From South Africa here. I’ve watched so many videos trying to fix my swing, this is definitely the one, absolutely Godsent, I’ve saved it and shared with my friends
One thing I would love to see is your drills and swing for the different clubs in slow motion. Your videos are remarkable! You have a beautiful stance and swing. I am pretty new to golf, and your videos have helped my swing so much! I'm truly grateful. Thank you, thank you!
One of your best videos Chris. Thanks so much. I’ve been working on holding my “back to the target” and with this exercise I’m feeling very comfortable. The combinations are coming together nicely. Love your work.
This video popping up on my feed is so timely for me it is spooky, Chris. What you described about moving the hands down first and falling backwards off balance has always been an issue of mine. I'm a fast, powerful hitter but that's all for nought when you don't compress the ball and finish the swing! I've been working on rotating my hips at the range and managed to get 80% of the way to fixing it and having a more "test book" swing,. However, yesterday I went out on the course and it was horrific. I just couldn't control my body in the slightest, was constantly falling backwards, and it got me incredibly depressed thinking "what's the point in all those hours at the range if you can't remotely do it on the course". Long story short, thanks to this video I now understand the part I was missing and doing the drill just in my living room has given me hope and something to concentrate on for that last piece of the puzzle for this particular issue. Thank you 🥰
So many of these faults and feelings I have regularly! Being pushed back, quick or rushed and not very good strikes. This is going to be my main lesson over the winter, it’s EXACTLY what I was looking for mate…..this and that G/Fore sweater! 🤣👍🏻
Great lesson. Chris, I discovered your channel about six months ago and have used your drills and advice this whole summer and I can't begin to tell you how much my ball sticking and accuracy has improved!! My buddies are asking me where this has come from. I wish you were here in the states!! I would definitely be at one of your academy's!!
Thanks Chris… although I haven’t had the time to practice (I know) but my trusty drives have been hooking and I’ve been struggling to understand why. I think this is it and need to get back on the driving range to prove it. Keep up the great work… it is appreciated 👍
I love this! It's exactly what I've been working on. I've been using your video with the step drill to help my transition (and it has), but this feels like the missing part.
@@ChrisRyanGolf Have you done any lessons on (I'm not even sure how to put it)... a lot of drills and practice swing movements seem to fall apart once you put a ball down for some reason. (especially with my driver)
Wow that makes sense to me. I tend to accelerate my arms and yet sometimes my backswing turn feels slower and I swing down better. I've recently been concentrating on taking my arms/clubhead back along the tramlines but struggled, so I guess I've been taking arms back first.. I'm off to the range... Cheers
Been really enjoying your latest videos, fantastic instruction and something which really aligns with some of the other great instructors such as AMG and Monte! However I feel this one is on a different track to the recent set and a little at odds with what you've been teaching. Getting the body rotated before the arms move in the backswing is likely to get the arms raising late and likely then trailing the pivot on the way down isn't it? The previous videos were about firing the arms down to get them synced up. I'm not qualified to judge but it's somewhat of a polar opposite approach and maybe suited to a different individual. Great content none the less!
Hey Dan, this is a valid point and someone else has raised this too in the comments, I’ll try and explain. The most common sequence amount good players is the lower behind the downswing and the arms move last, generally the most desired pattern. For so many that slice, get steep, over the top etc the arms stay pinned to the upper body for too long, when they finally fire the arms it’s way out of sync. For those golfers, and there are a large number, telling them to hold the body at the top and fire the arms down first is likely going to be the best thing for them to focus on, I actually gave this exact lesson this morning with exactly the results we wanted…. If we measured these golfers 3D its very very unlikely that is what would be happening, even though they feel the arms start it’s likely to be the body, which is correct. Some may disagree, but I believe my job as a coach is to say what needs to be said to get the results both myself and the student want, and sometimes that’s in the form of concepts and ideas which maybe aren’t 100% true. I really should convey these messages within the videos however when in the past I have tried to do this the viewers turn off, the views drop and UA-cam doesn’t touch the videos, unfortunately not the way I would like to to be Hope that makes sense and you make a great point
@@ChrisRyanGolf thanks for taking the time to write such a considered response! I definitely fall into the latter category as a 12 cap playing like a 30 cap at the moment with a tendency to come OTT and/or suffer with bouts of poor contact. Your previous video covering the three elements of the downswing is gold for my pattern and probably one of the best articulations I've seen. Do you offer virtual lessons?
