i have listened to hundreds of hours of golf instruction on youtube...the word stuck is used often! Never though has anyone ever explained what it means! Thankyou!
Chris, you never cease to amaze me! This tutorial and the one on bowing the wrist at the top and hold it through the ball have changed my golf swing entirely. I finally “GET IT” after watching thousands of videos on the golf backswing, transition and downswing. U the man! Thanks 🙏 for your lessons! Pete
Taking up golf in my 30s working as a process control manager I looked at the golf swing as a mechanical system based on leverage and physics. What are the variables controlling outcome? Which of them effect outcome the most? Which of them can be made constants? In that context compressing a golf ball is about generating striking force in the club head and since it’s mass is constant the variable to accomplish that is increasing velocity. Here’s were knowing a bit of physics in helpful. Kinetic Energy in the club head which produces the striking force is exponential, which is to say if the velocity is doubled the kinetic energy quadruples. Raise the velocity 10x and there is a 100x increase. So swinging the club head fast is part of solution for generation compression. But the thing most don’t understand is that the degree of compression alone does on predict ball speed as it leaves the face. That is a function of the rate of rebound off the face and again the physics is counter intuitive. Conventional wisdom in the golf swing is to keep the club head acceleration through impact. That is a good strategy for maximum compression but not for creating the highest rate of rebound off the face. By way analogy if you are a passenger in a car driving 100kph and just as you try to lean forward in your seat the driver hits the gas the acceleration of the car will pin you back into the seat. That’s compression but your velocity relative to the car is actually slowed down by the degree the increase in kinetic energy of the car mass has pushed you back into the seat. But not imagine if you would happen to the passenger driving 100kph slammed in the brakes or hit a brick wall… the mass of the car stops abruptly and the unrestrained passenger flies off the seat and through the windscreen, why seat belts are now mandatory in cars. But they were not in 1948 when Ben Hogan hit a Greyhound Bus head-on one foggy night and discovered that cause and effect of Newtonian physics affecting mass and motion. This cause and effect of stopping one mass to accelerate another much faster occurs at several points in a golf swing. The first is the takeaway extension where the club head mass whips up around the hands in reacting to being prevented from moving backwards. The more forcefully a golfer sweeps the club head back in a wide arc and then stops it, the faster it will whip up around the hands with club head increasing in kinetic energy and ability to do work, like lift the mass of the arms against the force of gravity and pull shoulders around stuck hips stretching leg and torso like a torsion bar until that absorbs all the club head energy and the club head mass stops at the top. Golfers with slower swing speeds do not do this first important step - loading the torsion bar that fires hips and shoulders in the downswing - very well because they try to lift the club and cock the wrists to get it to the top instead of extending it and letting it react. In the downswing the initial acceleration of body, arm and club head mass together comes from firing the hips. Hogan’s technique to maximize that was squaring the back foot and putting an extra metal spike in the back shoe so it would not twist which generates maximum torque in the back leg and buttock. Try adjusting the angle of your back foot, even turning in a bit and you’’ll understand how this affects how fast the hips ACCELERATE all the masses at the start of the swing. Because of his technique Hogan could fire his hips at the start of a 1/4 swing chip shot nearly as much as a full swing and as a result wind up with more club head velocity at impact than someone with no torque created in their legs or less. This is why pro golfers hated giving up the metal spikes which allowed them to generate maximum torque in the legs. The next place you see acceleration is when the hands drop to hip level, shaft swings to horizontal and club head is free to whip around the hands. This is where the golfer needs to keep the car crash analogy in mind and find a way to SLOW DOWN the hands to cause the club head to whip around the hands faster. The technique is simply to keep the back heel on the ground until the club head starts around the hands because keeping the foot down arrests the hip turn when the hips reach 45° open in the downswing. That combined with a lateral shift of BODY MASS AT THE TARGET is referred to in golf instruction as ‘hitting the wall’ and lifting the back heel is what allows the hips to move again and produces the feeling of ‘breaking through the wall’. Golfers with poor swings never experience either feeling because they reflexively lift and turn their back foot too soon and too quickly to avoid falling off balance due to unbalanced over the top club head paths. Hogan’s final technique to generate club head velocity before impact was his famous ‘waggle action’ which has the POTENTIAL to accelerate the club head mass at a higher rate than both the hip /shoulder turn or it whipping down around the hands. Try moving nothing except wrists and snap the club down like cracking a whip into a ball. It will take off like a rocket! You will also feel your hands and arms lock up. The club head accelerates at the fastest rate in the entire swing then stops dead because the Vardon grip creates such efficient LEVERAGE when hands are pulled all the way down into maxed out ulnar deviation, something 99.9% of golfers today have never felt BEFORE impact because they’ve never tried to snap a club down at the ball like cracking a whip BEFORE impact. Hogan did, so did Moe Norman and trick shot artist Count Yogi. It isn’t just the added acceleration of the waggle action just before impact that resulting in those three being legendary ball strikers it was how as the ball released off the face the leverage created by their grips through impact - all three different - abruptly slowed the club head just as the compressed ball was ready to release off the face - which dramatically increases the RATE OF RESTITUTION and ball speed and why ball speed is always faster than club head speed, i.e, smash faster. It is counter-intuitive but at higher club head speeds which compress the golf ball as much as the USGA allows with robot testing on Iron Bryron a deceleration of club head as ball flies off generates more ball speed than a club head that continues to accelerate through impact and release. The edge that elite golfer who can do that have over the USGA and its ball testing protocol that controls max distance at 317 yards +3 variance (320 max) is that Iron Bryon used to test the balls that why does accelerate the club head through impact. The guys on the long drive tour like Bryson understand this and use the technique but Catch-22 is that the waggle action whips the club face closed and that’s difficult to control resulting in snap hooks if the timing is off and the ball come off the face late - exactly how Hogan was known to miss.
