THIS IS THE FIRST MOVE THAT SHOULD START THE DOWNSWING 

russell, this really clears up a lot of things, the real cause and effect of alot of problems. the overhead eye in the sky shot is very cool. thnx

One of the best videos about golf I have seen so far. I watched it, went to the driving range and saw I learnt something.

This video was it for me. The above head view was the best thing for my swing and in turn made me realize how much I was casting. I took this to the range this morning and I moved a club up in distance with significantly less effort as a result of this video, and obtaining a descending blow of the golf ball. Thank you, Russell!

Thank you Russell. I can't wait to try this drill this weekend. I've had a 2-3 year layoff from golf and have found that as I'm reintroducing myself to the game I'm having a difficult time with my sequencing as you explain in the video. I seem to have lost two irons of distance and hope this drill will help me regain the yardage and improve my game. Thanks again. Todd

Hey Russel. I always score in the 100-110 area. But after 2 weeks of practicing with your tips my score drastically went to the break 90 area. Thank you so much for yout tips. I always share your chanel to my golfing buddies so they can improve as well

I really appreciate that your lessons are derived from understanding that people have differences in how they arrive at a result. Reminds me of the fun and value of trying to emulate different pro swing types. Movements that are extreme or opposing convenional but still trying to make a good strike.

Probably the most practical vid I have seen from Russell. Easier to implement. Thanks.

Excellent video, had never heard about spinning out and have realized that's exactly my issue. Thanks for the tips

This is excellent, thanks so much. Can’t wait to get going on this two lines drill. Makes more sense than all of these highly technical videos that get me swinging with 10 thoughts simultaneously.

That from the top view is fantastic. You can really see the movement of the swing from that top view.

I really like the top view that shows club head angle and hand position through impact. I come over the top too much, because my right hand wants to be the instigator of the downswing. I’ll give this a go today. Thanks

Outstanding Drill! Heading to the range! Best coach on UTUBE! 🥃👍

Yet again Russell a very simple drill but really effective - practice makes permanent!!

This advice works for me in combination with your video about how you never rush the swing. If you take the faulty movements you exaggerate for purposes of illustration and reduce them by about 85%, you get the error that I make, and probably many others. Early extension and release, which tends to close the club face ever so slightly so that even if you make a good strike the ball will go left of the pin. Which of the two ways you show to get forward shaft lean and a downward attack angle, a lot of rotation or a definite shift of the hips toward the target, may depend on the flexibility of an individual player. For me, at my age of 82, it is the linear forward shift, and the timing of it was perfectly demonstrated in the other video, the one, two, three steps. Just put that into practice today and it worked wonders. Wedges with good contact, good spin and straight at the pin, not on the left edge of the green. So again, thank you.

Very nice! Thanks for taking the time to post this video!

Finally the information I need, I want to go practise this right now!

Very well explained Russell.........I've been playing for years but have been struggling lately due to bad ball striking......utilizing your drill has helped be make solid contact easily! TY

What a drill...and excellent explanation.....will be trying this ... thank you .

Wow! The best explained downsing ive seen. I can see myself in your first explaination and why i am often hitting the ground too early. Im pushing my hip forward (beginner golfer). It looked exactly like you showed it. Definitely gonna try that drill in my garden :) thank you!!

This was super helpful, many thanks !

This is such an excellent, concise video.

Love the top camera angle! Showed a different angle that I’ve always been looking for.

Great drill - the aiming point described is perfect for a mid iron but should move backward or forward depending on the length of shaft (and person swinging it) - longer shaft back - shorter shaft forward

Can't get over the level of clarity your explanations have. Brilliant thanks!

Amazing bro I’m a profesional struggling with this. Will try it out.

Very good impact thought. Simple.

Just superb as always!

Absolutely bang on advice Russell. Bang on. I'm off 5 but still inconsistent in ball striking. My key swing thought (which I'm prone to forget when get head full of other stuff..) is 'hit down on the ball'. I find if I focus on that my path improves, the strike improves and I can consciously feel shaft lean rather than a flip at it. I think that is what the 2 lines drill you show on this vid demonstrates. Comments & many tks for these vids man. Best, Russell, Gt.Yarmouth :-)

Amazing video, please don’t stop👍🏻.

