I struggled with swinging with my arms too much in youth baseball and it persists in golf. I strike the ball so much better when it _feels_ like my hands are wayyyyy behind through impact, but in fact they're correct. Drills like this are good for changing the picture I have in my head of what my swing looks like.
This is a very good drill for the golfer who creates separation between upper and lower body very easily. Maybe too easily. For some who lack this mobility, finding contact might be a challenge. I see the young top professionals using this drill a lot on full shots whereas Senior PGA guys use it on many wedge and half shots. Love the videos.
LOL, that was my comment about the eyes to target early. my comment was specifically in relation to the drill keeping the shoulder down and around, moving you head allows your shoulder to lift. when i do what you do i pull hook my shots. if i feel down through the impact i can generate a natural flight. great work on this drill, looks comfy for you.
I find your attitude towards the ball flight the best thing for me to copy. I’m far too obsessed with the result, I find that harder to deal with than a swing change.
Perfect timing! This is exactly what I'm going to try to work on this year. I definitely get too armsy which leads to a lot of inconsistent strikes. Mostly a bit fat but sometimes thin too. Great info!
This is wild Matt. Our swings look so different but we have the exact same faults we're working on. I tend to tilt back and dump the club inside creating the blocks and hooks. I was pumped when you posted the blocks and hooks fix video. I starting using your drill (squat/lead shoulder down and around) the problem is I was really struggling with contact. Then you came out with this video and you taught me I had to rotate and leave the hands higher/more passive. You have no idea but you're acting as my real-time personal coach lol!
Was working on the same thing during my lesson & practice today, dripping in sweat mid-way through - swing is much more taxing which is good. Also on the live commented on ball height - it was 124ft w/ 7 iron. Tried to control height on next swing and got it at 102, so maybe that should just be my stock swing (moved ball slightly back as suggested and tried to stay on top of it). Thanks for posting about your journey, helping my swing/sequence out a lot.
Your videos are so helpful Matt. Im anywhere from 5-9 in to out and pull the handle in transition, get trapped, early extend and flip. So similar, apart from the speed 😂
For me I have always been trying to hit with my arms. Lately I've been initiating the downswing with just my lower body and the arms follow eventually as I keep rotating through. The contact is better and as long as I release the club properly, I get great contact + distance.
Awesome stuff Matt, loved to hear you talk about your head turn at impact since that was definitely something interesting that I noticed in your previous videos. It really looks like your swings are coming along really nicely, I can't wait to see how you will continue to progress and improve!
This swing change greatly reduces your hook miss, basically I see your face stable through the impact area for a longer period. Look for improved consistency with less imparted side spin, good stuff
This is a huge deal that people don't realize, it's made the biggest gains in my swing, i tell myself turn, don't pull......it's where i get my best strikes....keep up the good work Matt
Hi Matt, I have been watching this video and some others over and over again. I would like to see two more things. Can you please show how strong you hold your grip and how you release the club until the end of the swing in slow motion? If your body turn first and have your arm follow the body, isn't club face open unless you have a strong grip? and one more, is the concept of the driver swing the same as this except for the location of the ball?
Wonderful Matt! Great drills and yes, patience is needed..you make it look quite easy, but no doubt it is not. And you do it LH & RH to boot! Thanks for the great tips. BTW, big AL with his Ch-AL-lenge to you..love it !! :)
Love the series Matt! Last fall I picked up a PlaneMate to try and work on similar stuff. Can you talk about the advantages and disadvantages of training aids or that system specifically? Last video you teased that coach doesn’t love training aids. Thanks!!
I think one of my big issues is stopping my practice session before I get too tired. Less balls, more often. Always the temptation to make the most of your travel time to a range and what not. Maybe now that I have a skytrak I can just hit 20-30 balls and stop more easily.
@@GolfQuestChannel if you haven't already, get a fibrebuilt hitting surface. It is WAY better for your joints than anything else. You don't get penalized much on fat but it's worth the joint relief.
