This is the most spot on explanation of the golf ⛳ swing I've ever heard on all of UA-cam. Finally, someone understands what I've been thinking 🤔 about for over a decade.
Absolutely gold... Use to swing like that until I went down the abyss of UA-cam coaching and tried to get in all those weird and wonderful positions that was physical impossible or very demanding on my body... So glad I came across this video..Definitely going back to the clubface release swing.
Been watching your videos for a long time. It's interesting to see that you've changed your views about being trail side vs lead side dominant. Respect for keeping an open mind and changing your views as you get more information.
Good explanation. It's makes sense, if you're right handed and that's your most coordinated hand, then which hand do you want controling the face, Obviously right. As I've figured out out to feel shots in my hands my game has drastically improved. This is also why I think it's super important for beginners to spend a lot of time chipping and pitching and getting creative wmariund the greens because it allows you to train the feels of different shots at a lower speed, send it high, keep low, put spin on, take it off and skip it....
Right hand dominant makes so much sense to mean.I'm happy you made this video. I can't wait to get to the gulf rings to try this out. Thanks for this. Content and please keep up the good work.
I just discovered this throwmotion yesterday in my golfswing. For me it was setting the wrists earlier by pushing the handle down at the start of the swing and bringing the shaft in an 45° angle half way back in the backswing. Then i really felt the strenghts to hit hard with the right arm/ shoulder. Before that changes i was a left body dominant player.
😱😱 this video came up this AM like some kind of prophecy! 54 years old, played in High School and College. Gave up the game due to regular life coming at you .... now trying desperately to rebuild my game after many years and now sporting bad hips... 😔 have been very disappointed in not being able to swing and move my body... Now I have new hope!
This video was on the front page of UA-cam this morning like I was meant to see it. I played college and professionally in the early 2000s as a left side dominant player. I completely gave the game up in 2005 for several reasons. Over the years I thought about what i would do different if i ever picked the game up again. One day I heard Nicholas say play with back to the target and it clicked in my head. 15 years later at 48 years old I came home, got my clubs out and headed to the range. Two years later what has evoled from that is a right handed dominant swing with a full release and im crushing the ball. Im back to a +2 handicap. Now at 50, I routinely hit it 315 to 330. However, my swing has become very shallow (+1.5 to +2.0 angle of attack with 6 iron) leading to an extremely high ball flight. Yesterday i hit balls with the intention of going back a left side hold the face off swing to see if that would improve ball height but after watching your video im going to continue what im doing. I would love to hear your thoughts on improving angle of attack.
That's super shallow and I would actually be very curious to see your iron swing if you have a video. Is your path severely in to out? If not, then it's just a matter of the release happening a tad bit too soon so the club bottoms out too early. This can easily be balanced out by correcting the throwing motion and getting the elbow in a slightly more forward position in the downswing like I talk about here axiomgolf.com
Your comment made me write a reply on the internet for the first time in years! I too played competitively for 5 years and gave up the game in 2005. After a 17 year break I decided to practice a more lead side dominate swing, with a focus on hitting ever “proper position in a modern swing. The results were on injury after another at 52yrs old. I began to focus on moving my body less and allowing my right hand to release and control the ball flight just this week. I have played 3 rounds all under par this week and most importantly my body feels great. Today is the first time I ever heard of this type of motion being taught and I’m so interested in learning more.
@@michaelbyrd39 well I didn't mean to bring you back to the hell of online commenting but welcome back anyway! The full video with everything I did to teach these guys is here: rotaryswing.com/c4/112529-swing-like-the-goat
I always wondered if you could feel both sides. Both hands both legs what that could potentially do. It's like watching guys chop wood with axes professionally they slide the ax through the dominant hand and then grip with both. I know it's probably crazy talk but that and push with both legs. That's also a difference in baseball I was a college baseball player I could swing with my entire body in high school I got a scholarship because I hit 6 home runs we played at the Blue Jays minor league facility in Bluefield VA. Met Vlad Guerrero Jr at Walmart. Cal Ripken played there used to be orioles minor league.
Also saw a video that a guy was hitting drives 350 and he emulated everything he could from Barry Bonds baseball swing I'll have to find it and leave the link
Glad I had someone teach me to throw the club with my dominant hand early on in my golf adventure. Went from not being able to break 100 to a single digit handicap in a month. Throw the club underhanded. Keep the club on front of you. Spend the spare time on your short game. Thanks, it isn't as hard as golf wants you to think. 😊
Throw the club underhanded... You sir have just given me a lightbulb moment... That kinda makes perfect sense, Now I feel stupid...😄 Why has that never twigged in my brain...🤦♂️ I'm a big feel player, self taught sitting at 7hc. Underhand throw makes it miles easier for me to feel up and left with the handle and my body to understand... Down and under not down and around how it "looks" on video...🤔
Precisely what the axiom power program is. Actually i would phrase it as a somewhat sidearm throw but that’s mostly semantics. Do either one and you will be on plane
@@Carsonsimon good luck. I hope it works for you as it has for me. Never made sense to me to play with your non-dominant side. I was ready to quit when a guy asked me, you ever play baseball? Nothing in sport like a home run swing & a smooth long iron. Enjoy.
Absolutely fascinating. I swing from the right side, but I'm a left hander. Always played just fine and long. But I'm getting older, and am really losing distance. I'll bet that I never really used my trail arm/side much at all. In fact, I used to call the right hand the devil's hand, cause it would mess up my swing. Chuck, if you are correct, this is game changing. Literally. Of course it's harder for me to throw the ball right handed. Left handed no problem. I used to pitch.
Ya, it doesn't have to be this way. Venkatesh can hit it the same distance as an avg tour pro now at 56. You can produce speed either way as you experienced, but as we get older the body doesn't want to move as fast. The video is now live on the site if you want to see how I did it with these guys.
I swear to god that I’ve been thinking this for years but bc I’ve always been so bad at golf I was afraid to ruin my swing even more lmao. I’ve been watching a lot of face on videos of pros swings just watching their right forearm and it makes sense that a lot of players are either doing this or trying to do it. Great video
You fail, over and over again. That's the journey. Beating the challenge of the easy, consistent swing; is the most exhilarating feeling. It started with Guitar. That taught me the steps to learn anything. Keep blasting! Stop thinking about your score, distance. Think about how you feel relative to where you are looking.
Thank you so much for this video! There is so much conflicting information out there! I'm not great, but I'm not a scrub either. Probably a 5-7 hdcp coming off of a very serious back injury. Ive been obsessively filming my swing and analyzing every tiny detail. And it puts me more and more at a loss simply because I am trying to follow conventional teaching. I noticed myself "casting" a little in my swing. And even though Ive been hitting it long and accurate, ive been trying to "fix" it. It is good to hear that it is not necessarily an issue.
I agree with this, I used to be a lead arm golfer and moved to trail arm golfer. If you think about how you would skip a rock across a pond, the throw comes from the trail side of the body using the dominant arm. Learning to do that throw with non-dominant arm is so key.
I’ve always thought this and this is how the release should people call it a flip or a roll but it’s the club just releasing and turning over its letting the club do what it wants to do. It’s been taught out of me and I’m a club and a half shorter in distance now I used to carry 9 iron 150 now I’m down to 140 on a good day. Think I need to go back!
So this is super interesting. I'm a 42 year old 1 handicap. I have been working on power and was feeling this handle pull with my right hand. Recently had a teacher say I'm lead side dominate but really struggled to generate power with it. I think this makes a ton of sense.
