BUILDING BLOCKS OF A GREAT SWING “1s and 2s” w Milo Lines and Jay Keel | BE BETTER GOLF 

This is what is wrong with teaching no one starts with this lesson. I’ve been playing golf for thirty years and literally learned more from these videos than I have from anyone. Took this out to course as a 10 handicap and shot 77. Great content

And yet there are many people in the Golf Hall of Fame with the very swing and wrist hinge this video disagrees with. This is why there are so many confused golfers in the world today; too many people claiming their method is THE method. Look, I think this is one method of swinging a golf club, and when followed correctly, can generate solid results, but there are others. The biggest issue for the average golfer is when they combine ideas, thoughts, methods, and swing traits from different swings. That will get nothing but chaos. Pick one swing method and stick with it.

Priceless ... explained so well by both pros. Best video I've seen in ages. Thanks so much to Jay and Milo &the guy with greatness

Great to have both pros working at the same time to mix their approach 👍🏻

this has become one of my favorite lessons because i suffer from a pull draw myself. the ball will start straight and go left so i try to aim more right to allow for that but i know it's a band aid like you say. gonna work on getting it correct, thnx to you guys.

Club always looks so unstable in your swing at the top into transition and your swing never looks different after a lesson, just during the lesson. You’ve had the same problems in your swing since I’ve started watching....

That is a great lesson. I, like you Brandon have been suffering with the dreaded pull hooks for a decade. Our courses closed for the winter yesterday, however my work station is set up in the garage complete with foam balls. I have about 5 months to practice! Just a great lesson. Thank you.

This is the same swing as the malaska golf. You don't rotate your forearms, but your right arm is rotating by the shoulder. You've been taught this before and you didn't even realize it

Milo is so good at teaching love him, you guys work well together. These videos are so helpful. Thanks for posting. I learn so much everytime I watch one

Thanks for the golf tips! The correct hand movement on backswing and downswing club location was very useful!

Love the way you pull the instruction from the guys , you ask the in depth questions I wanted the answers to as well you don't just say yes ive got it when you aren't sure 👊🇬🇧🇺🇲

this is one of your best....you ask the questions we all want to ask! Cant wait to try this at the range

I think that toe line part was helpful. I fight my hands going out every day.

My man, by far , the best video. This is the simplistic explanation that most need to see, not just hear, but see. It’s not just do this it’s HOW you do it.....

Best videos so far!

the feeling of greatness 😂

Are you a hitter or a swinger, we could see that Milo is a swinger but alas Brandon your a hitter, takes great fortitude to change your swing to a new style, but I have been following your journey and knowing your tenaciousness you will never relinquish the holy grail.

Aaaargh! Milo rotates his body into the ball, then releases the club into impact and beyond. You, you use your arms or hands, you throw the club head at the ball. In the first section, look at Milo's swing and the club position at 9 o'clock - nothing has been released but the club has momentum, provided by his body. (I will not use the three letter word here). Then go look at your swing in comparison at the same position. Your club has a lot more momentum and you just continue with your arms and slap the ball. Then when you want more from your full swing you have to swing your arms like hell, with your funny little twitch at the top and you come flying over the top and left it goes. But... you are getting there. Keep working on the half swings and then take them to the course because once you get back on the course all your old swings will come back to haunt you. Keep going! You will get there!!

Great vid! The big difference I see is your right elbow bends much earlier than Milos. I think he is getting his left shoulders lower than you to keep the right elbow straighter longer. Maintaining that swing arc seems to make contact easier than bending and extending the right elbow. I’m trying to work on the same thing and it’s so hard cuz it feels weak. Great work on the swing!

*OMG my worst scenario, a student who wants to run before they can demonstrate they can walk, I'm not a coach just stick with #1 until you master or fully understand it.*

This is my emergency swing for when things get FUBAR during a round

Genuine question and I mean no disrespect, but what is it about Brendon's swing that makes it look so laboured? It looks like the clubs are really heavy.

Brendon, looks to me like your “1” is about the same as Milos “2”. And your “2” is very close to a full swing. Look at your position at the top of your backswing on a “2” swing - for an 8 iron I would say this is close to a full swing?