Small issue, and it may be in the wording you used - but it sounds like you gave the implication that swinging back faster at the top of the backswing could somehow lead to more clubhead speed at impact?;
@@m.taylor7025 No. What a brisk outside the hands Hogan style takeaway extension does is cause the club head mass to automatically accelerate up around the hands (vs. being cocked up with the hands) which generates A LOT of kinetic energy. In Tiger Woods 2002 book “How I Play Golf” he described his extension as feeling like he was trying to throw the club backwards behind him as far as possible. I tried that and was amazed how effortlessly it swing to the top, generating enough force to lift the mass of arms and club and twist and stretch-load my upper torso and legs. It is letting the club head mass + momentum do the work of getting the club head to the top vs lifting it with the arms which is what some beginners try to do. Hogan squared his back foot with an extra spike to increase torque in his back leg and hips which was released at the top of the backswing to fire the hips first and drag shoulders, arms and club behind. Its like twisting the propeller on a wind up toy airplane in the backswing to store the energy to power the mostly passive unwinding action of the downswing. That was the reason his swing was so remarkably consistent. Once he got the club swung back horizontal in the takeaway the rest of the swing happened on “auto pilot” due to the way he hinged his trail arm and maxed out travel in his wrists at the top and again at impact to square the face to target. If I set my back leg like Hogan and let create torque on the way up, it releases with much more acceleration that with a slack-leg, non-torqued swing to the top.
Not keeping the trail elbow stuck to my rib cage is the best advice I've got in the past year! I've been taught to do an in-out path with my club and ended up hooking the ball. This video helped me instantaneously improving my shots, getting the ball straighter and longer! Amazing!
It's the rotation about the fulcrum which is not at the end tip of the grip but rather just proximal to the trailing/supporting hand. This is what leads to the natural hand/club head movement that freaks some people out. This video is supremely refreshing and I can't wait to practice!
Hey Chris, glad I stumbled on this one, for the life of me I couldn't figure out why I was flipping at the bottom. That right elbow insight really helped. Thank you.
Brilliant, Chris. This exactly captures the 2 problems I currently experience with my irons right now. Collapsing wrists because I can't get back to the ball, and other consequences. Thank you. This will really help 👍
Very good thoughts when playing and practicing. I have also been able to feel my elbow position change according to the length of club I am swinging during my practice swing and it helps me find the swing plane with each club. If you find the proper, right elbow position the swing will feel smooth. A great piece of advice. Best video I have seen in a long time.
I've been caught in a rut for the past few weeks hitting the ball off the toe. I realized that I wasn't getting the correct forearm rotation you were speaking of and now I'm consistently flushing the golf ball. Thanks so much for the tip!
Cheers Chris… my oldest golf mate and myself have often discussed CFR… compression free round… we got it round 18holes and nothing felt good !! This looks great, and will def try it. Mike.
One thing I noticed with the setting the wrist hinge at a perpendicular to the body when moving the club back the spine angle is not matched the club face. If you do the wrist set at a 45° towards the backswing before turning it back, the clubhead will most likely match the spine angle. It would give you a visual to see that the cub face is already slightly toe forward and aldo help your students see the space they need to create. The rest of what you demonstrated is absolutely beautiful. I appreciate the drill tip for better compression. Thanks.
Very good explaining the grip and hand paths before contact. Maybe u can exemplify where the hands/wrist should be during the transition between back-swing and down-swing.
I have been trying to work my right elbow more in front forever. And I always start shanking the ball when I do. I don’t think it’s the club face. I just think I am pushing my hands further from my body. I’ll try to feel the butt of the club moving towards me at release. Good video. 👍🏻
My ball striking had gotten progressively worse over time. And I didn't realize how bad it was until one day I punched out with my 3 iron on a par 5 and not only did it go about 220 yards with so little effort but it felt like I hit a cotton ball. That one situation where I had to change so much with my "normal" swing to get the ball down the fairway and back in play actually showed how important proper compression is. It was such an aha moment on the course and really got me excited to fix what I never even thought was broken.
