How To golf Swing Down On A Shallow Inside Plane (Hint: Turn The Handle)

A lot of golfers suffer from an overly steep downswing. Which is sad, real sad, because that's one of the biggest causes of a slice and weak shots. 

However, the steep downswing is really the result of everything that has happened before, and from a transition NOT led with the lower body.

But even if you learned to start your swing with your lower body first, you could very well still be swinging down too steep - causing an out to in swing path which produces pulls, sliced shots and pull slices!

Why would that still be happening?

Because if you've been swinging down too steep for a long time and you've never done anything to change it, then it will be a habit.

Now if you're one of the lucky ones that doesn't suffer from an overly steep downswing, today's drill will still be great for you to do. 

This drill will reinforce the correct club movement when you're transitioning the club into the downswing.

What is the correct transitioning of the club into the downswing?

Very simply, when you're changing directions from your backswing to downswing, your club should move to the left.

This is one of the toughest moves in the transition for a golfer to perfect.

Why?

Because it's generally the complete opposite of what a golfer has done their entire golfing life.

But once you learn and perfect this move, it will make a HUGE difference to your golf swing and ball striking. 

Because this move is what really separates a great ball striker from an average one, as it's the complete opposite of what an average ball striker generally does.



To get a feeling for what should be happening with the golf club during the transition, I want you to get your driver and swing to the top of your backswing and then stop.

...then start your transition with your lower body and at the same time move your driver to the left.

Now when you do this it will probably feel very, very strange at first, because it's the complete opposite of what you've been doing. And the only way of getting over this is to keep doing this movement over and over again.

But if you're struggling to get the right feel, think of turning your hands like you would when opening a door that has a knob type of handle. At the top of your backswing you should be turning your hands so the club flattens.

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Poor golf swing timing is not your fault, here's why....

Do you hit the ball as well as you'd like?

If not, it's not surprising.  And the truth is... it's not your fault.

For decades now, golfers have been subjected to all kinds of bad 
golf swing advice.

Some of that advice is totally contradictory to what the great 
golfers have done.

For example, look at Ben Hogan ñ one of the best ball strikers in 
the world.  He said to reverse every natural instinct and you'd 
have a good golf swing.

And speaking of Ben Hogan, it's well known that he was in negotiation
with Gold Digest to reveal his "true" golf swing secret.  But negotiations 
broke down when the dollar amount got into 6 figures.  This was after the 1955 Life 
article in which Ben supposedly gave up his true golf swing secret.

However all is not lost.

Because on the 5th of March 2015 Jeff Richmond from consistentgolf.com
remarkably discovered Ben Hogan's real golf swing secret, and this is taking 
the golf world by storm.

If you haven't heard about The Stress-Free Golf Swing yet, I highly 
recommend you go here right now to learn more:

This new golf swing, that is powered by the secret Ben Hogan used after
the car crash in 1949, is amazingly simple. And it will finally help you to 
hit the golf ball properly and control where it goes.

This one move goes totally against what is taught in the traditional golf 
swing and will finally help you to have great golf swing timing from one 
game to the next... even if you only play once a week. 



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Introducing The Hybrid Swing Plane

Today I have another great article by Jeff Richmond that explains the Hybrid Golf Swing Plane he advocates and teaches. Let's get started...

The Hybrid Golf Swing Plane
By Jeff Richmond

A big tenant of the one plane golf swing is to return the golf club back to the same position it was (in terms of the shaft plane line) at address. That's what Moe Norman and Ben Hogan did.

But let's see how some of the top golfers in the last 10 years fare as far as that is concerned.

1. Tiger Woods

2. Adam Scott

3. Phil Mickelson

4. Rory McIlroy

5. Justin Rose

6. Henrik Stenson

7. Matt Kucher

8. Brandt Snedeker

9. Steve Stricker

10. Jason Duffner

So 9 of the top 10 golfers in the world over the last 10 years DO NOT return the clubface to the same plane line that they started at at address (Steve Stricker does).

Why did I show you that?

Because I believe the plane line should be more vertical than a one plane swing, and not as vertical as a two plane swing. 

Somewhere in the middle. A great model I'm going to show you in a minute for this, is Louis Oosthuizen.

But these impact pictures begs the question... are they trying to do that?

The answer is no!

Because it's been proven that the golf swing is moving way too fast at impact to consciously do anything. So what is happening at impact is this...

The forces are so great at impact that the hands are being pulled up. That's just a natural occurrence of the modern, powerful golf swing.

So that got me thinking how it would be good to swing on a plane that is similar to what happens at impact.

 Because you can talk all you want about one plane and two plane swings (in terms of the backswing and shoulder plane, left arm angle etc.). But at the end of the day, it's what happens at impact that matters.

So my Hybrid Golf Swing Plane theory, is to swing back so that at the half-way point in the golf swing the club shaft points down at the ball. 

Then at the half-way point in the downswing, the clubshaft again points at the ball. I'm now going to show you this theory in action in one of the best swings on the planet.

Louis Oosthuizen is the 2010 Open Champion and has a golf swing that many believe is one of the best among professional golfers. 

So let's put my swing plane theory to the test, and I'm going to draw a line through his setup at address right through the middle of his back.

Setup

Half-Way Back

Half-Way Down

Impact

Follow-Through

Pretty damn good swing, with a very consistent swing plane!

If you remember, in my last article I said a way to see if a person swings on a one plane swing, is to measure at the top of their swing the angle of the left arm and the shoulders. And if there's less than 12 degrees difference then they have a one plane swing. Let's see what the difference is for Louis:

Louis Oosthuizen - 22 Degrees Difference

Compare that to Moe Norman and Jim Furyk. Extremes of a one plane and two plane swing:

Moe Norman (One Plane Swinger) - 0 Degrees Difference

Jim Furyk (Two Plane Swinger) - 48 Degrees Difference

And if you split the difference between those extremes you get 24 degrees. Louis Oosthuizen at 22 Degrees Difference is almost bang in the middle.

And this swing plane that Louis uses is what I term "The Hybrid Swing Plane". 

I have a swing plane program in which I'm going to teach you how to groove a consistent golf swing plane like this... so watch out for an email about that program soon. 

Having a consistent golf swing plane will help you to hit straighter, longer and more consistent golf shots. So if you lack consistency in your ball striking, working on making your golf swing plane more consistent can only aid you in improving your ball striking consistency.

Anyway, I hope this series I've given you on the swing plane has clarified a lot of issues you had with understanding the swing plane. And I hope that now you have a very clear idea on what swing plane you should be swinging back, down and through on.

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I hope you enjoyed that swing plane series by Jeff Richmond.  

Jeff has a great program that helps you to build a consistent swing plane. 
 I'm trying to get a deal on that program for you.  Hopefully I will be in touch later this week with some good news.