He Couldn't Hit The Ball Farther Until I Showed Him This Incredible Drill

How to Create More Club Head Speed and Hit the Ball Farther with Less Effort

In this video, Eric demonstrates a three-step process that he used to help a student create more club head speed and hit the ball farther with less effort. He emphasizes the importance of focusing on creating speed through the ball and into the follow-through rather than early in the downswing.

Three-Step Process for Creating More Club Head Speed

• The drill involves putting speed through the ball into your finished position.

• Focus on creating speed through the ball and into your finish, rather than early in the downswing.

• Step 1: Get speed with no backswing at all. Take your normal setup position and get your club to your full finish as fast as possible without making a backswing.

• Step 2: Get speed with a short backswing. Put your club parallel to the ground, then get it from there to your finished position as fast as possible without moving your hands away from the target line yet.

• Step 3: Allow hands to work slightly up and back. Set up with clubs parallel, allow slight up-and-back motion of hands while swinging down and forward.

Benefits of Using This Drill

• By focusing on creating speed through the ball and into your finish, you recruit all of those big muscles from your body, starting from ground up.

• This drill is especially helpful for players who have an inactive lower body or struggle to get their body moving.

Results

• After implementing this drill, Eric's student was able to hit his seven iron like 180 yards, up from 155-165 yards.

• It may take a few swings to get used to this drill, but it can help players create more club head speed and hit the ball farther with less effort.

Improving Distance with Hands and Pressure

In this section, the instructor discusses a drill that helps improve distance by using hands and pressure. The drill involves feeling like the speed is all out in front and swinging all the way through to a full finish. The goal is to create more energy and speed.

Creating Speed with Hands and Pressure

• Doing the drill where hands go up and back activates lower body, turns body, shifts towards target, creates shaft lean, compresses ball.

• Feeling uncomfortable while training helps create more speed; make normal swing with full length backswing.

• Feel like hands are going away from target as pressure shifts into lead foot; same momentum as if hands are going away from target.

• Drill helped gain 20 yards with seven iron; feel of hands working away as body works forward is main thing to train for distance.

Getting Speed Through Ball

• Get speed through ball by feeling pressure going into lead foot as hands work away from ball.

• Compress golf ball by getting speed through ball.

Conclusion

• Instructor shares story of student who gained 20 yards in 40 minutes using these drills.

• Simplify feel when playing: get hands working away from ball as pressure goes into left foot.