Hi Chris .. thanks for a great video. Recently I have started compressing the occasional shot which flies straighter and spins more so I’ve made progress. Having tried many different things over the past two years I have discovered that the action of the right arm is vital. I have found that hitting ball first then turf won’t always give compression. If we don’t intentionally extend the right arm down towards the ground at impact there won’t be compression. This action also causes a proper extension after the ball and nice full follow through. You might make a video on the action of the right arm through impact, might be an idea for an video in my opinion, thanks.
Would this elbow advice also work for Driver? I ask because 90% of my drives are going out 50% to the right of target and not because of slice but because I fail to square the face no matter how I try... yet my misses are consistent, 90% of all Driver shots are 50% to the right of target while having great flight and distance... Thx.
This could be the reason, but really hard to say without seeing, there are lots of reasons why that shot may occcur, but with popping it on video to take a look
Powerful golf, baseball, cricket, and 2handed tennis swings have have just 4 simple components: 1) hands leading, in front (causes natural forward shaft, bat, racket lean) 2) just before impact, start pushing with trailing arm/start to straighten trailing arm 3) snap and release thru the ball 4) trailing arm fully straight, hips naturally facing to target Thats it folks… one day the teaching pros will make it this simple. Once i started feeling that push and straightening of my right arm, my tennis and golf games immensely improved, both in power and consistency.
Hey chris i find that the delivery drill works great with most of my clubs except my wedges, when i do it with the short clubs i find myself shanking the ball, any advice on this?
Great vid - great drills. I have that right elbow problem sometimes and it is a killer on the course. I can compress the ball most of the time but the flamingo drill is an excellent way to be more consistent with the strike. I think I'll include it in my warm up! Tx CR - best instruction site I've been able to find - always straightforward and easy to follow.
Great drills that are easily performed/practiced at the driving range. Question would both drills be applicable for using pitching or sand wedges for those 50-80 yd shots? Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day long weekend ahead to my fellow Canadians!
I was given that drill 20 years ago as a young junior to stop me from "coming over the top" lol. Damn I feel OLD 😢 Great content as usual though, cheers Chris.
WoW!!! Just when I think I've seen every single lesson that could possibly be given........... There's THIS!!!! That's another one (or two) thoughts to add to the ten thousand or so going through my head as I begin my backswing!! @ChrisRyanGolf could you possibly give a lesson on how to remember every single lesson but somehow stay calm as you address and strike the ball? Please!!!!!!! It's the 5 inches between my ears that are struggling the most! Cheers from New Zealand.
Hey, great question. The key is to be able to know which lessons are suited to your and your swing. The starting point would be to analyse your ball flight and look for the patterns, then link this back to impact and work out what is happening at impact that causes that pattern. Once you know your impact your can start to pull out the vidoes that will be specific to you and your game. Not easy doing it online but having a structure and a plan can really help
@@ChrisRyanGolf Tried it today with my attack wedge (yeah I know it's proper name is approach but is responds better to being called attack); it is harder than you make it look. By the end of a lot of repetitions it start to click. Thanks
Another great video. Just curious on your previous videos with striking the impact bag when it is placed behind you to avoid over the top swings. Do we not need an exaggerated weight shift anymore? Can we just set up with the weight more forward?
Yes I still would like to see the weight shift, and most don’t do that enough. That impact bag drill was to isolate what the arms do, so the body was passive, but in a swing there will be shift and rotation
Chris, is there a way to minimize shaft droop? I keep hitting my 7 iron off the toe and I think droop is causing it. Is there a fool-proof way to prevent that from happening or do I need stiffer shafts for my irons? Or maybe a lie angle adjustment? Mine are at -2, should I have them bent to 0 or +1? Or go the other way to -4?
Shaft droop will be reduced as you go stronger in the shafts, also more right would help move the strike a little to the heel, although in my experience neither of these would be enough to cause toe strikes, the fix is more likely to be in the swing unfortunately
Hi Chris, I see in the video you seem to indicate that face bends the ball, which I assume means you hold to the idea that path sends and Face bends. I thought that was proved to be incorrect these days? I thought the concepts are that Face sends and patch bends now? Could you share your thoughts..
keep the club face open. Let the clubface release at the bottom of the swing creating a vortex at impact. Ball has no choice but to follow the swing path.
i’m still scared shitless of shanking it. as soon as it starts i just can’t shake it… it’s not worth the stress to me and i’ve only just got back over them 😂
your probably early -extending your rt hip(thrusting forward and standing up)..keep those hips back..i had the same problem because of super tight hips
@@guyrestivo i was letting my hands travel too far down the target line trying to ‘go through the ball’ instead of following the arc (if that makes any sense to you) so my hands were just too far away from me, that’s why this video sounds scary to me haha but turns out i’m doing it anyway without thinking about it. i have had the problem you mentioned in the past too though 😂 it’s tough keeping on top of it all haha
Seems like you’re advocating the hands being above the swing plane in order to prevent the right elbow from getting stuck, thus producing a flip through impact. Is this correct? I must admit this scares me. Isn’t this going to cause an “over the top” move? Thank you for your excellent content.
