How to Cast the Golf Club

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Kevin Battersby at the Toski-Battersby Golf Learning Center at Coconut Creek, Florida, PGA Class A Professional. In this clip I'm going to show you how a golf club is cast. In actuality, we don't want to cast the golf club but commonly for most amateurs where you lose your speed and power and centrifugal force. Is unlike the curve I have set up here at the balls, casting the golf club would be, the golf club going out and around, actually more to the left. If we just want to use baseball, it'll be more like a right handed golfer swinging to third base. O.k., to prevent that and the reason we want to prevent that casting is, because when the club's up here. There's a shaft angle between my forearm and the club of a ninety degrees. When I come down, that angle is supposed to be maintained for my power, so it gives a spring-ward effect of the head, an impact. While,when I catch the golf club, you can see the angle's being reduced and diminished. And it's just, it's like hitting it with a Wet Noodle as compared to hitting it with a firm strike. So you exercise, it will help you get rid of casting and get you swinging on the inside, create more centrifugal force and power and contact. Is to aim the golf club, pair in club here perpendicular and my feet to the side, almost at a 45 to the ball. And allow the club to swing around my body in this arc, but my body actually does not turn back to the left. In other words, as I swing back, the face is turning back left. But I hold my body in position so as not to really rotate back to the left. In so doing, when the club gets up here, it stays in here and does not cast and creates a nice angle from inside. You can see here, what actually straight is my arm, but what it does is, it maximizes the speed of the club and the impact released there. So aim the club down the line and almost set up, turn your feet sideways, and allow the golf club to swing on the arc. O.k., it will really resemble a field goal, which is why I set up these balls here. So this is an excellent drill to really show you how not to cast a golf club which costs you power. This exercise will help you learn to not cast a club from inside. Thank you, this is Kevin Battersby."