This was incredibly interesting! I play right handed even though I'm a lefty. I'm a former soccer player, and I'm right footed. I think that's why right handed golf felt natural for me, because I'm used to transferring the power through the right side of my lower body. I'd consider myself lead side dominant, because I feel like the golf swing is a backhanded swing for me. This video was really food for thought, because I'll definitely be looking more into the right hand in regards to the release. Not that I need distance as such, I can already hit it around 300 yards off the tee, but and improvements in terms of consistency and narrowing in dispersion is of course valuable, as well as making the swing more effortless, since I'm often suffering from soreness around the left shoulder blade even though I'm relatively young and quite athletic. So thank you, this was really food for thought!
Interesting you are the opposite of me i play golf left-handed even though im right-hand dominant, write with right for example but i also kick with my left foot.
This is absolutely fantastic and i'm facinated by what i just saw... I've swong both ways but feel more comfortabe with my trail hand lead. i often felt like i was cheating using my rt hand as my lead hand but now that I know that Tiger does the same thing im good. to me its the easiest way to swing... thanks for your video it has truely eased my mind... now in can play with less stress.
Just found you. I really dig your style. I'm a mostly self taught player. Ive read over 60 golf swing books. I'm a plus 2 and have a swing shape like Faldo. I feel like I really understand my swing and have coached a lot of high level am's. The only thing you are incorrect with in this video is about Tigers swing knowledge. He is a swing geek. He can go down any rabbit hole you want. He knows as much about the swing as anyone on earth. I look forward to watching more of your videos!
When I trained for WLD, it felt like there was no max to distance gain because it all rellied on how hard you could yank the club in on the way down and an aggressive throw on the right arm. It's like if a standard trailing arm wrist rotation is like shooting a bow, that pitch flick you put into impact in LD is like a railgun. It's the key to the LD power and speed and is the key to effortless distance. I taught a buddy of mine with the right arm pitch and he was over 280 in 3 months, he's 5'7" and never touched a club in his life. It's been ages tho so he's probably ass now, but the point still stands.
So with the cut you mentioned at the end, would it be the same feel like you would do throwing a ball and the way you would flip your fingers to put left to right spin on it. Typing it I'm not sure if what I'm saying is making sense. Or if you were bowling and wanted the ball to spin left to right down the lane. That feel could help improve the cut shots.
Very interesting video .. how do you think this system would work on a left handed person who places right handed golf ? As obviously don't throw right handed?
I have a lot of members who play this way. The activation of the trail hand is really just the wrist so it's not so much a throw with the arm so it's very easy to get the feel of adding some speed with just the wrist.
Well I watched one of your videos yesterday, about letting the arms fall continue swing with the body following, had a great nine playing this way. Ok I watched this one today y about right throwing and being dominate. Unfortunately Ive be been your formers self and am left side dominate and my right hand goes for a ride . Bit confused now because to get the opposite feel will be like wipping your bum with the opposite hand. I'm 65, played all my life, do you really feel right side dominate is more powerful, t hats a big change with right hand no longer going for a ride
I have been watching Tigers swing for a long time. From slow motion to golf pros breaking his swing down and no matter ow hard I try I cannot get in the same release positions I see him in. I have even tried to reverse engineer his position to figure out how he gets there with no success. I am a lefty, and your trail arm explanation is such a different feel I took some swing in the mirror with iron and driver and am the closest I have ever been to a Tiger swing finish. I can throw pretty good and this feel is so much more natural. I will be taking this to the range today or tomorrow and report back. Great video.
Question for you.. Im a left handed player but right hand dominant. Im definitely a body swing but am intrigued by this swing. Im a little useless with my left hand. Do you think it possible to train my non dominant hand/wrist to swing like this?
You can start by gripping the club totaly in the fingers and pausing at the top of the backswing, with the left side dissconected from the ground at the top , but at the same time, falling onto the left 😊
Really nice video man. It deadset makes me want to go to the range and experiment lol. Of course I see this video when I’m striking the ball the best I have been in a while. When you talk about a fast transition and just rip at it with the lead hand, does that as a consequence throw your club path out? Is it a recipe for swinging over the top in a powerful manner? I’m swinging from the inside these days with a draw and I’d love to keep it that way whilst still adding power. How do you be careful to still keep a nice club path and not revert to being steep?
This is quite a change of direction. I've been a premium member for two years (22/23) until this summer. I had the impression that what was taught was to keep lead side quit. Remember the truck and trailer video of pushing vs pulling... I'm seing also that more emphases is put on the trail elbow that should be against or in front of body in the downswing. Using the right side (for right hand people) is for sure "power" if you can control it. Why that change in direction now? Better result? easier to learn? We use to practice movements without a club for hundreds of reps, is that still teach at RotarySwing?
There are 2 basic ways to swing the club, a "swing" and a "hit". A swing is what I've always taught and prefer. A hit leaves tons of room for interpretation as it's less of a "pure" movement than a swing that requires way less tension in the body and especially arms. Some golfers struggle with that and aren't looking to have a pure classic golf swing and teaching them to use more trail side is easier and simpler to learn and gets them hitting better shots more quickly. I also believe the mentality of people has changed so much with the social media, quick fix, etc. that this concept works better for those who are go, go, go all the time and don't want to take the time to learn a classic pure swing. That being said, the more I dig into Tiger's swing and those of other greats, I think they were more classic swingers of the club than "hitters" but the jury is still out as I can make the argument both ways. That's why I'm trying to get as close as possible mechanically to Tiger's swing so someone can truly understand what he actually did and not just go back and forth with theory. If I can replicate the movement, then I can understand it for what it actually is and not just what someone thinks it is. If you look at the comments they go both ways, so we don't really know, we can only speculate. I want to KNOW.
Walked off course in despair yesterday (again). I've embraced and wholeheartedly committed to a few methods and teachers in the past but ALL required my right (trail) side to shut up! Absurdly dominant right hand has killed my golf and batting (cricket) all my life. I'm 61. Maybe this sport isn’t for me.... 1am Doom scrolling anything but golf I came across this video....Can't hurt to watch a GOAT I thought, but I was NOT expecting THIS! Carte Blanche to throw with my right hand? After checking I was not dreaming I felt a lot less depressed. Less than 12 hours later I go to my frosty range and give it a go. Couple of swishes with the club shaft. Yup, I can throw. Pitching wedge....BOOM! Jesus H Christmas on a bike! 9 iron...POW 8 iron...this is now weird. How can this be working? Driver...see ya! OK it won't work on chips, especially delicate ones. I'm good chipper anyway...but IT DOES! and more accurately. Visualise then throw. Bunkers? I'd rather take an unplayable, it'd save more shots....I've just had to rake the entire biggest bunker on our practice range. I floated almost every one out of there. I need to buy you a beer if you're ever in UK! I'm going to try this all winter (I've had eureka moments before) but this feels different.🤞 🙏 No need to think about anything else but the throw. Pick my spot on the ball and viualise the club throwing through that dot. Thank you very much indeed 👍
Have been using my trail side hand for decades. For me when I cast ehen u wanna hit harder. Now I am focusing in letting the lead hand drop and lead, keep the bow and release which is more consistent. Without shaft lean the right hand push will make me shots more inconsistent. 😢
Great video. Hogan said he wished he had 3 right hands. 🤔. Different things work for different people, but overall I 100% agree with this for my own swing. I feel like a lot of golf instruction nowadays is geared towards people being extremely strong and flexible with limited face rotation and it’s just not realistic or natural for most of us to play golf that way even though the numbers may look good on TrackMan or GC Quad.
