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This is a great drill...thank you.

Quit showing the wrong way over and over and over! Show more of the right way to make the swing. Chezzz! Way, way toooooo much redundancy! Show the right way more, not the wrong way!

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Great video Danny!

Simple enough lol.

Each time I 'hit' from the top and chase the shot with my head, I overuse the right arm (the dominant arm) and the right side of the body - that instantly generates an irrecoverable over the top swing, across the line. Combine that with the release explained and the club face closes violently, twice as much, hence the fear. If you don't use the release, it becomes an ugly slice. In contrast, keeping the right arm more passive and using the vertical ground forces (posting on lead foot for weight transfer), club ends up on plane, from the inside. Do what Danny recommended for club face closing, plus attacking the ball from the inside - guaranteed beautiful draw! One quick comment, when you start hitting from the inside, if you don't transfer weight on front foot (I used to hang on the back foot) you will hit behind the ball, I struggled with that during the adjustment. Thank you Danny for a great explanation and the reasons as to why the release is not there for most of us!!!!

Nope, people play golf because they think that successful people play golf, that is why most people play. Its a bunch of old fat men with like +5 par and never getting any better.

3 minutes of useless information about what not to do! How useless as instruction!

I watched your lesson and for the first time I can say I got it after watching so many others and still not getting it right I’m a believer in cause and effect meaning you can’t think of everything while making a swing and for me it’s get to the end position that you show so well a good practice I find is to start from where you want to finish and take it to the back swing do that a few times coupled with the correct knee movement and when you make a swing it just happens Thanks again 👍

Hi Malcolm revisiting this video. Thank you for showing the release from p6 @3:18. Am on my PC so I can watch it frame by frame. Looks to me like a push with the right arm/hand (or throwing a ball under handed to a spot infront of the ball) and then a swivel so that the toe points vertically or even left. Would this be a correct description? Meaning the face moves & rotates differently from p6 to impact vs impact to p8 (or shaft parallel post impact). i.e. is not a mirror image. hope you understand my description. Thanks

My personal experience and what I now observe in others is that not understanding how side bend the spine in the downswing affects the release of club and textbook “pro” extended finish. That I think is because golf instruction conflates and confuses the terms “tilt” and “side bend”. Biomechanically the tilting / of the pelvis results from leg action. If the spine is straight the shoulders will TILT the same direction in the same amount. Side-bend is the result of sideways curvature of the lower lumbar spine ). It differs in two ways from TILT: 1) It changes the angle between pelvis and spine, and 2) it can be do INDEPENDENTLY from TILT or ROTATION of the hips and spine at any point in the golf swing. I learned how and when to side-bend by screen capturing videos of pro swings and analyzing them frame by frame. Most pros start to side bend in their downswings as their hands swing down past their back legs which creates a significant change in the shoulders vs pelvis angle, dropping the trail shoulder, raising the lead shoulder and pulling the hands down and more down the target line than they had been traveling because the tilting the shoulder also changes the path and force vector of the swinging mass of the lead arm which is the lever arm pulling on the hands! If you compare the swing of new golfer who does not side-bend what occurs is that instead of lead arm mass shifting and pulling the club towards the target, hands and club instead just ‘windmill” in a circle. That allows them to hit the ball with some success but does not allow them to execute that “pro” extension where the club force is allowed to pull both arms and wrists straight then transfer support and axis of rotation from lead to train shoulder. Instead due the circular force vector if the lead arm and clue what happens is the club trying to swing around the body forces the lead arm to bend at the elbow in a REFLEXIVE ATTEMPT to stay in balance in the finish. Why does that happen? Without side bending through impact the body doesn’t have the leverage to control and arrest the club head in the finish, what the two arm extension does, very much like the capture wire on a aircraft carrier slows a landing jet. Pros like Freddie Couples and Earnie Els who are known for their slow fluid finishes accomplish it by being exceptionally good at absorbing the kinetic energy left in the club after impact with the ball with their arms and body. What I discovered was the quickest fix for a noob or intermediate golfer who can’t finish in balance is to start by statically posing the in a side-bent “tour pro” impact position with side bend, forward shaft lean and back foot just starting to come off the ground to release hips for the finish. I have them swing up to the top, hold, then back down into that foreign and awkward feeling (to them) posture 3-4 times noting where their club is hitting in the ground then I put a ball 1/2” further back and watch them hit the best shot of their lives. Their comment is always some variation of “I had no idea a golf swing was supposed to work that way!” and that is the problem with how most instructors teach. Do this and that technique without explaining the goal is to get everything down to that impact position. Once their CONSCIOUS brains understand that’s the goal their REFLEXIVE brains which have been jerking the club around to try to keep them in balance will easily execute the goal. Not perfectly but from a much better baseline of understanding to work from.