All great golfers have the hands above the club head plane towards impact then they move back and in, it’s the best way to actually avoid filliping, exit left and stabilise the face though impact
I quit golf because well, I suck. 99 percent of the time I slice the ball 100 yards to the right, I lose 30 golf balls every time I play. I thin or duff every iron shot, I send my chips flying over the green. I don't see how any amount of practice can help so I have called it quits on a game I love because I can't afford to keep wasting money being so bad
Go to the driving range and practice. You won't get good solely playing golf. Golf is all about repetition and consistency. You can't accomplish that without practice.
@@CalvinHolster self taught, I am too poor for lessons. It is 150 dollars for a 1 hour lesson in my area. I love golf honestly, I just can't afford the cost to get better and watching videos, going to the range and all that hasn't helped seemingly at all. The only thing I am good at is putting. I can honestly putt pretty well but that doesnt matter when it takes me 10 shots to get there lol
@@ItsJaggaJatt I have spent countless hours at the range, I am certainly consistent. I slice the balll pretty much every time. I hit my irons and wedges fairly well off of a mat, but on grass I just can't do it. I thin it or duff it every single time. I just started wasting a ridiculous amount of money on balls and the cost to tee off in general just pushed me to quit
I have written many positive reviews on your videos, as I think that you are one of the best out there, but from a Health & Safety perspective and given that most golfers hit behind the ball, laying the alignment stick behind the ball in that way, if a golfer should hit that at 80 mph, it could shatter and the shards from the plastic could inflict serious face/eye damage, this is not to be recommended.
This is everything that’s wrong with this new coaching swing, we saw a shift a few years ago from the conventional swing which was the takeaway body turning away from target, moving back down to Impact with forward lean then during and after impact turning towards target, this new style of back damaging swing, will zalatoris, Justin Thomas style where the club is so far behind you parallel to the floor, then turn and burn style swing, for me isn’t that functional if your not under 40-ish…. So to see someone call it out and look to address the elephant is great thankyou Chris, I’m two lessons in now on the mend, with a new coach, from a 14 month dark rabbit hole after going to coach that took me from a nice slightly steep swing tiny power fade, to a flat caught behind me awefull pull draw, so videos like this are a god send thankyou…. I’m all for progressing, but straight away we could see this new move your hole rib cage slightly to left while your arms are trying to come through to hit the ball style swing was going to be trouble for a lot of golfers…. Rant over… 🙏🏽🏌🏻👍🏴
i have listened to hundreds of hours of golf instruction on youtube...the word stuck is used often! Never though has anyone ever explained what it means! Thankyou!
My pleasure, thanks for watching.
@@ChrisRyanGolf if i may? is that the only kinda "stuck" that instructors refer to? or is there other kinds of stuck?
Chris, you never cease to amaze me! This tutorial and the one on bowing the wrist at the top and hold it through the ball have changed my golf swing entirely. I finally “GET IT” after watching thousands of videos on the golf backswing, transition and downswing. U the man! Thanks 🙏 for your lessons! Pete
I was think the exact same thing, but you express it so succinctly.
Thanks Pete really glad this helped
Taking up golf in my 30s working as a process control manager I looked at the golf swing as a mechanical system based on leverage and physics. What are the variables controlling outcome? Which of them effect outcome the most? Which of them can be made constants?
In that context compressing a golf ball is about generating striking force in the club head and since it’s mass is constant the variable to accomplish that is increasing velocity. Here’s were knowing a bit of physics in helpful. Kinetic Energy in the club head which produces the striking force is exponential, which is to say if the velocity is doubled the kinetic energy quadruples. Raise the velocity 10x and there is a 100x increase. So swinging the club head fast is part of solution for generation compression.
But the thing most don’t understand is that the degree of compression alone does on predict ball speed as it leaves the face. That is a function of the rate of rebound off the face and again the physics is counter intuitive. Conventional wisdom in the golf swing is to keep the club head acceleration through impact. That is a good strategy for maximum compression but not for creating the highest rate of rebound off the face.
By way analogy if you are a passenger in a car driving 100kph and just as you try to lean forward in your seat the driver hits the gas the acceleration of the car will pin you back into the seat. That’s compression but your velocity relative to the car is actually slowed down by the degree the increase in kinetic energy of the car mass has pushed you back into the seat.
But not imagine if you would happen to the passenger driving 100kph slammed in the brakes or hit a brick wall… the mass of the car stops abruptly and the unrestrained passenger flies off the seat and through the windscreen, why seat belts are now mandatory in cars. But they were not in 1948 when Ben Hogan hit a Greyhound Bus head-on one foggy night and discovered that cause and effect of Newtonian physics affecting mass and motion.