Interesting. Mine is just below the second knuckle of my middle finger. It’s not much of one though. Mostly just a spot that gets sore but i also dont use cords anymore and have some really soft tacky grips now
Thanks for the videos. It seems simple, yet whenever I do the post up, my head always pops up, too. How do I stay down during that part of the sequence?
Years ago you espoused a lead side swing would be best way to cure the ails of a right side dominant swing. Right side overtakes left and causes left wrist to break down and resultant chicken. Now you say right side but how will this not cause above stated issues. Also might cause right medial epicondylitis(golfers elbow) so how to prevent this and still use this new method?
I hit it the same either way, but the feel is basically opposite. I like both feelings. Main difference is it's much easier to hit a draw this way and much easier to hit a fade the other way.
so a throwing/hitting motion with the right hand/arm/side must also have a solid left hand/wrist...the left hand/wrist must remain stiff and not flip under the power from the right, also like bryson does at impact...
@@Rotaryswing ive been doing a lot of my swing lately with my right arm and its really helping but always feel like my left arm wants to take over. Im going to do throw drills. Thanks bud
I’ve always had a natural right arm release, and even at the age of 13 I was driving the ball 290-320 yds consistently. For me, I achieved that ease of swing via allowing the wrists to break a bit more at the top of my backswing, which forces me to initiate the right arm to bring the club face back to flush at the bottom of my swing, as I don’t have the body motion of an uninjured person… I’m 50 now, major back injury which left me paralyzed for a year, and a blown out lead shoulder from a mountain bike accident, and I still crush the ball. It’s really that simple, in theory. If I’m tight & there’s pain in my backswing, it can go awry quickly on a shot. So it’s about keeping every muscle in my body completely relaxed throughout the backswing.
Been on a big swing journey the past 2 years. I’ve changed my grip numerous times different swings tried the Matthew Wolff. Rahm Morikawa Rory everything. I think one thing is I have learned I have a very active right hand. And I don’t get to my lead side very well I tend to push off with my trail leg. I’m 34 Ive always been athletic and aggressive so smooth isn’t really built into my dna lol So I’m gonna dive into this theory of yours hopefully something clicks. Thank you
Up to you. I have guys who are switching and prefer it but everyone will have to decide what they want. This way is easier to produce power for most but only if they know how to throw or want to take the time to learn it
Tiger is a lefty golfing right-handed, and so am I. Pound for pound, I have always hit the ball A LOT further than most anyone I have played with. Being that I studied Hogan's swing and he was a huge proponent of hitting the ball with his trail arm. I think he said hebwished he had 3 right arms. This has always given me far more power than trying to pull with the lead arm.
Tiger is lefty and Phil Mickelson is righty (mirror imaged his dad so he plays golf left handed). Being lefties are 1/7, I'd imagine there are more lefties playing right handed than you realize.
What about the philosophy of body being the engine of the swing 35lbs of muscle to hit it long way I’m confused now we need to go back to dominant side army’s hands swing? Hard to hear for all the folks drilling the left side for thousands of reps?
this is my opinion of how Tiger swings. That doesn’t mean you have to do it. Tiger swings one way. Ernie another. Both work. You can decide which is best for you as both create the same end result. Just two very different ways to get there.
@@davidhowe1069 send an email to cs@rotaryswing.com and they will get you sorted. If you already sogned up for a free acct in thr past it wont allow you to do it twice
@@stevepiccinnin1157 happy the help anyway i can. I definitely recommend you watch the full lesson i posted on the site with Venkatesh. TONS you will learn in there
@@Rotaryswing okay , thanks for now.. I can say without any doubt, your stuff has helped me more than anyone else in the space,.. not afraid to pass that on to others as well!
Hey Chuck! Didn’t know you went from being Hollywood actor to a golf instructor!? Are you going to make a martial arts instructional videos?? Thanks for the video Mr. Norris 👌
this is interesting. ive been a student of Jack Nicklaus's smooth swing style and emulated that as much as I can and then over the years I tried all kinds of various other methods, over the top. down the back, flatter, moe norman, hogan etc but I since I trained with JAcks style that has always just felt the most natural and easiest and its morphed a bit over the years but Ive always always had an issue with my ball striking. i would always impact the turf infront of ball and incidentally ive always relied on my left arm as the dominant arm to focus on. earlier this year, I was going through another test phase and I started focusing on my right hand drive and added a snap through at the bottom of the swing, I concentrated on my right hand driving through the ball at impact and suddenly Im hitting dirt behind the ball and getting a clean impact on the ball first consistently, like I dont even need to worry anymore. to hear this really made me realize the focus was on the wrong hand all these damn 35 years.. plus I can easily add a draw or a fade now. like how has nobody taught me this ever
I learned by watching jack nicklaus golf my way tapes!! Ive been right where you are. I tried everything too. Took lessons with “top 100” teachers on tv and went from a college golf scholarship athlete to not being able to break 80 two days in a row. Which is exactly how i created Rotaryswing and struck out on my own to figure things out for myself. Now after 30 yrs of teaching the more i think about it i keep seeing ways to make it simpler and simpler still.
forgot to add, that what I realized is that this motion is essentially an efficient trebuchet with a multi arm. your right hand is the force multiplier, creating greater club head speed with much less force and energy, and its more repeatable. so my whole body is very stable and does not move, only my arms move the ball with little hip rotation and a bit of knee motion body weight shift on swing through. I also do a lot of Japanese sword work and cutting of mats and there is a technique to create a lot of blade speed. if you imagine holding a sword with a handle that is almost same length as a club, left hand at the bottom near the cap of the handle and the right hand is near the hilt and while your right hand is moving the blade forward, your left hand is also pullin the handle backwards, creating a doubling of the blade speed
@@genin69 ya that makes a lot of sense with the sword. Most golfers pull up on the handle a fair bit with the left and it does help accelerate the release. I do it by pushing down on the ground with my left foot when swinging lead side. Unfortunately now i can barely use my left pinky from a dirtbike crash so the switch was necessary for me to maintain power as i get older. This is super easy for me to produce speed with the right and i was able to stay in the mid 120s and actually gain control since my left hand is wrecked. Now it’s pretty hard to not hit it straight
@@Rotaryswing another I did which has helped me so much is I made my grips way thicker. I overlayed a leather strap ontop of standard grip and added spacers so the grip doesnt taper. its universally the same thickness right through the grip, more like a tennis racket. ive also taken a wider grip on the club. there is actually space between my right hand and my left hand, it just feels way better for me. my only thought during the swing is that my right hand needs to accelrate and scoop /cut the ball. i dont think about anything else. make is simpler indeed
I focus more on throwing my right forearm rather than flipping my wrist. Throwing the forearm creates stability in the wrist and allows you to better control the club face. It also helps maintains shaft pressure/lean to hit down through the shot. Throwing the wrist produces volatility in club face angle, shaft lean and arc depth. This is because you essentially have to time the throwing of the wrist to get to the proper club position at impact. In my opinion, the golf swing is too fast for the average golfer to time the flipping of the wrist consistently. Lastly, keeping the ball in play is just as fun as hitting it further :)
All the top long hitters are swing this way now, that why they all hit it so far, u can't hit it far using your none dominant hand.. It's a combination but mostly the right hand when u swing thru...
