How to Play Golf Like a Pro - Downswing Weightshift

How to Play Golf Like a Pro - Downswing Weightshift www.shawnclementgolf.com Okay Shawn Clement here from the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Center. If we look at the weight shift on the downswing, now I have— the information that I’m about to give you I have many of my videos, you’ll see this repeat itself a few times like you go from the one leg back to two, okay and not all of you have seen that video and not all of you have seen all of my videos. I understand there’s a lot of material out there but this one here will seal the deal to make sure that you guys understand once and for all how the weight shifts in the downswing so we know how the weight shifts in the backswing, right? So we just turn There’s no weight shift if my hands are staying right here on my hips as I turn but if I bring my hands together and take my grip then I toss my hands into the backswing with the turn of the body like in the takeaway and starting the swing. This inertia of the body so everything stays steady here creates centrifugal force out here that will keep me and give me some nice width in my backswing. This has a weight to it. That’s what’s going to bring the weight to my right foot, okay to the inside of my right foot in particular. Now if you remember the hockey golf video where Steve has the skate on his right foot and ask Steve, Steve go to the top of your real backswing, okay and the real top of the backswing position is this. So you notice how everything bounced off the right and back into the left so the weight shift in the downswing happens from behind you. From behind you, okay. Not— I can see a lot of you are getting this beautiful turns in your backswing but then you’re shifting from the front again. Well my God, you got 30 to 40 pounds of arm swinging up in front of you and then that’s creating a lot of centrifugal pull that’s going to pull you around like a rag doll if you’re trying to shift your weight from in front, you’re gone. You’re going to be fighting that force. Whereas if you settle it you’re back to Bobby Jones, you know look at Bobby Jones on YouTube. Then look at Ben Hogan and watch how they plant their left side. Go to Jack Nicklaus you’ll see Jack Nicklaus in his prime that’s how he shifted his weight. You saw his big muscular butt and legs, boom, now the hole downswing revolves around that left leg. So this will marry a bunch of the videos that I have on YouTube for you. The feet together drill, so we go feet together we don’t need to plant we’re already planted that’s what makes this drill so easy so I just toss, fall. Now I ‘ve got good impact. One leg drill, this one leg drill will eliminate. It helps eliminate many of the myths about firing the right side. Now I hit the ball every bit as far on one leg as I do on 2 legs. I hit over 300 yards on regular basis on one leg. So on that one legged swing, turn so you notice how my right side is clearing out of the way. My weight stays on the inside of my left foot, left ankle, okay. So everything clears, and everything follows. So you notice I cannot thrust with my right side when I’m hitting on one leg. It’s a very efficient motion except that I can’t use that on all situations on the golf course. Now when I put the other foot flat on the ground and I widen my stance, I have opened up a big can of worms, remember the hammer throw in the Olympics right so you got all this you know force trying to pull you out of your feet so in the back swing you’re countering this force by sending your butt toward the target and as this force dissipates you notice how the arms, they’re not going to pull this way forever. It’s only for a couple of fractions of seconds. So here we go, toss you point right back into the left side, that weight shift is about an inch long. So as you fall now my head is always supported by my left leg, my left leg, okay so as I go back I come right back to my left leg and now my whole downswing is supported by my left leg so to do this properly if you plant we’ll know that I feel right now that my head is being supported by my right leg. Well that’s going to be lounge city, okay so it’s toss and fall. My head is supported by my left leg. I still have that tilt. Let everything fall. So you notice how superbly supported my downswing was and this forces my arm you know back around this axis, okay. If my axis is not supported properly if I go to the top of the swing and I swing from here see what happens to my head. Has done to spin out, has the tendency to lean forward because my lower spine is stuck back her. Now it’s very difficult for me to make it back through the golf ball. I’ll make it back to the ball. I guarantee you that ball is not going to go where you want it to go, okay. The only time that you can swing through the golf ball is by being on that forward lay. The only time where you won’t have any chicken wings through impact here if you’re sitting back here chicken wing city, man you’re going to get your whip through to the finish. So it’s toss, fall, fall. There’s an exercise for you to perform toss, fall, and then fall. And you can hit some shots that way and then put it together on a nice rhythmic waltz rhythm. Okay, so it’s toss, fall, fall. Toss, fall, fall. Now we’ve got a golf swing that’s always supported alright so I hope that helps you out and if you have any questions let me know that’s a good one.