Hi Chris, Just want to say thanks for your consistently informative golf videos. I'm a pretty good golfer (play off 7) but have always been a very 'clean' striker of the ball so I don't leave a lot of room for error. Over the past couple of months I have been working hard (using the Fatplate aid) to be a little more steeper into the ball. Your video drills that focus on encouraging this particular type of swing plane have been a real help, so thank you. 👍
Great video Chris , makes a lot of sense this just implementing it into the golf swing which I am actually doing recently all going well I’m just trying to imagine how it is when I play football ⚽️ or tennis 🎾 you do actually get your body set first then comes the last thing which is the arms / hands and legs / foot to impact the ball Also Happy New year 🥳
I've struggled for years with a poor downswing, my arms have been a law unto themselves so mostly they slash down to the ball. I've struggled with my "turn through" and onlt recenylt realised that my downswing was so fast that they'd gone thru before I had any any chance to move body and hips. For some reason I think a lot of us just can't get it into our head that we don't have to hammer the ball with all our might. I made a breakthrough in recent months with the "feel" that I turn my shoulders and start by pulling my arms around and thru as though I start by dragging them around and then pulling thru. So what you're saying here resinates with me big time...
Love the video Chris. Quick question though. Some of your other videos focus on us getting the hands down first and using drills like throwing a ball into the ground behind you or whipping the alignment sticks down. How do you suggest we blend this sequencing with drills that focus on getting the hands down first. Thanks !
This drill completely changed my game for irons and woods! Thanks for the great work. I cannot apply this to my Driver. Can you point to a video for a similar structure drill but for my Driver?
It should be the same. If you watch a breakdown of Tiger’s driver compared to the iron swing he showed here, they look identical. The only difference is in the set up, because the club is longer you are standing taller and you should also be placing the ball closer to your front foot, so instead of striking down to compress the ball you will be hitting the ball at a different point of the swing. But the swing shouldn’t necessarily be any different.
I didn't realise I'd become so handsy. Letting the body swing the club rather the other way around has suddenly made everything better, especially bunker shots. Who knew?
Milliseconds but the body leads the arms and club,this is easy to learn IF you start golf as a weak kid like 99.9% of tour pros/great golfers but most golfers start as strong adults and initiate with clubhead/arms But whilst i find all these versions of step drills easy! most dont Even my new GF im teaching struggles,i thought she would find them easy as she is a dance teacher! i look like the dancer even tho im a hippo at dance compared to her! I found working on hinging loading and releasing her right arm worked best in conjunction with the sort of drills shown in this video
You've got some great videos. I just find some advice contradictory. That wide takeaway you demonstrated that some pros have seems to contradictor the keep your trail bicep attached to the peck and fold the trail arm. The don't start the downswing with the arms seems to contradict all the advice on how to correct the slice, specifically waiting to long to swing down causes the over the top path. This was a slightly confusing video as it relates to some of the others. Do you start the downswing with the arms or do you start by turning your body?
Hey Jack, the downswing should start from the ground up, so lower body and that is the case for almost all great golfers. The fairly recent slice fix video where I referred to my brother in law was specifically talking about getting the arms firing from the top, think that’s the one you refer to, I actually gave a lesson this morning with that exact concept. Those videos, I guess, would help most of those who are steep, but firing the arms first is the concept, feel rather than the reality. Many slicers simply need to use the arms earlier, but they would rarely start the downswing. Can 100% see how these may contradict and be conflicting, maybe I need to convey these messages more in the videos. As a fairly experienced coach I feel that I have a decent understanding doing of what to say to certain groups of golfers to get the results we both want, such and hold the upper body and fire the arms, but the reality is that I know that won’t happen at full speed, but I see my job as to get results rather than always give 100% accurate info, that may be different to other coach. Apologies for the long answer but you do raise a great point
Do you teach amateurs to have the same tempo in the backswing & in the follow through? Some folk go very slow on the backswing then speed up in downswing
When you step before the downswing you rotate your foot towards the target. I have been experimenting and found to get most speed by stepping while my left hip is still internally rotated and so foot is still fairly straight. My foot does rotate around later in the swing once I am off the floor. Does this sound ok? Thanks
I believe the body should move, and control, the clubhead. Am I wrong? (This is not saying that I do not have lapses during which I move the clubhead too early.)
