This is it! I've been hitting countless buckets of golfballs at the range fighting a slice for basically forever. I've watched a million videos telling me to get the club in the slot to stop winging outside in and this finally made it make sense as to where the heck I was supposed to have the golf club and how my body was supposed to move to get it there. I went to the range with this in mind, did the baseball swing and I was absolutely hammering my driver and my misses were hooks! HOOKS!? I am so freaking amped right now. Thank you.

Clays delivery and explanations on tendencies are the Best! I am hooked!!

So I just watched this yesterday and before I couldn’t hit my driver’s right, took this out to the driving range and I’m hitting straight line , lifting the ball almost every time, I’m a beginner who just started and this is crazy good, I’m getting the membership real soon, thank you very much Clay outstanding instructions !

Clay, you’re tops thx! This is quite possibly the best golf instructional video I’ve ever seen (no youngster either). My problems were exactly what u were saying. In fact, I took a lesson and the pro told me to have a higher backswing?? Naturally frustrated cuz I was worse off, I saw ur video. Nine minutes later after watching and a large bucket, I started with half swings like u said. Went well and let me say. Yesterday, I was all over the range. With ur help, today I’m sure I hit at least 80% straight and where I was aiming!! What a difference a day makes. Thank you sooo much! Lefty in NS, Canada

another clear outstanding video. You do a great job of communicating the key points - Thanks!

I know you've heard this kind of comment before, but-- this thought of getting the shaft parallel to my right forearm-- has been a complete game-changer for me. I'm now crushing all my clubs, getting compression and distance. Today I hit one drive 252 and hit 3W 272! Seriously, 272 with 3W! (with the wind.) I still pull shots a little, but not much. I have great confidence in my ball striking now. I'm 69 yrs old. Thanks, Clay!

That is the best explanation of the downswing thru impact I have ever heard! Thank you!!!

I have been trying to understand shallowing for two years now, doing thousands of swing recordings, and finally I see this video... it's so cool and so clear ! The baseball shallowing is an eye opener ! Thank you very very much. Can't wait to go to the range tomorrow :-)

Watched a lot 25 + vids by clay this winter and I just now got to try my new driver (not new xr16 pro- used) with clays teaching on a course. First tee piped 300 yards. Last year I was 180 with a 60 yard slice.

When Club shaft is parallel to the ground coming down, hands are in front of right thigh. Love that thought! Puts one is great position (slot) to hit the ball Thank you.

I was steep coming in like a alot of players. This explanation of how to shallow helped me alot.

Finally I get it. Thanks Clay. The baseball swing turned the light on for me. Looking forward to trying this on the SkyTrak today.

I love the theory of this. I've grooved this for a few weeks with the bowed wrist on the downswing, but I'm hitting almost all heel shots and even some shanks.

Outstanding video Clay! Thanks for simplifying this very difficult concept that many of us have struggled with. Appreciate the simple ways you explain your concepts.

I've been struggling with the swing plane, this video is awesome. Thank you

Hey Clay - keep the great videos coming - this video is helping me with my squaring of my club face - took a few years to get into the right position but Ive been leaving the face way open - so I started manipulating my stance position to help with club path to square the ball...I will be working on this! Thanks again!

Thank you for explaining the mechanics of the swing.

Dear Clay. Thank you for very insightfull videos. A lot of people is looking for that aha moment in the golf swing. Analysing so many swings and putting together the best of each coach have l found that that one movement being that it feels like the right shoulder moves down when the golf swing starts down actually causes flatting the club shaft, pulling the right elbow into the side, pushing the hips forward creating lag and set the golf club onto the correct path and into the contact position. Yes al of this still needs to be in sequense but have found that if the right shoulder moves down rather than down and forward that it places the body in a far better position to hit a good solid straight shot with better distance results. My 2 cents.

Thanks Clay. Just getting back to golf after recent retirement. Your videos are very helpful.

Clay,I have a perfect swing trainer.Really helps with releasing and turning the hands over.Keeps me from blocking balls to the left.I,m left handed..As always very high quality instruction.