One difference I see between rh Matt and lh Matt is the follow through. In rh Matt your hands seem to wrap around the neck much more. In lh Matt the hands and club stay much higher.
Hi Matt! I have really enjoyed watching you throughout the years. I absolutely love your swing and game (even the righty version!!!). I’m curious, will you be trying to go on the tour with all this training? Or you just doing it to improve your game and showing us your progress? I think your game is 🔥🔥🔥. All the best!!!
Is this similar to that Over The Top miracle swing? Your description of feeling steeper and out to in seems like over the top move without the slice most of us produce.
Great drill Matt I struggle with the over draw or pull with my irons so will copy this drill, r you no long doing any stuff with TXG? loved your reviews with Ian as someone new to watching from the UK
Matt, I love your content. With this approach, how do you make sure you don’t get “stuck”? Seems like a surefire way to get stuck to me, but could just be my tendencies.
Keep the lead shoulder low and you won't get stuck. The first time I did this drill I swore the ball was gonna go 50 yards right and it just ... didn't. For those of us with wildly overactive hands it's a totally foreign feeling.
Great. As usual. How do you take drills like these out to the course? Is it “just” practice and in the long run they will be a natural part of the swing?
I've been really working on making sure that my arms and hands are much more passive. I think I got the feeling, but I want to make sure I'm not overdoing it. Does it feel at all like your lower body rotation is "pulling" your upper body into rotation? I feel like when I'm doing that, I get the best feeling swing, but I don't want to get used to it if it isn't right! It's hard to know if it will work since I don't have a launch monitor (yet). When I was doing this at the end of last season, my best feeling hits were pushes (I fight a huge hook), so I think it's working... we'll see as I get out this season.
What is the iron setup for your left vs right hands? (shaft and heads pls!) Also do these drills help maintain the body for the long run? Aka less stress on the lower back?
I started with TXG and then have been watching Larry's training session. Your training sessions are very helpful because you are capable of showing two different levels of swings. Thanks! BTW, what is loft for i#8 (LH)? Were you using the same #8 for RH as well? Is there any special reason you are using i#8 for your practice sessions?
matt I have been playing golf for a couple years now and I have always enjoyed your content. I wish we had more options available in left handed equipment. I’m ready for my second fitting in irons. what recommendations do you have for a soft clubface playing a ProV1? I really want to upgrade from game improvement to players so I can tighten up my dispersion and flyers
Very nice…. Without the benefit of being able to measure path do you recommend these drills? Would it hurt an out to in player that doesn’t know they are out to in?
It’s important to know that Matt’s issues are from coming super from the inside and being shallow, so he needs to get more steep and more neutral. Most amateurs that struggle with a slice don’t need to follow this drill
Ive been working on exactly the same thing and its funny cuz I have to release my head early also.. But look at the great players who've done that David Duvall, Henrik Stenson, DJ on wedges and short irons & of course Annika Sorenstam.. The balls not gonna move so if releasing your head early helps then do it, It's exactly what Dana Dahlquist told me
your head turn is much earlier during this drill. eyes probaly off the ball extremely early like before arm parallel on the down swing. thoughts on carrying this over to your actual swing or is this for drill only?
Any comment on how to maintain club face control during drills like this? When I have tried to address sequencing I've often found myself hitting hosel of the club from time to time as i'm leading with too open of a face coming into impact. Would that possibly be distance from ball or do you still feel yourself somewhat covering the ball as you maintain separation but with the separation instead of it hooking with too closed of a face, this balances it out?
Don't most if not all of the best players have their hands relatively in front of their sternum throughout the swing? It's referred to as connection but if you leave your hands up or have passive arms, they lag behind the turn and body which result in getting stuck and having to catch the face up through impact. I'm sure you've seen the clip from Tiger and Butch about the drill where he feels his hands out race the body to impact which would be the complete opposite. Lot of amateur golfers struggle getting stuck and over the top because they've been told for years to "fire the hips" Also, it looks difficult to generate speed when your arms are pinned across your chest and all the speed is effectively from your body's rotation.