This cause and effect of stopping one mass to accelerate another much faster occurs at several points in a golf swing. The first is the takeaway extension where the club head mass whips up around the hands in reacting to being prevented from moving backwards. The more forcefully a golfer sweeps the club head back in a wide arc and then stops it, the faster it will whip up around the hands with club head increasing in kinetic energy and ability to do work, like lift the mass of the arms against the force of gravity and pull shoulders around stuck hips stretching leg and torso like a torsion bar until that absorbs all the club head energy and the club head mass stops at the top. Golfers with slower swing speeds do not do this first important step - loading the torsion bar that fires hips and shoulders in the downswing - very well because they try to lift the club and cock the wrists to get it to the top instead of extending it and letting it react.
In the downswing the initial acceleration of body, arm and club head mass together comes from firing the hips. Hogan’s technique to maximize that was squaring the back foot and putting an extra metal spike in the back shoe so it would not twist which generates maximum torque in the back leg and buttock. Try adjusting the angle of your back foot, even turning in a bit and you’’ll understand how this affects how fast the hips ACCELERATE all the masses at the start of the swing. Because of his technique Hogan could fire his hips at the start of a 1/4 swing chip shot nearly as much as a full swing and as a result wind up with more club head velocity at impact than someone with no torque created in their legs or less. This is why pro golfers hated giving up the metal spikes which allowed them to generate maximum torque in the legs.
The next place you see acceleration is when the hands drop to hip level, shaft swings to horizontal and club head is free to whip around the hands. This is where the golfer needs to keep the car crash analogy in mind and find a way to SLOW DOWN the hands to cause the club head to whip around the hands faster. The technique is simply to keep the back heel on the ground until the club head starts around the hands because keeping the foot down arrests the hip turn when the hips reach 45° open in the downswing. That combined with a lateral shift of BODY MASS AT THE TARGET is referred to in golf instruction as ‘hitting the wall’ and lifting the back heel is what allows the hips to move again and produces the feeling of ‘breaking through the wall’. Golfers with poor swings never experience either feeling because they reflexively lift and turn their back foot too soon and too quickly to avoid falling off balance due to unbalanced over the top club head paths.
Hogan’s final technique to generate club head velocity before impact was his famous ‘waggle action’ which has the POTENTIAL to accelerate the club head mass at a higher rate than both the hip /shoulder turn or it whipping down around the hands. Try moving nothing except wrists and snap the club down like cracking a whip into a ball. It will take off like a rocket! You will also feel your hands and arms lock up. The club head accelerates at the fastest rate in the entire swing then stops dead because the Vardon grip creates such efficient LEVERAGE when hands are pulled all the way down into maxed out ulnar deviation, something 99.9% of golfers today have never felt BEFORE impact because they’ve never tried to snap a club down at the ball like cracking a whip BEFORE impact. Hogan did, so did Moe Norman and trick shot artist Count Yogi.
It isn’t just the added acceleration of the waggle action just before impact that resulting in those three being legendary ball strikers it was how as the ball released off the face the leverage created by their grips through impact - all three different - abruptly slowed the club head just as the compressed ball was ready to release off the face - which dramatically increases the RATE OF RESTITUTION and ball speed and why ball speed is always faster than club head speed, i.e, smash faster.
It is counter-intuitive but at higher club head speeds which compress the golf ball as much as the USGA allows with robot testing on Iron Bryron a deceleration of club head as ball flies off generates more ball speed than a club head that continues to accelerate through impact and release. The edge that elite golfer who can do that have over the USGA and its ball testing protocol that controls max distance at 317 yards +3 variance (320 max) is that Iron Bryon used to test the balls that why does accelerate the club head through impact.
The guys on the long drive tour like Bryson understand this and use the technique but Catch-22 is that the waggle action whips the club face closed and that’s difficult to control resulting in snap hooks if the timing is off and the ball come off the face late - exactly how Hogan was known to miss.
A brilliant explanation of the physics of the golf swing.
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Small issue, and it may be in the wording you used - but it sounds like you gave the implication that swinging back faster at the top of the backswing could somehow lead to more clubhead speed at impact?;
@@m.taylor7025 No. What a brisk outside the hands Hogan style takeaway extension does is cause the club head mass to automatically accelerate up around the hands (vs. being cocked up with the hands) which generates A LOT of kinetic energy. In Tiger Woods 2002 book “How I Play Golf” he described his extension as feeling like he was trying to throw the club backwards behind him as far as possible. I tried that and was amazed how effortlessly it swing to the top, generating enough force to lift the mass of arms and club and twist and stretch-load my upper torso and legs. It is letting the club head mass + momentum do the work of getting the club head to the top vs lifting it with the arms which is what some beginners try to do.
