All those lessons over the years and what you took from it is compiled in this video. It’s very similar to how I swing; big rotation, early pressure shifting into the lead leg and clearing the left side of my body to make room to rotate through impact. Combine that with the “shaft parallel with shoulders” swing theory from Milo and you’re pretty much golden.
Was randomly going through your older videos and your comment at 2:00 really clicked with me and explained why I kept coming over the top with high hands at impact. I was out of sequence in undoing the right arm fold. The down swing is essentially undoing the back swing in the reverse order but my right arm was still bent half way down when it's already too late. Thank you for this revelation
Man! I can’t thank you enough! I finally had a breakthrough in my swing and in my golf game because of you!!!! I was hitting the most pure straight and sometimes cut iron shots of my life , just from one range session!!! You have a gift and I’m lucky to have received it !
7:14 it's about pushing the weight that ends up in the left leg (foot) up and away from the ball. It creates space. You said it in a patio video about the timing between reaching the top and pushing off simultaneously. That push is a key to using ground force.
I appreciate your commentary. It’s concise and direct in pointing out what you’re trying to do and what you’re feeling without babbling. Very efficient communication.
Pure gold! And explained well! I’m on the same journey as you! Got tired of just getting fixes but no real help. You, mike, milo, and Marty have given me new hope and ideas to finally get better!
Hey Brendan, as someone who is part of Milo Lines' online academy... this is the video I needed! As you identify and articulate two of the biggest things I feel like I just haven't been able to solve as I try to progress from his 1+2 drills to the full swing. I too always felt like my hands rotated out over the top and couldn't figure out how to get the club down while maintaining structure and wrist angles... and then how the "falling left" part works with the "pushing back" of the rotation. This also shows well how you keep your lead shoulder/hip low as you transition.
Been watching your channel off and on for a couple years. This is one that has really helped! I have had lessons and was taught to drop my hands/arms slightly to get my downswing started. Your instruction to keep the arms back as you start the downswing, and drop left, does what I have been instructed to do but keeps the coiled power and the three points turning away from Target line really creates the rotation needed for power and to naturally drop it into the slot for more consistent iron play! Getting the timing and other movements down is a with in progress but this has definitely improved GIR!! Thanks!!
The “fall left” motion adds a dynamic action to the golf swing. It is essential for any athletic movement ... throwing a ball, swinging a bat, hitting a forehand in tennis, etc ... The AMG guys have a ton of videos on this, as they call it “Re-Centering.” As they like to say, you only have a quarter of a second from the top of the swing down to impact. You don’t have enough time to get over to your left side if you simply load to your right in the backswing. I would suggest getting pressure force to the left as soon as possible. Some can wait until the right arm begins to fold to “fall left,” but I think the sooner, the better. Anyway, thanks for posting, Brandon, and good luck.
Dude, one of the dopest videos you’ve ever posted. So many thing just clicked and I don’t know how I can shoot over 80 now. Keep doing what you’re doing man!
Great Video! This Malaska move with pulling the hips backwards in a straight line help me tremendesly avoiding the left side of the golf course. Purely recommend this. Greetings from Germany 👍😉 ..and i'm a new subscriber!
Interesting. I have a pull hook in my swing...mind you I was fitted for 2 degrees up many years ago, but this may help straighten or I'll have to get the clubs bent to standard. I'll try this on the range tomorrow. Thanks.
OMG been watching a lot of ur videos especially the ones with Milo. Brendan, I think u finally figured it out for both of us I've been struggling with the same move, that narrow holding lag move and struggled with many left shots. This was a great 👍 video for me Thanks for posting it. Will be on the range this afternoon.
just found your video and love how you explained how you were getting onto your left side. balls you are hitting are smoked! I am trying to turn more, get on my lead foot, feel like baseball when coach tells you to "hit the ball to 3rd base". thanks for all your work. John
LOLOL he's so spot on. Sooo many people now want to be golfers. And practice range people just learn bad habits because they want to crank balls. Spot on! Great video!
Hi B. Love the video. The challenge between milos 1 and 2 swing is that there is a tendency not to squat in transition on a 1. If you squat and widen your legs you won’t be able to slide and spin from the top. I’ve had to figure that out in my own swing. You can do a fun drill that is getting to the end of the backswing on a Milo 1, pause, squat in transition, pause and then hit the ball only by pushing the front hip out of the way (heel into the ground). I just used this drill yesterday. Lots of pure shots. The only way that the number 1 drill can translate is if the downswing has all of the same components of the two. Otherwise they are two totally different swings. Your rotational squat has the natural effect of lowering the club into the slot. Alan
Thanks Brandon, great explanation. The guys at Athletic Motion Golf call that move re-centering, where the weight starts to go left before you reach the top of the golf swing.
The "fall move" is new for me, and I get great results from the driving range. I used to shoot everything left. This video clarifies this move even more, thank you for a great video. Erik, Stockholm
Great video, Brandon! I have your same problem! I get stuck, no turn, shank, & never feel like I'm falling forward! I usually hit pull hooks. When I get the move you discussed correct, I can rotate as hard as I want and the ball will never go left. Thanks for explaining things in "regular golfer" terms!
crazy that I came across this video today. Just yesterday I was disgusted at my problem associated with a consistent pull and pull hook. This complex link of movements I only started to understand tonight (with good results) at the driving range and your explanation really drives the point home. I have had tremendous trouble putting together the weight transfer for the downswing and when and how to initiate it and how and when to clear the left side. I appreciate that you do a good job of explaining a truly complex series of movements in a very compressed time frame. Gotta watch this over and over as I think you have hit on how to get me out of the pull/pull hook that has plagued me for years. Thank you!!
I have been a subscriber for a few years and enjoy you journey to find your golf swing. I have enjoyed this video because I think it will help me with my transition. Don't know if you are familiar with the book "Swing Like a Pro" by Roger Mann, his transition move (which he says is the biggest difference in between amateurs and Pros) is very similar to what you saw in Milo's swing. Let me explain, the glutes turn in the backswing freely to make a catapult effect but the key is when the pressure moves to the front foot the hands push the club back just a little to get more width, this activates the lats and will add more distance (which works for me). The problem is while I hit the ball farther this has caused a lot of lower back pain after the round. I think by using your suggestion of moving the knee, hip and shoulder out of the way and if I remain more relaxed (not so tense during the swing) might alleviant stress on my lower back and that pull miss. Thanks for posting this video.
Awesome video Brendan....This definitely works for those of us who struggle hitting left. I've tried the "pull the chain down" method too and it wasn't as consistent as clearing the left side first. If I don't clear the left side and fire the hips first, my right shoulder can still sneak out first, even just a few degrees "over the top, and I will then either hit it left or occasionally cut across the ball a bit and hit it right. I like too that you're combining the right hand motion of Malaska with the big turn/rotation of Milo. Great stuff!!!!
I can relate to this and your last videos. Following Milo I'm hitting super straight, sometimes with a subtle push. Been shooting par and then I have a few of what you called 'high smash' pulls on short par 3s- starting straight and going long and left, or a shank. On my course that means OB x3 and really ruins the confidence and scorecard. I like your ideas here. Will definitely try.
Brendon, I have worked to incorporate this move over the past week. Milo talks about the whole upper torso opening up and shows how tennis players and baseball hitters have there chests opening at impact with the ball. This video puts the finger on how this move is accomplished. I have made hundreds of 1 and 2 Milo swings over the past 5 days and if I turn incorporating this concept, I can hit a tight draw, but I can't pull hook it, which has been one of my two regular misses. I won't say eureka just yet, but each swing that involves the turn you describe produces good contact and a proper divot. Now I'm wrestling with raising the height of the trajectory. Pretty cool.
