts] matter. So, but you're going to go for this, right? So, I just for now, allow yourself just to explore this sensation. Again, go back to the single arm. Just Yeah, yeah. Just feel The thing is this, it's so easy to try to want to hit great shots at the same time, right? And then you start focusing on Oh, how do I get this How is this going to work? Yeah, sure. For now, all you do, just focus on that swinging weight. Feel what it is. Yeah. Let it come down, and let your body organize itself around the weight of that golf club. You follow? There you go.

And the question I'm going to ask you each time is It's like a rush down my feet. Yeah. I did I sort of I pulled it. I didn't react to the club. So, great. So, your job in here is this is the first stages is can you actually feel the head? Yeah. Yeah, so I felt a lot of head at the top, and then I lost it. Yeah, so your mind went somewhere else, right? So your job to start with is just can you feel the weight of the head? Cuz if you can, I mean I'm seeing you whenever I see you doing that by the way, here's what I see I probably I don't know if you felt that but I feel I see this club swinging. Sure. Yeah. Right? So if you're paying attention and you're just noticing it in real time where's the weight? There's the weight. Yeah. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. Just for now, this is the first part of really getting that strike.

Wow. That felt really good. Yeah.

Release half down in zone. Yes. In the zone. Finally. Finally. Yeah. But so what's it what's it like for you? What's it what's the experience like of doing this? It's really counter. It's sort of like it feels like the less control I've got over it, the more I can feel it in a way. And as a byproduct I have more control in a sense. As opposed to before it's like I wouldn't have control so then I'm stiff and I'm sort of everything's very wooden. But I feel like it's controllable cuz I'm going like all right, I'm keeping control of my arms. As opposed to this feels much more feel the club head and gravity's sort of just reacting but I can feel the head as I'm swinging it through. Um you can't think and experience at the same time. Yeah. So while you're trying to put the club in correct positions you're stuck in your head. Yes. But when you're actively going there's the weight. Ah, it's like magic. It's like you're experiencing it real time, right? Yeah. Right? So it's in order to get that experience you have to give up control. Definitely. But what's beautiful what we're seeing is is as a natural byproduct we're starting to see this club with All like all the best players. trailing Right. Not that you're trying but then in gravity Yeah, yeah. it then takes over as it naturally releases through the shot. Yeah. Yeah?

Oh, good.

Oh, and look at that. Yeah, like that. That's beautiful, right? Effortless. It was really good. Just got to get into the mindset of Exactly. Let's not Let's forget the previous one and No, no. focused on the present. In the present, exactly. Don't You're trying to Peter, you feel it, you experience it. What's going on right now with that head?

Wow. Yeah. That felt really good.

I'll take these Take these on the car. I mean, releasing the zone, shuffling only back by one. I mean, I'm pretty much Yeah. You're there, right? And we look at the low point there, comfortably ahead. Yeah. And as I watch you and and if anyone's watching this video, they're going to see something that looks rhythmical. Sure. And rhythm is often built around the club head. Sure. If you can feel the head, you kind of like there it is. Your body organizes itself very naturally around it swinging. And and when it's mistimed, you're going to feel it being mistimed. You make sense? Because you can You are now have a relationship between you and the head. Yeah. You make sense? Definitely. [snorts]

Choose the target. I can do that. Swing back. Just imagine here. And it's hard It's much harder to do. Just imagine it just dropping for a second like that. Okay, yeah, sure. Just so you can feel. I know you're bending your arms, but you can feel the weight there. Yeah, yeah. And then what that does is it fall in there, what you're going to want to do then is you're going to pull the arrow out of the quiver. Yeah. Yeah, and then allow the gravity There you go, just a fall. You follow? So, a few exaggerated motion there. That's it.

