How to Improve Golf Swing Technique

Video Transcript

"To start off here is a good warm-up tool. Any kind of weight, weighted club, anything. They are incredible. If you notice as I try to swing this, I have pretty good muscle strength to maneuver and manipulate the club whichever way I want. With this weight on this club, it kind of restricts you a little bit. What it helps you do is build up the cracked muscles. If you notice if I sped up too much and accelerated right up here at the top, it is very bad. You want to have the acceleration down at the ball. If I accelerate up here, I'm going to throw my back out; it's going to hurt, so you don't do that. Now if my balance is on the wrong spot and I put my weight in the wrong area, it makes you want to fall over but you can take it back smooth and control and hold it to the finish this actually makes you hit the correct shot. Now when you take it off, you want to take a couple of practice swings before hand so you don't throw your back out because you are going to have so much power this time. Suddenly the club feels 10 times more lighter because it is. So from here, I always want you to take a practice swing. Whenever I get a student, I want a definite practice swing. What I do by doing that is I am elongating the swing. I'm going to come up here and hit this ball and I want to hit it consistently, I'm not going to come up and do that. I'm not just going to walk out and push it forward. I'm going to have some sort of pre-shot routine. As you notice it is a lot more consistent if I take the club back longer, slower and smoother the whole time the ball goes much better. I can also elongate the swing on the other side. By doing that and holding my finish, such as that, I am elongation the swing on the back side so I am making the step down here a lot more consistent as long as I take it back long, slow and smooth and follow through long, slow and smooth. From here I like to concentrate on ball contact. Most people have a lot of trouble with that. Now got to get good vision here. Now from here how to get the idea how to hit a ball here, a lot of people think it is the loft on the club that actually makes the ball go into the air. It's actually a mixture of different ideas. What happens is it is really the club is descending down on the ball and it pinches the ball between the club face and the earth and as it does that, that is what gives the ball such height along with the spin caused by the dimples and the ridges here on the face. But a lot of people have the idea that they just kind of pick it clean and swing flat. But if I do that the ball almost never gets off the ground. It will come off a little bit but if you really want to get the ball in the air, you have to concentrate on the front side of the ball. When I pay attention to the front side of the ball, it always makes you to want to actually swing down toward the ball and you don't want to be afraid to actually swing down on it because that is the whole purpose of this thing."