You got the job done within the 5 or 6 videos I have seen you conduct during your lessons. Dynamite: You stop the coach/teacher when there appears to be vagueness due to ambiguous word, expression or a statement that lacks clarity. I am glad you put a stop soon as you realize the rise of a lack of communication; hey why should a coach/teacher just go on when lacks communication. Thanks, You even saw that in your own lesson today, so glad you left the matt and clarified. Thanks for all..sure hope i was sending clear message.
An anti-left shot. Eliminating that side of the course has got to have made you twice the player now! Your confidence on tight tee shots must be great! Good job Brendon!
I hear you Brendon. I will refer you to Lee Trevino, who explained to keep the hips closed for longer (I won't say how long) in the downswing. I would add then also keep your shoulders closed (more closed) in the earlier stages of the downswing. The advantage of that is having "more body left to use to turn with" in the "hitting area" (i.e. the "hitting area" the term Trevino called the last stages of the downswing before contact, maybe the point from where the shaft is parallel to the ground and through to the first few feet of the followthrough). My little memory device is to "hinge" with the shoulders with the arms (as the first move off the top, along with a moderate weight shift) and keeping the shoulders closed by keeping the hips closed in the early stage of the downswing, dropping the right elbow into a slot in front of the body, and with the right elbow "tucked" like that (but in front, not to the side) and with the shoulders still very closed (feels like the sternum is pointing back corner of the mat) as I get the club all the way down to the boundary line of the "hitting area" (as I described the point where the "hitting area" begins ...and if the sternum is pointing at the ball at that point, or, worse, my shoulders are already squared up to the target line at that point, then I'm stuck and I'll likely push or hook unless, somehow, my mistakes all cancel each other out, and that doesn't happen too often). I could tell you a lot more, but no one really wants to "read" the details, they want to see something, and I am the same way. Can't show you anything because I don't do videos! But let me make it even simpler for you all here -- don't be so anxious to "turn." And recognize the roll of the arms and hands, and there is a "release," you don't just hold all the way down, and not even Trevino held all the way down, in spite of his highly contorted body... I do like Milo's videos, and he explains things pretty well, a really good instructor, one that should be highly regarded. But maybe Brendon didn't get the full message Milo was sending, or Milo didn't understand the question posed by Brendon, or maybe some things are left unsaid, and are "assumed." You know, just practicing with a lot of conscious thought to the swing mechanics helps. But a lot of people don't want to reinvent or rediscover the wheel... lessons are the way to jump past that, but some instructors just do not get the message across, and some instructors just are not all that skilled as golfers themselves. Some famous pros have said they'ed never take a lesson , unless the instructor could beat them... and so they never took a lesson (e.g. Snead and Trevino). But other pros (e.g. Tiger and Jack) they did take lessons (and Tiger more than Jack I think). You can be sure Hogan never took a lesson. But I am convinced lessons will work, provided you instructor really can walk the walk, and has the ability to communicate ideas well. (I don't think you need a lot of video visuals, and, frankly, so often the video's suck, but, sometimes they are really helpful, to show a person what they are doing wrong, and then to show them what you would like to see them doing.) But the willingness of the student to learn is also part of the deal, and some people just don't want to take a lesson, and then they suck so bad they decide to take a lesson, and they just won't get with the program, and insist that they know better... and then there are those that actually got a not-so-good lesson from a not-so-good golf instructor... and they are soured on the idea of lessons for life. And there is more to golf than just hitting balls long like the guys you see on the tour. I shot a one-under 71 at Montebello golf course from the back tees after just 6 months of reading golf books and practicing. I concocted my own way of hitting, looking more like DeChambeau, or Nancy Lopez, or maybe Moe Norman. I liked my hands and arms way out straight with the shaft and on on plane at set up. My focus was then solely to (1) stay on plane, (2) keep the head still, and (3) shift only moderately, and (4) be facing the ball (or a spot about a foot in front of the ball) to hit the ball (i.e. at the point of contact), and (5) turn and drop the hands in a coordinated manner, not letting the shoulders turn so fast off the top that I overwhelm the ability of my hands and the clubhead to keep up. (These were my "swing thoughts.") Of course, keeping good posture was important, looking for good balance in the swing was important, and being "moderate" in swinging the club, and not trying to bomb it was important. I was strong enough to knock it over 250 with a driver (using wooden woods and top flite balls -- soon after came metal woods, but I am old, and this is a long time ago we are talking). Anyway, having so much success so fast with golf I stuck with it. But I was also a person that cared a LOT about chipping and putting and sand shots. I practiced those shots a lot too -- that used to be a big emphasis in golf, but not so much any more. Anyway, I set up quite differently now for the full shot, but at the point of contact I think I will still be in a very similar/same position. My advice to all is to be moderate in your swing, until you have the confidence and conditioning to blast harder at it. The harder you swing the more likely the swing is to break down. Maybe you figure out a "secret" that allows you to swing with most of all your might at the ball, but if not, and in the mean time, take it easy and hit fairways and greens, and learn how to putt. Though I practiced putting my whole life, only now, 30 years after I seriously took up the game, have I learned (taught myself) a system of putting that I really have confidence in, and my number of putts in a round is staying in the 20's instead of the 30's. I really feel solid over the ball when putting, like a machine. Chipping is that way too, though I could always chip. I am better out of the sand now than ever, and been that way for about the last 10 years. But with lessons, and an instructor that actually would teach me right, I could have learned all this 30 years ago. So, yeah, it is good to take lessons, if you can afford it. Some people just won't fork out the money, or don't have it to fork out. UA-cam is the next best thing to getting a golf lesson. Before that were golf videos. And so Brendon and fans, you can get the right elbow tucked earlier, you don't have to stay wide, and STILL stay on plane, provided you can learn to keep your hips and shoulders closed to the target longer in the downswing. One little tip for that is "think about keeping your right heel down on the ground longer into the downswing." If you lift the right heel earlier than when the club reaches the point where it is parallel to the ground (i.e. as you are entering the "hitting area") then you may well be turning too much too soon, and, well, you'll figure it out.
While I did not read your entire reply, it is comical that you use Lee Trevino as your example. He may have gotten his left hip more open at impact than any player in PGA Tour history.
Trevino said he slid his knees and stayed closed a split second however he didn’t at all do what he felt. Trevino was open earlier and more than almost anyone that ever played. He was back to square long before p5 which showed he was rotating before his arms started down
@@UniversalGC Trevino hit a fade, almost every shot. You set up open to hit fades. Your hip position at impact is even more open than you would be for a straight or draw shot. And, I did not say you would not be "open" with the hips at contact. You need to read all I wrote I think. I will stand by what I say, and these are the words of a guy that shot 1 under at Montebello GC (Montebello CA) after 6 months of self training, though getting some pointers from the old folks at the driving range. (Shot an 84 at Santa Anita after just 2 months of self training, though getting some pointers from the old folks at the range, and I couldn't break 100 when I started, such was my progress.) My study of the situation as a 21 year old was that too much turn too soon screws up everything. You cannot "just turn" to hit a golf shot, that's a myth, though some guys think that is all there is to it, and teach that. In my experience, if anyone cares, the first step of a good swing is to move the club down "on plane," and that involves a slight shift of the rear end toward the target, but staying a bit closed, so you don't even have a chance to come over the top, and then, once the club has progressed further down in the downswing, such as down to about at the point where the clubshaft is about parallel to the ground (entering the "hitting area" as I think Lee Trevino would say, based on his instructional videos, which I recently purchased), and the hands "not past" the right knee, you can turn like hell at that point, and you'll be turning with the hands and elbows "in front" of you. Doing this you will feel like you are very "left side dominant" through the hitting area. But, you will feel right side dominant off the top. The club passes from right side to left side in this style of swinging I am describing to you. And if you are not pulling down and hinging off the top then HOW can the club move down on the swing plane to get to the ball? A pure rotation of the hips and shoulders would take the club right over the top right off the top. So when to "turn?" I think the "turn" naturally sort of "starts" right off the top, but you can retard it there, slow it down, lessen it, and by simply keeping the hips and shoulders closed to the target in the early part of the downswing. Doing that you can get the hands in front of you. and the shoulders are still really closed to the target, and the back is to the target. And about then you have to start releasing a bit, and then the club gets to the "parallel" point, and then, with the shoulders still closed, you can rotate with the legs and hips, and extend the left side right up though the left shoulder and it will pull back, but not so much that at contact that you will be open with the shoulders, not at all. No! At contact the hips will be open, the shoulders parallel to the target line, and the sternum pointing in a direction maybe half-way between where the shoulders are facing and where the hips are facing. Maybe you can visualize this. But this is something I learned more recently, looking for "the perfect swing." My older method wasn't so highly engineered, yet it worked, so long as I didn't try to kill the shots, and was happy with 250 yard drives.