I've had all the same bad habits as Matt from years of thinking I need to keep my hands in front of my chest. Your arms will catch up as you release. This approach does require more hand speed/more athleticism but Matt has it.
My only jealousy is lack of a non-expensive access to a launch monitor that gives the GC Quad data. Banging away on a range doesn't provide the feedback the data gives in 3 shots. I know, golf is an expensive sport!
Love the video, Matt. I’ve been able to hit my irons really well this way, but with my woods/driver I can’t seem to get comfortable with it and I slice or push fade. It’s easier for me to square the face with a more “armsy” or handsy driver swing. Should arms and hands feel this passive with driver?
I am working on the same move. My question is do you feel that There is less separation between upper and lower body, and that everything almost moves together simultaneously? And the only separation is between arms and body?
In my opinion, you should never be thinking about hitting the ball or looking at the ball, you should think about your swing, hitting the ball is just a product of doing all the correct swing mechanics.
Shawn used to talk to a "Matt" behind the camera back in the Richmond Hill days.. I assumed it was Matt Blois. I still watch Shawn with Savvy. She can bomb that ball with no effort. Wish I could. Working on it. But for sure,,, Larry and Matt have helped me add yardage and get rid of my slice.
@@Randy-J yes she can bomb, she reaches 300+ now. i started using their technique in the past 2 weeks and gained a club and half, really not making this up, and for someone who always faded the ball i can now draw it. loving that. it just seems soo much easier todo. I tried the universal swing but there is just too much going on and most pro's teaching this always say the same stuff. i know we are all diff and there is not ONE type of swing we should all use.
Hey Matt your making me laugh now. I’ve spend years on the golf instruction treadmill. The first RUclips channel to visit if you seriously what to improve,is the EASIEST SWING. next thing I would do is go and buy a swing pro training aid with the magnet release in the head. Use that device for twenty minutes a day. Just saying.✌️
I struggled with swinging with my arms too much in youth baseball and it persists in golf. I strike the ball so much better when it _feels_ like my hands are wayyyyy behind through impact, but in fact they're correct. Drills like this are good for changing the picture I have in my head of what my swing looks like.
Drinking on a school night…welcome to my world! 🍻
Thanks for the right handed content, as a left hander whose intro to golf was with right handed clubs this stuff is gold!
Love ur thought process and how u think around the swing
This helped me so much, I shot my first sub 90 as a 23 hdc
Played this afternoon with the don't pull arm swing thought. Played my best round of the season by far, thanks for the tips!
Looks very much so like a David Duval swing thanks for the content
This is a very good drill for the golfer who creates separation between upper and lower body very easily. Maybe too easily. For some who lack this mobility, finding contact might be a challenge. I see the young top professionals using this drill a lot on full shots whereas Senior PGA guys use it on many wedge and half shots. Love the videos.
I’ve recently picked up this channel, I’ve missed watching Matty hit absolute piss rockets
LOL, that was my comment about the eyes to target early. my comment was specifically in relation to the drill keeping the shoulder down and around, moving you head allows your shoulder to lift. when i do what you do i pull hook my shots. if i feel down through the impact i can generate a natural flight. great work on this drill, looks comfy for you.
I find your attitude towards the ball flight the best thing for me to copy. I’m far too obsessed with the result, I find that harder to deal with than a swing change.
Love the channel. I learn more here than from lessons I've paid for. Thanks Matt
great videos Matt...enjoying this journey
This is so helpful for me. I'm reprogramming my body 2 years post hip replacement. This drill is great!
This drill is perfect for me Matt. I've been trying to find a way to accomplish this very move. Always learning from the best!
Great drill. What’s helped me is thinking about my lead shoulder turn leading the arms which leads the hands down. Keeps things in sequence for me.
Another great video Matt!
Great video thanks Matt.