Daniel Quinlivan Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!!!! I have never heard any golf instructor any where make this suggestion to start the downswing. This makes total sense! The light bulb just went on for me. This is my AH HA moment. GREAT JOB!! Thanks

The overhead shot synched with the front on view brilliantly demonstrates the two amateur mistakes of early extension and spinning out with the right hip. For the first time I now understand these two mistakes.....I am sure i randomly early extend in one swing and spin out on the next. no wonder I can never find consistency. Cant wait to video my own swing to see if this is the case. Got to figure out how to do an overhead video....You really can see what the hips are doing so much better from this view. This video is so jam packed with nicely presented swing analysis I watched it four times and got something different out of them each time. Many many thanks.

Excellent instruction, thanks

This video is gold. Thank you. The thing about spinning out is that the golfer still feels he is starting with the lower body as he should. This demonstrates the difference as well as anything I've seen on youtube. You'd be my first choice of instructor. Props man!

Russell- THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!! I recently decided to start playing golf again after taking a few years off... I didn't start playing golf until I was in my late 30s and am self-taught. My biggest problem has always been not knowing (or feeling) what I was doing right when I struck the ball solidly and what I was doing wrong when the wheels came off. As you can imagine, this led to bouts of frustration and dissecting my swing, trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Since I started playing/practising again, my results have been inconsistent. Like so many others, my mind can get clouded with a ton of swing thoughts, i.e. maintain your posture, turn your shoulders, shift your weight to start the downswing, get your left hip out of the way, keep your right shoulder back, etc., etc., etc. This one drill (which can also be a swing thought) is hands-down the best drill I have ever come across because you don't have to think about anything else. Since implementing this drill over the past few days, I have never hit the ball so flush and solid in my life! I do have one short question and am hoping you can take a second to answer- The only club that I am hitting somewhat inconsistently since incorporating this drill is my driver. Should I try to think of "brushing the bottom of my driver" on the 2nd line? Should I also think about keeping my head back/behind impact? My bad miss with my driver is usually a left and low hook, which I have always perceived to be the result of my lower body stopping and my upper body taking over... Thanks again for sharing your golf wisdom with us! Best wishes for good health to you and your family during this pandemic.

Great drill off to the practice area tomorrow 🏌🏻‍♂️

This guy is fantastic! Learned so much!

Great drill Russell-one if the best to start the downswing with the lower body and not to slide forward and over rotate. Love your tips. Stay safe and healthy.

Great vid Russell, good visual. Ball striking has improved remarkably after coming across one of your previous instructions, for the downswing, sitting on a barstool analogy. Light bulb moment. cheers.

That’s excellent. I want to try this at the range. I like the idea of intent rather than positions. Much easier to do. Because l’ll be hitting off grass, I can just draw a couple of lines with an alignment rod and aim for that.

Been struggling with clean pure contact on and off since I started playing golf. Tried the 2 line drill and the feedback (how the swing should feel) had an immediate effect. I was almost shocked how clean and pure i started to hit the balls after the drill and how my swing thought of where to strike the ball when i was at address was not correct, I also gained distance. Lots of work to do in many other areas but this drill has really helped impact. What i also found was using this 'feel' as a foundation i am able to start to incorporate other swing changes (hips rotation, club shallowing etc.). Thanks Russell, great channel and superb teaching methods!

Best teaching videos I have ever watched thank you very much very thorough

Really good tip !! ⛳🏌️‍♂️💫

Great as always Russel

This guy’s videos are the only ones that have actually made me feel the weight shift and feeling finishing on the left side. I’ve tried every single other video and could never understand it but the two things from these videos that helped the most was the left shoulder working down to start the downswing and low point feeling like it’s at my front foot.