@@MiloLinesGolf I can bet that Trevino didn't do what he felt! I watched his instructional videos. Trevino himself said he would not teach anyone his swing because there are better swings to be emulated. He said his success is a testament to the notion that if you want something enough, work hard toward the result, you can succeed. And I don't want to give the impression that golfers can "not rotate" off the top, as there is always rotation, and it is unavoidable. But, I am just telling the world here that if you rotate "too much" off the top, you come over the top. (And that should be obvious.) I am also saying that staying closed longer is a way to not come over the top, but people don't seem to know what I am telling them. I point out to people that there is definitely a "hinging" (if that's the word) of the hands and club (right elbow too) down off the top, and playing more of a role in the swing early in the downswing, and then that is it, you are into "rotation" mode after that. (Or, "rotation and release" mode, if you are a "release" person, and I am, but I know others don't like to "release" these days... I don't understand that.) I point out that "off the top" the rotation of the body has to be limited, for if there is too much rotation there, it's over the top. People naturally athletic seem to realize that, yet don't we all come over the top every now and then? This what I am describing is a way to limit the "turning" off the top (some turning naturally happens as we drop into our bent leg position as we shift down as the first move off the top), and limiting that turning so that "coming over the top" is not an issue. Doing that, you can turn later in the swing, and turn like hell "later" in the swing, knowing you already eliminated the "over the top" problem. I am describing this in response to Brendon who seems to think that "width" in the swing is the way to stop coming over the top. I am just pointing out that width seems not to have that much to do with it, but, instead, turning too much too soon is what seems to cause "coming over the top," and I think pretty obviously, but, hey, let me know if I am wrong about that. Like I say, I really like a lot of release, and I really lash at the ball, and that seems to keep the ball very straight on line, and no matter what shape I am trying to put on the ball. And I get that "lash" or "release" type swing by keeping the hips and shoulders from opening up too soon. Some people are very afraid of releasing. Think you cannot control where the clubface is pointing. I don't find that to be the case. I have a couple other moves, including dropping right shoulder down "on plane" as I come through the hitting area, as well as keeping my right elbow "under" the left (which is something Trevino talks about in his instructional video). And like you, Milo, have instructed us, I like that "towing" concept, of "towing" the clubhead behind the hands, which gives me a very "left sided" swing coming through the hitting area. So it is like "right side dominant" coming down off the top, and "left side dominant" coming through the hitting area. Of course, many other swing basics are needed to have a good swing. Shifting the weight so much you start sliding is one (to be aware of and avoid). Good posture is one. Keeping the head behind the ball is one. Lots of them. I would imagine to get full value from a Milo lesson, a golfer should have gotten some basic golf instruction first, though I would guess that teaching even beginners is right up your alley.
Great insight here, but seriously, if a guy was just chatting away nonstop six feet away from me while I was trying to hit my shots at the range, there may a body buried in a nearby bunker before too long.
@@jumbroni6014 Who's a dork, exactly? He might be wearing a lapel mic, but he is chat chat chatting away at normal speaking volume, nonstop, while being very close to the people on either side. You can hear the people next to him moving their stuff and so on, so they can _DEFINITELY_ hear him (unless they're deaf). I just think it's inappropriate, and it would certainly get on my nerves. No need for name calling, friend.
Brendon, My understanding: "Impact, left hip as far away from the ball target line as possible." This has unlocked my ability to get both proper wrist conditions and as much right side bend as desired at impact. I compress the ball and feel like my right shoulder is chasing it. Never hit it this well. Bravo Brendon and Milo!
Congrats! You're finally figuring how kinematic sequence in athletic movement. Learn how to turn a double play with your feet planted from the left side of the infield and you'll do all those things naturally. Weight shift to the left happens soooooo much sooner than most people realize.
Thank you - I really appreciate your videos... Feels great to see there are other explorers out there. Do you apply the same thoughts on the driver swing?
Great advice and really good way of explaining the swing. I’m certainly going to try to work on this and see if my shots can stay straighter. Appreciate the video and keep them coming
thanks for the info especially the weight transfer tip. for me the best results in practice is trying to keep the ball on the clubface as long as possible. i do not try to copy on the course but use the same tempo or rhythm i feel on the range trying to keep the ball on the face. thanks again.
Bravo. You’re starting to digest and come up with your own philosophy. Arguably with all the teachers you’ve met with, you may have become a better teacher than a student! Enjoyed the anti-pull move/direction. Will try Tomm:)
Hey Brendan weird thing. Just discovered the same thing you are talking about last week and been working on the same. Keep up the hard work. Your swing has gotten better since the early days of your videos. One day I know I will catch you on one of our locals courses/driving range but I'm not stalking you lol.
I'm seeing big, big improvements in your swing with this thought/drill Be. Having spent the last 6 months successfully changing my out-to-in big fade swing to a small in-to-out push draw swing, I thought "job done!". But recently I've been over-drawing it or pulling it with the miss being a big push so I'm going to give this idea a go. Thanks.
Brendon, looks great. I’m anxious to try this out. Unfortunately here in Ontario Canada we are still in lockdown with all courses and driving ranges closed. I have a question about No 1 swings. Do you pre set your weight on the lead leg? Thanks.
My son is playing tournament golf and although he's got a lot of positives his big miss the pull hook has always been devastating. He attributes it to swinging with his arms and not using his legs and he finishes with his chest to target rather than his trail shoulder. Really liked your video, looking at his swing with a wedge that he purred he was for the most part doing all that you mentioned. The only thing he does that I can stand is jump with the lead foot. He squats on the down swing, hips turn and are about 3/4 open at impact but when he strikes the ball his left foot comes off the ground about a 1/2". JT, Scotty, Lexi, Min Woo, all do it but I have never been a fan. In your opinion could that be the possible problem, almost like he has the hips going perfect then loses it right at the moment of truth? I watched a Cameron McCormick video where he described 3 types of swingers, unfortunately it was in an email and I have never been able to find it again. He did say certain individuals get there power and sequencing from that move so I just stopped hounding the boy about it. I also know before Scotty went on his run his big miss seemed to be a pull that sometimes hooked. Thanks again for your content, been watching you for years.
Thank you sir for an awesome swing tip. Is this also applicable to a driver, fairway wood and hybrids? Do I need to go more flat after a big turn with the woods? Thanks again and good luck with the channel. Subscribed.
I’ve never had it explained that way! Thanks for this video. As soon as I can get my swing down then the better clubs will definitely help my game. I’m only about nine months into my game so I know I need to be patient.
Iiked the swing thoughts so much I subscribed, hope more videos show simple thoughts. Personally I start the upper body and almost always quit the swing with a short follow thru. Partially due to an arthritic back which ends up giving me a useless arm swing. Having watched you video is the ball tracker accurate or can you manipulate it to make all shots look good?
@@BEBETTERGOLF I just finished 9 holes about all I can manage without a nap🤪. Using the takeaway that Milo was showing you worked wonders for me, I am not moving to the front foot during takeaway as that move is something I need to rehearse prior to playing so if you have a video that explains that maneuver let me know how to find it.
