But when it comes to transferring your weight, you wont believe how easy it is to perform this one simple weight shift drill. So when you order your own speed system, you select from one of four speed zones based on your average swing speed or carry distance. For the driver test, they hit seven drives each with a 50, 60, and 70 gram shaft, all using the same head. A lot of golf teachers have talked about weight shift or said something like get your weight on your back foot, in the backswing. Fix your weight transfer fix your golf swing duration. Club champion told us that weight is the first thing they look at when fitting a shaft, and nippon said, if a golfer cant feel a shaft thats properly weighted, the other factors flex, torque, bend profile are moot.
The faster you can shift the faster your body will. Settings for draw bias, fade control and anti slice to perfectly fit an imperfect golf swing. All aspects of the game are covered and it all comes down to one thing. It stands to reason that the same swing will produce a faster clubhead speed with a lighter implement, and tests have borne this out. How to hit a driver 5 fundamentals golf podcast, news. The right way to shift your weight in the golf swing. These examples are more realistic to the golf swing because the involve a heavy object just like the golf club and they are rotary actions just like the golf swing. The weight of the shaft is going to help keep the players swing on plane. Weight transfer provides the wide arc which is the epicenter of the on plane golf swing. Lets talk about the one crucial element of the golf swing to assure power and stability through impact. When a student is hitting their irons well and having trouble with the driver, i am reminded of a comment a colleague mentioned to me straight from one of the finest teachers ever, harvey penick. Shaft weight and torque make a bigger difference than shaft flex. Move the video around its group and even change its group. The hosel and all of its weight is near the front of the club.
It will also increase the sweet spot on your golf club so you can hit. Athletic motions require a dynamic transfer of weight. Golf weight shift doing it the wrong way video by pete. My hips do lead my downswing but i never think about that. The truth about golf shafts that every golfer should know. Instant access to the latest news, videos and photos from around the world of golf. Mar 25, 2018 cutting golf shafts and the effect on flex all golf shafts taper. In concept, going to a longer shaft is a great idea since in most cases the longer the shaft the faster the head will travel. If you are a high handicapper with a slower swing speed, a larger and more lofted club face with a more flexible shaft can help you on those long tee shots. Weight is basically your body segments and so your form has a mass to it and where your weight is your body segments are.
We want the right heel to lift before we get to impact. He said that a golfer can hit his irons pretty well without shifting his weight. The one foot drill helps you maximize power on your drives by making sure you properly load weight to your back foot and strike the ball with an upward angle of attack. Fujikura and mrc agreed that weight needs to be considered along with those other factors to. Check out your driver to see if it is the right length and if it is designed to help golfers at your level. Then make a slowmotion swing, stepping out with your right foot. The perfect drill to use in order to fix both golf weight shift problems is to think about a baseball pitcher. My favorite and most dependable driver is the fly z with a 16gm weight in the rear position. The right weight can mean an extra club in distance. Improve your golf game with this collection of over 300 tuitional video lessons. Golf teachers used to use coat hangers to solve this problem that is, until thehanger came along. And part of the coiling involves a little weight shifting from the center to the right side and then left, back into the ball. The majority of our panel agreed that shaft weight is very important. When you can blast your drives right down the middle of the fairway hole after hole, it gives you a tremendous advantage over the course.
Keep your left arm straight as you finish your backswing. Instead, we need to begin the downswing with a drive of the hips to transfer weight correctly one of the ways you can do this is to think about your right heel at the top of the backswing. I use a narrow stance so i dont have much weight shift, even with the driver, yet my body gets to the perfect impact position every time. Even though my speed is moderate i average 230240 yards off the tee, i have a very difficult time keeping a light weight shaft on plane. It is important to understand the overall effects of dynamics in the golf swing. Mar 17, 2015 enhance your ability to shift your weight forward, or toward the target, in the downswing create a more downward strike of the club onto the ball for shots played off the ground the goal of the ball forward drill is to create more solid contact and compression of the ball which will allow a player to gain distance and learn to create and. Heres how to practice the proper weight shift going back. Mar 03, 2020 the sim driver features a raised crown and sole to reduce airflow throughout the swing, while the inertia generator has been placed low and back with a heavy steel weight at the rear to optimise. Bend forward from the waist to a 45degree angle and flex your knees for comfort. The first thing youll love is how it feels in your hands. Each speed system golf driver and golf ball is fully optimized for its specific zone. Start with more weight on your lead foot, shift weight to the trail foot as you swing back, and then shift back towards the lead foot as you swing through.