What are some drills to make it shallow itself?

I never even realized i was doing it until and older fellow said i was being to wristy. I would always think of mike tyson saying all his knockouts came from the ground up. So yeah, pressing my leg down while speed up my swing then making sure that when the clubhead gets near the ball, its straight before finishing the release.

❤ thanks for finally doing this topic which I think is a core fundamental topic but 99% of instructors don't cover. the hands and wrists can move in so many different ways to make the club move. I understand that the backswing etc does matter a lot but without knowing how the club should swing, how you intend to release the angles and how to manipulate the clubface for curve or straight, learners will not really benefit. If we can't do feet together swings properly, it's not going to be helpful teaching step drills, shallowing, pressure shift etc. On your topic of release, could you possibly cover in the future how it helps getting hands ahead of ball at impact (good impact position), how to add manipulation in the right way to influence ball flight & curve. & the various mistakes & misconception you see from golfers when attempting a proper release.

Thank you, it was a solid lesson.

Enjoyed the content, Ty!

I just point the grip at my belly button because it makes me turn with the club anyway

100% agree....the fear of the release is often due to the over-the-top hitters fearing going even further left (or right). That's me to a t. And that's the reason I'm working hard to fix my over-the-top move. What no instructors really talk about is that not all of us over-the-top hitters are as exaggerated as instructors demonstrate. Some of us are just slight over the top hitters but even a slight over the top is enough to cause havoc on any course other than wide open courses with large greens. Good video.

What are your thoughts on the push down with the left palm, bend back with the right hand during takeaway method?

Love that rotary chair idea. That's getting used!

Very insightful Malcolm. I was struggled in this kind of hook movement. That in to out movement was exactly my problem. Love your videos!!!

Nice demonstration, Danny. My question is about rotating after impact. Should you end up more around to the left, with butt of handle pointed at left pocket? The rotation in video seemed like a quarter to half turn…

What a great presentation and explanation all the way through. This is a video I will want to save and watch over and over as I practice

Does this drill also work for the driver and fairway woods??. I usually don't hook my irons as often as the driver and 3 wood.

Takes too long to get to the point.

Good stuff thank u I will follow u ....

Great video Danny! Where did you get hackmotion from in Australia?

You have your handicap wrong: the series goes 1-3-5 the 245 is the high handicap club, the 3 is lower handicap players and the 241 is the scratch pro blade..

Thanks Danny. I was just at the range and about 1/3 of my shots were fat/thin.

Great video Danny, as a slicer with all my clubs do you think it's worth doing these drills with the Driver before working on irons? I've been working on my 7 iron but really struggle to not default back to my slice patterns when on the course.

Great lesson, as somone that is looking to refine my wedge shots. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

Good drill. So important

now I'm in between, sometimes fade, sometimes draw, sometimes snap hook, sometimes slice ...... AAARRRRRRGGGGHHH. I guess I'll just aim down the middle

Well done sir.

Excellent content. I found this while struggling to implement a swing change. This is just what I needed. Cheers

I like this and struggle with an inconsistent hook or excessive draw. Your drill may be the solution for my hook.

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Looking up TPI. Is this with a fitness or golf professional? I'd assume fitness.