Best explanation where the shaft needs to be on the downswing and why. Period. Best drill to "feel" the difference between steep and shallow. Period. This is a game changer, but will take (me at least) a lot of work to rewire movement patterns. On my first trip to the range, I had several of Clay's "feels amazing" moments. Those good shots felt different than any of the 10 millions balls I've hit in my life. Any suggestions on how to go about making this stick? For now, I guess I'm going to do the drill several times a day and hit balls about half speed until it feels natural. Thanks Clay.

Great video. Set the wrest, keep the hands in front, and follow through with a left rotation of the wrist. I'll keep this in my notes.

Absolutely amazing video. Thank you

Great vid even if I do not do this very well, I still find myself never just chunking shots , makes a huge difference to a high handicapper.

Thanks for this. It's my firs time to play golf. From philippines

Clay, I like the driving range/studio. Ive been working on ur golf lessons/system for awhile now and making progress. Love the videos u do for us. Keep up the good work!!! The hardest thing for me to do consistenly is the shaft plan. Work in progress.LOL

Still the best video on the internet on this subject. Period.

Clay love this video and all others!!! It has transformed my game!! I am a 5 handicap mostly thanks to you and your videos. I did have a question because we the lag and shallowing with irons and driver, I am experiencing draws but borderline hooks. Especially with the driver. Any advice on how to not overdraw irons/driver? Thanks again!!!

Thanks for this video very informative! Was definitely missing this element in my swing

Would be awesome to see you explain some of key metrics for QCQUAD’s club module! It likely would help those with other LM’s as well!

Love the videos Clay! You should mix in some course vlogs if possible. Good youtube market for that.

The release you explained is a specific feel for your game. I don’t see pros release the club with that closed of a face after impact - seems to me pros are working on less release with proper wrists conditions in today’s game. Great explanation on getting club into slot - loved the baseball explanation

Hogan used the same supination + flexion of lead wrist in his swing and when working through his Five Lessons book and trying to understand WHY it worked for him I realized the conscious action of supination (palm up) + flexion (slap inward) of the lead left hand caused the fully extended (slapped back) and fully radial-deviated (thumb up) trailing right wrist to straighten (neutral supination / flexion) and “snap” down very quickly into ulnar-deviation (thumb down movement) identical to Hogan’s waggle action before making the swing. In terms of cause and effect the left hand flexion and supination maintains the desired forward lean of the shaft lag, but completely releases the radial-to-ulnar deviation lag with the same wrist action seen in things like hammering nail, chopping wood with an axe or cracking a whip. The latter analogy is the most telling because the “crack” the tip of a whip makes it a mini-sonic boom as it breaks the 700 mph sound barrier. The club head snapping down with that same flick of the wrist downward accelerates it the same way during the last few inches of the swing before impact if timed as Hogan and the pros, or after after impact in the swing of most recreational golfers which is why their swings lack the compressive force of the pros. I stopped using the supination+flexion bowed lead wrist technique after hitting a tree root and badly spraining the top of my left wrist. That make me realize why Hogan’s swing was so consistent and powerful. The combination of supination+flexion+full unlar deviation by the time the ball releases off the face allows very consistent and precise control of face angle because there is no “give” in the wrists (hence the bad sprain when the root stopped it). But what I discovered after reverting back to a flat wrist at impact is that time the same radial-to-ulnar deflection change in the last foot of club head travel before and through impact which causes the club head to accelerate and the face to swing closed. In terms of cause and effect and timing starting the change from radial-to-ulnar deviation in the right hand just as the hands swing down into the sight picture starts to move the thumb down without changing the orientation of the flat left wrist or the extension of right wrist, but it changes the angle of the shaft (i.e. the lag) significantly and significantly changes the the face angle. The key factor here is having “soft hands” and allowing the club force to pull the right wrist from extension to neutral and both wrists from radial deviation to full ulnar deviation (Hogan’s hidden in plain sight trick). It is the radial-to-ulnar deviation of the wrists combined with the rotation of the entire left arm at the shoulder joint (which maintains wrist orientation) which swings the face from open-to-square WHILE THE BALL IS COMPRESSING ON THE FACE. The club head continues to accelerate during the compression-release process resulting in exponentially more F = 1/2 (Mass * Velocity^2) striking force. I’m not sure how much that last “crack the whip” radial-ulnar deviation wrist action increased club head velocity versus a swing without it but if it were to increase from 80 to 100 mph the difference in force would be F= 1/2 (M x 10,000) compared to F = 1/2 (M x 6,400). Since club head mass is constant in those equations the result is 5000 vs 3200, a 1.56x increase in the force at impact compressing the ball, just from snap of the wrists down fully through impact. To make the ball release of the face straight at the target the face must be open at impact and the club face must contact the ball inside of center > +. The ball rotates with the face as it whips closed \ and is square to target - when if flies off the face. Since swing arc affects overall club head velocity at impact the ball will compress less with partial swings so the amount the club face is opened behind the ball needs to be adjusted. If the ball flies off straight right the radial-ulnar deviation wasn’t completed before the ball released off the face. When the ball misses straight left or hooks the cause is the ball staying on the face past the point it has squared. The cure for that is to aim more inside on the ball (not open the face). Aiming more inside will increase the dwell angle time of the compression-release action. Opening the face instead would create slice spin on the ball. That cause and effect is very counter intuitive but a lot of things in physics are.