This not only gives more time for the club to get to the top of the backswing, but also permits a good torso turn. How to properly shift weight in a golf swing golfweek. You can expect to have a smooth swing with evenly distributed weight, which always makes hitting the ball easier to control. True temper project x pxv 39 driver shaft by russ ryden, a golf digest americas 100 best clubfitter fit2score, dallas fort worth, texas. Playing from the fairway makes golf much easier, and getting good distance on your drives. That means that the grip end is the strongest part of the shaft and the tip end the weakest, which, wishon says, leads trimming to have different effects.
There are 3 reverse weight shifts in the golf swing, but the most common is when a golfers weight moves towards the target onto their front foot on the backswing and then it falls away from the target onto their back foot during the dowswing. I have seen fair number of driver shafts with labels implying light weights, but i have only seen one shaft that was labeled with a number that actually was the weight of the raw 46. This preset weight shift was a feature in the great ben hogans technique and was probably a major factor in his renowned accuracy and consistency particularly in the later years of his career. Swing the club back with your shoulders and rotate your hips. A wide takeaway helps shift your weight to your right side. Take a quarter and place it under the inside pad of your trail foot. Youll be amazed how quickly you can have an athletic weight shift with improved footwork and balance.
The following chart shows what will happen if we have a 200g head. The onelegged golf weight shift golf tips magazine. As you learn a powerful, effortless, painfree body swing, you can move on to more power off the tee with driver, weight shift, timing, swing path etc. Dec 21, 2019 the use of graphite in golf shafts took some 30 years to take hold, but it is now the main ingredient in driver shafts. The proper setup allows your weight to shift easily and helps you sweep the ball off the tee. Add weight to your driver golf club for more distance pga. Feb 28, 2019 how to hit your driver straight duration. Fix your weight transfer fix your golf swing youtube.
We have always used that term weight but biomechanically that is not the correct term. The success of the speed system golf design lies partly in the use of speed zones. If you lose this pressure, the trail foot will roll off and away from the ball, creating too much sway in the backswing. You need to be aware of the type of shaft material you are measuring with and make sure that it matches the clubs you would use when out on the course. Then, he used a graphite driver and hits it about 250 because of the increased clubhead speed. Yet, i hear a lot of weight transfer advice thats just flatout wrong. Mar 30, 2020 driver dave hits a regular shafted steel driver 240 yards. Not only can these weight shift myths throw off your consistency, but they can also cause hip and back pain and possibly injury. But shifting your weight before, during and after contact will allow you to hit the ball farther than you ever have, all with your normal swing. Golf weight shift doing it the wrong way video by pete styles so, if we are now aware of how important the weight movements and the weight shift is during the golf swing. The use of graphite in golf shafts took some 30 years to take hold, but it is now the main ingredient in driver shafts. Part of the reason is graphites inherent lightness compared with steel.
I learnt the correct way to master the weight transfer in the golf swing from the team at rotary swing which is covered in detail in this short video watch the video below showing how major winner padraig harrington performs the correct golf weight shift learn more about weight shift and how to perform an efficient golf swing by getting. In this video, ill show you the drill that has my students executing a proper weight shift within just a few minutes. Oct 30, 2012 it wasnt until i stumbled across a driver with a nonstock shaft that weight 67 grams and it transformed my game. Super simple weight shift drill to improve quickly. You create power by loading the weight then shifting it between the 2 feet. Many golfers believe they can add yards to their drive by making their driver golf club longer and lighter. To hit your driver well, you must shift your weight. Actually, the common phrase to describe the initial movement in the downswing is weight transfer, but i prefer to call it pressure transfer. The golf movement is a torquing or twisting of the body. The average length of a driver 5 years ago was approximately 45 long. How golf club center of gravity makes a huge difference.
Along with this shift is the rotation of your body. Weight transfer golf swing drills that are unique and effective. Building a great short game such as greenside bunkers, pitching, chipping and putting is also vital in. Another benefit of the pushback is the wide takeaway that it creates. The importance of shaft weight in fitting golf clubs cannot be overstated. There are also tips on specialty shots like drawing, fading, punch and knock down shots. The lessened spin and the longer ball flight make the fujikura vista pro 60 an ideal upgrade for any driver. I use left shoulder control, which makes the rest of my body movements automatic, including making my hips lead my downswing. Head weights, shaft weights and balance points hireko golf. Ill show you how 3 different students were able to build a crazy amount of lag in their swings in just 5 minutes.