I understand the feeling you're explaining of whipping. But at 7:23 or so, your head is all over. Inconsistent contact for us athletic people past our prime in our 30s. In a real swing with the feet still, do you more or less feel like you're pivoting around the sternum with most weight in front (but 50:50 pressure)?
The things being taught here were never in Ben Hogan's book. They were discovered by David Lee and gravity golf. Because of him these things are infiltrating into modern golf teaching.
I HAVE SUBBed !!! With bell !!! This is my weakness after 5 holes.. because my boday feels easier to smash so i rush everything.. i just listen to this i know and understand its logic...
This video is pure gold! If you are like me as a 6th year senior at UA-cam University. This is the one.
Thanks appreciate that 🙌
LOL....I am also going for my youtube " Masters " ....
I'm a UA-cam addict. I'm not sure if that's after Masters or PhD, but I know I'm very good at it. 😂
5th year senior here at UA-cam golf university and I agree. The video is gold. BEST GOLF YT CHANNEL!
Anyone trying to use muscle to swing must start using this tutorial fr 😂
From South Africa here. I’ve watched so many videos trying to fix my swing, this is definitely the one, absolutely Godsent, I’ve saved it and shared with my friends
Thanks so much and hope it helps
South A (Gauteng) making an appearance, shout out to . Top video this had an "ah ha" moment
One thing I would love to see is your drills and swing for the different clubs in slow motion. Your videos are remarkable! You have a beautiful stance and swing.
I am pretty new to golf, and your videos have helped my swing so much! I'm truly grateful. Thank you, thank you!
I love the Duck in the background!
One of your best videos Chris. Thanks so much. I’ve been working on holding my “back to the target” and with this exercise I’m feeling very comfortable. The combinations are coming together nicely. Love your work.
Thanks so much 🙌
Thanks Chris, It's very helpful.
Hi Chris, thank you for this one. Helped me to feel really relaxed and free. Played my best round with this this flow.
Genius explanation. Thank you for this!
Thanks 🙌
Well done Chris Great video 😊
Thanks
This video popping up on my feed is so timely for me it is spooky, Chris. What you described about moving the hands down first and falling backwards off balance has always been an issue of mine. I'm a fast, powerful hitter but that's all for nought when you don't compress the ball and finish the swing! I've been working on rotating my hips at the range and managed to get 80% of the way to fixing it and having a more "test book" swing,. However, yesterday I went out on the course and it was horrific. I just couldn't control my body in the slightest, was constantly falling backwards, and it got me incredibly depressed thinking "what's the point in all those hours at the range if you can't remotely do it on the course". Long story short, thanks to this video I now understand the part I was missing and doing the drill just in my living room has given me hope and something to concentrate on for that last piece of the puzzle for this particular issue. Thank you 🥰
So many of these faults and feelings I have regularly! Being pushed back, quick or rushed and not very good strikes. This is going to be my main lesson over the winter, it’s EXACTLY what I was looking for mate…..this and that G/Fore sweater! 🤣👍🏻
Great lesson. Chris, I discovered your channel about six months ago and have used your drills and advice this whole summer and I can't begin to tell you how much my ball sticking and accuracy has improved!! My buddies are asking me where this has come from. I wish you were here in the states!! I would definitely be at one of your academy's!!
Thanks so much, glad the videos have helped. I’d love to spend more time in the US, definitely something I should plan to do
@@ChrisRyanGolf If Piers and Andy can, any brummie can 😂
Thanks Chris… although I haven’t had the time to practice (I know) but my trusty drives have been hooking and I’ve been struggling to understand why. I think this is it and need to get back on the driving range to prove it. Keep up the great work… it is appreciated 👍
Hope it helps
I love this! It's exactly what I've been working on. I've been using your video with the step drill to help my transition (and it has), but this feels like the missing part.