Man that fella is naturally obnoxious. . That com3 closer to me bit was absolute cringe well done the teachers for not throwing him out.

Hey Brandon, in my unprofessional opinion, at 7:46, it seems your trail elbow is flying. Try keeping your trail elbow in front of your right hip during your backswing. I also learned recently how to correctly hinge the club as Milo showed.

"Well stop that..." pure gold...I may make Milo a shirt! love it! great job guys 👍

If you really stick to doing that drill everytime you warm up eventually your body will recalibrate and your timing will adjust. It took me months of focused work to become comfortable with this drill but the body will give in eventually! Doing this drill with driver is also another level of frustration!

Here’s a coaching tip try squatting before you turn to stop your initial slide then the turn happens naturally.

I figured this out last year on the range. Now i always warm up with these half shots. To me it "feels" like a square to square move but its not. This is similar to the Mike Austin concept. Great under pressure swing

Gotta be tough, each week new concepts and techniques or methods, Be confused golf. Somewhere in there is “your” best swing! Been there - done that.

I took that wrist hinge to the range and omg!! Nothing but flushed shots. This was the most eye opening experience video that I have found. Thank you to you/two/three!

Matching club face and swing arc...love it and crucial!

There's something in your swing that I've seen on numerous occasions, regardless of the method your trying to employ, that reminds me of an article Billy Harmon wrote for Golf Illustrated, sometime in the early 90s, in which he spoke of something he called the "in and over swing". He made Bruce Lietzsche the focus of the article, but he said Snead, Craigs Parry and Stadler also used this type of move, and I would add John Daly and Jumbo Ozaki, and maybe even Jamie Sadlowski to the list. Unfortunately, the article is nowhere to be found online, but there is a RU-vid video called OTT From The Inside that shows a bunch of examples with a brief discussion. As this move seems inherent to your swing (at least, in my view), it might be interesting to explore a method that is built on the move instead of training against it.

Awesome vid Brendon!

At 0.55 Jay demonstrates how he doesn’t want the wrist to hinge. He says he doesn’t want the wrists to move in that dimension. In your previous video he demonstrates a method to find your optimal backswing position. First move in that demonstration was, from address , place the club on trail shoulder. You cannot do that without moving the wrists in the dimension that he tells you to avoid. After watching a number of videos from elite players or teachers I now accept that the fact that they can do something in the golf swing doesn’t necessarily mean they know how they do it.

Joe Dante’s Early Backward Wrist Break will solve so many takeback, top and transition issues. What it does I quote from "The Four Magic Moves to Winning Golf:” 1. "Sets you in the proper hand/wrist position early. (All you have to do is hold it.) 2. Everything you have to do with the hands and the club, in the way of manipulation, is done early and in your full view. 3. Gives you the feeling that you have plenty of time to go to the top and come down. 4. Starts your swing in the right plane. 5. Brings the right elbow in immediately. 6. Prevents a "bouncing" clubhead at the top. 7. Tends to shorten the swing, thereby providing a brace against overswinging. 8. Gives you a feeling at the top that you have to move the body in order to get the club down to the ball. (Reduces inclination to hit from the top.) 9. Tends to bring the club to the ball with the wrists leading, as they should be. 10. Kills any temptation to pronate or supinate. 11. Promotes-almost insures-a late hit. 12. Promotes a solid contact on the center of the club face. The first three points are probably the most important. The others stem chiefly from the first three." To me this is the greatest unheralded instruction for a better swing. PenguinGolf

just like sweeping a product from the hall out the door. gotta compress an release with the proper hinge with stable body rotation.

Good video Milo, especially about Correct Wrist Hinge vs Incorrect. The incorrect version is still taught. Nick Faldo does a drill which helps create a great position at the top also.

