This is a great video. For years I’ve wondered why in the heck I should incorporate the waggle into my pre-shot routine. Here, you provided an excellent functional explanation for the waggle.
You have a weak grip. Use a strong left hand and there is no need for flat left wrist at strike. Go see ‘Good golf coaching’ and the data confirms a strong left wrist
Excellent drill, thank you. Quick note though. The golf ball does not compress off the ground. The ball compresses against the loft of the club and goes in that direction. Like a tee, the ground simply holds the ball in place.
Ok you’re probably right but how come I get no compression if my divot is too far forward? I only get compression when the divot is just beyond the ball, it’s kinda strange 😳
@@cdunne1620 Haha, wish I could tell you. Maybe attack angle, no clue though. I watched a ton of slow motion impact videos and the ball deflects upwards off the club without ever interacting with the ground. If you have some time google it, pretty cool to watch.
Hi Zach great video should I supinate the whole left arm to produce the bold left wrist or just concentrate on mowing the left wrist or both kindly advise thanks for your help Jack
@@ZachAllenGolf yea played with that feeling shot 71 lol hit the ball a mile for me and when I messed I felt my right shoulder moving up at impact resulting in push versus a draw
I learnt this from Hogan but without the body movements and got to mid-singles, but had issues sending wedges as far as a mid iron and unable to hit long clubs with dynamic loft almost at zero. Started trying to add spin and height to improve and hold greens, and now I’m a chronic flipper and strike is different every time-hcp going up. Can’t even understand how I used to strike it so well now.
Wide to narrow is old style, it's wide to wide. Check out ernie els. His arc is wider on the way down!! He uses those long arms to keep pushing the club away from him not towards him. Hogan wrote that I. His book and everyone jumped on it.
Zach you are a knowledgeable instructor and effective communicator. I dont know of any better instructor after watching many youtube channels. The only pet peeve I have of late is use of the word "effortless" to describe a full golf swing. You said it once in the video. However I really liked that you later on said "sequenced." That is an essential aspect that results in an efficient swing. Thanks again for making and sharing your content. It is fantastic.
This drill reminds me of the first drill in the Consistency Code, but instead of just swinging your belly, you're using that motion to swing the club. 👍🏽
I've always viewed the golf swing as a dance step. Footwork and the shifting of weight that goes with it are vitally important to a successful golf swing moving the body into proper positions to generate/store power, release that power into the golf ball and promote relaxation. Your modeling of proper footwork in this video -- especially with light grip pressure -- is a helpful visual image to show how natural and intuitive sequencing of the golf swing actually is if you relax and let it happen more than you try to make it happen.
After three years of working on lag, compression, etc, I am finally starting to get it. I can't even tell you how I got it but my ball flight is low and penetrating. One of the things for me is I started getting the feel of looping the club clockwise from the top of the swing, with light grip pressure and then just turning my lower body. But the looping clockwise heled the club shallow and get me coming from the inside. Then I get the elbow touching the right side of my stomach inside the hip on the way down which is my cue to close the club face down with my wrists, turn my body and release the club. When Zach talked about the water skiers and when he referenced why juniors get lag early because the club is heavy for them, this is what I am feeling now. It is hard to teach us old dogs new tricks but I follow a lot of content online and what Zach is teaching is really good instruction. I pay for another site but I will probably switch it up next year and pay for Zach's site. His information is as good as anyones.
Thank you sir, I love this advice! When I concentrate on a full shoulder turn, I lose the ball and get too flat. Funny thing is I just watched an online instructor demonstrate starting the swing like pulling on a lawnmower...lol. The only "issues" I have with fully understanding this video is how to initiate the swing? Great stuff, keep it up!
I think i figured out how to swing. I need to practice it in real life. I am talking what would be perfect golf swing? Problem: Top of downswing is most scariest place because club is behind. Now do you bring that to front and what path it takes? Most golf channels and golf videos ignore this most important issue because they have no clue and also each one have their own thought and dont want to tell anyone Swing thought at top of the backswing and start of downswing is most important part of golf. How do you get that into SLOT? Solution: 1. Posture. if you dont have good posture you get into bad swing. Then you may say 70 year old pro with inflexible body can straight why not 20 year old? Simple. They already had EUREKHA moment. You dont. What is that eurekha moment? Swing though at top of backswing and start of downswing. They know clubs and hand do not bring the club to hit the ball. 99.999% golf coaches are wrong They are just guides. Its shoulder that hits the ball. Now this right tip of shoulder should be look dead straight at ball at impact. wrists would be slightly ahead People can manufacture impact but how to bring club 2. Start of downswing ( swing thoughts) We have million versions. Each human have his own unique thought. Some sing song in their head , some say number What they want is brain to go blind at that time Its ok for mouth and brain , what hands do wrist do ? Every player have indicator or marker for downswing and they try to hit it so they dont make mistake. try to remember that for downswing Morikawa method is that he try imagine he hit the ball with Bow left wrist. So he willed whole body to achieve it. Every thing else unchanged. he is dragging everything like a statue body from top of the swing. So different people have different markers. So develop your downswing markers.
But everyone miss the point because everyone have bad swing including 99% of pros. They make it work but they all have bad swings. Can you give secret free if you have perfect swing and understand the science behind it ? Nope. I mean golf community will ban that video
Put a long stick on shoulder and let people hit the ball at bottom of the ball not touch at top. Use baseball below. just for fun. Most amateur body is unfit and inflexible.
I have this wedge. It has taken me about 2 months of trials. I can now finally say, this club does not solve any of my chipping woes. I still chunk, hit it thin, still goes left, still squirts right; every golf horror imaginable and some you have never seen before. It gets worse if I am on nice grass, where I am always better off putting. It works better when I am in thick rough, because I tend to always have too much angle of attack. I have not been able to figure out how to get rid of this unwanted angle of attack.