Perfect timing! This is exactly what I'm going to try to work on this year. I definitely get too armsy which leads to a lot of inconsistent strikes. Mostly a bit fat but sometimes thin too.
Great info!
This is wild Matt. Our swings look so different but we have the exact same faults we're working on. I tend to tilt back and dump the club inside creating the blocks and hooks. I was pumped when you posted the blocks and hooks fix video. I starting using your drill (squat/lead shoulder down and around) the problem is I was really struggling with contact. Then you came out with this video and you taught me I had to rotate and leave the hands higher/more passive. You have no idea but you're acting as my real-time personal coach lol!
Was working on the same thing during my lesson & practice today, dripping in sweat mid-way through - swing is much more taxing which is good. Also on the live commented on ball height - it was 124ft w/ 7 iron. Tried to control height on next swing and got it at 102, so maybe that should just be my stock swing (moved ball slightly back as suggested and tried to stay on top of it). Thanks for posting about your journey, helping my swing/sequence out a lot.
Another great video Mr. Blois thank you
Great video! Will try the drills! Thanks Matt!
Awesome. Such good content Matt. So glad you chose to pursue this channel. 👍
Your videos are so helpful Matt. Im anywhere from 5-9 in to out and pull the handle in transition, get trapped, early extend and flip. So similar, apart from the speed 😂
Great content. Love the direction you are taking your channel. Better use of your talents.
For me I have always been trying to hit with my arms. Lately I've been initiating the downswing with just my lower body and the arms follow eventually as I keep rotating through. The contact is better and as long as I release the club properly, I get great contact + distance.
Awesome stuff Matt, loved to hear you talk about your head turn at impact since that was definitely something interesting that I noticed in your previous videos. It really looks like your swings are coming along really nicely, I can't wait to see how you will continue to progress and improve!
Awesome Matty. I’m working on some of the same things in my swing .
This swing change greatly reduces your hook miss, basically I see your face stable through the impact area for a longer period.
Look for improved consistency with less imparted side spin, good stuff
I have been working on this very thing. I too had a hip replaced and have struggled moving the body first in the downswing.
Your proprioceptive talent is so fun to watch!
great tips. keep them coming Matt.
Thanks Matt !! As always ,, good solid training tips !
Loving this content, swings are looking crisp!!
This is a huge deal that people don't realize, it's made the biggest gains in my swing, i tell myself turn, don't pull......it's where i get my best strikes....keep up the good work Matt
I come over the top with the turn thought.
@@Dan-nh8nu if you add it to the squat and push off drill I find i don't come over the top
Hi Matt, I have been watching this video and some others over and over again. I would like to see two more things. Can you please show how strong you hold your grip and how you release the club until the end of the swing in slow motion? If your body turn first and have your arm follow the body, isn't club face open unless you have a strong grip? and one more, is the concept of the driver swing the same as this except for the location of the ball?
Wonderful Matt! Great drills and yes, patience is needed..you make it look quite easy, but no doubt it is not. And you do it LH & RH to boot! Thanks for the great tips. BTW, big AL with his Ch-AL-lenge to you..love it !! :)
Great video Matt .. It looks like you're not even looking at the ball at contact :O
Love the videos. Thank you for everything you do.
Working on swing changes - I find when ur tire u revert to old mechanics
Love the series Matt! Last fall I picked up a PlaneMate to try and work on similar stuff. Can you talk about the advantages and disadvantages of training aids or that system specifically? Last video you teased that coach doesn’t love training aids. Thanks!!
Larry isn’t a big fan of training aids which is fair enough, I personally like a few, planemate being one of the better ones I’ve tried.
Tron from no laying up did an alternate shot right and left handed for himself, would love to watch you have a go at that! lol
I think one of my big issues is stopping my practice session before I get too tired. Less balls, more often. Always the temptation to make the most of your travel time to a range and what not. Maybe now that I have a skytrak I can just hit 20-30 balls and stop more easily.