I've been 'casting' for over 40 years. Minimal lag. Have had numerous attempts to fix over the years. Am pretty sure I fall into your second category. "Intent" I like it. December 6. MIchigan. April would be better. I guess I need to make some room in the garage.

This guy is a genius, one of the few coaches that actually understands how amateurs feel and can give them a way to address it, the visual above the player was very informative

This is great info. Thank you Russ..

Great video, it just makes common sense.👍👍

LOVE the camera view "from the ceiling"!!!!

By far your best drill for me I struggle massively with hip rotation and the camera view from the top was a massive plus to emphasise the point

Very nice drill to help me with something I struggle with. Went to the range this evening, and after a few mishits this drill had me hitting them flush. It really worked! Now I have to prove I can do it on the course with the ball in the normal position.

perfect ! love it !

love the overhead view and then follow up practical drill. 100k subs not far away with this excellent content👍

Superb information 👍⛳

Thanks again Russell🍻

Great vid Russ

good one Russell..... thanks

Great thrill, thank you Sir

I've been playing and receiving golf instruction for nearly 50 years and this in the clearest explanation of this vital concept that I've ever heard! Fantastic video. Thanks!

Brilliant video.

Gold dust. Now I know why I always looked like I was 'scooping' the ball at impact. Thank you Russell. My 'chicken wings' are dead!! One of the best tutorials on the internet.

perfect break down and great video!

Excellent. The camera view from above your head is brilliant! It's an angle that best demonstrates why, 1. The "bump-squat" move to reestablish center, and 2. How the arms-hands-club "assembly" wrap around a rotating torso into a full finish. You can't allow your arms to muscle the impact. Relaxation of that "assembly" is essential. Russell, I'm, now, finishing with my full weight over my left heel, for the very first time. Thank you! I think youtube is advancing golf instruction by leaps and bounds because it's encouraging instructors to come up with more imaginative ways to demonstrate how to execute three dimensional, complex body movements happening in fractions of a second. Old School teaching pros just tried to "talk" their students through a lesson. You can't teach golf, verbally, then, grab your students club and demonstrate YOUR technique. It does not work! It never has!

This is a very good video! You get right to the heart of why most golfers are out of sequence.

Brilliant, love it

Great video indeed. It seems that I have an issue of spinning out (which I did not know even existed) and resulting poor impact is then followed by chicken wing to compensate. Will try 2 lines and hope it does the magic :),

That’s pretty much me in a nutshell, struggling to get my hands forward of the club, turning a 7 iron in to a 9 iron and scooping. Great video.

Simple Genius - range practice for me!

Always appreciate your knowledge which is clearly explained to us Russell. How about practicing by hitting a ball on that 2nd line in lieu?

Great video Russell - cheers mate

fantastic explanation

Very good coach just been bared at driving range for painting mat ha ha cheers nice one 👍

right should dip actually cause the biggest problem of all swing!!! the right hand will take over because of that. Thank so much Russell!!

Great tips

NIce work. New food for thought. I like the goal of becoming more automatic.

Light bulb moment for me. Thanks Russell

Did anyone else catch the robotic ball picker in the background? That is so cool! Had never seen that before.

Excellent video. Thank you. Unlearning faulty motor movement patterns is, as you are well aware, a challenging task especially if the patterns are entrenched. In this regard there appears much a do on RU-vid golf at present regarding the new 'Erikson Bell' training aid which, its advocates claim, encourages not only planar swinging motion but also the 'shift -turn' (or shorn as they call it) rhythm inherent to good swinging. As you are a strong advocate of the 'shift -turn' sequence both on back and forward swings, I wondered what your thoughts on this device are?

Russell, thank you this is helpful! Does the same drill apply for driver?

Thank you Russell for this tip. I hit fat but mostly thin shots. I do not rotate into a good finish. Too much slide. My left leg never really posts up correctly. It stays bent when I slide forward. I will try this and focus on this idea.

