Learn How Tiger Woods Creates Effortless Speed in the Golf Swing 

This is Part 1 of my 5 part GOAT Code video series. You can watch the full series that I learned to swing like Tiger's 2000 swing at rotaryswing.com

I actually pulled this shot off once, a few years ago, completely by accident. Confronted with a tee shot from an elevated tee over about 200 yards of forest to the fairway I was resigned to losing my ball. Worse, a group ahead waved me to play my shot as they walked down to play their next shots. Anyway, I got my 2 iron out, as I was struggling with my driver that day, relaxed as I thought I was bound to lose my ball, let the club fall in the way described in the video, completely by accident, and caught the ball perfectly. It soared over the forest and careered down the fairway. I started looking for my ball near where the group ahead were waiting still to play their 2nd shots and they asked what I was looking there for. When I said I'd lost sight of the ball they pointed way down the fairway and said it was down there. It must have gone about 275 to 280 yards, and with a 2 iron! As I walked down to it, for the one and only time in 50 years of playing golf since I was 14, I felt like Jack Nicklaus. Needless to say, reality returned on the next hole when I hacked my tee shot about 100 yards into a ditch!

I am a high handicap (17) golfer. On my simulator with the first knuckle of the trail hand pushing the club to start the golf swing and 80% of my iron shots are hitting the green, 100 yards to 150 yards. All I did was watch the video's and then went down and started to feel the first move be to use my hands to get the club rotating. This idea of cast the club, I hope continues to be amazing for my golf game.

Everyone take a moment to be in awe of that amazing backdrop!

I went to the driving range and tried this. This is exactly what I needed. I was too focused on hip rotation. This cast move has just unlocked the missing power I’ve been trying to get back. Thank you!

great explanation and video. I've had a hard time reconciling width with holding on to lag and this really nails it. And without muscling the club through I'll bet it's a bunch easier on my left shoulder, which has started getting tweaked, esp working on building up speed.

This is awesome and its so effortless. Cant wait for the second part of this video. Hopefully soon. Thank you 😊⛳

Awesome sir, THIS is the holy grail. I know because I’ve felt this before and it’s counter intuitive and amazing.

As a 54 yr old man who has been playing since he was 14, this is pure gold. Here's the key to all this IMO... You need the tension in your swing in the RIGHT muscles / joints. It's all about the tension being in the right place(s). Once you get that down, it's a natural progression and practice to make the 'whip' do its thing.

That makes a lot of sense, super interesting. My current instructor has been getting to do that also. Hard to get rid of that sensation of holding the angle and doing “pump drills” for lag when I was beginning to learn the swing. Thank you posting this ❤ ⛳

This is amazing advice and immediately improved my game with all the clubs and so much less effort and more reliable striking. Thank you!

Mind blow. This is the opposite of what you hear from most instructors. It reminds me of the video of when Ben Hogan was on the Ed Sullivan show and he was whipping is golf club back and forth. Looking forward to video 2.

This and your video on the stance has been absolute gold…I was very athletic growing up, playing ice hockey through division 1 with excellent hand/eye coordination so I could must muscle a club from almost anywhere and make good contact…Now, I’m 55 now, had both hips replaced, shoulder surgery, and back-related injuries…so, less effort is much preferred…have had a lot of trouble getting club speed, leading to shorter distance (though not as much of a concern) and much lower flight (75ish feet with irons with about a 41 degree landing angle)….I’ve always used blades because contact isn’t much of an issue for me and I love the way they look at address and feel…tried buying distance irons and actually hit them very poorly (heads too big!)…after using some of your videos over the last few weeks, getting more distance, and much better height (90+ feet) with my Miura KM700 irons - even my 5 iron!!! And the best part, and a first in years, is I was able to do 3 range sessions 3 days in a row of about 125 balls! Haven’t been able to do 2 days in a row for a long time and limited to playing only 9 holes…can’t wait to start playing 18 again with much less effort!

