When I first came up on Tour, I often played a 40-yard slice. Pushing into a squat and pulling out of the ground like this helps clear your entire body and generates more speed. Need a power boost? From the top, move your left side low and around your body, letting your knees separate in the process. It’s the ultimate power move, and the secret to a driving ball flight.
Even his front foot is coming off the ground - another sign of just how hard he’s driving his trail knee forward through the shot. Jack is moving a ton of force toward the target. See all the spikes under his trail foot? That implies a big pressure shift toward his front side. Congrats! You’re in perfect setup posture. Once you’ve taken hold with your gloved hand, add the other. Now grip the handle with your glove hand and check that it’s at roughly a 45-degree angle to your forearm. If you do this without hunching your back, your arms will hang straight down. Then bend forward from your hips while slightly flexing your knees. To correctly prep your posture for action, stand with a club pressed against your thighs. How you set up over the ball greatly influences how well you’re able to hit it. It’s a simple move that allows your body and arms to sync up for a powerful strike. Once you reach the top, “stick” in that position (if only for microseconds) before you begin shifting back down. Hideki is known for his deliberate tempo during transition and is also one of the best ballstrikers year in and year out #BenderizedĪ post shared by Mike Bender on at 7:56am PST Head to our Insta Stories to see Hideki Matsuyama at the recent Zozo event (2nd place to Tiger Woods) going from the top of the swing to impact. This was one of a number of different drills and stations utilized to speed up the learning curve. It also makes it harder to keep the hand path on plane into the follow through. As a result there was stalling taking place through impact which means controlling the clubface rotation becomes increasingly difficult. Recent lesson with a competitive junior who was having trouble getting his hand path trapped behind his body during the downswing transition. | TEMPO & TRANSITION | Syncing up the arms & body.
This will help you maintain the correct relationship between your arms and give proper shape and consistency to your swing. The fix? Wedge an object (a headcover or a softball will do) between your forearms at setup and keep it there as you swing. It’s common to lose that structure by allowing your elbows to separate post-impact, or “chicken wing” (above). Maintaining good arm structure throughout your swing is a major consistency key. This slows your transitional pace and also puts the club in a place to slip down on plane, ensuring not only an accurate hit but a powerful one as well. My student, Patrick Cantlay, and I have a phrase we use when working on his transition: “The lower body turns out of the way and the upper body stays in it.” In other words, once the club gets to the top of your swing, go ahead and let your legs “go” while holding back any movement of the club and your upper body. Even for the best players in the world, lag putting is a score-breaker. Pros rarely 3-putt inside of 40 feet, but do so almost a third of the time from outside 60 feet. Learn the benefits of consistent lag putting A wider swing arc automatically fuels a faster downswing and eliminates the chopping action that causes pop-up drives and slices. Give your backswing a power boostĪs you start the club back, make it a goal to get your hands as far away from your right ear as possible and maintain that width all the way to the top of your backswing. If you can recreate the feels in the drill on real swings, you’re money. Make sure to brush the grass aggressively. Separating your hands like this makes it easier to square the face through impact and keep the handle pointing at your belly button as the clubhead slings out toward the ball. Hold the club in its normal position with your gloved hand, then slide your lower hand down to where the grip meets the shaft (photo, left). To improve your ability to deliver a square clubface (relative to your path), make practice swings with your hands split apart on the grip. If you slice, it’s probably because you’re not closing the clubface fast enough through the hitting zone.
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