I wish this was the case for me. Since I got Skytrak I hit so many balls my arms and wrists hurt :(
@@GolfQuestChannel if you haven't already, get a fibrebuilt hitting surface. It is WAY better for your joints than anything else. You don't get penalized much on fat but it's worth the joint relief.
@@mackenziecook2119 I did. I replaced my CCE with one and yes it is better 😀
One difference I see between rh Matt and lh Matt is the follow through. In rh Matt your hands seem to wrap around the neck much more. In lh Matt the hands and club stay much higher.
Hi Matt! I have really enjoyed watching you throughout the years. I absolutely love your swing and game (even the righty version!!!). I’m curious, will you be trying to go on the tour with all this training? Or you just doing it to improve your game and showing us your progress? I think your game is 🔥🔥🔥. All the best!!!
Just to improve my game and share my progress with everyone, thanks Roberto!
@@GolfLiberty hi Matt! Well we all appreciate it!!! Thanks so much for sharing. I hope you have your best season ever this coming year!!
•Unrelated: I’d love to see the triple 💎 match up against OG Sim and Tsi3, last couple years big dogs
Is this similar to that Over The Top miracle swing? Your description of feeling steeper and out to in seems like over the top move without the slice most of us produce.
Great drill Matt I struggle with the over draw or pull with my irons so will copy this drill, r you no long doing any stuff with TXG? loved your reviews with Ian as someone new to watching from the UK
Thanks Liam, yes on my own doing this channel now
Matt, I love your content. With this approach, how do you make sure you don’t get “stuck”? Seems like a surefire way to get stuck to me, but could just be my tendencies.
Keep the lead shoulder low and you won't get stuck. The first time I did this drill I swore the ball was gonna go 50 yards right and it just ... didn't. For those of us with wildly overactive hands it's a totally foreign feeling.
Great. As usual. How do you take drills like these out to the course? Is it “just” practice and in the long run they will be a natural part of the swing?
yes for sure, something to practice regularly and eventually will show itself on course
I've been really working on making sure that my arms and hands are much more passive. I think I got the feeling, but I want to make sure I'm not overdoing it. Does it feel at all like your lower body rotation is "pulling" your upper body into rotation? I feel like when I'm doing that, I get the best feeling swing, but I don't want to get used to it if it isn't right! It's hard to know if it will work since I don't have a launch monitor (yet). When I was doing this at the end of last season, my best feeling hits were pushes (I fight a huge hook), so I think it's working... we'll see as I get out this season.
What is the iron setup for your left vs right hands? (shaft and heads pls!) Also do these drills help maintain the body for the long run? Aka less stress on the lower back?
Issue I've found with something like this is with leaving the arms back, when I rotate, the arms will tend to come out (with the club) vs. down .
I started with TXG and then have been watching Larry's training session. Your training sessions are very helpful because you are capable of showing two different levels of swings. Thanks! BTW, what is loft for i#8 (LH)? Were you using the same #8 for RH as well? Is there any special reason you are using i#8 for your practice sessions?
Same 8i for both LH and RH, titleist T100 at stock lofts. Just find it a good iron to practice most drills with
matt I have been playing golf for a couple years now and I have always enjoyed your content. I wish we had more options available in left handed equipment. I’m ready for my second fitting in irons. what recommendations do you have for a soft clubface playing a ProV1? I really want to upgrade from game improvement to players so I can tighten up my dispersion and flyers
Titleist T100, Mizuno 223, Taylormade P770
Very nice…. Without the benefit of being able to measure path do you recommend these drills? Would it hurt an out to in player that doesn’t know they are out to in?
I would say find out if you are an out to in player first.
It’s important to know that Matt’s issues are from coming super from the inside and being shallow, so he needs to get more steep and more neutral. Most amateurs that struggle with a slice don’t need to follow this drill
Very good sir...you have copied David Duval's swing, but from the left side.
Are you looking at the ball at impact? It looks like you're looking at the target when the club impacts the ball.