Great information. Makes me think of Freddie or Ernie with their graceful tempo that looks so effortless but produces so much speed. Just as an aside, that background is spectacular 😳

Mate I think you're on to something; telling us what we don't have to think about, rather, like every other teacher, giving us 50 more things to think about before hitting the ball. You got me. Well done!

I am 67 and have had multiple broken bones ,neck ,ribs collapsing Lung ,40 surgeries both shoulders ,both ankles 7 knee on left knee with 3 total replacements ,just one on right knee ,rotators ,Bycept tendons , full Labrum left Shoulder ,right shoulder decompressed twice and Tumors ehhhh many more and I play 2 or 3 times an week with no pain meds ! Not counting Double pnuemonia Covid ,Heart went in AFIB Rapid Ventricular rate 245 bpm ,Allmost expired , Intensive care 15 days lost 30 lbs but still play -Love this Game of Ours!!!❤️

Ok- great explanation which i have to admit, i probably need to to watch this a few times for my brain ti accept it but agree with all the instructions here (and there’s so much conflicting info on RU-vid/internet about proper golf swing feelings). When my swing is on, i personally feel a slight pause at the top exactly what is mentioned here, which is the highly preached against “casting” - yet, I’m always ripping the ball when I get that casting feeling.

This is by far the best example and explanation for this feeling. It used to come and go well now I got it back for good. Thank you

11:50 over the past 15 years I taught myself to cast from the top with my left hand to the point of rapidly wearing a hole in the thumb 👍 of my glove. Also I tend to hold the club right at the end and this wears a big hole in the heel/pad part too. This worked for a a while but now as an older player getting back into golf, I find I have low club-head speed. Occasionally I hold the club very lightly with just my fingers and have found I hit the ball just as far and pretty well but I am unable to reliably reproduce this. I really like your approach which makes a lot of sense, and as you say it requires developing a great deal of sensitivity in your hands. Especially the right hand. This compliments the advice by John Norsworthy in his book, Good Golf is Easy.

You and Dan Alton say the same thing but different! Lol! That Tiger video clip says it all.....don't pull the handle through, rather use wrists and speed to get club head through impact! Great video!

Hi Chuck. Thank you so much for taking the time to help us. Everything is very clear, but I still have one doubt. Are the throw and the glide simultaneous or does one trigger the other?

Chuck, Thanks for doing this Q&A session. We appreciate you taking this time to do this. About the right hand: During the downswing, do you feel you are using the Right Hand to "throw the ball" drill at impact?

I'm trying to combine the early casting with proper shoulder turn i.e. sliding the scap's in lieu of rotating. Both moves go together like PB&J.

Fantastic analysis as always Chuck. The feeling of the club itself controlling the tempo is what's struck me and it's alot of fun to put less "muscle" and watch it go further consistently. A bit of a term question however ..."fast/speedy hands" is really referring to what? The "speed" of hands through the release? The rotational acceleration of the club head at the moment of impact?

While I was listening to you explaining how to swing the club, a player came to mind who used to swing it this exact way. Payne Stewart, he had that effortless, let the club do all the work swing.

Thats a beautiful scene mate.

Bro where were you all this while... I've crossed 50 and started to learn how to play... Now I feel more confident 👍👍

Very interesting concept. perhaps explains how the the swings that feel effortless with a smooth tempo are often the longest shots of the day.

Great Video! Monte Scheinblum teaches the same in his NTC series!

Hey Chuck, I am loving this! To me it feels like a “relaxed” swing, instead of my normal trying to muscle the club swing. It also seems to unlock all the stuff I learned from DEAD drill, Axiom, and C4. Kinda brings it out of my muscle memory, without trying to make it happen, if that makes any sense. Thanks much, Rotary Swing has really helped me game!