Wow. Yeah, it felt It's a mental. And what why is it mental? It just Yeah, it's like sometimes I've gone into this head space a few times in practicing and I'm like and then I'm trying to repeat it and I'm like, "How do I do it? How do I do it?" And I just lose it. Um How do I do it? How do I do it? So, here's the thing. Yeah, it's like, "Oh, I need to just be loose and effortless or Once you is the thing is this, right? If you go into a golf swing with the question,"How do I do it?" Yeah. You're going to answer that question in a real rational and you know, thinking way. Yeah. Instead of going,"I don't need to remember anymore. My body's done this now." Yeah, sure. So, what you do is is you can go into the drill that we've just done. Yeah. That will lead you back into the feelings and they'll be different feelings each time you do it. Sure. So, the go into the drill of just the letting the weight just fall here. Yeah. So, you can feel it. That's the arrow dropping into its quiver. Yeah. From there, there you go. React to it. And whatever that is for you, what I feel and you feel will be different, yeah? Sure. So, for yourself, just take some time and this is a great way, like I said, just getting a sense of where that head is, the feeling of the head. And letting all our worries disappear.

I'm good. Release half down, now comfortably in the zone. Nice. Nearly every time. I'm not even thinking about Yeah. It is This is the Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Reacting to the head. Exactly. I'm not like I have to You don't have to go,"I have to hold lag."And if anything, by the way, there's no such thing as if you hold lag, you won't get any power. that's what I've in the past trying to do with like,"I've got to hold this position."And then my swing turns into that. Yeah. Well, I need to be perfect. Yeah. Control, control, control, control, control. Definitely, yeah. And the goal I mean, there's just no swing. How the hell would you generate any speed with that? Yeah? Definitely.

And you're getting this feedback now, aren't you, from uh Swing Coach? Yeah. That is basically in the zone, shuffling a little bit um uh back of where you could be, um but just a fraction. So, what would you do? Well, you just exaggerate Yeah, exaggerate Exactly. Really feel that, all right? And And what we, you know, people you might be thinking,"Well, how do I get this yardage up from, say, 138 to like 160?" Sure. Well, from what you're doing right now, how would you do that yourself, knowing now you could just You're getting some sensations. What would you think you should do? Yeah, try and just swing a bit faster, I guess, whilst feeling the club head and maybe trying to make the noise louder that the club is generating. Ah. There we go. Cuz you still feel how it wants to react. Absolutely. See, when you should start feeling the club head, you can do things with it. Yeah. Yeah?

Mhm. Yeah, felt good. Watch this yardage. 138 exactly. Nice. Right? So, what we're going to do now is this your job now is this. You've got the weight of the head. Yeah, sure. So, you're in charge now. You can decide and And by the way, it's a feeling of power. Yeah. How do we build that power? You don't know, right? It's the speed. We've got to maybe have a club faster club head speed. How do you How do you do that? Sure. Yeah.

Yeah. That's lovely, though. Felt really good. Yeah. I really love it. I could smash that as well, jeez. Yeah, 147 yd and it's it's just But Did you try that? No, I just focused on feeling the head. If you give it a good thing to focus on, like the head, your body will start to organize itself beautifully around it, yeah? Actually, you're starting to feel it lovely now. Great. Everybody should be taught this before anything else, I think. Yeah, I agree.

That's pretty consistent. Yeah, I'll take that. I would take that. I mean, this is the thing, you know, we want consistency of strike, we want consistency of distance. Yeah. So, as we keep practicing this and these numbers starts to creep up, we don't want to lose any consistency. No. Yeah, we want to keep that strike. She's brilliant. Yeah. And for me, I was on watch, yeah, I don't know if it feels like it, but it's it looks effortless and easy. Yeah, it feel it feels Yeah, really good and repeatable. So, I really hope this video inspires you to kind of add a bit more freedom and flow into your golf swing to get that rhythm. And if you want some support, by the way, in this process, check out my new swing coach app for 14 days completely free of charge. You can literally it will monitor your golf swing and give you feedback like as you see in this lesson here. Super super valuable. I'll put a QR code somewhere around this page. I'll pin a link to the top comment below this video. Just go and try it out for 14 days. If you want to know how this applies to driver, click this video out right here. But if you enjoyed the video, share it with a friend who you know needs some help. But until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.