MONTE: THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SKILL IN GOLF AND HOW TO USE IT. BE BETTER GOLF 

Lmao he literally has

@@ryandavidtrapasso Yea he has!

Hey Hugh!

@@daved976 Dave, how is it going?

He is awesome

Thanks!

Hmm.. not sure about this. For staters, handicap is potential, not how you are playing in that moment. This is why you generally play 3 strokes more than your course handicap. As far as speed and that being a factor in lowering your handicap, I can get behind this. If you get faster clubhead speed and starting hitting the ball farther, you can then move further back in tee boxes. Doing this just changes the math. The course rating and slope increases, so if you shot 81 from white, but if the guy with faster speed shot the same score from Blue, his/her scoring differential will be lower. Which, will mean, a lower handicap over time.

@@davebaker7503 Dave, read it again, slowly and carefully.

@@9to5golfhughmanning88 ha. We actually said the same thing.

Go look at his videos No Turn Cast and or the Complete Swing. There's enough free content from him to answer that. For me, it's about P6 that I feel like I'm not just dropping the arms, but also turning and firing off my left toes. I'll just say, he has two drills: Counter-Top. And The Two Justins, that are great for training that feeling of when to pour on the rotation, and shoving back with the front leg and hip.

That’s my favorite shot is 30-50yards. Take pride in being a wizard with the wedge.

Billy I think there are multiple ways to visualize the task at hand when it comes to executing the down swing, keeping your back to the target is what Justin Rose has done his entire career it has always been in his practice routine. By keeping your back to the target it allows your arms to drop before the hips start to rotate and potentially get you stuck. There are 3 main forces we use to create power in the golf swing, rotational, vertical, and horizontal and everyone's blend is different.

@@tylerpohler3271 Thanks for that. I have been a “fully rotational” swinger - swung like Moe Norman without ever knowing who he was. As the years went by I switched to a hands and arms swing. I like that better. But NO ONE ever talks about it. No one ever talks about keeping the back to the target either. But no one is talking about DeChambeau either, and he is the epitome of swinging “rotationally.” Was talking to an acquaintance at the golf course in Eagle Point OR where I’m hanging out (I’m from Long Beach, and I saw Brendon all the time at the range), and this acquaintance tells me his pro there is teaching him to bend at the waist more and turn from the hips, and, of course, I could not know how to swing it if I’m not focusing on “rotation.” One fellow (different guy) insisted it is impossible to turn too much or too soon in the swing - but I would beg to differ. Even when I was swinging Moe Norman style I had to not turn too much too soon or I’d get stuck. Anyway, I bend at the waist pretty good and I don’t have a stomach so with my back to the target I don’t get stuck. (Will get stuck if I try to enhance my swing power with my hip extension - premature extension.)

@@tylerpohler3271 This 💯!!

There's a recent video by Russel Heritage which I feel finally gave me the missing piece I was looking for. It has to do with pulling the left shoulder back and up, and the clubhead just whips through effortlessly. I used to try and keep my back to the target as Niklaus said, but I could never get that proud erect finish pose the really good golfers seem to attain. Now I know how, and all I have to do is break the habits of 5 years of playing golf. :)

@@RCGolf I sling with my hands arms swing - with my Moe/DeChambeau swing (which I taught myself 35 years ago) I use brute strength and just turn forcing the clubhead around on plane. I get my highest clubhead speed that way but it’s too tough on my older body. Switched to a hands arms swing 10 years ago and got it working pretty good now. Much more complicated. With my Moe/DeChambeau self taught swing I shot 1-under at Montebello GC just 6 months after taking up the game. This was with a $95 set of Wilson clubs I got at K-Mart, wooden head woods. And I did have to time that release but with brute force to ensure it happened - so I guess it wasn’t timing but brute force. BUT I can tell you if I turned too much too soon I could not get the clubhead to catch up. So I was focused on forcing my body and club into proper positions throughout the swing - and too much turning off the top was the shot wrecker for me.

Need more speed than hip to hip will allow. People should practice hip to hip a ton though.

Your proving his point. Work on it until you find the middle of the club. You might have to hit dozens of shanks. The other option is don’t and continue to play like crap.

I think the difference may be that the ball is moving in other sports. It would be hard to do this in baseball and make contact. But I also have zero credentials so 🤷🏻‍♂️ just a thought. With this drill, I would take 3-4 of the waist to waist swings and then hit one longer, maybe just shy of “full”, swing. Interleaving the two should produce results.

Well he’s a former world long drive champion, so..