This could be the turning point of my golf. This is the exact opposite of what most goofy golf coaches teach. Thank you so much for finally making sense of the golf swing

Good morning Chuck. Thanks for creating this GOAT series. Excellent content. I’m excited to start working on these feels. Everything you’ve shared makes sense. This is why Tiger said he doesn’t take a divot when he’s flushing it. He also shared in a separate, related video he feels wide and wide coming down and through the ball. I wish you great success.

This technique works great with irons. For the driver, I have not been able to consistently execute this technique. Any tips for the driver?

Chuck, great series. At the top do you start the downswing with a lateral shift of the uncocking?

Hi Chuck! This is indeed the first time I have felt effortless speed. I think this is a great opportunity to push out some content of your past programs (DEAD Drill, Axiom) and how they can actually be done with this new “casting the club from the top” approach. For example, in the Axiom power program you talk about stomping into the lead foot and almost feeling like the trail foot moves backwards, while in this new approach you talk of a lateral movement that doesn’t seem too aggressive. When you want to really go after one ball how can you put that extra speed in the swing?

Tried the new swing for the past two days with generally good results. I think I'm still starting the downswing with a downward pull of the arms while trying to unload the wrists. Should the club feel kind of waitless starting down and the unload the wrists?

Hi Chuck, thanks for these videos! How close is this release to tipping the club head out early in the downswing with left hip rotation? This looks similar, but your method looks more natural. Thanks again. Jeff

Love the Axiom and Goat instruction. One more stupid question? Is the lateral shift a response to the uncocking of the wrists or a concious move?

It is counterintuitive. I’d say it looks like Freddy Couples? I always thought the momentum of pulling down with the trail hand lag and speed and then releasing it was how to gain power and compression? I’ll check the next in line video. Thx.

Reminds me of a guy called Dalton McCreary that talked about the wrists releasing throughout the swing with no holding the angle. When done correctly it is effortless.

Hi Chuck - when you talk about tipping the club with the lead hand, are you also tipping it 'out' or away from your body, vs. just widening the wrist angle? Then, as the club starts to fall under it's own momentum, when do you feel you start applying the right hand throw action?

Hi Chuck, another question. Is there still a deliberate post up (pushing into the ground) of the lead leg at the end of the lateral shift/glide before or at impact?

Hi Chuck, 2 questions: 1. should the cast start “on plane” or more vertically to get the weightless feeling? 2. what would cause the bottom of my swing to be a few inches behind the ball (hitting fat)?

Hi Chuck - went through the GOAT Code on RSG. Seeking a clarification on body turn - should this feel like an arm swing? Currently, I initiate the takeaway with a synced turn.

In one of your more recent videos you talked about creating club speed is a result of creating hand speed and not firing the hips. If you're letting the club fall from the balance point, how do you create hand speed?

Gosh. This is the opposite of what I’ve been trying to teach myself this week: I’m trying to keep my wrists, extremely loose, let my arms fall, and then turn so that there is a strong angle as my hands come close to my thighs with the club swishing through impact. I’m trying this, because when I video my swing, I see that I lose almost all of the angle from the top and I have almost no lag coming into impact. My swing speeds are very low and I believe they could be much faster and they need to be to play some longer shop in the greens. I’ll give this a try as well.

Hi Chuck, what's your feel as you start transition, is it throw without uncocking right risk or do you uncock and throw at same time. Clearly there is a throwing action and an uncocking action but when do you do those two-uncock later? Monty Scheinblum advocates throwing to 7 o clock as you rotate-just wondering how you compare what you're advocating? Many thanks Steve

Great video. how do I find the 2nd video that covers the same on the trail arm?

Absolutely brilliant! That last part of Tiger video is what I used to look like. And still do at some points.

The start of the backswing : L Arm push (protraction) and R SH blade pull (retraction) at the same time?

So basically release the club earlier at the top. I did this and it worked very well.

Chuck, at what point in the backswing should I begin to "throw" the club?

Somehow I've lost the feel for unloading the left wrist properly. Are you talking about ulnar deviation? Or, extension? I think I understand the difference.

