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There are two ways to create shaft lean. One is with lunging the upper body on top of the golf ball and using the arms early, the other is with the upper body staying back and using the arms later. Most tour pros use the second strategy, but if you start trying to add the body pivot concept without working on the arms at the same time, it's easy to get the ball flight to go too high. See how it all fits together in this video.
Tags: Member Question, Drill, Intermediate
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The Strel is bringing down the launch.
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Now often what will happen is as golfers are getting their body to power the swing
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and they're having a little bit more of this Jackson 5 or tilt.
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Frequently what will happen is they'll complain about hitting the ball too high.
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So they're used to hitting in a certain height and now it's going a little bit shorter
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because they're hitting a higher even though they're hitting it maybe more solidly.
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So there are two major ways that I can bring down the launch or two ways that I can kind of
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de-loft the club.
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One would be bringing that whole upper body on top of the golf ball.
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So now when my arms extend I have shaft lean but the problem with this method is my angle
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of a tight can get really really high.
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The other option would be I'm going to bring my hands more ahead of the golf ball.
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So what ends up happening is if I came from that first pattern, if I'm more of an arm
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pull in my upper body gets on top so that I can hit it solid then as I start to add this
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axis till Jackson 5 or better body sequencing as I stay more behind it if I do that same release
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now what ends up happening is the ball launches very high and actually tend to lose distance.
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So that's a good challenge for you is how can I stay more or less behind the golf ball
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use that white movement use the wrist mechanics to now bring that flight back down.
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Because if you do that when ends up happening is you get a shallower angle of attack even though
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you've de-lofted the club so your spin-loft comes down and you actually increase your distance.
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But there's usually a little bit of growing pains as you're adding some of this Jackson 5.
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If you find that you're hitting it too high when you do this then know that there's probably an issue
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in your release and you have to learn how to use your hands to bring the flight down.
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Not use that upper body lunge to bring the flight down or else you're typically going to
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stronger struggle with the longer clubs.
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So the combination of that wipe in Jackson 5 I'll exaggerate both as much as I can.
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Look something like that.
