Once You Understand This, The Golf Swing Becomes Effortless

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If you’ve ever wanted to develop that lovely, natural, effortless-looking golf swing that generates plenty of speed and distance without feeling like you’re trying too hard, I want to share a concept with you that made a massive difference to a group of my students. It’s all about understanding how to use a lever in your golf swing to generate effortless power and improve the way you strike the golf ball.

To help explain this, I use a sledgehammer. When you’re lifting something heavy, you can’t simply pick it up with your arms and expect it to feel effortless. Instead, you naturally create a lever by pushing down on one end, which helps lift the other end. This allows you to move the weight more efficiently and then use its momentum to bring it back down with energy. The same principle applies to your golf swing, but because a golf club is much lighter, it’s easy to cheat the system and simply lift it into position without creating that natural lever.

What I see many golfers doing is lifting the club into their backswing rather than creating this lever. They might bend their wrists or lift their arms, but they’re not using the club’s weight effectively. As a result, they struggle to generate effortless speed because the lever hasn’t been established properly. What we want to do is create that angle, move it behind us and allow the club to fall naturally as we turn towards the golf ball.

To help you develop this feeling, I recommend starting with an alignment stick or two golf clubs together. Imagine you’re holding that heavy sledgehammer and push down on the handle to create the lever. From there, move it back behind you, bring it back down towards your right leg and allow the energy to flow through the golf ball. The key is to feel that you’re creating the lever rather than simply lifting the club into position. You can even imagine throwing the weight into a wall in front of you to help rehearse the movement and encourage the club to work naturally through impact.

One thing I found with my students was that they needed to preset this feeling before every shot. Rather than simply moving their wrists, I wanted them to push down on the handle and really sense that lever being created. Once they’ve rehearsed that movement, they can turn their body and allow the momentum of the club to flow into the back of the golf ball. This helps the body work naturally and encourages the lead arm and club to release through impact.

The important thing to understand is that this isn’t a magic fix for every problem in your golf swing, and it does take time to develop. However, learning to use this lever system can make a huge difference to how efficiently you generate speed and distance. Many golfers are afraid to let the club fall naturally because it feels as though they’re losing control, but allowing the hands and club to work properly is an important part of creating effortless power.

To monitor your progress, you can use my Swing Coach app to get instant feedback on your swing, or simply record yourself on camera. Look at whether you’re creating an angle between your lead arm and the club on the way back, or whether they’re staying almost in a straight line for too long. Practise creating that lever, rehearse the movement before each shot and gradually learn to let the club’s momentum do the work for you.

Give it a go, let me know how you get on, and share this video with a friend who’s struggling to generate more power. Once you’ve got to grips with creating that lever, you can move on to working on your finish and improving the rest of your swing.

Full Transcript- If you've ever wanted to kind of develop that lovely, natural, effortless-looking golf swing, that silky smooth one that seems to like the person is not trying very hard, but they hit it a long way, I want to share you share with you this concept. I shared it with a group of students, and it made a massive difference, not to just how far they hit it, but more importantly, how effortless it felt. Now, I've got a sledgehammer. I actually used a couple of clubs, uh but I'll I'll show you that in a second. Now, understanding this concept could be huge for you, right? Now, with a heavy object like this, I can't cheat it. I I can't lift it like this. It's just too heavy. So, what would I do? I split my grip like this. I'm going to hammer this into the ground. Notice what I do.

What can you see happening here?

Can you see how I'm using this like a lever? I am pushing down on this end. This end make that gets that end feeling much lighter, and I can put it up above my head. From here now, I can bring it back down and let it flow with energy back into the golf ball. If you did this with a sledgehammer, you would do something very naturally the same. Problem is, what most golfers are doing, this is what's happened to the group this week, they didn't do this with the golf club. They would try to lift the club up [snorts] in position. Now, with a golf club, because it doesn't weigh as much as a sledgehammer, unfortunately, you can cheat the system. You can lift it up. Now, there's no lever. Now, the problem is is golfers are lifting the club up into position. They might bend the left down to kind of make it a bit lighter, but because the club is generally light, you can just simply cheat it. Now, there's no lever system going on whatsoever, like that existed in the sledgehammer. So, we need to create this natural lever system here in the golf swing so that you can deliver energy into the back of this golf ball. So, here's something you can do before you swing. Okay, and I'd suggest you do this in your garden or on a practice great range to to start with just to kind of experience the levers. I've got alignment stick here and I'm just going to put it on the end of my grip. And the idea here is this, okay? What I'm going to do is I'm going to now imagine I've got that sledgehammer in, right? I wouldn't be able to lift it like this. What I'm going to have to do is I'm going to push down on one side here. Now, straight away, what can you see? Well, I have got already some angle there, a lever. Yeah? I'm now going to move that lever back here. Yeah? From here, I'm going to move the lever back down opposite my right leg here, and then from there, I can just allow the energy that club look to flow into the back of that golf ball. Does that make sense? Now, if you were doing this incorrectly, what's happening with a lot of players is is this is not going down. If anything, what's happening is is it's staying high and it's being lifted into position here. It makes sense. Look at the difference now, look. Where's that stick pointing? Barely at the ground. Lifted, lifted. Then it might Then we might flex something. Now we're at position. We're going to have to kind of find it. Yeah? So, all I want you to do is first of all experience the levers. There's nothing more than that. Get yourself set here. Push down. We don't want this hand coming up at all. That's going down. The left shoulder pushing down. I'm just imagining the sledgehammer. Lifting that sledgehammer. There's the big heavy weight. Then what I'm going to do, look, going to put that heavy weight up up and behind me almost, yeah? I'm See the difference here? I'm moving. I'm supporting that weight. I can comfortably hold that, yeah? Then what I want to do, I I to bring that back here, level here. If you're a slicer, you'd be over here. If you're a hooker, you'd be over here. So, it's such a brilliant exercise, yeah? Sometimes what I'll do with players, and I I did [snorts] this with one of them this week, I'll imagine them from here, look, they're going to put that into a wall there. They're going to fire that straight into the wall here on the way down. Again, what's that doing? It's preserving, naturally, the lever, and that weight now is falling, and now, look, let it fall beautifully and effortlessly into the back of that golf ball. Now, you can use two club You don't have to use a sled a sledgehammer, obviously. You can just hold two clubs. Anything that's heavy so that you um you can feel the weight wanting to kind of fall here. You're going to have to use the lever to raise that weight up in in the air. Sometimes I'll often do it with I did it with Leo, one of my students. I got him to swing just one-handed with his left hand because he was like this. He'd be lifting this up like this, and there's a lot of weight now going on that wrist. Suddenly, you have to push the lever down. Now, he's got the lever, and notice how it's activating all of my body. You make sense? So, so it's basically telling your body what to do, too. So, you get all of the body motions for free. Then, you kind of rehearse it. Just This is just for visualization purposes. Rehearse, feel where you're going, and then look let the weight of the club now just fall, and you can see from this angle, it all start the lead arm and club all start to line up after the golf ball to strike it. You make sense? So, let's put all this together now and show you what I did with the guys to help them strike this and and and take it one step at a time. So, initially, I just got them to um use a couple of heavy clubs and do it. But, I still found they needed this one thing before each shot. Now, from here, I said to him, "Look, what I want you to do is is I really want you to preset this. I want you to really sense that you're presetting this club." Now, what they did to start with, they just did it like this with their wrists. No, that's not what we're after. If I try to do