Hogan squared his back foot with an extra spike to increase torque in his back leg and hips which was released at the top of the backswing to fire the hips first and drag shoulders, arms and club behind. Its like twisting the propeller on a wind up toy airplane in the backswing to store the energy to power the mostly passive unwinding action of the downswing. That was the reason his swing was so remarkably consistent. Once he got the club swung back horizontal in the takeaway the rest of the swing happened on “auto pilot” due to the way he hinged his trail arm and maxed out travel in his wrists at the top and again at impact to square the face to target. If I set my back leg like Hogan and let create torque on the way up, it releases with much more acceleration that with a slack-leg, non-torqued swing to the top.
@@m.taylor7025 thats true watch the long driver pros they taake the club back fast
Not keeping the trail elbow stuck to my rib cage is the best advice I've got in the past year! I've been taught to do an in-out path with my club and ended up hooking the ball. This video helped me instantaneously improving my shots, getting the ball straighter and longer! Amazing!
Yeah I’ve seen that cause issues before, glad this video helped
It's the rotation about the fulcrum which is not at the end tip of the grip but rather just proximal to the trailing/supporting hand. This is what leads to the natural hand/club head movement that freaks some people out. This video is supremely refreshing and I can't wait to practice!
Hey Chris, glad I stumbled on this one, for the life of me I couldn't figure out why I was flipping at the bottom. That right elbow insight really helped. Thank you.
Thanks 🙌
Brilliant, Chris. This exactly captures the 2 problems I currently experience with my irons right now. Collapsing wrists because I can't get back to the ball, and other consequences. Thank you. This will really help 👍
Thanks and hope it does help
Very good thoughts when playing and practicing. I have also been able to feel my elbow position change according to the length of club I am swinging during my practice swing and it helps me find the swing plane with each club. If you find the proper, right elbow position the swing will feel smooth. A great piece of advice. Best video I have seen in a long time.
Thanks Terry really appreciate that
I've been caught in a rut for the past few weeks hitting the ball off the toe. I realized that I wasn't getting the correct forearm rotation you were speaking of and now I'm consistently flushing the golf ball. Thanks so much for the tip!
Cheers Chris… my oldest golf mate and myself have often discussed CFR… compression free round… we got it round 18holes and nothing felt good !!
This looks great, and will def try it.
Mike.
Hope it helps Mike
One thing I noticed with the setting the wrist hinge at a perpendicular to the body when moving the club back the spine angle is not matched the club face. If you do the wrist set at a 45° towards the backswing before turning it back, the clubhead will most likely match the spine angle. It would give you a visual to see that the cub face is already slightly toe forward and aldo help your students see the space they need to create. The rest of what you demonstrated is absolutely beautiful. I appreciate the drill tip for better compression. Thanks.
Very good explaining the grip and hand paths before contact.
Maybe u can exemplify where the hands/wrist should be during the transition between back-swing and down-swing.
Never tire of watching your lessons Chris, great work and thank you 👍
Thanks so much
I have been trying to work my right elbow more in front forever. And I always start shanking the ball when I do. I don’t think it’s the club face. I just think I am pushing my hands further from my body. I’ll try to feel the butt of the club moving towards me at release. Good video. 👍🏻
Yeah that second move through impact is key, keep working on it you could be very close
I knew that my trail elbow getting stuck one of my biggest problems but I didn’t know how to fix it until this video. Thanks Chris!
Chris, you're the man! for showing this drill. Thank you from all golfers around the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My pleasure 🙌
My ball striking had gotten progressively worse over time. And I didn't realize how bad it was until one day I punched out with my 3 iron on a par 5 and not only did it go about 220 yards with so little effort but it felt like I hit a cotton ball. That one situation where I had to change so much with my "normal" swing to get the ball down the fairway and back in play actually showed how important proper compression is. It was such an aha moment on the course and really got me excited to fix what I never even thought was broken.
So true, that shot most likely created the perfect impact and it’s such a good feeling 🙌
Hi Chris
.. thanks for a great video. Recently I have started compressing the occasional shot which flies straighter and spins more so I’ve made progress. Having tried many different things over the past two years I have discovered that the action of the right arm is vital. I have found that hitting ball first then turf won’t always give compression.
If we don’t intentionally extend the right arm down towards the ground at impact there won’t be compression. This action also causes a proper extension after the ball and nice full follow through.
You might make a video on the action of the right arm through impact, might be an idea for an video in my opinion, thanks.
Thanks and I couldn’t agree more, the right arm is so key to great golf, definitely a longer video there
Chris- I’ve used the Flamingo drill before.,It works well
Hi Chris, is this divot and eliminate hitting back of the ball ?
Super clear basics for compression! I have yet to master #3 :-) But it's true, the other 2 already provide that addictive feel.
#3 is tough, but the results are worth the struggle
Would this elbow advice also work for Driver? I ask because 90% of my drives are going out 50% to the right of target and not because of slice but because I fail to square the face no matter how I try... yet my misses are consistent, 90% of all Driver shots are 50% to the right of target while having great flight and distance... Thx.