Hi Danny. I see on your one bad swing your shallowing of your club at 4 am was not in perfect synchronization with your shifting of your body to your lead side. Another words: Never shallow even a moment before you start to shift your weight to your lead side. Would you agree? As you have shown if one looks carefully all great golfer are first initiating shifting there body to their lead side immediately followed by the shallowing their club at 4 am as you have shown in previous videos, This shallowing occurs vertically behind them automatically. If a golfer were to vertically drop their club head first then shift to their lead side they would then block their lead side at their finish as I have often done until now. Correct? Cheers🥂😊👍

Hi Danny. ❤️Your key to a perfect: Set up/BackswingDownswing. And then trying all three together. Loving what you just said and demonstrated to the world of amateur golfers. As senior I much too often avoided flaring my trail right foot outward for my natural inside takeaway. But thanks to your great videos I have found the key to my personal greatness and a professional golf swing is to not to use my right shoulder to go OTT as being sold now for $199.00; but to immediately shift my body at the transitional part of my swing. In fact I now believe there is no such thing as a backswing or downswing; but, to just swing the club accordingly as you teach: Shift back/ shift forward. Of course dropping my club down at four O’clock must be done simultaneously with the shifting of my body to my left. As another great teacher on You Tube might say: UREKA! Cheers 🥂😊👍

Great video.. This is an eye opening video on creating shaft lean. I am guilty of moving arms forward. Gotta get feeling of just lowering arms, while pivoting. This video is really important. hope it gets more views.

Danny, do you not have to shift the weight on to lead foot when club is parallel to ground in backswing? I think it is not possible to do at top of backswing or too late at that stage....but maybe i'm wrong! I can't do it either way LOL!

Brilliant video Danny! I suffer from over the top and this video is very helpful thanks.

Talk to much

I would focus on how to turn both hands and wrists in a cone-like clockwise fashion exiting left post impact from the ball. The best transition at the top of any golf swing is the actual clockwise twirling of the head of the club with both hands and wrists working together exiting left as the body rotates from right to left. Cheers

Absolutely you are 100 percent correct. I was wrong in my last reply. . Might I explain? Your demonstration is what Christo Garcia in his miracle OTT swing refers to shift right as the golfer loads on the left side while allowing at transition for the club to drop behind the golfer. Done correctly on the downswing this may appear that the golfer is moving over the top with their right shoulder; but in reality are actually shallowing their club as they are simultaneously are twirling the club head clockwise with both hands and wrists exiting left to the finish of their swing. ( right handed golfers). A great practice of this would be the clockwise twirling of the club head to the ball with both hands and wrists. This is what Jack Nicklaus did in his Twirl Waggle to feel the weight of his club just before swinging his club exiting left post impact from his ball. Check out the twirl waggle of Jack Nicklaus on You Tube. In reality the golf swing is a transitional one cone twirling of the golf club with both hands and wrists that exits left as the golfer body turns left. Hope you check it out for yourself and feel free to spread the word. At age 76 I am playing better golf than ever before. Cheers 🥂👍😊

I played 221's last 2 seasons with much love. This year I was looking at the 241 but I had an open mind to all three models. Initially the 243 felt amazing and piqued my interest - and then 245 felt great also, but went WAY too far and I didn't want to start tweaking them to fit. Of course the 241 blades were as amazing as the previous iteration. As time went on testing the 243, they were just a bit hot and "weird". The sole was much larger than I was used to and I fell out of love with the feel. Yet again after 4 hours of testing over 3 occasions, the 241 went into my bag. I changed this year to carrying 5-PW, and my 4 iron is a '24 Apex Pro single iron, and a Mizuno Fli-Hi in the 3 iron. My shot dispersion with 241 irons are absolutely immaculate (especially front to back). Distance doesn't' concern me whatsoever. Thanks for the video.

So this is a 2 plane swing as opposed to a 1 plane swing?

There’s a lot of talk about positions when positions are just moments in time of a movement. Surely using the ground will naturally shallow the swing.

for me it doesnt work your drill.To stop hooking the ball, I keep the clubhead slightly open, weak grip and most important on the down swing the torso hips,legs and arms are all in sync and rotate at the same speed.If on the downswing I let the arms pass the hips then I hook immediately the ball