That’s not actually true. I still swung over 120 mph lead arm dominant and let my right hand come off all the time. I used it for sure but very little and replaced it with body speed. This i swing the same speed but it’s easier to me to produce the same speed but doesn’t feel as effortless if that makes sense
One a side: why do we ALL want speed? Because a 9 iron is easier to flush than a 5 iron. If all our clubs carry further, then we get to use our easier clubs more frequently.
If your driver is long and reliable there's no real need for long irons. Only times I hit them, now that I've fixed my driver, is on long par 5 or par 3. I must hit my 5i 4 times max per round, my 4i and 3i only one time, rest is mostly 7i and 9i. Is still practice them a lot at the range because nothing beats the feeling of a flushed bladed long iron.
@@jeremygarza566 the grip is a very individual thing. It's all about finding the way to hold the club that allows for a free and natural release through the hitting zone. Me personally, I find a slightly stronger left hand and a neutral or weaker right works best for me. Ymmv
If I had the choice of hitting a ball at Augusta or hitting a ball off of Chuck's backyard matt at the San Juan Mountains I think I'd choose Chuck's matt.
I still feel that the left hand is the primary controller in the swing and the right just adds some speed and control. Check out the video i published today
Good analysis video!! I think Tiger is left-handed. So it doesn't need to be the "dominant" hand. I also studied the year2000 Tiger/Harmon swing and it looks pretty much similar to Mike Malaskas. The trail arm/hand dominant with the shaft in front of you always and not behind (stuck position). It's clear both on Taylor Made 9windows video and the other one with TM Tiger and Morikawa video which Tiger "slaps" the ball so differently (even the sound) compared to Morikawa with basically his right hand. So, I tried to copy that, and i had to open the face at address big time. And only then i could manage to hit well. I think the problem is, we amateurs, shut the face tremendously at address and/or in the downswing. And then the classic amateur mistakes happen. Again, nice video of yours!!👍
Read Faldo's book...his whole reconstruction of his swing is this...left side then changing to right hand dominant. Tho he, and I disagree with you with respect on the fact (as does Snead, Hogan) that the Shoulders are indeed the hub of the motor and main power source...try throwing without shoulder motion...it comes hand in hand. See freddie couples video on timing and tempo...the bit right at the end... sure it is a Mike Austin right hand throw...but it is ALL important. Watch Mike Austin skeleton suit video. Step and throw... " the shoulders are the hub". Focus only on the right hand and you will do a fake shoulder turn then lose leberage potential. Good vid tho dude.
I’d take Ernie Els swing over Tigers swing any day, Ernie’s swing is like flutter, built for longevity Tiger swing in 2002 was built to win majors, but had a shelf life of 8 years, that amount of torque and speed was out of this world.
I had to learn nearly the entire swing pattern. My natural swing included a cupped left wrist (result: open clubface at impact), lifting up in the backswing, hips moving toward the ball in the downswing (result: steep and over the top coming down) and no forward weight shift (result: falling to the right hitting high). I had zero low point control and was completely unaware of where my swing path or club face was at impact. I had to completely redo my swing once I learned what I was doing wrong.
Tigger's recent swing doesn't have the upper chest tilted back, none of the contemporary PGA player swing in his way. Specifically, he uses the top-scapula to drive and hence pushes his shoulders forward more than the waist! But it is different than when he is younger.
24 years ago I began building my golf swing with a 6 finger grip. Because Mr Hogan says for a right hand golfer it's the last 3 fingers. So for a left hand golfer it's the last 3 fingers 🎉. Hogan's secret is a 6 finger grip. And I focused and concentrating on the six finger grip and the inner muscles 💪. From the ground and up ❤🎉 I dug it out of the dirt and I follow the sun 🌞. I own my swing because I am the swing. 24 years to master the same grip/ muscle's for the left and right hands. Flawless victory 🙌 Hands of a surgeon 👏. I spent 12 years in the beginning putting, chipping and pitching so my swing is built off my putting stroke 🎉😂. One feeling for all. ❤❤❤ I'm empathetic and this is my superpower 🙏🤠🔱💯. Sun gazing ❤🎉 Love light ⛳😇💪🌞🧬
100% because he's fighting the natural ball flight of his release pattern. When he was at his best, hit a ripper draw off the tee. He now hits a 20 yard slice with a weak 170 mph ball speed - no bueno. STOP trying to play the cut TW!
If you want to see the video of how I helped my students pick up nearly 60 yards off the tee, it's here: rotaryswing.com/c4/112529-swing-like-the-goat
This is the most spot on explanation of the golf ⛳ swing I've ever heard on all of UA-cam. Finally, someone understands what I've been thinking 🤔 about for over a decade.
Absolutely gold... Use to swing like that until I went down the abyss of UA-cam coaching and tried to get in all those weird and wonderful positions that was physical impossible or very demanding on my body... So glad I came across this video..Definitely going back to the clubface release swing.
Been watching your videos for a long time. It's interesting to see that you've changed your views about being trail side vs lead side dominant. Respect for keeping an open mind and changing your views as you get more information.
Good explanation. It's makes sense, if you're right handed and that's your most coordinated hand, then which hand do you want controling the face, Obviously right. As I've figured out out to feel shots in my hands my game has drastically improved. This is also why I think it's super important for beginners to spend a lot of time chipping and pitching and getting creative wmariund the greens because it allows you to train the feels of different shots at a lower speed, send it high, keep low, put spin on, take it off and skip it....
Right hand dominant makes so much sense to mean.I'm happy you made this video. I can't wait to get to the gulf rings to try this out. Thanks for this.
Content and please keep up the good work.
I just discovered this throwmotion yesterday in my golfswing. For me it was setting the wrists earlier by pushing the handle down at the start of the swing and bringing the shaft in an 45° angle half way back in the backswing. Then i really felt the strenghts to hit hard with the right arm/ shoulder. Before that changes i was a left body dominant player.
😱😱 this video came up this AM like some kind of prophecy! 54 years old, played in High School and College. Gave up the game due to regular life coming at you .... now trying desperately to rebuild my game after many years and now sporting bad hips... 😔 have been very disappointed in not being able to swing and move my body... Now I have new hope!
This video was on the front page of UA-cam this morning like I was meant to see it. I played college and professionally in the early 2000s as a left side dominant player. I completely gave the game up in 2005 for several reasons. Over the years I thought about what i would do different if i ever picked the game up again. One day I heard Nicholas say play with back to the target and it clicked in my head. 15 years later at 48 years old I came home, got my clubs out and headed to the range. Two years later what has evoled from that is a right handed dominant swing with a full release and im crushing the ball. Im back to a +2 handicap. Now at 50, I routinely hit it 315 to 330. However, my swing has become very shallow (+1.5 to +2.0 angle of attack with 6 iron) leading to an extremely high ball flight. Yesterday i hit balls with the intention of going back a left side hold the face off swing to see if that would improve ball height but after watching your video im going to continue what im doing. I would love to hear your thoughts on improving angle of attack.