watches video, gets excited. goes to range, cries.

Great. I think it’s hard to work swing changes in, so appreciate the step by step method to make those changes

i m going to take a good look!!!! thx!!

I can now shallow pretty well my issue is when I miss I miss left (pull) with a draw.

I would argue for amateurs, late rolling of the wrist is not the best option. When Pro swings are analyzed on the GEARS system, the biggest difference between Pro & AMs, is how quickly, from the very Top of the Backswing, that Pros put Squaring / Twisting Torque on the Handle and Square the Face almost immediately, compared to AMs that never even get it square at all. The Tennis Drill, done immediately at the top, to get the club squared early, then allows all the other sources of power (handle forward, etc) to be accessed. Square Early -> Rotate Hard

Lee Trevino had a great swing but never changed his angle, that's why he used to aim way to the left. A natural blocker.

Fabulous video.

Clay, Looking at your KZfaq video why you come over the top + How to Stop! I like it BTY 2016,.I just have to change my swing and its so hard to adjust from old habits. Question how long will my brain take to trust the new fell lol loaded question? When I go the the extreme like you say. I mean if I really what to shake this OTP I will do anything. Thanks, Clay

That golf ball sound at the beginning scared the shit outta me. Mr Clay, question. I understand what you have to do to square the clubface through impact..what are your thoughts on rate of closure then? It seems that having to rotate your hands so much through impact would cause your rate of closure to be pretty high which, for us amateur golfers creates a very difficult swing/shot to reproduce over and over again.

Saved! Time to hit the range.

I do that exactly! It is so frustrating

"Daggum hard" - love this guys videos. Such a Kentucky dude

Hi Clay - would the release not cause a hook when you close the clubface like that? - What about the shoulders staying back?

And is the drill to practice that adjustment with a standing up baseball swing ?

Setting my wrists in the backswing and releasing my hips early works pretty good for me. I don’t really have to think about anything else if I just do those 2 things.

When you see clay post a new video, but you're in a meeting...

So it seems like you are almost looping at the top from the steeper backswing angle into the shallower downswing angle . Is that right ?

If I bring the the club end down first in the down swing, that will bring my elbow in and shallow out my swing? Plus, is the wrist release timing similar to hitting a baseball?

What point of the downswing should i extend my right arm and shallow the club? After rotating my hips back square to the address position?

What do you thinkg about using a strong grip instead of bowing the wrist?

Yes it definitely do that

I feel like your explanation of turning that clubface is natural bc I’m a hockey player; but so many instructors seem to say NOT to let the scoring lines turn over through and past impact; I’m much more inclined to naturally do what you are advocating for here and isn’t the turning the face over like that a power producer? I’m wondering if you can comment here or in future videos about: difference many instruction advocates for keeping the face in line with the spine angle through and past impact vs. what you are showing here where you are saying turn that face over all the way and don’t hold it off.