This whole concept makes so much sense and gives me hope in my swing again. There’s an article in Golf Digest about how Charles Barkley finally fixed his swing with the same feels you’re talking about. Scary as it sounds, I felt like I was starting to head down that path that Charles was on and that my game was done. Can’t wait to implement this into my swing and get my game back. You’re the man, Chuck!

This is really revolutionizing the modern golf teaching

Does this motion mean we no longer initiate the downswing with a lateral shift? Rather, we start widening the club and as it falls we start to shift?

This all sounds great but how do you get the low point in front of the ball? One would think you’d hit lots of fat shots. Will have to give it a try.

When you throw the club is it thrown to side and what is shaft anhle

You mentioned the trail hand generates way more power and the left arm does little. I'm left handed playing right handed clubs, and my lead arm (left) one handed swing is so much faster than my trail hand swing..is there a way I can adjust for this?

does this also work with the driver swing and woods swing as well?

Does your Axiom instruction still apply to the GOAT theory? When does the lateral shift start?

Hey Chuck…very long time member here. What’s the best way to watch/work this in sequence?

I am a member of RSG. Tried this after watching the entire set of videos.Some results but tempo issues still lurk within. Jerking it left or lazy to the right. Help on how to keep it smooth?? And short game shots do this too? Frustrating.

Is Max H's swing safer on the body than Tiger 2000 in how they use the R.foot differently?

3 fingerrs at a 3 pressure left arm, 2 fingers and pinch forefinger on right again with 3 pressure? Is that right? I'm sure I am holdong on too tight and casting out too far.

What about shorter swings like pitching and 3/4 and half swings?

Is this the right place for Chuck's live q&a?

5 min in. What is the angle of shaft at top to start throwing

so are you saying it's more of a pulling then pushing swing?

I suppose this action will apply to the driver ?

over 250 000 views on Feb 13th... nice

This a great golf video, and probably in my Top 5 of all time. However the word inertia is misused a few times.

When I throw the club , it’s hit fat and club is very vertical at impact

Outstanding?

Increasing centripetal force, the greater the distance from your shoulder to the clubhead the better

sounds great but how do you generate so much speed..? cant get over 107 for the life of me:)

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David Duval did a video saying he tries to throw away all the angles at the top

Great video but dude where are you living at lol Gotta get me a view like this.

I don't see a 4 Pressure Shifts Video?

If you've listened to the traditional concepts and have them embeded in your noggin', it will indeed seem counterintuitive. Let go of all that, trust it, and let the body respond. You'll be amazed at what starts to happen.

I thought we were supposed to gain, maintain, then release the angle.. this seems the complete opposite of what I thought to do. More confused than ever.

Where is the live chat?

i thought this we were going to see chuck live answer questions and demo etc.. bummer

This is confusing for me. Why does every video of pga players show the angle between club and lead arm being maintained well into the downswing?

Live Q and A please 😁😁

Mike malaska was on to this years ago

This is essentially the Malaska move!

I associate that as early casting..

Effortless won't hit the ball out of your shadow. See Tiger jump out of his shoes!

How is this not considered casting? You were so against this. This can easily be construed as casting

I don't mean to be disrespectful, because I know you are only trying to make a living. That said, I believe the PGA should restrict any teaching pro from charging for lessons until they have 50 years of playing experience. It seems it takes you guys that long before you figure out what's really important in creating a good golf swing. Again, not trying to be disrespectful, but RU-vid is full of instructors that change their instruction every time they have an epiphany. At least now you are teaching something that should benefit all levels of player and not just the low handicappers.

Dude the greatest player of all time is Tiger Woods. Please get that correct. You just copied what Tiger said.

Another question, Chuck - the force being applied to widen the angle with your wrists, do you feel this is being applied more strongly at the top / start of the downswing, or all the way through the downswing? Love this concept, big help in simplifying the elusive swing! Thanks, Rod

When I throw the club , it’s hit fat and club is very vertical at impact