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This drill video is two-click backswing.

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So two-click backswing is designed to help you feel re-centering during the backswing.

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A lot of amateur golfers have a poor concept of thinking that the golf swing is this big

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lateral shift off the ball and then lateral shift towards the ball.

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So if I was exaggerating it in their minds, the golf swing is a shift way back here and

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then I shift way forward here as I come down.

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But it has more of a pressure shift similar to a throwing pattern where I would shift and

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as I'm still bringing this backward, I would be shifting towards the target.

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Starting my lower body before my arms are gotten to the top of the swing.

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So I will use the pressure board or a wobble board or if you don't have either of those,

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you can always put a piece of wood on top of a towel.

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Something so that you can feel where your weight is.

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And I'm not quite sure if you can hear it because this mat's a little softer than inside my

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studio.

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But if I push it hard into the ground, you'll hear a click.

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So I'm going to do a couple of these swings where I'm not talking, so hopefully it'll

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get picked up on the audio.

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But basically what I'm going to do is, this is called a two-click backswing, which is basically

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I'm going to start on the left foot and then I'm going to make a takeaway move where

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I shift into that right leg but not by shifting my whole upper body because if I shift

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my whole upper body, the second click is going to be tough because the second click is

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supposed to happen between or as I'm going from here up towards the top of the swing.

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So the two-click backswing kind of looks like that.

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So we've got start on the left foot, shift shift.

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And as I'm shifting, I'm going to feel like I'm more down and on top of the ball and

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ready to go into more of my rotational vertical that 360 jump or the force-puddle idea

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of using the legs more vertically there during the latter half of the downswing.

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So I've already had this lateral movement and now it's more rotation and vertical movement

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down through the ball.

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Now the only downside to this is because it's higher off the ground, it can cause some

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contact issues like it's hard to actually take full shots.

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But I do think that it works pretty well if you're good enough that you can adjust

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for what you would have to face if the ball was just a little bit below your feet or

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you can always use a small T and T the ball up if you're doing this on a mat.

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I don't recommend doing this on grass.

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I just haven't got the same benefit.

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Now one other thing that you'll see is if you're late, if I shift and then I start spinning

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as I'm shifting, what will happen is the board will actually twist under your feet before

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you get to that second click.

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So I want to be able to do this with a fairly good aggressive swing.

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I don't want it to be, you can see that one I shifted late and the board twisted.

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So let's try it again.

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So we're over on this left foot.

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Click, click, swing.

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Good.

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This can also be a problem if you get too much of your lower body movement laterally or if

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you use too much of your back muscles to really pull on the club.

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It can be awkward for you to get on top of the golf ball because then if you did those

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patterns, you would be too steep so you need to basically you have to rework your

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shallowing pattern.

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So this can be a really good drill for a couple different issues in end of backswing in

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transition.

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But the most common is if you use more of your upper body shift kind of like that where

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you shift way off the ball like this and then try to shift during the downswing.

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So if I did that, the bad one that we're actually trying to solve here, it would typically

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look like this.

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I'm on the left foot, I would shift and then I would shift and you'll see that because

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of the timing of that shift, I ended up having to throw my arms pretty early.

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So now we'll do one where it's more of this re-centering move in the backswing so we've

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got shift shift go.

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That's kind of the rhythm that all usually say to students while they're working on it

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is the shift shift.

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I want that timing happening during the backswing.

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So we'll do that again so we've got shift shift go.

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Like I said, it will force you to stay a little bit more down or might force you to release

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your arms a little bit more in order to control low points so it's not perfect but it

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is really good for helping if you're backswing, force, pivot pattern is causing some

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downswing issues.

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This will help you stay centered and get your lower body a little bit more active in

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transition.