Brendon, Having watched your swing development for a few years now my assessment (for what it worth) is that you have made a breakthrough in your swing development. It looks so much easier (athletic). I was watching the alignment of your feet in the video and the impression I got was that variation in your alignment was accounting for some of the variation ball flight. I find that, if I don’t lay an alignment rod down just in front of my feet parallel to the target line, my alignment drifts during a range session because I am so focused on other things.
Hey B, long time. Hope you are well?! Swing looking good. Been working on similar but for me only seems to work on short to middling shots. This tip may be exactly what I've been looking for. Cheers!
Not sure Brendan if you noticed this. In your slide and left swing, your shoulder plane on ds becomes more level and right side tilt way less than in the ”left shoulder, hip, knee” swing. What prevents the pull is the fact that you are swinging more up&down (which makes shoulder plane more vertical, exits the club more up towards your cap and puts you in that right side tilt on ds). I am struggling with exact same problems as you are. Therefore just wanted to also hint about these elements or consequences of your swing thought in this video. I would say the path pull is avoided by thinking wide on ds (push right arm out), making full chest turn (you explained very well why it must happen) and then ensuring shoulder plane is tilted enough (other way to say is that right side tilt must happen) in the ds. It makes path pull very difficult. Downside is or could be weaker shots, more loft presented etc. But for those ailments we have other medicines :).
Great points Brendon! For me, if the right obliques do not contract on the downswing , I find the outside of the ball. This is because there is not enough time to relax the left obliques that were used in the backswing. If you crunch the right side oblique across and up on downswing, it may accomplish the same thing, as you explain it. Just a different feeling for same result. I suffered from start left - go left, because of an over active left abs side and loose right abs on the downswing, which is hook highway for me. For the golfers who want to test it, contract your left abs as you coil on backswing and keep the right side loose on downswing, you will see how it takes the swing to outside of the ball. Conversely, if left obliques are not engaged on backswing and the right obliques contact on downswing, that's block/slice country.
Interesting stuff, for a long time I have going back and forth between active and passive shallowing. Recently I've found a 3rd way which is increasing extensor action in transition which I believe is what you are doing with the hands at the top. For now, this is the holy grail as it automatically shallows the plane and squares the clubface. Would like to know if you or anyone else has tried this.
Great drill. I fall in that camp of trying to eliminate the very pull miss you’re describing. What I find is it’s easier to complete my downswing rotation with the shorter clubs than my longer irons and hybrids/woods. In my mind I try to feel like I’m releasing the club more to the right rather than ‘down the line’
Sure looks like the 'Trevino fade' sequence/move - but v.good Brendon, especially difficult for the taller player I've always thought. Requires a solidly strong left leg.
Kudos to Brandon from all the teachers that he gets a lesson from I don't see how he hits the ball at all he's so mechanical but if it works for him it works for him I have two thoughts in the backswing chest turns away from the target downswing just turned towards Target if I know that I hit it pure
It sounds by your breathing during the shot, like a lot of effort whereas the Tony Lucasz swing is more relaxed. I am 71 and when I tried the Milo swing, the excessive rotation has hurt my back, so would you agree that the Milo swing is for a younger man and I should stick to the Tony Lucasz swing?
My miss is a pull or pull hook, so I was very interested in your technique to prevent them, but it also occurs to me the you are assuming that the club face is not closed, since a closed club face with that swing path will produce a draw or hook! Am I thinking about this correctly?
Yep, good stuff B. The swing is looking good and it shows on the shot tracer :) I try to practice this a couple times a week as well. Just getting that movement to be engrained and natural, which takes consistent practice.
You are STRIPING it, congrats on the process. Can I ask where your grip is in your left hand? I struggle with the same issue (pull draw) because of getting too handsy and I'm wondering if it's because the grip is too much across my palm. When I put the grip more vertical in line with my palm it prevents wrist cock and makes me feel like I have to rotate to get the speed. Anyway, swing looks great. Keep it up!
My left hand grip is a really nice 2.5 knuckle grip about 75 percent in the fingers. I struggle with the right hand grip. I Recommend the LEADBETTER training grip
This type of thought process will not come close to working under any pressure. If I clogged up my brain with all that I wouldn't be able to move the club away from the ball.
This swing looks so much better than where were a few weeks ago. You don’t see the right knee bending towards the ball after contact. Your right should is clearing much better and club coming out low and left. I had same issue on pulls. When I switched to this hard turn, and I really try to have my right shoulder beat the club to the ball, so the ball feels like it comes from under me, I never miss left now. I hit too low sometimes, thin, due to the hands leading, and lose it right sometimes, but that death left shot is gone. I just find it a bit harder to get up on the ball with the driver.
Hello Brendon, when your swinging well your angles look perfect and arms aren't fighting each other . How can you try different moves if aligned at the same target ? There is only one way to balance a whole swing as you intend and your programming is finished after alignment . When the right elbow starts to bend the left thumb also starts to cock , swinging the club head in line with the orbit or circle made by your natural swing path you anchor by pulling always , think and to late it's an uphill stall. Then you start the already programmed transition to get back and it will be fast and steep attack because the circle you trace back is now down hill and you naturally clobber it mostly . I can't even gripe the club correctly with the left hand when laziness begins and I don't aim with conviction. I wonder how you keep your show so interesting and energetic ? Never lacking in the quest to discover anything that could light a fire in many a defeated golfer. Good luck sir.
I like where this is headed. I think I do alot of this on my downswing. However for me a KEY swing thought is keep my back to the target as long as possible and I feel for me that keeps the pulls out. However your thought is to get everything very open. But are you trying to keep the arms hanging back while you are opening the shoulders? Also I do understand feels can have different effects from person to person.
I've noticed that if I pick up my left heel on the backswing, my first move down is to set it back down which shifts the weight properly and gets my left hip to open up. I need to minimize my swing thoughts, so this helps do the trick.
When I get stuck and forget how to get onto my lead leg I intentionally incorporate a squat to start my downswing. You’d be surprised how much bending the knees will open everything back up until you get your timing and feel back.
All those lessons over the years and what you took from it is compiled in this video. It’s very similar to how I swing; big rotation, early pressure shifting into the lead leg and clearing the left side of my body to make room to rotate through impact. Combine that with the “shaft parallel with shoulders” swing theory from Milo and you’re pretty much golden.
Was randomly going through your older videos and your comment at 2:00 really clicked with me and explained why I kept coming over the top with high hands at impact. I was out of sequence in undoing the right arm fold. The down swing is essentially undoing the back swing in the reverse order but my right arm was still bent half way down when it's already too late. Thank you for this revelation
Thanks!!!
Best video I’ve seen in a while on the swing. ✊🏿💪🏾
Man! I can’t thank you enough! I finally had a breakthrough in my swing and in my golf game because of you!!!! I was hitting the most pure straight and sometimes cut iron shots of my life , just from one range session!!! You have a gift and I’m lucky to have received it !
Wow, Brandon, what a joy to watch your swing transform from over the top to a beautiful rotating swing now. Keep up the great vids. Regards..
7:14 it's about pushing the weight that ends up in the left leg (foot) up and away from the ball.
It creates space.
You said it in a patio video about the timing between reaching the top and pushing off simultaneously.
That push is a key to using ground force.
I appreciate your commentary. It’s concise and direct in pointing out what you’re trying to do and what you’re feeling without babbling. Very efficient communication.
Pure gold! And explained well! I’m on the same journey as you! Got tired of just getting fixes but no real help. You, mike, milo, and Marty have given me new hope and ideas to finally get better!
Hey Brendan, as someone who is part of Milo Lines' online academy... this is the video I needed! As you identify and articulate two of the biggest things I feel like I just haven't been able to solve as I try to progress from his 1+2 drills to the full swing. I too always felt like my hands rotated out over the top and couldn't figure out how to get the club down while maintaining structure and wrist angles... and then how the "falling left" part works with the "pushing back" of the rotation. This also shows well how you keep your lead shoulder/hip low as you transition.
