This is how I stopped being a slicer years ago. I have since always kept a closed stance. The best way to square the shoulders to the line of attack is by pulling the right foot back 2 to 3 inches. The right hand being further down the club handle automatically pulls the right shoulder forward causing the open swing path that creates a slice or fade. I never see or hear Pros mention this. They just talk about over the top and chopping. Old movies of Snead and Hogan show their feet on down the line shots with driver and long irons their right foot is pulled back. With wedges and more lofted clubs this is not needed so much as the desired action is a cut slice for backspin. I now see more and more tour pros with feet in a closed stance with driver, left foot splayed to 11 o'clock, right foot 90 degrees to target pulled back. The other detail is you must keep the right forearm directly behind or below the left at address...but that is another issue relating to grip.
First time I saw this Drill was with a guy na med Tony Luscak. I teach as a side hustle and this Drill is a game changer. After they get this down I have them hit balls with feet together, wedge thru Driver.(I have them grip down a little with the longer clubs). The overall goal of this Drill is to quiet down the lower body.
This my all time favorite drill Chad. I have played whole rounds using this setup. I stopped me from swaying. This is my go to swing when the wheels come off during a round. This has saved me more times than I can count. Especially before I found Channel Lock. I have gotten away from using the Flamingo setup since I found CL. Having used this swing for years made the switch to CL a lot easier. When you use the Flamingo drill, you are basically hitting the ball off your back foot just like CL. This forces you to swing from the inside because the club gets to the ball a little quicker in the down swing just like in CL. The feet together drill is another variant of the Flamingo drill which helps with swaying. IMHO, using the Flamingo swing is basically like playing CL with a very narrow stance and a small amount of back cock. Great video Chad. Cheers FJ
Ernest Jones was a genius. His “Swing The Clubhead” book is one of the all time best. There’s a swing sequence in the book of a 1930s era pro named Leo Diegel swinging while on one leg. He was on his right leg instead of his left, but the principle is the same. Apparently Diegel used to play entire rounds hitting every shot while standing on one leg, and would typically shoot right around par. Great video, thanks very much.
Chad, I literally just started doing this drill yesterday and I am in total agreement (it fixes sooooo many faults! ). Nice to learn how this drill was adapted from Ernest Jones losing his leg in WWI ! Thank you!👍🏽
@@GolfTestDummy True that. Funny enough I have been having a case of the blocks and been using the L to L drill to try to make me release the club a bit sooner. The one foot drill would achieve the same thing, I think so will give it a go. Thanks for the content.
Weight on the front foot is a fundamental of stack and tilt. The side bending “ tilting” and the front weight”stacking” allows for a centered body and weight favoring the front foot. In essence by maintaining weight on the front foot you eliminate swaying and the body remains centered.
Great drill. I have never been a slicer but it would definitely help those with a slice. When I have tried this drill it frustrate me because it was a reminder how simple the golf swing is (lol). When my feet were apart again, I would go right back to my pulls… and hooks.Fortunately, I am on the straight and narrow hitting it beautifully. Awesome content as always !
Shawn Clement has some great videos on this topic. I almost quit golf one summer due to shanks, I was doing this drill on the range and not only not shanking but flushing it and added 10 yards per club. I’ve shot my personal best on 9 holes (38) on one leg.
@@GolfTestDummy I highly recommend it. Its enjoyable and when you’re playing with others it’s great to see their reactions and especially when you outdrive them with it
Chad, You’ve hit a big nail on the head and it is good that you have highlighted this for us. Shawn Clement is an advocate of this and the feet together drill,. The later helps to teach the feeling of turning with balance and the one legged drill teaches the correct club head path with balance. How is it going on the course?
Hi Chad the one foot drill is absolutely the best drill in golf to help us feel the swing and correct balance in our body when we swing the club correctly. But do we know why and how it works? And if we were to fail at it? Should we skip it altogether? My answer to anyone is do it until you can get it done right. And here are my thought provoking reasons why I am saying this. Hope you bear with me a little bit on this one. OK? Believe it or not; our muscles inside our body can only do one of three possible moves with any weighted object we are holding in our hands. 1 The muscles of our arms, elbows, forearm, hands, and wrist as well as our entire body can work to gently place the objects on the ground where we want them to go 2 The muscles of our arms, elbow, forearm, hands, and wrists as well as our our entire body can relax ; dropping the object in our hands hard on the ground depending on its weight 3 The muscles of our arms,elbow, forearm, hands and wrists as well as our entire body can continue to lift the object in our hands until we cannot possibly lift the object any further. The one and only option us golfers possibly have in swinging our club back and forth is to use option 3 for both the backswing and forward swinging of our club. And of course as you said to get into our correct golf posture and staying balanced as we swinging our club is most essential It is time for all golfers to begin to realize that a swinging of our club we are holding in our hands is actually a lifting of our club up using all the muscles inside our body and upper extremities ; and, then once our back is towards our target; we can suddenly and much more quickly use our muscles inside our core to uncoils so that our arms, elbows; forearms; hands wrists can continue to quickly lift our club up again to the finish of our swing; all the while using the the natural uplifting clock wise movement of all the muscles inside our body. To put it another way their is no downswing in golf except when we hit the ground with the head of the club. And I am certain we all have done that way too many time. Right? Swinging is easy if we simply allow it to happen and do not stop our swinging especially at the extraordinarily brief trampoline effect when the club head meets the ball. Hope you liked what I have written so far Hogan once told us the golf swing is easy; and he was not lying. The golf swing is not as hard as many PGA teachers tells us. For example the golf swing has absolutely nothing to do with imaginary centrifugal forces working against the golfer as the PGA believes exist. The golf swing is 100 percent centripetal force of which moves our golf club to be compelled to move to it’s center of origin which is the core of our turning body and nothing else. It took me 40 years to finally uncover these truths and simplicity of my own repeatable golf swing and I simply want to share it freely with you and others who may want to listen to me and simply swing their clubs and think of nothing else. Believe me one more time when I tell you it is mush easier to balance on two feet then one as we swing our club back and forth. Cheers
You have mentioned that this is the greatest golf drill and think about what you are saying. All the benefits to one Leg left weight and shallow angle of attack, not Overswinging, allowing circle and allowing to release down line, etc. You just described all the benefits of the JVGA swing.