Ive been working on exactly the same thing and its funny cuz I have to release my head early also.. But look at the great players who've done that David Duvall, Henrik Stenson, DJ on wedges and short irons & of course Annika Sorenstam.. The balls not gonna move so if releasing your head early helps then do it, It's exactly what Dana Dahlquist told me
your head turn is much earlier during this drill. eyes probaly off the ball extremely early like before arm parallel on the down swing. thoughts on carrying this over to your actual swing or is this for drill only?
happens when I do the drill, doubt it will carry over to actual swings
Would this be good with an impact bag? Having the ability to see where your shoulders are in relation to the club at impact…
Any comment on how to maintain club face control during drills like this? When I have tried to address sequencing I've often found myself hitting hosel of the club from time to time as i'm leading with too open of a face coming into impact. Would that possibly be distance from ball or do you still feel yourself somewhat covering the ball as you maintain separation but with the separation instead of it hooking with too closed of a face, this balances it out?
Congratulations on Canada making the world cup . I'm sure they will do your country proud ,as long as you remember it's called FOOTBALL .
Don't most if not all of the best players have their hands relatively in front of their sternum throughout the swing? It's referred to as connection but if you leave your hands up or have passive arms, they lag behind the turn and body which result in getting stuck and having to catch the face up through impact. I'm sure you've seen the clip from Tiger and Butch about the drill where he feels his hands out race the body to impact which would be the complete opposite. Lot of amateur golfers struggle getting stuck and over the top because they've been told for years to "fire the hips"
Also, it looks difficult to generate speed when your arms are pinned across your chest and all the speed is effectively from your body's rotation.
I've had all the same bad habits as Matt from years of thinking I need to keep my hands in front of my chest. Your arms will catch up as you release. This approach does require more hand speed/more athleticism but Matt has it.
My only jealousy is lack of a non-expensive access to a launch monitor that gives the GC Quad data. Banging away on a range doesn't provide the feedback the data gives in 3 shots. I know, golf is an expensive sport!
Love the video, Matt. I’ve been able to hit my irons really well this way, but with my woods/driver I can’t seem to get comfortable with it and I slice or push fade. It’s easier for me to square the face with a more “armsy” or handsy driver swing. Should arms and hands feel this passive with driver?
ideally yes, it's just going to take longer for this type of improvement to work it's way into the driver
I am working on the same move. My question is do you feel that There is less separation between upper and lower body, and that everything almost moves together simultaneously? And the only separation is between arms and body?
to be honest it usually feel more separation when I do this drill well
How do you hit the ball so well without even looking at it?
In my opinion, you should never be thinking about hitting the ball or looking at the ball, you should think about your swing, hitting the ball is just a product of doing all the correct swing mechanics.
what about shawn clements techinique ? what is your take on it?
Shawn used to talk to a "Matt" behind the camera back in the Richmond Hill days.. I assumed it was Matt Blois. I still watch Shawn with Savvy. She can bomb that ball with no effort. Wish I could. Working on it. But for sure,,, Larry and Matt have helped me add yardage and get rid of my slice.
@@Randy-J yes she can bomb, she reaches 300+ now. i started using their technique in the past 2 weeks and gained a club and half, really not making this up, and for someone who always faded the ball i can now draw it. loving that. it just seems soo much easier todo. I tried the universal swing but there is just too much going on and most pro's teaching this always say the same stuff. i know we are all diff and there is not ONE type of swing we should all use.
Matt, have you ever considered giving lessons? Maybe doing some online remote lessons??
not something I'd do to be honest, I always recommend Larry Cheung and Tyler McGhie for online lessons though they are both extremely good at it
Hey Matt your making me laugh now. I’ve spend years on the golf instruction treadmill. The first RUclips channel to visit if you seriously what to improve,is the EASIEST SWING. next thing I would do is go and buy a swing pro training aid with the magnet release in the head. Use that device for twenty minutes a day.
Just saying.✌️
Really bad drill to anyone that goes over the top and struggles with slices. Just though you should say that.