That's super shallow and I would actually be very curious to see your iron swing if you have a video. Is your path severely in to out? If not, then it's just a matter of the release happening a tad bit too soon so the club bottoms out too early. This can easily be balanced out by correcting the throwing motion and getting the elbow in a slightly more forward position in the downswing like I talk about here axiomgolf.com
Your comment made me write a reply on the internet for the first time in years! I too played competitively for 5 years and gave up the game in 2005. After a 17 year break I decided to practice a more lead side dominate swing, with a focus on hitting ever “proper position in a modern swing. The results were on injury after another at 52yrs old. I began to focus on moving my body less and allowing my right hand to release and control the ball flight just this week. I have played 3 rounds all under par this week and most importantly my body feels great. Today is the first time I ever heard of this type of motion being taught and I’m so interested in learning more.
@@michaelbyrd39 well I didn't mean to bring you back to the hell of online commenting but welcome back anyway! The full video with everything I did to teach these guys is here: rotaryswing.com/c4/112529-swing-like-the-goat
I always wondered if you could feel both sides. Both hands both legs what that could potentially do. It's like watching guys chop wood with axes professionally they slide the ax through the dominant hand and then grip with both. I know it's probably crazy talk but that and push with both legs. That's also a difference in baseball I was a college baseball player I could swing with my entire body in high school I got a scholarship because I hit 6 home runs we played at the Blue Jays minor league facility in Bluefield VA. Met Vlad Guerrero Jr at Walmart. Cal Ripken played there used to be orioles minor league.
Also saw a video that a guy was hitting drives 350 and he emulated everything he could from Barry Bonds baseball swing I'll have to find it and leave the link
Glad I had someone teach me to throw the club with my dominant hand early on in my golf adventure. Went from not being able to break 100 to a single digit handicap in a month. Throw the club underhanded. Keep the club on front of you. Spend the spare time on your short game. Thanks, it isn't as hard as golf wants you to think. 😊
Throw the club underhanded...
You sir have just given me a lightbulb moment...
That kinda makes perfect sense, Now I feel stupid...😄
Why has that never twigged in my brain...🤦♂️
I'm a big feel player, self taught sitting at 7hc.
Underhand throw makes it miles easier for me to feel up and left with the handle and my body to understand...
Down and under not down and around how it "looks" on video...🤔
Precisely what the axiom power program is. Actually i would phrase it as a somewhat sidearm throw but that’s mostly semantics. Do either one and you will be on plane
@@Carsonsimon good luck. I hope it works for you as it has for me. Never made sense to me to play with your non-dominant side. I was ready to quit when a guy asked me, you ever play baseball? Nothing in sport like a home run swing & a smooth long iron. Enjoy.
Absolutely fascinating. I swing from the right side, but I'm a left hander. Always played just fine and long. But I'm getting older, and am really losing distance. I'll bet that I never really used my trail arm/side much at all. In fact, I used to call the right hand the devil's hand, cause it would mess up my swing. Chuck, if you are correct, this is game changing. Literally. Of course it's harder for me to throw the ball right handed. Left handed no problem. I used to pitch.
Ya, it doesn't have to be this way. Venkatesh can hit it the same distance as an avg tour pro now at 56. You can produce speed either way as you experienced, but as we get older the body doesn't want to move as fast. The video is now live on the site if you want to see how I did it with these guys.
Think about swinging a hammer at the golf ball
I swear to god that I’ve been thinking this for years but bc I’ve always been so bad at golf I was afraid to ruin my swing even more lmao. I’ve been watching a lot of face on videos of pros swings just watching their right forearm and it makes sense that a lot of players are either doing this or trying to do it. Great video
You fail, over and over again. That's the journey.
Beating the challenge of the easy, consistent swing; is the most exhilarating feeling.
It started with Guitar. That taught me the steps to learn anything.
Keep blasting! Stop thinking about your score, distance. Think about how you feel relative to where you are looking.
Thank you so much for this video! There is so much conflicting information out there! I'm not great, but I'm not a scrub either. Probably a 5-7 hdcp coming off of a very serious back injury.
Ive been obsessively filming my swing and analyzing every tiny detail. And it puts me more and more at a loss simply because I am trying to follow conventional teaching. I noticed myself "casting" a little in my swing. And even though Ive been hitting it long and accurate, ive been trying to "fix" it. It is good to hear that it is not necessarily an issue.
I agree with this, I used to be a lead arm golfer and moved to trail arm golfer. If you think about how you would skip a rock across a pond, the throw comes from the trail side of the body using the dominant arm. Learning to do that throw with non-dominant arm is so key.
I’ve always thought this and this is how the release should people call it a flip or a roll but it’s the club just releasing and turning over its letting the club do what it wants to do. It’s been taught out of me and I’m a club and a half shorter in distance now I used to carry 9 iron 150 now I’m down to 140 on a good day. Think I need to go back!
Great minds think alike ;-) let me know how it works for you!
So this is super interesting. I'm a 42 year old 1 handicap. I have been working on power and was feeling this handle pull with my right hand. Recently had a teacher say I'm lead side dominate but really struggled to generate power with it. I think this makes a ton of sense.
This was incredibly interesting! I play right handed even though I'm a lefty. I'm a former soccer player, and I'm right footed. I think that's why right handed golf felt natural for me, because I'm used to transferring the power through the right side of my lower body. I'd consider myself lead side dominant, because I feel like the golf swing is a backhanded swing for me. This video was really food for thought, because I'll definitely be looking more into the right hand in regards to the release. Not that I need distance as such, I can already hit it around 300 yards off the tee, but and improvements in terms of consistency and narrowing in dispersion is of course valuable, as well as making the swing more effortless, since I'm often suffering from soreness around the left shoulder blade even though I'm relatively young and quite athletic.
So thank you, this was really food for thought!
Interesting you are the opposite of me i play golf left-handed even though im right-hand dominant, write with right for example but i also kick with my left foot.
This is absolutely fantastic and i'm facinated by what i just saw... I've swong both ways but feel more comfortabe with my trail hand lead. i often felt like i was cheating using my rt hand as my lead hand but now that I know that Tiger does the same thing im good. to me its the easiest way to swing... thanks for your video it has truely eased my mind... now in can play with less stress.
You’re welcome!
Watching till the end, and this is great!🎉
Just found you. I really dig your style. I'm a mostly self taught player. Ive read over 60 golf swing books. I'm a plus 2 and have a swing shape like Faldo. I feel like I really understand my swing and have coached a lot of high level am's. The only thing you are incorrect with in this video is about Tigers swing knowledge. He is a swing geek. He can go down any rabbit hole you want. He knows as much about the swing as anyone on earth. I look forward to watching more of your videos!
When I trained for WLD, it felt like there was no max to distance gain because it all rellied on how hard you could yank the club in on the way down and an aggressive throw on the right arm. It's like if a standard trailing arm wrist rotation is like shooting a bow, that pitch flick you put into impact in LD is like a railgun. It's the key to the LD power and speed and is the key to effortless distance. I taught a buddy of mine with the right arm pitch and he was over 280 in 3 months, he's 5'7" and never touched a club in his life. It's been ages tho so he's probably ass now, but the point still stands.
So with the cut you mentioned at the end, would it be the same feel like you would do throwing a ball and the way you would flip your fingers to put left to right spin on it. Typing it I'm not sure if what I'm saying is making sense. Or if you were bowling and wanted the ball to spin left to right down the lane. That feel could help improve the cut shots.
Great stuff, as always! Is what you did with Pedro available to watch?
I just published Venkatesh’s full lesson and it is available on the site
Thanks!
Very interesting video .. how do you think this system would work on a left handed person who places right handed golf ? As obviously don't throw right handed?