This could be the reason, but really hard to say without seeing, there are lots of reasons why that shot may occcur, but with popping it on video to take a look
Wow my first impression of this channel was fabulous you can explain it so better than other people lol
Thanks so much 🙌🙌
Powerful golf, baseball, cricket, and 2handed tennis swings have have just 4 simple components:
1) hands leading, in front (causes natural forward shaft, bat, racket lean)
2) just before impact, start pushing with trailing arm/start to straighten trailing arm
3) snap and release thru the ball
4) trailing arm fully straight, hips naturally facing to target
Thats it folks… one day the teaching pros will make it this simple. Once i started feeling that push and straightening of my right arm, my tennis and golf games immensely improved, both in power and consistency.
Hey chris i find that the delivery drill works great with most of my clubs except my wedges, when i do it with the short clubs i find myself shanking the ball, any advice on this?
Superb again, thanks Chris.
Great drill and makes sense.
Great vid - great drills. I have that right elbow problem sometimes and it is a killer on the course. I can compress the ball most of the time but the flamingo drill is an excellent way to be more consistent with the strike. I think I'll include it in my warm up! Tx CR - best instruction site I've been able to find - always straightforward and easy to follow.
Thanks so much 🙌
Great drills that are easily performed/practiced at the driving range. Question would both drills be applicable for using pitching or sand wedges for those 50-80 yd shots? Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day long weekend ahead to my fellow Canadians!
Yeah absolutely will work great from that distance
I was given that drill 20 years ago as a young junior to stop me from "coming over the top" lol. Damn I feel OLD 😢 Great content as usual though, cheers Chris.
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WoW!!! Just when I think I've seen every single lesson that could possibly be given........... There's THIS!!!! That's another one (or two) thoughts to add to the ten thousand or so going through my head as I begin my backswing!! @ChrisRyanGolf could you possibly give a lesson on how to remember every single lesson but somehow stay calm as you address and strike the ball? Please!!!!!!! It's the 5 inches between my ears that are struggling the most! Cheers from New Zealand.
Hey, great question. The key is to be able to know which lessons are suited to your and your swing. The starting point would be to analyse your ball flight and look for the patterns, then link this back to impact and work out what is happening at impact that causes that pattern. Once you know your impact your can start to pull out the vidoes that will be specific to you and your game. Not easy doing it online but having a structure and a plan can really help
@@ChrisRyanGolf Hey thanks Chris. I really appreciate your advice!
Thank you for this clip, It shown me what I did wrong. I hope that my i7 will be 150-160 yards again. Thank you.
Glad it’s helped
Sounds brilliant, I'll try it out tomorrow. Does this apply to all clubs up to and including driver?
The theory applies to all clubs but I’d stick to this for the irons, especially the first drill on one leg
@@ChrisRyanGolf Tried it today with my attack wedge (yeah I know it's proper name is approach but is responds better to being called attack); it is harder than you make it look. By the end of a lot of repetitions it start to click. Thanks
Another great video. Just curious on your previous videos with striking the impact bag when it is placed behind you to avoid over the top swings. Do we not need an exaggerated weight shift anymore? Can we just set up with the weight more forward?
Yes I still would like to see the weight shift, and most don’t do that enough. That impact bag drill was to isolate what the arms do, so the body was passive, but in a swing there will be shift and rotation
How can I adhere to the delivery drill without having a takeaway that goes really outside, thanks!
Is this hand path something thay could be applied to the driver as well?
Yes absolutely
Again chris, keeping to the crucial thread of cause and
effect, you`ve hit the nail on its head ,😇👍
Thanks 🙌
Great, practical stuff we can practice. Invaluable, thanks Chris.
Thanks Jeff
Chris, is there a way to minimize shaft droop? I keep hitting my 7 iron off the toe and I think droop is causing it. Is there a fool-proof way to prevent that from happening or do I need stiffer shafts for my irons? Or maybe a lie angle adjustment? Mine are at -2, should I have them bent to 0 or +1? Or go the other way to -4?
Shaft droop will be reduced as you go stronger in the shafts, also more right would help move the strike a little to the heel, although in my experience neither of these would be enough to cause toe strikes, the fix is more likely to be in the swing unfortunately
Well done Chris 👏
Thanks Roy
Always heard of getting stuck on the downswing but never tied the problem to not enough room for the right elbow.
Is that what getting stuck means?
Hey John, I think there can be a number of ways to get stuck, but this is definitely one of them
Hi Chris, I see in the video you seem to indicate that face bends the ball, which I assume means you hold to the idea that path sends and Face bends. I thought that was proved to be incorrect these days? I thought the concepts are that Face sends and patch bends now? Could you share your thoughts..
Yep you are right, the starting direction is mostly dictated by the face and the curve is due to the path relative to that
Where is the alignment stick located in the second drill. Is it midway between the toe line and the ball?
