I Told My Student The SECRET To Hit From The Inside EveryTime (He Didn't Expect This!)

A student came to see me expecting me to give him tips

and drills to stop his over-the-top golf swing, his steep angle of attack into the golf ball, to get him more shallow like this here, to help him strike the golf ball much better.

And he couldn't believe what I got him to focus on. And it fixed everything. So let's get into it.

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Now when Peter came in and made a couple of swings, a couple of shots,

what we could clearly see, and you can see this on the video over to the right hand side of your screen here, is that once he got to the very top of the golf swing,

you would see all of his right side of the body start to work very much so over the top.

You could see there his trail shoulder, his right shoulder works very much on top.

The right knee starts to work towards the golf ball. This makes it very tricky here to get that rotation into the downswing.

And last minute, he has to pull everything in and doesn't quite finish off his golf swing.

You could see that I exaggerated that a little bit compared to that, but that is what was taking place.

Now, the first thing a lot of golfers have coached him in the past is, right, we need to get you to shallow out that golf swing.

We need to get you working way more on the inside and calm down this right side.

and they are right they are spot on but what they didn't realize

and what I noticed straight away was

a hidden nugget and this is what so many golfers forget once

he got to the top of the golf swing we saw this movement here

now there's always a reason why this takes place there's always

a reason why you do something rewind straight back

to the setup position at the setup position what

do you notice about his posture have a look at his spine angle have a look at how far away he is from the golf ball, have a look at where his arms are.

His arms are very close to him, very much so almost too tucked in here, which makes it very difficult to swing from the inside and the way down.

Second thing with his spine angle, his lower back in particular, was very much in a C curvature.

This C curvature, reverse spine angle, reverse C here, makes it very difficult to do one thing in particular in the backswing, to complete a full turn.

Now if you watch very carefully on the video again, he struggled with getting a full turn.

Nice short backswing, but not a lot of rotation taking place in this right hip.

So straight away from here, if we're going to fire the golf ball, there's only one way to take this club, especially if we're actually firing our hips on the way down.

So we had to create the space here in the backswing to form that shallower motion.

And it was by fixing the posture and setup. Now take a look at this camera here.

I'm going to do my best to zoom in onto this actually just so you can see the difference but what I got

Peter to do first off was to actually stand with his heels, with his hips and also his shoulders and head right up against the wall like this.

Now if you were to do this what you would notice in particular is one thing, there is a gap, there's always a gap in between

your hips, so your glutes and also your upper shoulders.

What would you do in particular to straighten that out? What would you do to avoid this gap taking place here?

So very much so like this. The feeling he had when I got him to do this was almost doing a crunch with his hips,

doing a crunch so he could really start to switch on his core, hips going towards his rib cage.

Now this here does one thing, it encourages your upper back just to hunch over ever so slightly.

Now when you take a look at the setup now between before and after on the screen, you can see the difference in the way he is set up.

He looks way more relaxed on picture number two afterwards compared to picture number one.

So once he got used to that setup towards the wall, then we just told him to take club across his shoulders, tilt over,

and then feel that same movement, hip to rib. And you'll struggle to do this without going onto a wall, by the way, and doing this.

So do that first before you come in and try this in the setup. So important that really make sure you do that.

So once you're here, you're going to tilt over, obviously get yourself in position and rather than that reverse C, then from there you go into crunch your hips to ribs and that flattens out your lower back.

Yes, you see a little bit of a curve from your upper back, but you see many tall players playing with this.

It doesn't matter whether your upper back is hunched over or not, but it really does matter that your lower back is nice and straight.

because now from there as well as just creating

a little bit of space for him to reach out of his arms to

the golf ball we could simply get him now to

rotate into the backswing now this is where the big difference came