I have a lot of members who play this way. The activation of the trail hand is really just the wrist so it's not so much a throw with the arm so it's very easy to get the feel of adding some speed with just the wrist.
When you throw you pronate .. are you pronating when you release your hand in golf swing too?
rotaryswing.com/c4/112404-axiom-release-overview
Well I watched one of your videos yesterday, about letting the arms fall continue swing with the body following, had a great nine playing this way. Ok I watched this one today y about right throwing and being dominate.
Unfortunately Ive be been your formers self and am left side dominate and my right hand goes for a ride .
Bit confused now because to get the opposite feel will be like wipping your bum with the opposite hand.
I'm 65, played all my life, do you really feel right side dominate is more powerful, t hats a big change with right hand no longer going for a ride
I have been watching Tigers swing for a long time. From slow motion to golf pros breaking his swing down and no matter ow hard I try I cannot get in the same release positions I see him in. I have even tried to reverse engineer his position to figure out how he gets there with no success. I am a lefty, and your trail arm explanation is such a different feel I took some swing in the mirror with iron and driver and am the closest I have ever been to a Tiger swing finish. I can throw pretty good and this feel is so much more natural. I will be taking this to the range today or tomorrow and report back. Great video.
Let me know!
Question for you.. Im a left handed player but right hand dominant. Im definitely a body swing but am intrigued by this swing. Im a little useless with my left hand. Do you think it possible to train my non dominant hand/wrist to swing like this?
Sure, I have students in your situation all the time. It just comes down to what you want to feel in the swing.
You can start by gripping the club totaly in the fingers and pausing at the top of the backswing, with the left side dissconected from the ground at the top , but at the same time, falling onto the left 😊
So, how do you swing lead side dominant? I got a bad right shoulder, and I'm naturally left handed. I feel like I should look at that.
Watch my video on the DEAD drill
This is alot of mike austin , he is all about the release. I think that more and more golf education is going back to old school swings.
Really nice video man. It deadset makes me want to go to the range and experiment lol. Of course I see this video when I’m striking the ball the best I have been in a while. When you talk about a fast transition and just rip at it with the lead hand, does that as a consequence throw your club path out? Is it a recipe for swinging over the top in a powerful manner? I’m swinging from the inside these days with a draw and I’d love to keep it that way whilst still adding power. How do you be careful to still keep a nice club path and not revert to being steep?
By using your legs and external rotation of the trail arm
This is quite a change of direction. I've been a premium member for two years (22/23) until this summer. I had the impression that what was taught was to keep lead side quit. Remember the truck and trailer video of pushing vs pulling... I'm seing also that more emphases is put on the trail elbow that should be against or in front of body in the downswing. Using the right side (for right hand people) is for sure "power" if you can control it. Why that change in direction now? Better result? easier to learn? We use to practice movements without a club for hundreds of reps, is that still teach at RotarySwing?
There are 2 basic ways to swing the club, a "swing" and a "hit". A swing is what I've always taught and prefer. A hit leaves tons of room for interpretation as it's less of a "pure" movement than a swing that requires way less tension in the body and especially arms. Some golfers struggle with that and aren't looking to have a pure classic golf swing and teaching them to use more trail side is easier and simpler to learn and gets them hitting better shots more quickly. I also believe the mentality of people has changed so much with the social media, quick fix, etc. that this concept works better for those who are go, go, go all the time and don't want to take the time to learn a classic pure swing. That being said, the more I dig into Tiger's swing and those of other greats, I think they were more classic swingers of the club than "hitters" but the jury is still out as I can make the argument both ways. That's why I'm trying to get as close as possible mechanically to Tiger's swing so someone can truly understand what he actually did and not just go back and forth with theory. If I can replicate the movement, then I can understand it for what it actually is and not just what someone thinks it is. If you look at the comments they go both ways, so we don't really know, we can only speculate. I want to KNOW.
when i began using my right coordinated arm i started having much more control but then got a bit of golfers elbow, what to do?
Walked off course in despair yesterday (again). I've embraced and wholeheartedly committed to a few methods and teachers in the past but ALL required my right (trail) side to shut up!
Absurdly dominant right hand has killed my golf and batting (cricket) all my life. I'm 61. Maybe this sport isn’t for me....
1am Doom scrolling anything but golf I came across this video....Can't hurt to watch a GOAT I thought, but I was NOT expecting THIS!
Carte Blanche to throw with my right hand?
After checking I was not dreaming I felt a lot less depressed.
Less than 12 hours later I go to my frosty range and give it a go.
Couple of swishes with the club shaft. Yup, I can throw.
Pitching wedge....BOOM!
Jesus H Christmas on a bike!
9 iron...POW
8 iron...this is now weird. How can this be working?
Driver...see ya!
OK it won't work on chips, especially delicate ones. I'm good chipper anyway...but IT DOES! and more accurately. Visualise then throw.
Bunkers? I'd rather take an unplayable, it'd save more shots....I've just had to rake the entire biggest bunker on our practice range. I floated almost every one out of there.
I need to buy you a beer if you're ever in UK!
I'm going to try this all winter (I've had eureka moments before) but this feels different.🤞 🙏
No need to think about anything else but the throw. Pick my spot on the ball and viualise the club throwing through that dot.
Thank you very much indeed 👍
Have been using my trail side hand for decades. For me when I cast ehen u wanna hit harder. Now I am focusing in letting the lead hand drop and lead, keep the bow and release which is more consistent. Without shaft lean the right hand push will make me shots more inconsistent. 😢
Curious, how were you able to film at Augusta?
I was playing a round there and pulled out the phone is all
Great video. Hogan said he wished he had 3 right hands. 🤔. Different things work for different people, but overall I 100% agree with this for my own swing. I feel like a lot of golf instruction nowadays is geared towards people being extremely strong and flexible with limited face rotation and it’s just not realistic or natural for most of us to play golf that way even though the numbers may look good on TrackMan or GC Quad.
Ya you need a spine like Gumby to do what a lot of instructors teach today.
Amazing video.
this might be the most important golf instructional video I've ever seen
what would you recommend for someone who is right hand dominant but swings left handed?
A few have asked that, check out some of the other's question. The gist is you have to choose which you feel more comfortable with.
I have a 2 calluses on my right hand but they are both on my ring finger. Tiger had his tape on his middle. Where are yours?
Interesting. Mine is just below the second knuckle of my middle finger. It’s not much of one though. Mostly just a spot that gets sore but i also dont use cords anymore and have some really soft tacky grips now
@@Rotaryswing My grip is probably bad then.
Where are you located? I'm interested in learning through actual lessons with you....
Southwest Colorado near Telluride
Thanks for the videos. It seems simple, yet whenever I do the post up, my head always pops up, too. How do I stay down during that part of the sequence?
It’s a sidearm throwing motion that leads to the post up. Do that and you’ll stay down
Years ago you espoused a lead side swing would be best way to cure the ails of a right side dominant swing. Right side overtakes left and causes left wrist to break down and resultant chicken. Now you say right side but how will this not cause above stated issues. Also might cause right medial epicondylitis(golfers elbow) so how to prevent this and still use this new method?
Not right side. Just right hand. Overuse of the right arm will cause golfers elbow.
Very great video!
With your swing, does your lead arm go longer than trail arm tee shots? Or vice versa? Or same? Just curious..
I hit it the same either way, but the feel is basically opposite. I like both feelings. Main difference is it's much easier to hit a draw this way and much easier to hit a fade the other way.
so a throwing/hitting motion with the right hand/arm/side must also have a solid left hand/wrist...the left hand/wrist must remain stiff and not flip under the power from the right, also like bryson does at impact...