You da man!

By rolling your club face over on downswing, will it promote a hook?

Clay... I'm hitting my clubs on the practice range well. But on the golf course I struggle. Do you have any advice?

I need a lesson with you!

Another great video Clay. Well done.

For people who have always held things off and blocked shots to the right... will turning the club over FEEL like a flip?

In doing this would you have the tendency to flip?

I understand trying to get the swing shallow but no matter how hard I try i seem to always pull with my hands to start downswing and I just can't do it, I really need help or a thought how to shallow with a starting move

I'm trying to learn the 'bowed wrist' swing, but some teachers on KZfaq are saying that this can lead to injury, is too complicated, or lacks power, because the grip/wrist position is not like 'the position when you use a hammer'... They've also said that the pros who do this swing are simply young and athletic enough to do so... I'm just a 55 year old with an 11 hcp. I love the beauty and power of Clay"s swing, but I wish I didn't watch the other teacher's video as I am now confused....

Is it the same with driver? or slightly different?

Tried it everything goes left but the strike WOW

To shallow the club is just the result of your correct core and pivot movent...

BOOKMARKED! But... Should you set your wrists early like DJ?

clay...i don't know how you "flip" that clubhead over so much w/o hitting a hard hook. you make it look so simple but when i do that with the clubhead it's just dead left and left some more

Can someone answer a question. How long did it take for you to make contact with irons most often? I’ve been playing 8 months so I realize I’m a beginner but I’ve played nearly everyday non stop and still only contact 1 out of 5 irons. The other 4 roll across the ground about 50 yards. It’s worse off a tee than the ground. I don’t want to give up but months of work with no progress is frustrating. Even my best shots I’ve ever hit are 40 percent shorter and 75 percent lower than everyone I play with

The only reason we can't swing on one plane is the the right elbow. When it bends the hands get lifted by the length of the right forearm but the elbow stays on the swing plane. The club must come back to rejoin this elbow plane prior to impact.

Great concept and your videos are great but this seems like a lot to think about during a golf swing

Would this require a great deal of timing?

Hey Clay is this the same for Driver and or woods?

Where is this explained in the Top Speed Golf system

With the driver the same things?

Clay, need a drill for being to inside or under the right forearm on the down swing.

Don't worry, it's the description. 😉

Why not swing it back on a shallow path the same as the one coming back into the ball? Why swing it high backswing then flatten out, why not just swing flat back and down?

Hey nice lesson but I want to see some drills for lefties ok mind you i am right handed but I give lessons to some Lefties

I love your explanations. I would ask you please, if possible, videos with subtitles in Spanish, surely more people would see it

Why would my irons push left 20-30 yards of target?

205 with a 6 iron? Wtf? I’ll never see that, even with all the weight I work out with .... Super frustrating.

I have a whale of a time with my right arm! Wish I could fix it!

Justin Thomas Golf Swing?

practice practice practice now all's I do is hit snap hooks

How you shallow it out from the top is a complete mystery to me and is as unnatural as hell. Instead I just try and swing my entire backswing and down as close to the right elbow setup plane as possible so there is a minimal need to inject an unnatural shallowing move into my downswing. Works great and stops an over the top outside in downswing line.

Yeah...but how do you shallow out the club if you're not athletic.

I’d be worried that I’d overdo it and start to shank

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cant u just close face in the grip?..

This stuff is much more natural in the baseball swing than the golf swing.

thats crazy , watch mike austin vids instead

Whats your email doc

The Texas species of human talk funny 456 : “ lets give that a whirl “

Why waste the time taking the club out of the slot when you just keep the elbow tucked so it never leaves the slot. The club face never needs to move much at all.

One plane would be easier to teach. Here, the club starts at 60 degrees at address, swings back to say 70-80, then has to be shallowed out to get back to 60.

Uh huh... that's the move..so where's the drill ???

Clickbait to view video re wrist rolling, only one I know who does it!!😪

Way too complicated...