How to Time the Golf Club Release Perfectly

Today we are gonna be discussing how to add a little burst of speed into your golf swing, and a little bit of consistency. I know a lot of you have written to us in the past here, and asked us the question "Okay, when do we start to release a golf club? When does that movement start to happen?" Well, this simple little drill today is gonna start to train you and your body how to release a club properly, with proper timing, that's gonna help you get speed in the right spot.

                So let's talk about that real quick before we start today's drill. Where do we want our maximum speed to be? Well, that's an easy question, right? That's an easy answer. We want it to be right down here at the bottom of the swing arc, right at impact. That's where we want the club to be at max speed. So many of us tend to struggle with putting speed into the wrong area of the golf swing. We tend to try to overuse our hands and arms, that in turn starts to throw the club very early, and then you're not having any sort of wag, which is a big source of club head speed. You know, we need leverage, which is gonna be nearly 60% or more of your club head speed. So if you start to try to speed the club up too early, then all you're doing is just wasting that down to the bottom of the swing arc, you have no leverage to be able to hit the golf ball with.

                So that's what this drill's designed to do. So what I would like you guys to do at home, is I want you to go ahead and put a tee in the ground, about ball height, and I want you to go ahead and grab a golf club, I assume we all have one of these, and go ahead and take your setup here, and I want you to position the tee up off of your lead ear. Okay, so this is gonna indicate our ball position. But what we're gonna do today is we're gonna flip the club over to start this drill, and we're gonna have it in our trail hand. Now I know a lot of you guys are probably mind blown right now, that we're actually letting you do something with your trail hand in your golf swing which is typically the trouble maker, but that's just how we're gonna start to train you how to properly time that release.

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                So now we got the tee up off of our lead ear, I've got a club just in my trail hand, flipped over. What we're gonna do is just gonna turn to the top and mimic a backswing position. So from down the line what that's gonna look like, is you're gonna see that I'm in my normal backswing position. I've got my trail wrist hinged a little bit here, a little bit of wrist cocking, I've also got this angle between my forearm and my bicep. Now this is the position of leverage right here, that we're gonna try to maintain when we start to shift our weight and we're gonna try to snap the release. And so what the tee is here for, it's just giving us an aiming point. Okay, we're gonna really try to create that snapping sensation down at the tee, and so we can hear the club actually whoosh right at the bottom of the swing arc.

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