Nope. The left gas to be soft to allow the wrists to release naturally. It will not flip unless you release incorrectly
What you suggest for people like me who play golf right handed but are left handed. I wouldnt throw with my right arm so not natural for me
You either play more lead side dominant or learn to throw
@@Rotaryswing ive been doing a lot of my swing lately with my right arm and its really helping but always feel like my left arm wants to take over. Im going to do throw drills. Thanks bud
I saw the headline, swing like the GOAT. Would love to swing like Nicklaus, but would be cool to swing like woods, too.
Way easier to swing like Tiger to be honest.
I’ve always had a natural right arm release, and even at the age of 13 I was driving the ball 290-320 yds consistently.
For me, I achieved that ease of swing via allowing the wrists to break a bit more at the top of my backswing, which forces me to initiate the right arm to bring the club face back to flush at the bottom of my swing, as I don’t have the body motion of an uninjured person…
I’m 50 now, major back injury which left me paralyzed for a year, and a blown out lead shoulder from a mountain bike accident, and I still crush the ball.
It’s really that simple, in theory. If I’m tight & there’s pain in my backswing, it can go awry quickly on a shot. So it’s about keeping every muscle in my body completely relaxed throughout the backswing.
I'm very right hand dominate and it causes me to shut the face down fast and causes hooks and left misses.
You're probably swinging down steep. Have to fix the plane first
@Rotaryswing when it does go straight I get flippy and my launch goes way up.
You must be getting under plant, causing you to hit it too up. Try swing more laterally, around your body,vs vertical.
Been on a big swing journey the past 2 years. I’ve changed my grip numerous times different swings tried the Matthew Wolff. Rahm Morikawa Rory everything. I think one thing is I have learned I have a very active right hand. And I don’t get to my lead side very well I tend to push off with my trail leg. I’m 34 Ive always been athletic and aggressive so smooth isn’t really built into my dna lol So I’m gonna dive into this theory of yours hopefully something clicks. Thank you
Appreciate your work
Do you think lead side players have more accuracy than the trail side players?
Really impossible for say as there are too many variables.
Should I stay w a lead hand dominant swing if I am a lefty golfing RHanded?
I think more of a frisbee throwing motion w my left hand since I can’t throw w my right
Up to you. I have guys who are switching and prefer it but everyone will have to decide what they want. This way is easier to produce power for most but only if they know how to throw or want to take the time to learn it
Tiger is a lefty golfing right-handed, and so am I. Pound for pound, I have always hit the ball A LOT further than most anyone I have played with. Being that I studied Hogan's swing and he was a huge proponent of hitting the ball with his trail arm. I think he said hebwished he had 3 right arms. This has always given me far more power than trying to pull with the lead arm.
@@benjaminberan7645 what? Tiger is a lefty?? Did not know that
Tiger is lefty and Phil Mickelson is righty (mirror imaged his dad so he plays golf left handed). Being lefties are 1/7, I'd imagine there are more lefties playing right handed than you realize.
The South African 🇿🇦 oostehiuzen what a swing that is 👌
Question: What do you think is Rick Shiels problem?
Dont know anything about him
What about the philosophy of body being the engine of the swing 35lbs of muscle to hit it long way I’m confused now we need to go back to dominant side army’s hands swing? Hard to hear for all the folks drilling the left side for thousands of reps?
this is my opinion of how Tiger swings. That doesn’t mean you have to do it. Tiger swings one way. Ernie another. Both work. You can decide which is best for you as both create the same end result. Just two very different ways to get there.
Tried signing up for the 3 day access, several times, and all I get is “ validating access and a spinning wheel. What’s up?
@@davidhowe1069 send an email to cs@rotaryswing.com and they will get you sorted. If you already sogned up for a free acct in thr past it wont allow you to do it twice
What about trying to combine the 2 concepts ? Is there an advantage in doing so?
You can if you understand which pieces work well together and which ones are like oil and water.
@@Rotaryswing I might have to call on your services for that.. but seriously I might just do that..(if u have time)
@@stevepiccinnin1157 happy the help anyway i can. I definitely recommend you watch the full lesson i posted on the site with Venkatesh. TONS you will learn in there
@@Rotaryswing okay , thanks for now.. I can say without any doubt, your stuff has helped me more than anyone else in the space,.. not afraid to pass that on to others as well!
Hey Chuck! Didn’t know you went from being Hollywood actor to a golf instructor!? Are you going to make a martial arts instructional videos?? Thanks for the video Mr. Norris 👌
The Norris can do anything
Im 73 and not a big guy 5 feet 8 inches tall (shrinking some) 180 pounds. Can this help me? I would love a 230 yard drive.
Absolutely, I'm only 5'9". Everyone can hit the ball much farther than they are now.
this is interesting. ive been a student of Jack Nicklaus's smooth swing style and emulated that as much as I can and then over the years I tried all kinds of various other methods, over the top. down the back, flatter, moe norman, hogan etc but I since I trained with JAcks style that has always just felt the most natural and easiest and its morphed a bit over the years but Ive always always had an issue with my ball striking. i would always impact the turf infront of ball and incidentally ive always relied on my left arm as the dominant arm to focus on.
earlier this year, I was going through another test phase and I started focusing on my right hand drive and added a snap through at the bottom of the swing, I concentrated on my right hand driving through the ball at impact and suddenly Im hitting dirt behind the ball and getting a clean impact on the ball first consistently, like I dont even need to worry anymore. to hear this really made me realize the focus was on the wrong hand all these damn 35 years.. plus I can easily add a draw or a fade now. like how has nobody taught me this ever
I learned by watching jack nicklaus golf my way tapes!! Ive been right where you are. I tried everything too. Took lessons with “top 100” teachers on tv and went from a college golf scholarship athlete to not being able to break 80 two days in a row.
Which is exactly how i created Rotaryswing and struck out on my own to figure things out for myself. Now after 30 yrs of teaching the more i think about it i keep seeing ways to make it simpler and simpler still.
forgot to add, that what I realized is that this motion is essentially an efficient trebuchet with a multi arm. your right hand is the force multiplier, creating greater club head speed with much less force and energy, and its more repeatable. so my whole body is very stable and does not move, only my arms move the ball with little hip rotation and a bit of knee motion body weight shift on swing through. I also do a lot of Japanese sword work and cutting of mats and there is a technique to create a lot of blade speed. if you imagine holding a sword with a handle that is almost same length as a club, left hand at the bottom near the cap of the handle and the right hand is near the hilt and while your right hand is moving the blade forward, your left hand is also pullin the handle backwards, creating a doubling of the blade speed
@@genin69 ya that makes a lot of sense with the sword. Most golfers pull up on the handle a fair bit with the left and it does help accelerate the release. I do it by pushing down on the ground with my left foot when swinging lead side. Unfortunately now i can barely use my left pinky from a dirtbike crash so the switch was necessary for me to maintain power as i get older. This is super easy for me to produce speed with the right and i was able to stay in the mid 120s and actually gain control since my left hand is wrecked. Now it’s pretty hard to not hit it straight
@@Rotaryswing another I did which has helped me so much is I made my grips way thicker. I overlayed a leather strap ontop of standard grip and added spacers so the grip doesnt taper. its universally the same thickness right through the grip, more like a tennis racket. ive also taken a wider grip on the club. there is actually space between my right hand and my left hand, it just feels way better for me. my only thought during the swing is that my right hand needs to accelrate and scoop /cut the ball. i dont think about anything else. make is simpler indeed
@@genin69 i tinkered with extra wraps many years ago but never went this far. I can see how with a right hand pattern it could feel comfortable
I focus more on throwing my right forearm rather than flipping my wrist. Throwing the forearm creates stability in the wrist and allows you to better control the club face. It also helps maintains shaft pressure/lean to hit down through the shot.