this with I can't do that, can I? What am I doing? I'm putting a force down on one end to lift that club up. So, it's a lever, yeah? The same happens in the golf swing. Look at this here, look.

From here, just a thing before you play, push down. Really sense that There we go. I've got I'm imagining the sledgehammer. I'm pushing down. I'm still pushing down underneath. Pushing. There we go. Feel it? Imagine it's going to here, and then I'm just going to simply just turn and let that with momentum flow into the back of that golf ball. That is it. Now, is that a magic that's going to cure absolutely everything in your golf swing? No, but as a fundamental concept, it is absolutely huge for golfers. But, it does take time, yeah? So, do me a favor. Don't skip this step, all right? If you check yourself on camera here, get yourself set, push down. Really sense that that butt's going down. Rehearse. Rehearse. Turn and let it go. Right. Now, I'm imagining the sledgehammer in my hand.

And away we go. Make sense? So, let's have a look in this action. I I said to the guys, "Just keep picturing it. Keep feeling these motions. Feel that lever system and let it just flow through."

And you can What gives me the effortless speed and distance here is the fact that I have a lever that is always being released here. Most of the time, golfers don't have any lever here at all. They'll bend, they'll crank it, false lever here, or they'll lift their arm behind the try and create a false lever. But, by the time all of that's unraveled, look at this here, look. It's already released By the time that that then comes into the golf ball, they're already in this position. Make sense? So, what we want to try and do is gradually, look, create this lever here, put it behind us. We've still got some lever. Now, the momentum is going to fall down to that golf ball beautifully, and away we go. Use heavy clubs. Use Don't use a sledgehammer. That's just a really exaggerated one for you, really. Could cause injuries. But, two heavy clubs together will work a treat. Now, what I did do um with them, I used my Swing Coach app to test whether they were doing this. And when they first started, they really tried very, very hard. But, they were still massively kind of still lifting. So, this is something It's Often, people are scared to let this happen because it feels a bit more out of control. You know, using hands feels Oh, that feels like a I'm going to lose control. No, no, no. You need to have those hands working. It's really important. That lever system is going to help you generate that effortless speed. So, use uh my Swing Coach app if you if you're if you've got Apple to monitor your progress. It'll give you two uh 2-second feedback every single swing. I'll leave a QR code somewhere around here. So, rehearse. You could even split the hand if you want. Feel that lever system back here, and then, look, back into impact, okay? So, one, two, three, four. Right. Visualizing that lever system.

Little bit left, but still decent distance for a 7-iron, okay? So, it's a very, very simple concept, but it does take a little bit of practice. Get yourself If you don't use Swing Coach, use your camera. Just monitor these motions. See, do you see this club working as a lever on the way back, or is it that lead arm and club still there almost in a straight line too for too long? We want to see that lever in there so that it can then unravel beautifully down near that golf ball. Give it a go. Let me know how you get on. And if you see one of your friends struggling to get extra power, go and share it with them. Just mention the lever system. Share this video. And once you've kind of got the idea of what's going on here, you might want to figure out, "Well, do you know what? I want I I've got this down, but I'm struggling on the way through. I want to know where to finish." If that's the case, just to kind of guide you on the way through, once you've kind of got this lever on the way back, check this video out right here. And remember, jump onto my Swing Coach app if you can try out for 14 days, and it'll give you excellent feedback, instant feedback, as to what you're doing, but more importantly, give you drills just like this to help you out. Hope you enjoyed the video. If you did, give it a thumbs up. Maybe share it with one of your friends. And of course, like the new to channel. Press that subscribe button. Until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.