Been watching your channel off and on for a couple years. This is one that has really helped! I have had lessons and was taught to drop my hands/arms slightly to get my downswing started. Your instruction to keep the arms back as you start the downswing, and drop left, does what I have been instructed to do but keeps the coiled power and the three points turning away from Target line really creates the rotation needed for power and to naturally drop it into the slot for more consistent iron play! Getting the timing and other movements down is a with in progress but this has definitely improved GIR!!
Thanks!!
best lesson Ive watched on youtube.helped me get onto my left side better. thanks
The best (by far) you have been showing us. Keep up the good work!
One of your best ever videos. Excellent. You're nailing it, and I'm really pleased for you. Some of those strikes looked fantastic.
The “fall left” motion adds a dynamic action to the golf swing. It is essential for any athletic movement ... throwing a ball, swinging a bat, hitting a forehand in tennis, etc ... The AMG guys have a ton of videos on this, as they call it “Re-Centering.” As they like to say, you only have a quarter of a second from the top of the swing down to impact. You don’t have enough time to get over to your left side if you simply load to your right in the backswing. I would suggest getting pressure force to the left as soon as possible. Some can wait until the right arm begins to fold to “fall left,” but I think the sooner, the better. Anyway, thanks for posting, Brandon, and good luck.
Dude, one of the dopest videos you’ve ever posted. So many thing just clicked and I don’t know how I can shoot over 80 now. Keep doing what you’re doing man!
Great Video! This Malaska move with pulling the hips backwards in a straight line help me tremendesly avoiding the left side of the golf course. Purely recommend this. Greetings from Germany 👍😉 ..and i'm a new subscriber!
Interesting. I have a pull hook in my swing...mind you I was fitted for 2 degrees up many years ago, but this may help straighten or I'll have to get the clubs bent to standard. I'll try this on the range tomorrow. Thanks.
Great explanation and shot tracer, so helpful. Thanks from the UK.
You sure getting closer to holy grail mia amigo, keep going with Milo's swing thoughts, some of the most consistent shots I have ever seen you hit !
OMG been watching a lot of ur videos especially the ones with Milo. Brendan, I think u finally figured it out for both of us I've been struggling with the same move, that narrow holding lag move and struggled with many left shots. This was a great 👍 video for me Thanks for posting it. Will be on the range this afternoon.
Great video! When you fall to the left does the weight go into the left toe - equally on the left foot - or more into the left heel? Thanks!
just found your video and love how you explained how you were getting onto your left side. balls you are hitting are smoked! I am trying to turn more, get on my lead foot, feel like baseball when coach tells you to "hit the ball to 3rd base". thanks for all your work.
John
LOLOL he's so spot on. Sooo many people now want to be golfers. And practice range people just learn bad habits because they want to crank balls. Spot on! Great video!
Hi B. Love the video.
The challenge between milos 1 and 2 swing is that there is a tendency not to squat in transition on a 1. If you squat and widen your legs you won’t be able to slide and spin from the top. I’ve had to figure that out in my own swing. You can do a fun drill that is getting to the end of the backswing on a Milo 1, pause, squat in transition, pause and then hit the ball only by pushing the front hip out of the way (heel into the ground). I just used this drill yesterday. Lots of pure shots. The only way that the number 1 drill can translate is if the downswing has all of the same components of the two. Otherwise they are two totally different swings.
Your rotational squat has the natural effect of lowering the club into the slot.
Alan
Thanks Brandon, great explanation. The guys at Athletic Motion Golf call that move re-centering, where the weight starts to go left before you reach the top of the golf swing.
Excellent & timely video...thank you!
Great explanation on how to stop pulling left. Can't wait to try it out once golf opens back up (currently in Covid lock down)
The "fall move" is new for me, and I get great results from the driving range. I used to shoot everything left. This video clarifies this move even more, thank you for a great video. Erik, Stockholm
Great video, Brandon! I have your same problem! I get stuck, no turn, shank, & never feel like I'm falling forward! I usually hit pull hooks. When I get the move you discussed correct, I can rotate as hard as I want and the ball will never go left. Thanks for explaining things in "regular golfer" terms!
crazy that I came across this video today. Just yesterday I was disgusted at my problem associated with a consistent pull and pull hook. This complex link of movements I only started to understand tonight (with good results) at the driving range and your explanation really drives the point home. I have had tremendous trouble putting together the weight transfer for the downswing and when and how to initiate it and how and when to clear the left side. I appreciate that you do a good job of explaining a truly complex series of movements in a very compressed time frame. Gotta watch this over and over as I think you have hit on how to get me out of the pull/pull hook that has plagued me for years. Thank you!!
I have been a subscriber for a few years and enjoy you journey to find your golf swing. I have enjoyed this video because I think it will help me with my transition. Don't know if you are familiar with the book "Swing Like a Pro" by Roger Mann, his transition move (which he says is the biggest difference in between amateurs and Pros) is very similar to what you saw in Milo's swing. Let me explain, the glutes turn in the backswing freely to make a catapult effect but the key is when the pressure moves to the front foot the hands push the club back just a little to get more width, this activates the lats and will add more distance (which works for me). The problem is while I hit the ball farther this has caused a lot of lower back pain after the round. I think by using your suggestion of moving the knee, hip and shoulder out of the way and if I remain more relaxed (not so tense during the swing) might alleviant stress on my lower back and that pull miss. Thanks for posting this video.
Makes a lot of sense, have had trouble with hooking the ball especially with my woods.
This was very helpful!!! Milo should post this in his video section. I'm hitting the ball much straighter
Awesome video Brendan....This definitely works for those of us who struggle hitting left. I've tried the "pull the chain down" method too and it wasn't as consistent as clearing the left side first. If I don't clear the left side and fire the hips first, my right shoulder can still sneak out first, even just a few degrees "over the top, and I will then either hit it left or occasionally cut across the ball a bit and hit it right. I like too that you're combining the right hand motion of Malaska with the big turn/rotation of Milo. Great stuff!!!!
I can relate to this and your last videos. Following Milo I'm hitting super straight, sometimes with a subtle push. Been shooting par and then I have a few of what you called 'high smash' pulls on short par 3s- starting straight and going long and left, or a shank. On my course that means OB x3 and really ruins the confidence and scorecard. I like your ideas here. Will definitely try.
Wow, this is a huge help in the swing process!!!
Brendon,
I have worked to incorporate this move over the past week. Milo talks about the whole upper torso opening up and shows how tennis players and baseball hitters have there chests opening at impact with the ball. This video puts the finger on how this move is accomplished. I have made hundreds of 1 and 2 Milo swings over the past 5 days and if I turn incorporating this concept, I can hit a tight draw, but I can't pull hook it, which has been one of my two regular misses.
I won't say eureka just yet, but each swing that involves the turn you describe produces good contact and a proper divot. Now I'm wrestling with raising the height of the trajectory.
Pretty cool.
Great video...... just thinking about getting my left hip as far away as possible from the ball has helped me considerably.
You got the job done within the 5 or 6 videos I have seen you conduct during your lessons. Dynamite: You stop the coach/teacher when there appears to be vagueness
due to ambiguous word, expression or a statement that lacks clarity. I am glad you put a stop soon as you realize the rise of a lack of communication; hey why should a coach/teacher just go on when lacks communication. Thanks, You even saw that in your own lesson today, so glad you left the matt and clarified. Thanks for all..sure hope i was sending clear message.
Thx Scooter
An anti-left shot. Eliminating that side of the course has got to have made you twice the player now! Your confidence on tight tee shots must be great! Good job Brendon!