Yeah those two work really well together actually! 🙌
@@ChrisRyanGolf Have you done any lessons on (I'm not even sure how to put it)... a lot of drills and practice swing movements seem to fall apart once you put a ball down for some reason. (especially with my driver)
Wow that makes sense to me. I tend to accelerate my arms and yet sometimes my backswing turn feels slower and I swing down better. I've recently been concentrating on taking my arms/clubhead back along the tramlines but struggled, so I guess I've been taking arms back first.. I'm off to the range...
Cheers
Outstanding video Chris.
Been really enjoying your latest videos, fantastic instruction and something which really aligns with some of the other great instructors such as AMG and Monte! However I feel this one is on a different track to the recent set and a little at odds with what you've been teaching. Getting the body rotated before the arms move in the backswing is likely to get the arms raising late and likely then trailing the pivot on the way down isn't it? The previous videos were about firing the arms down to get them synced up. I'm not qualified to judge but it's somewhat of a polar opposite approach and maybe suited to a different individual. Great content none the less!
Also a bit puzzled. At the top drop the arms and turn or turn and drop the arms?
Hey Dan, this is a valid point and someone else has raised this too in the comments, I’ll try and explain.
The most common sequence amount good players is the lower behind the downswing and the arms move last, generally the most desired pattern.
For so many that slice, get steep, over the top etc the arms stay pinned to the upper body for too long, when they finally fire the arms it’s way out of sync. For those golfers, and there are a large number, telling them to hold the body at the top and fire the arms down first is likely going to be the best thing for them to focus on, I actually gave this exact lesson this morning with exactly the results we wanted…. If we measured these golfers 3D its very very unlikely that is what would be happening, even though they feel the arms start it’s likely to be the body, which is correct. Some may disagree, but I believe my job as a coach is to say what needs to be said to get the results both myself and the student want, and sometimes that’s in the form of concepts and ideas which maybe aren’t 100% true. I really should convey these messages within the videos however when in the past I have tried to do this the viewers turn off, the views drop and UA-cam doesn’t touch the videos, unfortunately not the way I would like to to be
Hope that makes sense and you make a great point
@@ChrisRyanGolf thanks for taking the time to write such a considered response! I definitely fall into the latter category as a 12 cap playing like a 30 cap at the moment with a tendency to come OTT and/or suffer with bouts of poor contact. Your previous video covering the three elements of the downswing is gold for my pattern and probably one of the best articulations I've seen. Do you offer virtual lessons?
Hi Chris, Just want to say thanks for your consistently informative golf videos. I'm a pretty good golfer (play off 7) but have always been a very 'clean' striker of the ball so I don't leave a lot of room for error. Over the past couple of months I have been working hard (using the Fatplate aid) to be a little more steeper into the ball. Your video drills that focus on encouraging this particular type of swing plane have been a real help, so thank you. 👍
Thanks Bobby, the FatPlate is brilliant for strike so should work well
Great video … thnx!!
Thanks
Great video Chris , makes a lot of sense this just implementing it into the golf swing which I am actually doing recently all going well
I’m just trying to imagine how it is when I play football ⚽️ or tennis 🎾 you do actually get your body set first then comes the last thing which is the arms / hands and legs / foot to impact the ball
Also Happy New year 🥳
I've struggled for years with a poor downswing, my arms have been a law unto themselves so mostly they slash down to the ball.
I've struggled with my "turn through" and onlt recenylt realised that my downswing was so fast that they'd gone thru before I had any any chance to move body and hips.
For some reason I think a lot of us just can't get it into our head that we don't have to hammer the ball with all our might.
I made a breakthrough in recent months with the "feel" that I turn my shoulders and start by pulling my arms around and thru as though I start by dragging them around and then pulling thru.
So what you're saying here resinates with me big time...
this is awesome! Now I only need my body and arms to listen to my brain! Thanks
Love the video Chris. Quick question though. Some of your other videos focus on us getting the hands down first and using drills like throwing a ball into the ground behind you or whipping the alignment sticks down. How do you suggest we blend this sequencing with drills that focus on getting the hands down first. Thanks !
Thank you
This drill completely changed my game for irons and woods! Thanks for the great work.
I cannot apply this to my Driver. Can you point to a video for a similar structure drill but for my Driver?