I had a similar hook pattern with the slide being the culprit; I’ve largely rid myself of it and golf has become a lot more effortless. I don’t know if you have applied this singular swing thought before to eliminate the slide, but my teaching instructor has me only thinking about getting the rt shoulder to release through impact before the clubhead - rt shoulder wins the race everytime. It gets me focused on the body moving in a way that is rotational and further reinforces the trail side rotating around. Something about that trail shoulder makes the swing rotational - whereas it can never win the race when you slide; if you look at what happens when you (and previously, me) slide, the trail shoulder does not win the race - it gets dumped under and trails behind

01:00 how the wrist hinge... tell that other coaches who still teach it wrong in my opinion... yours make sense and what I did naturally, coming from an icehockey background

If you look at Mr. Hogan’s and Mr. Snead’s swing there lies your answer. They lay off the club immensely with huge amounts of rotation. This allows you to “slam the door shut” on the way down and through the ball, and hit with your right side. Maria Fassi also does it really well. Very hard to do but I think that is your swing type. You have to get that shaft feeling almost horizontal in the lay off position. Good luck mate.

You actually swing the club very nicely now on your own. So over the years you had several golf instructions by a variety of teachers. Can you absolutely tell us which one is best that you will consistently work with for the rest of your life? Is it Milo? Or is this simply another business arrangement. Cheers

"in plane hinging" is a bad term imo. It implies radial deviation. "In plane right hand wrist extension and left wrist flexion" is better. "Wrist hinging" forever has been assiciated with radial deviation.

This was a really good video. I know it's hard at our age to implement swing changes to our natural motor habits. Some of these swings looked great. It was cool seeing both instructors giving their input... What happened to those back swing drills you were doing a month or 2 ago where that instructor had you really exaggerate the backswing loop, you almost did a Matthew Wolfe backswing. I felt that was really working well for you and it had you making a good natural hinge. Anyways you have alot going on and you don't stick to a drill long enough imo.

Jay had a lot of insight.

man we all the pro you have around you , you should be playing the Master

This is probably one of the most important ideas the grasp in golf.

Is this along the same lines as Mike Austin’s principles regarding the wrists?

Hey, what has helped me for the BS is using the feels from the "PRO" training aid by Dan martin.... swing the club into the BS. Not the wight of the club head.... has helped with a much cleaner and structured finish to the BS with less runoff and sloppiness up top.

Many interesting pointers to check next range session. Still snow here, but two weeks or so and driving ranges will open.

You really prepared the ground to plant some really beautiful flowers.

It seems to me since according to these guys your big issue was sliding, they gave you a good drill to fix it, you did it once or twice then you went straight back to normal stance rather doing that drill for 20 times and then go back to normal stance, why?

I notice that you tend to swing fast as you're trying to execute the swing instead of trying to start in slow motion and get a feel as to what you need to do,and then swing faster as you get the correct executions establish, slow down !

I know who Milo is, but who’s the other fellow?🤷🏻‍♂️ He fixed you in one tip, or two.

This video has answered a question I've been asking for ages. Where is the butt end of the club at address? It seems there is far less to do with the hands when the butt end is further forward as in this video 😃

You tell people -- imagine someone is behind you and you are handing the club back to them.

I felt the very end of the video was the best part. That ended up being my personal take away.

Would love to get an in depth video on wrist hinge/extension from Milo! I rotate my forearms so much and don’t know how to change it! Great video, keep them coming

some sound observations and advice by Jay

Brandon, watch Milos right arm, elbow flex and position while he is doing the drill. Then watch yours. You continually suck/pull the right elbow behind you.

Only as requested , I will share an unprofessional opinion . During all static drills for correct positions doesn't figure , swing path is created by pulling in the opposite direction of the target [the T/A.] up to the top behind the head somewhere but repeating a static position is hard . Only stop pulling in anticipation of pulling in the opposite direction [ Transaction ]. With balance return the club square if you didn't stall by brain overload , Milo is making a circle around his spine perfectly because he doesn't stall the swing being he knows the movement like religion .Thanks again .

How much weight is on the lead foot? It looks like y’all have 65-70%?

Brendan, you ask Milo at 2.00 why the face is not shut in the 1st movement. I am afraid he is wrong, you are right to question this, modern teaching pros don't seem to understand - the first movement involves a slight clockwise rotation of the left arm, then the wrist cocks as the left arm rotates more to the top of the backswing. Of course the left wrist does cock (radial) in the way Milo says it doesn't, but it cocks as the left arm rotates. Sorry but Milo is wrong, you were correct. Only Matthew Wolff comes close to not rotating the l arm on the bs, he does it in transition.