When I first tried this drill with a ball, my instincts were telling me I couldn't hit the second stripe because the ball was in the way. Like the ball was a brick wall or something. The painted stripe makes a very vivid image and helped me to get over that feeling. After a few swings I got over that feeling, and it does feel like I am hitting through the ball instead of stopping at the ball. So far I've used it to hit foam balls in my backyard, and once at the driving range and the results were pretty good. Looking forward to see how well it holds up on the golf course.

Prob the best vid you’ve made - clearer explanation- less technical

Wonderful video Russell! Helps me a lot on the downswing and how to start. Question I have is where is the ball placed? Is it on the 2nd line or in between the 2 lines? Thank you

Brilliant!

I try not to think about using my arms at all I just concentrate on moving my hips let the arms follow and it works out pretty well

Great video as always. Are you also saying that when I turn my left hip, it should not go up (tilt higher) but it should stay at the same level ? Is there a moment when the left hip goes up during the turn? Thanks

Top the up view !!!

I find it useful to simply straighten my left leg as the beginning of the downswing. That works for me with the benefit that it's just one thought rather than thinking about sequence.

Well articulated

I've found a way to get this kind of impact consistently, with a very simple lower body downswing sequence. This move allows me to keep the arms very relaxed through impact and hit a lot of solid shots. All I use as a downswing trigger is a small turn of the bottom of the pelvis target ward, followed by a feel of lightly pressuring the back of the left heel, into the turf like it had a knife attached to it. The old "squash a can with the heel," thought never worked for me but this does.

Hello Russell I am a flippy poor contact with irons golfer for a LONG time. Everyone knows my impact position is off. It happens so fast no one can fix it. We discuss it a lot. Sheer determination and good short game I can compete at 62 with younger fellas. My distance can vary 20 yds any iron if I get lucky and pure one. Your point about the position of the left shoulder in line with left ankle and hands at impact and the hit ahead drill to feel it......BRILLIANT! BRILLIANT! Fixed my swing. Distance and power. Consistent. I have watched this one video 10 times. You absolutely cannot think about it in the swing but you better know what impact should look and feel like to get in the proper position. I never had done so until today. A mirror is also helpful. Thanks for painting a great picture. Again brilliant. Did I say brilliant? Cheers! Many thanks from Texas Richard

hi Russel, could you come back about the fact that the shaft travels straight in the backswing (but the face on a arc), you talked about one week ago ? thanks !

OMG 3:21 is EXACTLY my problem. I thought I was early extending because I didn't add enough lag but the reality is that I couldn't rotate my shoulders in a properly manner due to the left pelvis not reaching for the right one giving me space. Now I can rotate freely in order to maintain that lag longer. Thanks for opening my eyes on the root of the problem!!! YASSSS

Awesome, I’m ready for this. “Strike the second line”. Thanks!

I would like to ask a follow up question here. So I have a decent transition on the downswing. I am obtaining an open area for my arms to swing through and am getting okay compression. My question though is I start with my hand almost in like with the shaft. In other words I’m close to one plane swing and the only way with compression and proper positioning on my downswing that I can hit the ball instead of blading it is to have a decent size dip of my head. How are people able to get great compression and not have that dip in their head?

Could you discuss stack and tilt vs conventional, please? I have a hard time staying centered and my Golftec coach wanted me to make a move yesterday that made me reverse pivot and looked like s&t. He denied it but it looks like s&t to me. Anyway..thanks.

This video really helped me figure out why I couldn't seem to get my hands over my lead foot at impact. I've never heard it taught this way or any mention of re-establishing the lead shoulder or low point. Between this video and Russell's detailed videos on hip rotation, I feel like I can finally start improving my swing instead of just further ingraining the wrong technique. I'd like to strike that second line through more hip rotation rather than forward slide, but it seems like it is so much more difficult. I'm afraid that just sliding forward will make it too easy to revert back to my old habit of dropping the trail shoulder while early extending the lower body.

Russell - What’s best route to get your opinion on video swings? Thanks

great video, any chance of showing head tilt/eyes w/driver, i's - thx

After I can hit the forward line consistently and want to hit a ball do I aim to hit the ball or a spot about a club heads width forward of the ball? Thanks for your video instruction.