I hear you Brendon. I will refer you to Lee Trevino, who explained to keep the hips closed for longer (I won't say how long) in the downswing. I would add then also keep your shoulders closed (more closed) in the earlier stages of the downswing. The advantage of that is having "more body left to use to turn with" in the "hitting area" (i.e. the "hitting area" the term Trevino called the last stages of the downswing before contact, maybe the point from where the shaft is parallel to the ground and through to the first few feet of the followthrough). My little memory device is to "hinge" with the shoulders with the arms (as the first move off the top, along with a moderate weight shift) and keeping the shoulders closed by keeping the hips closed in the early stage of the downswing, dropping the right elbow into a slot in front of the body, and with the right elbow "tucked" like that (but in front, not to the side) and with the shoulders still very closed (feels like the sternum is pointing back corner of the mat) as I get the club all the way down to the boundary line of the "hitting area" (as I described the point where the "hitting area" begins ...and if the sternum is pointing at the ball at that point, or, worse, my shoulders are already squared up to the target line at that point, then I'm stuck and I'll likely push or hook unless, somehow, my mistakes all cancel each other out, and that doesn't happen too often).
I could tell you a lot more, but no one really wants to "read" the details, they want to see something, and I am the same way. Can't show you anything because I don't do videos! But let me make it even simpler for you all here -- don't be so anxious to "turn." And recognize the roll of the arms and hands, and there is a "release," you don't just hold all the way down, and not even Trevino held all the way down, in spite of his highly contorted body...
I do like Milo's videos, and he explains things pretty well, a really good instructor, one that should be highly regarded. But maybe Brendon didn't get the full message Milo was sending, or Milo didn't understand the question posed by Brendon, or maybe some things are left unsaid, and are "assumed." You know, just practicing with a lot of conscious thought to the swing mechanics helps. But a lot of people don't want to reinvent or rediscover the wheel... lessons are the way to jump past that, but some instructors just do not get the message across, and some instructors just are not all that skilled as golfers themselves. Some famous pros have said they'ed never take a lesson , unless the instructor could beat them... and so they never took a lesson (e.g. Snead and Trevino). But other pros (e.g. Tiger and Jack) they did take lessons (and Tiger more than Jack I think). You can be sure Hogan never took a lesson. But I am convinced lessons will work, provided you instructor really can walk the walk, and has the ability to communicate ideas well. (I don't think you need a lot of video visuals, and, frankly, so often the video's suck, but, sometimes they are really helpful, to show a person what they are doing wrong, and then to show them what you would like to see them doing.) But the willingness of the student to learn is also part of the deal, and some people just don't want to take a lesson, and then they suck so bad they decide to take a lesson, and they just won't get with the program, and insist that they know better... and then there are those that actually got a not-so-good lesson from a not-so-good golf instructor... and they are soured on the idea of lessons for life.
And there is more to golf than just hitting balls long like the guys you see on the tour. I shot a one-under 71 at Montebello golf course from the back tees after just 6 months of reading golf books and practicing. I concocted my own way of hitting, looking more like DeChambeau, or Nancy Lopez, or maybe Moe Norman. I liked my hands and arms way out straight with the shaft and on on plane at set up. My focus was then solely to (1) stay on plane, (2) keep the head still, and (3) shift only moderately, and (4) be facing the ball (or a spot about a foot in front of the ball) to hit the ball (i.e. at the point of contact), and (5) turn and drop the hands in a coordinated manner, not letting the shoulders turn so fast off the top that I overwhelm the ability of my hands and the clubhead to keep up. (These were my "swing thoughts.") Of course, keeping good posture was important, looking for good balance in the swing was important, and being "moderate" in swinging the club, and not trying to bomb it was important. I was strong enough to knock it over 250 with a driver (using wooden woods and top flite balls -- soon after came metal woods, but I am old, and this is a long time ago we are talking). Anyway, having so much success so fast with golf I stuck with it. But I was also a person that cared a LOT about chipping and putting and sand shots. I practiced those shots a lot too -- that used to be a big emphasis in golf, but not so much any more. Anyway, I set up quite differently now for the full shot, but at the point of contact I think I will still be in a very similar/same position.
My advice to all is to be moderate in your swing, until you have the confidence and conditioning to blast harder at it. The harder you swing the more likely the swing is to break down. Maybe you figure out a "secret" that allows you to swing with most of all your might at the ball, but if not, and in the mean time, take it easy and hit fairways and greens, and learn how to putt. Though I practiced putting my whole life, only now, 30 years after I seriously took up the game, have I learned (taught myself) a system of putting that I really have confidence in, and my number of putts in a round is staying in the 20's instead of the 30's. I really feel solid over the ball when putting, like a machine. Chipping is that way too, though I could always chip. I am better out of the sand now than ever, and been that way for about the last 10 years. But with lessons, and an instructor that actually would teach me right, I could have learned all this 30 years ago. So, yeah, it is good to take lessons, if you can afford it. Some people just won't fork out the money, or don't have it to fork out. UA-cam is the next best thing to getting a golf lesson. Before that were golf videos.
And so Brendon and fans, you can get the right elbow tucked earlier, you don't have to stay wide, and STILL stay on plane, provided you can learn to keep your hips and shoulders closed to the target longer in the downswing. One little tip for that is "think about keeping your right heel down on the ground longer into the downswing." If you lift the right heel earlier than when the club reaches the point where it is parallel to the ground (i.e. as you are entering the "hitting area") then you may well be turning too much too soon, and, well, you'll figure it out.
While I did not read your entire reply, it is comical that you use Lee Trevino as your example. He may have gotten his left hip more open at impact than any player in PGA Tour history.
Trevino said he slid his knees and stayed closed a split second however he didn’t at all do what he felt. Trevino was open earlier and more than almost anyone that ever played. He was back to square long before p5 which showed he was rotating before his arms started down
@@UniversalGC Trevino hit a fade, almost every shot. You set up open to hit fades. Your hip position at impact is even more open than you would be for a straight or draw shot. And, I did not say you would not be "open" with the hips at contact. You need to read all I wrote I think. I will stand by what I say, and these are the words of a guy that shot 1 under at Montebello GC (Montebello CA) after 6 months of self training, though getting some pointers from the old folks at the driving range. (Shot an 84 at Santa Anita after just 2 months of self training, though getting some pointers from the old folks at the range, and I couldn't break 100 when I started, such was my progress.) My study of the situation as a 21 year old was that too much turn too soon screws up everything. You cannot "just turn" to hit a golf shot, that's a myth, though some guys think that is all there is to it, and teach that. In my experience, if anyone cares, the first step of a good swing is to move the club down "on plane," and that involves a slight shift of the rear end toward the target, but staying a bit closed, so you don't even have a chance to come over the top, and then, once the club has progressed further down in the downswing, such as down to about at the point where the clubshaft is about parallel to the ground (entering the "hitting area" as I think Lee Trevino would say, based on his instructional videos, which I recently purchased), and the hands "not past" the right knee, you can turn like hell at that point, and you'll be turning with the hands and elbows "in front" of you. Doing this you will feel like you are very "left side dominant" through the hitting area. But, you will feel right side dominant off the top. The club passes from right side to left side in this style of swinging I am describing to you. And if you are not pulling down and hinging off the top then HOW can the club move down on the swing plane to get to the ball? A pure rotation of the hips and shoulders would take the club right over the top right off the top. So when to "turn?" I think the "turn" naturally sort of "starts" right off the top, but you can retard it there, slow it down, lessen it, and by simply keeping the hips and shoulders closed to the target in the early part of the downswing. Doing that you can get the hands in front of you. and the shoulders are still really closed to the target, and the back is to the target. And about then you have to start releasing a bit, and then the club gets to the "parallel" point, and then, with the shoulders still closed, you can rotate with the legs and hips, and extend the left side right up though the left shoulder and it will pull back, but not so much that at contact that you will be open with the shoulders, not at all. No! At contact the hips will be open, the shoulders parallel to the target line, and the sternum pointing in a direction maybe half-way between where the shoulders are facing and where the hips are facing. Maybe you can visualize this. But this is something I learned more recently, looking for "the perfect swing." My older method wasn't so highly engineered, yet it worked, so long as I didn't try to kill the shots, and was happy with 250 yard drives.