You need to spend some alone time a club and try to find what is right for you - a swing that fits your fitness, flexibility, and timing while giving you some control over path and face. Since you don't seem to like your out-to-in path, try to mimic various draw-biased pro swings without diving too deep until you stumble onto one that feels right. Personally, I think Corey Conners and Patrick Reed are both great examples of what us mortals should look to emulate.

Milo, can you isolate the point on the right wrist where you should feel wrist hinge into "2"? My most infuriating thing with 98% of golf instruction is the assumptions some instructors let you make and do not correct. Scott touched on that assumption being that hinge and lag came from at different dimension @ :45 seconds in.

What you are showing is something I’m working toward. After watching the full video you guys hit a home run as you explained one of my other (I have many) faults moving hands outside the toe line. As a relatively new subscriber the teaching points have been well delivered. Rewatching these videos really does help, keeping on the toe line is a good tip.

Brendon I’ve been battling the same swing faults as you- I’ve watched so many videos of pros and they all take the club back on that original shaft plane and wondered how they did it. All the guys on teaching the takeaway show to keep the butt end pointed at our belly’s -so I like the Milos plane hinge but a little torn between it and the “keep it pointed at your belly” teachers. Thank you though great work!

Ok I've been struggling with the same issue where it seems the club is toe up. I have no clue what you mean by "tumbling the butt end of the club behind me" and "staying on the roof of the house" Can you elaborate? It sure looks like radial deviation at position 3.

Your arms are still not matched with your body.

Great composure after hosel rocket this guy can probably play well. Great mental place for golf game, ok with mistakes.

Brendon, you need to work on your shoulder turn, I believe you turn your shoulders too early. You need to keep your back against the target longer and try to have closed shoulders at impact. You can check out some of Mike Benders Instagram posts when they focus on the closed shoulders at impact. Hope it helps 😊👊

great work B. Love the detail

Grip it in the fingers, rotate your hip, then do the Malaska Move and follow through. Keep It Simple!

Milos club head is way way way lower than yours.

Brandon, I’ve worked on a similar swing change during lockdown. Trying to reduce launch angle and rotate body, not slide. Look into the tour rotation stick training aid. I found it changed my body rotation and delivery dramatically. Check out Alex evens channel for explanation similar to Milo in swing thoughts 👍

At the end of the video when Milo holds up the club as a plane stick. What does that line up with? Looks like it goes from the ball line through the bottom of trail shoulder

Brendon, you mention a follow on sister video that connects this with a sequence session. Where can that be found please?

Always love these videos!

Solid Gold!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great video series B it really helped simplify my back swing I’m hitting it more solid and really helped my left miss like yours keep it up 👍

12:53-13:33 = gold.

I joined Milolines golf because of this lesson. great content. Thanks.

Milo SAYS it's just wrist extension but then he SHOWS ulnar deviation mixes in. Is he saying to FEEL the wrist extension and ulnar just bleeds in?

Brendon, this is "solid gold". THANKS ONCE AGAIN!

This is a great conversation. Good that you persisted on the detail and clarification Brendon.

Joe Dante

Woooooow

" ... so Milo, how come you never told me that" priceless

milo i need some of that looks like i will visiting superstition mountain again

The golf swing in my opinion is one of those things that you either know it or you don't. No excuse why at this point you still cant control what the ball can do. I see now you are one of those that it just isn't ever going to click for. Mike Austin is the only person i think that couldve helped you. Good luck though. Wish you the best.

He’s steep in transition lateral motion is making him steep .

Still sliding. My coach said to me just hit it with your arms. I’m tall enough to get plenty of power from my long arms. He also said if I call him in three months he’ll tell me to stop using my legs without even seeing my swing.

You are aiming right at the trees on the right.Your stick is pointing dead right bro.

Outstanding video and tutorial, thank you 👍

You certainly try their patience.

Brendon's first 1 was about Milo's 4

Your coupon code doesn’t work I checked his site out

Where is three?

The Plane Mate is for this exact motion

Tough to pick up what is being explained at the 3:45 mark off camera... could you go over that again? Milo always gets rid of your loop...maybe its gone forever? Toe line comments ... very good stuff.