Throwing the wrist produces volatility in club face angle, shaft lean and arc depth. This is because you essentially have to time the throwing of the wrist to get to the proper club position at impact. In my opinion, the golf swing is too fast for the average golfer to time the flipping of the wrist consistently. Lastly, keeping the ball in play is just as fun as hitting it further :)
It’s not an “active” flip that you have to time. It’s quite passive just happening naturally very fast when delayed late in the downswing
Kinda makes sense how the 1 handed golfer can hit it so good lol snappy Gilmore
I was always told you can’t teach club head speed at a certain point you either got it or you dont
Disagree 1000%
Tiger's swing looks like Ben Hogan's with a touch less shallowing and a slightly narrower stance to me.
I figured out this releasing the wrist trick years ago. It just kind of clicked one day because I was slicing a lot of balls
I swing at about the same speed that Tiger does NOW! He 2 has lost 10-15 mph in his full driver swing?
All the top long hitters are swing this way now, that why they all hit it so far, u can't hit it far using your none dominant hand..
It's a combination but mostly the right hand when u swing thru...
That’s not actually true. I still swung over 120 mph lead arm dominant and let my right hand come off all the time. I used it for sure but very little and replaced it with body speed. This i swing the same speed but it’s easier to me to produce the same speed but doesn’t feel as effortless if that makes sense
Crazy enough I feel like I’m very left leg dominant with a right hand release
One a side: why do we ALL want speed? Because a 9 iron is easier to flush than a 5 iron. If all our clubs carry further, then we get to use our easier clubs more frequently.
Somewhat true. However that doesnt mean we should be trying to kill our short Clubs.
If your driver is long and reliable there's no real need for long irons.
Only times I hit them, now that I've fixed my driver, is on long par 5 or par 3.
I must hit my 5i 4 times max per round, my 4i and 3i only one time, rest is mostly 7i and 9i.
Is still practice them a lot at the range because nothing beats the feeling of a flushed bladed long iron.
Once you pair this with a good grip that lets you square the face naturally, you're on the way to truly enjoying the game.
What kind of grip? Neutral or strong?
@@jeremygarza566 the grip is a very individual thing. It's all about finding the way to hold the club that allows for a free and natural release through the hitting zone.
Me personally, I find a slightly stronger left hand and a neutral or weaker right works best for me. Ymmv
If I had the choice of hitting a ball at Augusta or hitting a ball off of Chuck's backyard matt at the San Juan Mountains I think I'd choose Chuck's matt.
Ive done both. You made the right decision! Our view is much better!
What do you tell a left-hand side dominant person who plays right handed.
I still feel that the left hand is the primary controller in the swing and the right just adds some speed and control. Check out the video i published today
Good analysis video!! I think Tiger is left-handed. So it doesn't need to be the "dominant" hand. I also studied the year2000 Tiger/Harmon swing and it looks pretty much similar to Mike Malaskas. The trail arm/hand dominant with the shaft in front of you always and not behind (stuck position). It's clear both on Taylor Made 9windows video and the other one with TM Tiger and Morikawa video which Tiger "slaps" the ball so differently (even the sound) compared to Morikawa with basically his right hand. So, I tried to copy that, and i had to open the face at address big time. And only then i could manage to hit well. I think the problem is, we amateurs, shut the face tremendously at address and/or in the downswing. And then the classic amateur mistakes happen.
Again, nice video of yours!!👍
Read Faldo's book...his whole reconstruction of his swing is this...left side then changing to right hand dominant. Tho he, and I disagree with you with respect on the fact (as does Snead, Hogan) that the Shoulders are indeed the hub of the motor and main power source...try throwing without shoulder motion...it comes hand in hand. See freddie couples video on timing and tempo...the bit right at the end... sure it is a Mike Austin right hand throw...but it is ALL important. Watch Mike Austin skeleton suit video. Step and throw... " the shoulders are the hub". Focus only on the right hand and you will do a fake shoulder turn then lose leberage potential. Good vid tho dude.
tha's why he the GOAT
I’d take Ernie Els swing over Tigers swing any day, Ernie’s swing is like flutter, built for longevity Tiger swing in 2002 was built to win majors, but had a shelf life of 8 years, that amount of torque and speed was out of this world.
I had to learn nearly the entire swing pattern. My natural swing included a cupped left wrist (result: open clubface at impact), lifting up in the backswing, hips moving toward the ball in the downswing (result: steep and over the top coming down) and no forward weight shift (result: falling to the right hitting high). I had zero low point control and was completely unaware of where my swing path or club face was at impact. I had to completely redo my swing once I learned what I was doing wrong.
Skip rocks on the pond
The way I see it the lead arm is purely there to line up the ball
Asked him in person about using my trail hand aka right and he nodded.
Followed up by him throwing a bag of skittles at me and saying "just like that"
At 19:50 , it's early date Tigger swing, different than later's at 19:42.
I have always said that the longest hitters will also be the longest throwers
Left-hand to me is more of the foundation and fundamental structure of the swing. The right hand is more shot specific based on each specific shot
We cant hear the sound of the swing from your talking!
Near end of clip fu@&#_n murdered 😅
Ironically, Tiger told Charlie not to copy his swing. He said to copy Rory's. After all this time i spent building my swing after Tiger's...🤦
Spin. It. Down.
It’s his glute activation
Tigger's recent swing doesn't have the upper chest tilted back, none of the contemporary PGA player swing in his way.
Specifically, he uses the top-scapula to drive and hence pushes his shoulders forward more than the waist!
But it is different than when he is younger.
My swing is built from the ground up, push the buttons at the bottom of your feet and name all body parts you use in your swing. Works for me.
This was my missing piece
24 years ago I began building my golf swing with a 6 finger grip.
Because Mr Hogan says for a right hand golfer it's the last 3 fingers.
So for a left hand golfer it's the last 3 fingers 🎉.
Hogan's secret is a 6 finger grip.
And I focused and concentrating on the six finger grip and the inner muscles 💪.
From the ground and up ❤🎉
I dug it out of the dirt and I follow the sun 🌞.
I own my swing because I am the swing.
24 years to master the same grip/ muscle's for the left and right hands.
Flawless victory 🙌
Hands of a surgeon 👏.
I spent 12 years in the beginning putting, chipping and pitching so my swing is built off my putting stroke 🎉😂.
One feeling for all.
❤❤❤
I'm empathetic and this is my superpower 🙏🤠🔱💯.
Sun gazing ❤🎉
Love light ⛳😇💪🌞🧬
Skip the stone Maruch
Why it’s called Goat theory?
greatest of all time
Tiger woods driving game had been quite inconsistent for past 5 years😢
100% because he's fighting the natural ball flight of his release pattern. When he was at his best, hit a ripper draw off the tee. He now hits a 20 yard slice with a weak 170 mph ball speed - no bueno. STOP trying to play the cut TW!
Jack is the GOAT! Don't get it mixed up...