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I can bet that Trevino didn't do what he felt! I watched his instructional videos. Trevino himself said he would not teach anyone his swing because there are better swings to be emulated. He said his success is a testament to the notion that if you want something enough, work hard toward the result, you can succeed.
And I don't want to give the impression that golfers can "not rotate" off the top, as there is always rotation, and it is unavoidable. But, I am just telling the world here that if you rotate "too much" off the top, you come over the top. (And that should be obvious.) I am also saying that staying closed longer is a way to not come over the top, but people don't seem to know what I am telling them. I point out to people that there is definitely a "hinging" (if that's the word) of the hands and club (right elbow too) down off the top, and playing more of a role in the swing early in the downswing, and then that is it, you are into "rotation" mode after that. (Or, "rotation and release" mode, if you are a "release" person, and I am, but I know others don't like to "release" these days... I don't understand that.) I point out that "off the top" the rotation of the body has to be limited, for if there is too much rotation there, it's over the top. People naturally athletic seem to realize that, yet don't we all come over the top every now and then? This what I am describing is a way to limit the "turning" off the top (some turning naturally happens as we drop into our bent leg position as we shift down as the first move off the top), and limiting that turning so that "coming over the top" is not an issue. Doing that, you can turn later in the swing, and turn like hell "later" in the swing, knowing you already eliminated the "over the top" problem.
I am describing this in response to Brendon who seems to think that "width" in the swing is the way to stop coming over the top. I am just pointing out that width seems not to have that much to do with it, but, instead, turning too much too soon is what seems to cause "coming over the top," and I think pretty obviously, but, hey, let me know if I am wrong about that.
Like I say, I really like a lot of release, and I really lash at the ball, and that seems to keep the ball very straight on line, and no matter what shape I am trying to put on the ball. And I get that "lash" or "release" type swing by keeping the hips and shoulders from opening up too soon.
Some people are very afraid of releasing. Think you cannot control where the clubface is pointing. I don't find that to be the case. I have a couple other moves, including dropping right shoulder down "on plane" as I come through the hitting area, as well as keeping my right elbow "under" the left (which is something Trevino talks about in his instructional video).
And like you, Milo, have instructed us, I like that "towing" concept, of "towing" the clubhead behind the hands, which gives me a very "left sided" swing coming through the hitting area. So it is like "right side dominant" coming down off the top, and "left side dominant" coming through the hitting area.
Of course, many other swing basics are needed to have a good swing. Shifting the weight so much you start sliding is one (to be aware of and avoid). Good posture is one. Keeping the head behind the ball is one. Lots of them. I would imagine to get full value from a Milo lesson, a golfer should have gotten some basic golf instruction first, though I would guess that teaching even beginners is right up your alley.
Striping it!! Very motivational.
Great insight here, but seriously, if a guy was just chatting away nonstop six feet away from me while I was trying to hit my shots at the range, there may a body buried in a nearby bunker before too long.
I can't even go to the range anymore
We're packed in there like sardines and I just can't focus
@@somguy5035 Keep going anyway, not only for golf. Learning how to focus in a crowd could be a valueable thing in other parts of life.
You're at the range, get over it. You're not on the course, get some headphones.
He's wearing a lapel Mic you dork!
@@jumbroni6014 Who's a dork, exactly? He might be wearing a lapel mic, but he is chat chat chatting away at normal speaking volume, nonstop, while being very close to the people on either side. You can hear the people next to him moving their stuff and so on, so they can _DEFINITELY_ hear him (unless they're deaf).
I just think it's inappropriate, and it would certainly get on my nerves.
No need for name calling, friend.
Brendon,
My understanding:
"Impact, left hip as far away from the ball target line as possible."
This has unlocked my ability to get both proper wrist conditions
and as much right side bend as desired at impact.
I compress the ball and feel like my right shoulder is chasing it. Never hit it this well.
Bravo Brendon and Milo!
Another great video! Your swing looks MUCH improved.
Congrats! You're finally figuring how kinematic sequence in athletic movement. Learn how to turn a double play with your feet planted from the left side of the infield and you'll do all those things naturally. Weight shift to the left happens soooooo much sooner than most people realize.
Thank you - I really appreciate your videos... Feels great to see there are other explorers out there. Do you apply the same thoughts on the driver swing?
Great advice and really good way of explaining the swing. I’m certainly going to try to work on this and see if my shots can stay straighter. Appreciate the video and keep them coming
thanks for the info especially the weight transfer tip.
for me the best results in practice is trying to keep the ball on the clubface as long as possible.
i do not try to copy on the course but use the same tempo or rhythm i feel on the range trying to keep the ball on the face.
thanks again.
Bravo. You’re starting to digest and come up with your own philosophy. Arguably with all the teachers you’ve met with, you may have become a better teacher than a student! Enjoyed the anti-pull move/direction. Will try Tomm:)
Hey Brendan weird thing. Just discovered the same thing you are talking about last week and been working on the same. Keep up the hard work. Your swing has gotten better since the early days of your videos. One day I know I will catch you on one of our locals courses/driving range but I'm not stalking you lol.
This video, along with your video on the E-Bell, look like a great training combo for the swing. Your thoughts?
Your golf journey always seems to take me to places I need to go. This was especially good!
I'm seeing big, big improvements in your swing with this thought/drill Be. Having spent the last 6 months successfully changing my out-to-in big fade swing to a small in-to-out push draw swing, I thought "job done!". But recently I've been over-drawing it or pulling it with the miss being a big push so I'm going to give this idea a go. Thanks.
I'm going thru this very thing right now. Just found this video.
Brendon, looks great. I’m anxious to try this out. Unfortunately here in Ontario Canada we are still in lockdown with all courses and driving ranges closed. I have a question about No 1 swings. Do you pre set your weight on the lead leg? Thanks.
My son is playing tournament golf and although he's got a lot of positives his big miss the pull hook has always been devastating. He attributes it to swinging with his arms and not using his legs and he finishes with his chest to target rather than his trail shoulder. Really liked your video, looking at his swing with a wedge that he purred he was for the most part doing all that you mentioned. The only thing he does that I can stand is jump with the lead foot. He squats on the down swing, hips turn and are about 3/4 open at impact but when he strikes the ball his left foot comes off the ground about a 1/2". JT, Scotty, Lexi, Min Woo, all do it but I have never been a fan. In your opinion could that be the possible problem, almost like he has the hips going perfect then loses it right at the moment of truth? I watched a Cameron McCormick video where he described 3 types of swingers, unfortunately it was in an email and I have never been able to find it again. He did say certain individuals get there power and sequencing from that move so I just stopped hounding the boy about it. I also know before Scotty went on his run his big miss seemed to be a pull that sometimes hooked. Thanks again for your content, been watching you for years.
nice one Brendan. Really appreciate your posts. Keep it up.
Really, really good stuff. Keep it up!
This is really really great stuff. Thank you.
Thank you sir for an awesome swing tip. Is this also applicable to a driver, fairway wood and hybrids? Do I need to go more flat after a big turn with the woods? Thanks again and good luck with the channel. Subscribed.
I’ve never had it explained that way! Thanks for this video. As soon as I can get my swing down then the better clubs will definitely help my game. I’m only about nine months into my game so I know I need to be patient.
Iiked the swing thoughts so much I subscribed, hope more videos show simple thoughts. Personally I start the upper body and almost always quit the swing with a short follow thru. Partially due to an arthritic back which ends up giving me a useless arm swing. Having watched you video is the ball tracker accurate or can you manipulate it to make all shots look good?
