How to Lean the Shaft at Impact Like a PRO | Clock Drill 

Love to hear this stuff. Thank you for sharing and glad you liked the drill. Keep it rolling.

Good discipline and thank you very much for the support. I appreciate it more than you know:)

The move from 1-2 is going to look very pronounced when working to a static position. Remember, in the golf swing, we never hit positions, we move through them. This move from 1-2 happens when the body starts to shift to the lead side and change the direction of the golf swing. You want to start out by creating the feel at the top on its own. Then start doing it in movement. You won’t see nearly as much change in the pitch of the shaft if you do it dynamically. Just a subtle amount is all you’ll see even though with a device like hack motion, we can see the wrist would be changing a larger amount than the camera is showing us. Hope that helps answer the question. Let me know if you need further help with this.

@@MyGolfDNA Logical and clear answer - thanks. For the newer generation with low attention spans that you mention - dont let their carless attitudes stop your detailed explanations. Without the detail it becomes just another typical meaningless hints video, without any convincing justification or detailed explanation. To pander to them maybe just have a summary at the end (which also helps everyone). The rest of us can follow and evaluate the logical and detailed description - without rejecting a superficial only approach video. Schaun

This is NOT a simple change and has to be married back to the big system of movements (in good sequence) for it to be truly effective. I feel like I explained in the video what we see in wrist patterns on the way down, maybe I didn't. I'll go back and doublecheck. The reason why that move is so important in the downward half is its allowing the plane to shallow, the club is being delofted and its allowing you to gradually supinate the wrist into delivery without the club getting crazy steep in front of the hands. If you were just to rotate the wrist from the top down, the club would get steep. We can see in ALL wrist patterns, that there is a movement on elite ball strikers that is common in the downswing, the lead wrist increases in flexion. That is what I want this drill to teach you. Is to "feel" how the club should work more naturally when you start changing the direction from a good position at the top of the swing. Hope that helps. I'm not sure I understand the other half of your question at this point, so I'll go back in the video and see if I can figure it out before I comment on it.

When you start moving with a great deal of rotational force, your hands and arms will be further out away from you due to centrifugal force. If your setup is good and your sequence is good, physics will be a big help to you. Let me know if you need more info on this and I’ll gladly help you.

It should be happening as the body gets shifted to the lead side and the lead shoulder begins to drop. It's incredibly dynamic and now most of the students can understand why I saved this for last in the mix. Well, there is one more to come (maybe). If have the proper arm functions and good sequence, this feel from the drill, if done right, will help you with stability in the clubface through the release as you wont need to help the club.

​ @MyGolfDNA okay...I am going back to continue working on the other drills and will come back to this later. Since I started the relaxing of the lead shoulder my hands have felt quieter through impact and my balls have been going straighter in general especially with driver.......which for the first time in my golfing life I just started hitting driver a bit over a month ago. Up until then 3 wood was my longest club in the bag. My bad shot is when I tense up the lead shoulder and swing my arms through impact rather than relax and let them be passive. Trying to make sure I do a practise swing like that before every shot when I play. I find the hundreds of reps and re watching your videos for little snippets of advice that I missed are the key to me progressing. Thanks again.

If you have a weaker grip, you may need to add a small amount of lead wrist supination on the way down to land in the correct spot on step 2. A good way to do the drill is to get to the 1:00 position, Scrub to 2:00 on the way down and stop. See how open the face is and adjust it. Then add that feel in the downward half movement. Let me know if you have any further questions at all.

Hips should be slightly open 15-20 degrees or so.

@@MyGolfDNA I've been trying that. Very difficult and no success so far. Please don't make it look easy. :)

The video was out for like 1 hour when you said "no success". Take your time. I worked this drill with a student yesterday it it took us a full 2 hours before he got adapted to the change and start hitting scud missiles with his 6 iron. Maybe he will comment on the time it took us and the processes so you can hear it directly from a student.

@@MyGolfDNA I've been trying that for various reasons, including videos and lessons from you, for at least a month. I know I cannot fix everything all at once so things I'm working on are not always the same from session to session.

One of the things that will help your move specifically with a movement like this drill, would be to feel patient with the arms in transition. You tend to get on the gas with the right arm immediately as you’re shifting left which makes it really hard to shallow the downward half as I demonstrate in this video. If you all the arms to get sped up in the downward half by the hips, you’ll have time to allow these subtle, yet really important movements to occur.

YOU can certainly take everything at face value if you choose. That will get a lot of students really working on the wrong things at the wrong time when it comes to golf. But hey, there's a place for left thumb tips and "magical" speed gaining solutions. I personally want my students to know what and why they are doing something and how it can affect their body over the long haul.