Yeah pretty much half way between would be good
@@ChrisRyanGolf Thanks Chris. Excellent video
Does that hands position apply to driver swing just the same??
Yes all full swings
Fantastic drill, thank you 👍
Thanks 🙌
That's why it feel good to hit my 4 iron with my feet together!!
Thank you. Yes, that makes perfect sense. Cheers!
Thanks 🙌
very good and it's gonna help, thnx.
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Ben Hogan kept his elbow tucked into his side and he had the greatest swing of all time. Golf is hard and complicated.
His trail arm still lifted and raised relative to his torso, less than others but that move was still present
Gold.
Great video!
How come all the pros show the Right elbow attached to the ribs on downswing
Does this drill work with the driver?
It’s more for the iron, the second drill would work but not the first
Would love to see more golf swinging in this video
keep the club face open. Let the clubface release at the bottom of the swing creating a vortex at impact. Ball has no choice but to follow the swing path.
OMG! Thank you!!!
My pleasure
i like this!!!!
Love this
Thanks 🙌
What type of shot is this?
A golf shot 😁
seems like your hands move off the plane when they move away from your body momentarily.is that not what I am seeing in your video?thanks
John
i’m still scared shitless of shanking it. as soon as it starts i just can’t shake it… it’s not worth the stress to me and i’ve only just got back over them 😂
your probably early -extending your rt hip(thrusting forward and standing up)..keep those hips back..i had the same problem because of super tight hips
@@guyrestivo i was letting my hands travel too far down the target line trying to ‘go through the ball’ instead of following the arc (if that makes any sense to you) so my hands were just too far away from me, that’s why this video sounds scary to me haha but turns out i’m doing it anyway without thinking about it.
i have had the problem you mentioned in the past too though 😂 it’s tough keeping on top of it all haha
How much distance would you guess I would lose while playing off one leg ? I would definitely sacrifice some distance for better contact.
It’s amazing how much better some strike it with that drill!
Seems like you’re advocating the hands being above the swing plane in order to prevent the right elbow from getting stuck, thus producing a flip through impact. Is this correct? I must admit this scares me. Isn’t this going to cause an “over the top” move? Thank you for your excellent content.
All great golfers have the hands above the club head plane towards impact then they move back and in, it’s the best way to actually avoid filliping, exit left and stabilise the face though impact
@@ChrisRyanGolf Thank you Chris for your reply.
I quit golf because well, I suck. 99 percent of the time I slice the ball 100 yards to the right, I lose 30 golf balls every time I play. I thin or duff every iron shot, I send my chips flying over the green. I don't see how any amount of practice can help so I have called it quits on a game I love because I can't afford to keep wasting money being so bad
Genuine question, have you ever had any lessons or just self taught? @diplomatt804
Go to the driving range and practice. You won't get good solely playing golf. Golf is all about repetition and consistency. You can't accomplish that without practice.
@@CalvinHolster self taught, I am too poor for lessons. It is 150 dollars for a 1 hour lesson in my area. I love golf honestly, I just can't afford the cost to get better and watching videos, going to the range and all that hasn't helped seemingly at all. The only thing I am good at is putting. I can honestly putt pretty well but that doesnt matter when it takes me 10 shots to get there lol
@@ItsJaggaJatt I have spent countless hours at the range, I am certainly consistent. I slice the balll pretty much every time. I hit my irons and wedges fairly well off of a mat, but on grass I just can't do it. I thin it or duff it every single time. I just started wasting a ridiculous amount of money on balls and the cost to tee off in general just pushed me to quit
I hope you find a way to get back in the game that works for you brother!
I have written many positive reviews on your videos, as I think that you are one of the best out there, but from a Health & Safety perspective and given that most golfers hit behind the ball, laying the alignment stick behind the ball in that way, if a golfer should hit that at 80 mph, it could shatter and the shards from the plastic could inflict serious face/eye damage, this is not to be recommended.
you have elbow problem
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This is everything that’s wrong with this new coaching swing, we saw a shift a few years ago from the conventional swing which was the takeaway body turning away from target, moving back down to Impact with forward lean then during and after impact turning towards target, this new style of back damaging swing, will zalatoris, Justin Thomas style where the club is so far behind you parallel to the floor, then turn and burn style swing, for me isn’t that functional if your not under 40-ish…. So to see someone call it out and look to address the elephant is great thankyou Chris,
I’m two lessons in now on the mend, with a new coach, from a 14 month dark rabbit hole after going to coach that took me from a nice slightly steep swing tiny power fade, to a flat caught behind me awefull pull draw, so videos like this are a god send thankyou…. I’m all for progressing, but straight away we could see this new move your hole rib cage slightly to left while your arms are trying to come through to hit the ball style swing was going to be trouble for a lot of golfers…. Rant over… 🙏🏽🏌🏻👍🏴