Hey everyone, Shawn and Sav here to explain how leverage is gonna
be your best friend in the golf swing and we'll wipe out your sway forever
In order for you to, stop the swing. And you've seen Mike Weir, Chris Marco, and Justin Thomas
would be examples of some players that actually have a full-body takeaway. Waggle, right So what
we're gonna do is we're gonna integrate a leveraged waggle to help you deliver your
shots to the target with much more authority and ease. So if Sav gets ready to deliver a shot here,
like you're gonna sting one right through the wall into the offices next door there Sav.
So bring that club into my hands here and stop. Beautiful. So you'll notice
right now Sav is already on the inside of her left foot. Mm-hmm. , now you start
pulling a little harder and I let go. Where are you going that way Exactly?
So your weight shift is automatic from there. Mm-hmm. . So if you do the takeaway and stop,
now all you'd have to do now is complete your swing and deliver your shot toward the target,
right Yeah. So let's do a practice swing right next to the ball.
So take away, take away and then go up. Yeah. That's it.
Yes. Excellent. So you'll notice that the golf swing happens in the first two feet of
that backswing. That's the critical part of that backswing. So when you do, take away and stop.
So notice she didn't move off the ball. She's already turning out of the way. And if I tried
to pull her off balance right now, I would have a really difficult time. Yeah. So if you let
yourself sway just a bit, Sal. Now Paul can't do it, can you No. So you're already out of
balance. Mm-hmm. . Now, what would cause you to sway in the first place is if many of you
just starting to play the game, you're gonna sway to try and scoop the ball up in the air.
So when you're swinging Sav, what would be a good task to deliver a ball in that direction
One of my favorites is the hammering through a door frame. So you remember that one,
right So if we took a door frame and put it up right here in front of the ball
and your goal was to squeeze that ball through the doorframe. So notice how, go ahead and address it.
Notice how Sav is already through the doorframe. A lot of people ask what's
with Sav in this forward shaft lean. Mm-hmm. . So you can see that when it relates to a doorframe,
she's already through the doorframe. So now go ahead and do a takeaway. Notice how her
position with the door frame doesn't change. Go to the top of the swing. Doesn't that look like
she's in a terrific position to Push against my hand? Look at that. So there's no way that we're
gonna push her off that hammer unless we use a lot of excessive force. So back swing and stop.
Now come on down in slow motion and show us how you're gonna squeeze through the doorframe.
Yeah. So when you put some pressure on that ball, you feel now that the low point is gonna
be right here in front of the doorframe. Yep. So Savannah's task is to squeeze that ball through
the door frame and in the direction of the target. Mm-hmm. . All right. So let's see you do it.
Nice. Oh yeah. Nice shot Sal. Thanks. Just a little off the back of the green. So let's
have a look at that face on, cuz obviously you want to see that leverage in action. And you'll
notice that at the top of her backswing, the weight staying on the inside keeps that leverage
through the door frame. And you can really see the body language is collecting the ball from
here and releasing the ball into that picture. And her flight plan is a draw. So we're just
taking it straight over that bunker. And notice how that bunker on the left-hand side is really
not a factor. So your releasing over that bunker was absolutely perfect. Then, you attacked the
left side of that flagstick right there. Mm-hmm. . All right. If I was delivering an ax through a
tree right here, notice I would never sway off the tree, then I'd be shaving, barking up the tree.
I would never sway forward into the tree. Now I'm shaving bark down the
tree. There's only one place I can be. So I'm gotta hold myself against the tree.
And then on the way through, notice my left heel's gonna plant and hold me behind the tree so I can
get through it. So I get leverage against it. And then as I'm holding my leverage against the tree,
notice my right foot is staying on the ground. It forces the left side back and
now I'm getting braced to keep me behind the tree. So leverage, leverage through,
that's what keeps me in a great position in relation to this. So staying behind the hit
is a major aspect of maintaining leverage. So if I step to the side here, heave through. So notice
how my position stays wonderfully against the tree back and through, take away. I'm against the tree.
Finish the backswing. I'm against the tree through. I'm against the tree.
So if you look at Tony fee now and you look at all the success that he's had, you'll notice
that trail foot, that right foot is staying on the ground. Well past impact. And another thing
that you'll really see Savannah do extremely well because she's staying behind it. The head staying
behind maintains this amazing tilt. The tilt will maintain lag. Lag will give you the proper angle
of attack through the ball. If I were to fall in front of it, I have to reach back. I'm actually
gonna have an upward angle of attack now because starting at the ball, the club's going back in the
air and if I sway away from it and I'm scooping, obviously I'm gonna hit the ground before the
ball. And if I did that, well you notice I can't get to the ball up against the hammer.
I'm gonna squeeze the ball against the hammer, I'm gonna squeeze the ball against the hammer
I got to squeeze through the hammer. So this task of delivering through the hammer
is extremely beneficial to put you into the right body. You know, the body part
positioning to perform the task. So I'm creating leverage to stay with my task. For many of you,
you get to the ball and you're saying, okay, I gotta hit the ball now or I gotta lift the
ball now. And you lose sight of what that is. So get your leverage. What am I doing
this leverage for Oh yeah, squeezing against the doorframe still can squeeze against the doorframe,
squeeze through? And there you have it. Now we're through the doorframe. So if you put, let's say,
an alignment rod vertical into the ground in front of you here to simulate that doorframe
brace against it. And now I'm just staying against that doorframe back and through. Got my leverage,
got my leverage through the the doorframe.
Holy moly, it's incredible how powerful that is. So there's eight iron, 94 miles an hour
and my carry on that went right over the flagstick at 185 yards. So got my leverage,
leverage, leverage. And you'll see how my back foot stayed on the ground. Well past that.
Gosh darn it, that's just way too much. Club
incredible. That was 95 miles per hour club speed. So there you have it. Let's,
you'll see the front view of those two swings. You'll see exactly what we're talking about.
And you wanna do this with every club in the bag. And you, we have an amazing series on our premium
channel that we're gonna be going through for the next few weeks where we'll show you how to fade
and draw with this takeaway waggle. And it's gonna help you get your leverage and also get you in the
right direction for your particular shot. If I'm going fade, I'm going left of that intermediate
point. There's my takeaway waggle that's left of my intermediate point. If I'm doing draw, there's
a takeaway that's going to the right of the intermediate point. So understanding how to shape
your ball from a leverage position is tremendous. So hope you enjoyed that. We'll see you next week.