If, for example, we were to add 2 grams of weight to the handle end of a d9 club, this would reduce the swing weight to d8. To keep the testers from knowing what shaft they were testing, ust mamiya supplied blacked out shafts with no. For the iron test, they hit seven shots each with an 85, 95, and 105 gram shaft, all using the same head. If you look at the longest hitters on the pga tour, you can watch them use their legs just like a pitcher to shift and drive through the golf swing.
I like to draw the club back slow, but not so slow that theres any tension in my forearms. At the top, i want most of my weight shifted to my right side, maybe 70 or 80. Do not confuse this motion with the improper weight shift referred to as swaying i will explain the differences between the two. In our iron test, we routinely saw a 10 or 20 gram change in shaft weight produce distance variations of 810 yards. Just like a baseball swing, a golf swing requires the shifting of weight during contact to achieve the best possible results. Available in driver lengths from 43 to 48 to fit all golfers. If you look at the picture to the left, these are just a few of the steel iron shafts available and they run the range from 85 grams to grams. The face is much thicker and heavier than the rest of the body. However, it is better to keep a little bit more weight behind the ball if you are hitting your driver. Kinematic sequence drill the kinematic sequence drill helps make sure you are firing your body parts in the proper sequence in your golf swing to maximize power.
May, 2015 now that said, the cg location of a driver head has a slight forward bias because. The general golfing public has been conditioned and educated that shaft flex is the endallbeall when it comes to shafts and that simply is not true. Jun 10, 2014 the putter might be the most important club in the bag on most days, but the driver certainly isnt far behind. As you come into the impact position, 70% of your weight should now be shifted back onto your left leg and 30% remaining on your right leg. On the other hand, the best golf swing for your irons involves a little less motion. Michael breed, host of the golf fix uses the swingfix to improve your golf swing weight transfer.
The dynamic transfer of weight is vital to the on plane golf swing. And if we instead added 2 grams to the clubhead, this would increase the swing weight to e0. Halfway through your backswing, the grip of the club should point toward the ball. Rickie fowler control to hit a more conservative tee ball, i always choke down on the grip a full two inches no. Mar 01, 2020 instead of being a stiff mannequin, try to adopt an athletic stance by bending your knees slightly.
May 11, 2016 these examples are more realistic to the golf swing because the involve a heavy object just like the golf club and they are rotary actions just like the golf swing. When you are able to keep your weight in the right spots and use it to. May 28, 2018 getting the correct weight of your shaft is an important factor to consider as well. In this video i talk about the golf swing weight shift. Your weight should shift to your left toes and then into your left heel. May 23, 2019 shift weight from side to side as you swing. This is a very forgiving driver that will help you reduce the spin when you take your shots. Mastering the proper weight shift on the takeaway and downswing the way you use your weight in the golf swing goes a long way toward determining just how successful you are on the course. Best training aid for clubface control watson golf thehanger iron swing trainer. User friendly, easy to swing and square even at longer lengths. The goal is to maintain pressure on the coin throughout the swing.
This may not seem like much but weight can dramatically change your performance. Typically the rule of thumb is that a golfer with a slower swing speed will benefit from using a lighter shaft, and you would add weight as swing speed increases. Aug 08, 2017 if you have good weight transfer in the golf swing that is natural and the movements in the golf swing you will hit the golf ball further and straighter. Set up with your driver, but take a narrow stance, about 12 inches wide. In 2011, the average driver length of the brands that we stock is 45. Lets look at the three main culprits, the three main faults that lot of club and amateur golfers get into. This is probably the biggest thing you can do to create momentum in shots off your driver. You could possibly be a full club longer by finding the right shaft weight. Weight transfer the key to excellence in any sport. Consistency with drivers is key and this shaft delivers. New variable weight technology adjusts to a golfers personal swing providing the best distance, control and accuracy.
The legs are the motor to your swing so learning the proper weight shift is vital if you want to create power. For this test, we had golfers test drivers with shafts weighing 55 grams and 75 grams. Many do not shift weight properly because they think it adds an extra element to the swing and creates too many moving parts. The golfer was able to choose whether they wanted stiff or regular flex. Struggle with weight shift and lag in the golf swing. Make that first shot at tee off count with this taylormade mens r15 460 driver. The engineers at cobra called this the hot set up and virtually every one of them used the same configuration with the lone exception playing the ltd. Try a practice swing with your knees totally straight to see how hard it is and how unnatural it feels to swing a golf club without slightly bent knees. When discussing the manner of fitting the shaft weight and total weight of a golf club, the conversation should also include fitting the swing weight, or better stated, the head weight feel of the golf club at the same time. Balance your weight slightly on the balls of your feet.