It tracks as long as the camera can see it. This is 4K so that is pretty long. U tell it the landing point though
@@BEBETTERGOLF I just finished 9 holes about all I can manage without a nap🤪. Using the takeaway that Milo was showing you worked wonders for me, I am not moving to the front foot during takeaway as that move is something I need to rehearse prior to playing so if you have a video that explains that maneuver let me know how to find it.
Brendon, Having watched your swing development for a few years now my assessment (for what it worth) is that you have made a breakthrough in your swing development. It looks so much easier (athletic). I was watching the alignment of your feet in the video and the impression I got was that variation in your alignment was accounting for some of the variation ball flight. I find that, if I don’t lay an alignment rod down just in front of my feet parallel to the target line, my alignment drifts during a range session because I am so focused on other things.
Hey B, long time. Hope you are well?! Swing looking good. Been working on similar but for me only seems to work on short to middling shots. This tip may be exactly what I've been looking for. Cheers!
This looks like a good fix for my over the top move?! What the feel of your right hand with this swing?? Thanks for the video! :)
Transition looks super clean. No wobble. Keep it, resist tinkering!
Not sure Brendan if you noticed this. In your slide and left swing, your shoulder plane on ds becomes more level and right side tilt way less than in the ”left shoulder, hip, knee” swing. What prevents the pull is the fact that you are swinging more up&down (which makes shoulder plane more vertical, exits the club more up towards your cap and puts you in that right side tilt on ds). I am struggling with exact same problems as you are. Therefore just wanted to also hint about these elements or consequences of your swing thought in this video. I would say the path pull is avoided by thinking wide on ds (push right arm out), making full chest turn (you explained very well why it must happen) and then ensuring shoulder plane is tilted enough (other way to say is that right side tilt must happen) in the ds. It makes path pull very difficult. Downside is or could be weaker shots, more loft presented etc. But for those ailments we have other medicines :).
I have a pull and hooking problem. Going to try this. Awesome video
Brendan - in the downswing are you swinging with active arms (Tony Luczak) or turning the chest and pulling passive arms along for a ride (Milo) ?
One of your best.concepts are really starting to come together!
Great points Brendon! For me, if the right obliques do not contract on the downswing , I find the outside of the ball. This is because there is not enough time to relax the left obliques that were used in the backswing. If you crunch the right side oblique across and up on downswing, it may accomplish the same thing, as you explain it. Just a different feeling for same result. I suffered from start left - go left, because of an over active left abs side and loose right abs on the downswing, which is hook highway for me. For the golfers who want to test it, contract your left abs as you coil on backswing and keep the right side loose on downswing, you will see how it takes the swing to outside of the ball. Conversely, if left obliques are not engaged on backswing and the right obliques contact on downswing, that's block/slice country.
Interesting stuff, for a long time I have going back and forth between active and passive shallowing. Recently I've found a 3rd way which is increasing extensor action in transition which I believe is what you are doing with the hands at the top. For now, this is the holy grail as it automatically shallows the plane and squares the clubface. Would like to know if you or anyone else has tried this.
Brendan your swing is looking good!!
Thx D
Great drill. I fall in that camp of trying to eliminate the very pull miss you’re describing. What I find is it’s easier to complete my downswing rotation with the shorter clubs than my longer irons and hybrids/woods. In my mind I try to feel like I’m releasing the club more to the right rather than ‘down the line’
Why did I keep watching to count old mates on the left club bangs LOL
Real talk. I barely heard anything my man said because I'm watching buddy to the left so intently
Hahahahaha me too!!
If I was that guy on the left I’d have “accidentally” shanked one into the guy in the middle just to shut him up.
Sure looks like the 'Trevino fade' sequence/move - but v.good Brendon, especially difficult for the taller player I've always thought. Requires a solidly strong left leg.
Hey Brendon, out of those 3 moving mussels what do you feel moves first?
Wow the swing looks so good man! I will have to try this tomorrow.
Thanks for this! I usually end up on the left side, gonna practice this.
Kudos to Brandon from all the teachers that he gets a lesson from I don't see how he hits the ball at all he's so mechanical but if it works for him it works for him I have two thoughts in the backswing chest turns away from the target downswing just turned towards Target if I know that I hit it pure
It sounds by your breathing during the shot, like a lot of effort whereas the Tony Lucasz swing is more relaxed. I am 71 and when I tried the Milo swing, the excessive rotation has hurt my back, so would you agree that the Milo swing is for a younger man and I should stick to the Tony Lucasz swing?
My miss is a pull or pull hook, so I was very interested in your technique to prevent them, but it also occurs to me the you are assuming that the club face is not closed, since a closed club face with that swing path will produce a draw or hook! Am I thinking about this correctly?
Yep, good stuff B. The swing is looking good and it shows on the shot tracer :) I try to practice this a couple times a week as well. Just getting that movement to be engrained and natural, which takes consistent practice.
Now that’s a breakthrough
You are STRIPING it, congrats on the process. Can I ask where your grip is in your left hand? I struggle with the same issue (pull draw) because of getting too handsy and I'm wondering if it's because the grip is too much across my palm. When I put the grip more vertical in line with my palm it prevents wrist cock and makes me feel like I have to rotate to get the speed. Anyway, swing looks great. Keep it up!
My left hand grip is a really nice 2.5 knuckle grip about 75 percent in the fingers. I struggle with the right hand grip. I Recommend the LEADBETTER training grip
Hope to get a good set of clubs from you. We are poor here in the Philippines but that does not stop us from playing golf.
Let’s see this in action on the course now.
This type of thought process will not come close to working under any pressure. If I clogged up my brain with all that I wouldn't be able to move the club away from the ball.
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You would be surprised how much PGA Tour pros work on their technique.
This swing looks so much better than where were a few weeks ago. You don’t see the right knee bending towards the ball after contact. Your right should is clearing much better and club coming out low and left. I had same issue on pulls. When I switched to this hard turn, and I really try to have my right shoulder beat the club to the ball, so the ball feels like it comes from under me, I never miss left now. I hit too low sometimes, thin, due to the hands leading, and lose it right sometimes, but that death left shot is gone. I just find it a bit harder to get up on the ball with the driver.
I love the down movement, struggling with the over the top, will try this on the range
Hello Brendon, when your swinging well your angles look perfect and arms aren't fighting each other . How can you try different moves if aligned at the same target ? There is only one way to balance a whole swing as you intend and your programming is finished after alignment . When the right elbow starts to bend the left thumb also starts to cock , swinging the club head in line with the orbit or circle made by your natural swing path you anchor by pulling always , think and to late it's an uphill stall. Then you start the already programmed transition to get back and it will be fast and steep attack because the circle you trace back is now down hill and you naturally clobber it mostly . I can't even gripe the club correctly with the left hand when laziness begins and I don't aim with conviction. I wonder how you keep your show so interesting and energetic ? Never lacking in the quest to discover anything that could light a fire in many a defeated golfer. Good luck sir.
I like where this is headed. I think I do alot of this on my downswing. However for me a KEY swing thought is keep my back to the target as long as possible and I feel for me that keeps the pulls out. However your thought is to get everything very open. But are you trying to keep the arms hanging back while you are opening the shoulders? Also I do understand feels can have different effects from person to person.
nice work B!!!
Excellent video, I hate seeing that pull shot miss the green. I will work on clearing better as you describe
I've noticed that if I pick up my left heel on the backswing, my first move down is to set it back down which shifts the weight properly and gets my left hip to open up. I need to minimize my swing thoughts, so this helps do the trick.
I find that if I left my left heel, I get a very high ball flight.
When I get stuck and forget how to get onto my lead leg I intentionally incorporate a squat to start my downswing. You’d be surprised how much bending the knees will open everything back up until you get your timing and feel back.
That was actually a great vid 👍
Tried this on the range today and it worked beautifully! All of my miss hits went straight as well.
Great vid. Very clear.
way better. well done
I admire the patience of the other players :)