It should be the same. If you watch a breakdown of Tiger’s driver compared to the iron swing he showed here, they look identical. The only difference is in the set up, because the club is longer you are standing taller and you should also be placing the ball closer to your front foot, so instead of striking down to compress the ball you will be hitting the ball at a different point of the swing. But the swing shouldn’t necessarily be any different.
Those Ducks at 2:15 give less than zero effs.
Yes it gives good feeling and a solid strike
I didn't realise I'd become so handsy. Letting the body swing the club rather the other way around has suddenly made everything better, especially bunker shots. Who knew?
Where do you give coaching classes one on one?
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Milliseconds but the body leads the arms and club,this is easy to learn IF you start golf as a weak kid like 99.9% of tour pros/great golfers but most golfers start as strong adults and initiate with clubhead/arms
But whilst i find all these versions of step drills easy! most dont
Even my new GF im teaching struggles,i thought she would find them easy as she is a dance teacher! i look like the dancer even tho im a hippo at dance compared to her!
I found working on hinging loading and releasing her right arm worked best in conjunction with the sort of drills shown in this video
V good video
Evne the duck was listening!
As a golfer and duck hunter with ADHD, I missed the point but I did watch those ducks
You've got some great videos. I just find some advice contradictory. That wide takeaway you demonstrated that some pros have seems to contradictor the keep your trail bicep attached to the peck and fold the trail arm. The don't start the downswing with the arms seems to contradict all the advice on how to correct the slice, specifically waiting to long to swing down causes the over the top path. This was a slightly confusing video as it relates to some of the others. Do you start the downswing with the arms or do you start by turning your body?
Hey Jack, the downswing should start from the ground up, so lower body and that is the case for almost all great golfers. The fairly recent slice fix video where I referred to my brother in law was specifically talking about getting the arms firing from the top, think that’s the one you refer to, I actually gave a lesson this morning with that exact concept. Those videos, I guess, would help most of those who are steep, but firing the arms first is the concept, feel rather than the reality. Many slicers simply need to use the arms earlier, but they would rarely start the downswing.
Can 100% see how these may contradict and be conflicting, maybe I need to convey these messages more in the videos. As a fairly experienced coach I feel that I have a decent understanding doing of what to say to certain groups of golfers to get the results we both want, such and hold the upper body and fire the arms, but the reality is that I know that won’t happen at full speed, but I see my job as to get results rather than always give 100% accurate info, that may be different to other coach.
Apologies for the long answer but you do raise a great point
@ChrisRyanGolf Makes sense, thanks for responding have a great day.
Do you teach amateurs to have the same tempo in the backswing & in the follow through?
Some folk go very slow on the backswing then speed up in downswing
When you step before the downswing you rotate your foot towards the target. I have been experimenting and found to get most speed by stepping while my left hip is still internally rotated and so foot is still fairly straight. My foot does rotate around later in the swing once I am off the floor.
Does this sound ok?
Thanks
Step and turn, step and go. ballroom dance moves
I believe the body should move, and control, the clubhead. Am I wrong? (This is not saying that I do not have lapses during which I move the clubhead too early.)
That’s exactly how I would see it, so spot on 🙌
I understand the feeling you're explaining of whipping. But at 7:23 or so, your head is all over. Inconsistent contact for us athletic people past our prime in our 30s. In a real swing with the feet still, do you more or less feel like you're pivoting around the sternum with most weight in front (but 50:50 pressure)?
It's the dance equivalent of a golf two-step.
I think i figured out swing. I know there are 1000s of swings but i feel there is one way you can make 100% stable hit
Irons are so pure now
The spoon isn’t real.
The things being taught here were never in Ben Hogan's book. They were discovered by David Lee and gravity golf. Because of him these things are infiltrating into modern golf teaching.
I feel the club head moves my body 😅 ive been playinh for 5 months tho
5.25 is my swing for sure
Back nine, body tired, refused to finish first, trouble starts
I always have it that my body leads the club.
Perfect 🙌
That's how you do it. Another name for it is "pre-stretch."
First
Nope. Just pause at the top for sequence.
I HAVE SUBBed !!! With bell !!!
This is my weakness after 5 holes.. because my boday feels easier to smash so i rush everything.. i just listen to this i know and understand its logic...