Haha, that doesn't seem like a coincidence. Conventional golf is just a gross complication for most of us in my opinion. The JV swing is a much better approach.
I agree with you ... instant feedback, right? Maybe take this technique/mindset to the driving range and give it a go. Would make a great follow up video, yes?
Yes and no. Jim would encourage the player to avoid any shoulder rotation until after the ball is struck, whereas Chad is demonstrating a swing with body rotation in the swing. Channel Lock swing, as I understand it, is another swing method that essentially uses a one side weighting technique ( trail side) . It also keeps the trail shoulder back during the swing, thereby promoting a shallow circular inside to out path swing ( as does JV's swing). Stack and tilt also has elements of this drill incorporated into it I guess.
@@GolfTestDummy Hi，Chad, I followed you 3 years ago from a blog of JV siwng and practiced about half year , the problem is if I try hard to keep my low body quite and will become stiff and affect the flow of my swing. I pratice RSS swing and with targert focus and keep low body quite feel most shot getting solid. By the way, if I use too much body swing, it is hard to keep balance for me at age 57, so I changed to fast hinge and balance is better. Hope you have more course shot and share the feeling and results.
Excellent drill. But you are not directly referencing one of the main reasons that this helps most golfers. The swing is really just adjusted rotation; because of weight shift the axis of symmety of that rotation inclines slightly in each half of the swing in opposite directions. Also hip drive and back arch and side bend slightly change the planes of rotation in each direction but especially in the downswing because of movement toward the lead side by the lower body while the head moves much less until after impact. THE NATURE OF THIS ROTATION IS THE TRAIL SIDE FOLLOWING THE LEAD SIDE AROUND THE APPROPRIATE AXIS OF SYMMETRY IN A VERY TIGHT ROTATIONAL ARC (caps for emphasis). Obviously this is challenging with weight shift, lateral hip movement, back arch and side bend going on. These adjustments of spine angle (from the previous sentence) are necessary to keep the club shaft moving in line with the aforementioned rotation (while transferring momentum; weight shift, hip drive) so that it can be released squarely without dumping angles so if that is what you mean by "circle", I guess that I am agreeing with more detail. The important thing with this drill is to notice that it forces you to keep the two halves of your body aligned for rotation through the strike. Most people get the lead side out of rotional alignment on the way down and through impact and therefore cannot release the club properly (efficiently). If you look at your hip movement during the drill, you will notice how tightly your trail side is following the lead side rotationally through impact. This drill fixes the lead side in position so that it must rotate in alignment, but the additional complexities of the rest of the swing can still easily mess someone up. What you need to know with this drill is that during a normal swing, your lead side should "feel" like it does in this drill especially into impact and beyond. A HUGELY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS ISOLATION OF THE LEAD SIDE IS VERY MISUNDERSTOOD; BECAUSE OF NO WEIGHT SHIFT THE LEAD SIDE IN THIS DRILL IS ALIGNING FOR ROTATION BUT IT IS ALSO MOVING THROUGH IMPACT GOING IMMEDIATLY FROM BEING IN A BENT LINE STRUCTURE FROM LEAD FOOT TO LEAD SHOULDER INTO A MUCH STRAIGHTER LINE. This is the mirror image of the backswing, where the trail side moves into a straighter line and the lead side moves in to bent line. This straightening must happen ALONG WITH aligned rotation in order for the club shaft to be released powerfully on plane in line with the rotation.
It’s a useful drill. But not my go to when the game goes off. My favourite is one handed lead hand only . There is not enough strength to cast the club so that draw comes back. That then allows me to reset just how gently I should be holding that club.
@@GolfTestDummy might be a problem specific to me but my tendency is to try to steer shots to improve accuracy so every few rounds I tend to lose distance as my wrists and grip tighten.
This is how I stopped being a slicer years ago. I have since always kept a closed stance. The best way to square the shoulders to the line of attack is by pulling the right foot back 2 to 3 inches. The right hand being further down the club handle automatically pulls the right shoulder forward causing the open swing path that creates a slice or fade. I never see or hear Pros mention this. They just talk about over the top and chopping. Old movies of Snead and Hogan show their feet on down the line shots with driver and long irons their right foot is pulled back. With wedges and more lofted clubs this is not needed so much as the desired action is a cut slice for backspin. I now see more and more tour pros with feet in a closed stance with driver, left foot splayed to 11 o'clock, right foot 90 degrees to target pulled back. The other detail is you must keep the right forearm directly behind or below the left at address...but that is another issue relating to grip.
Love this. Dropping the right foot back a couple inches is basically a very light version of this drill.
First time I saw this Drill was with a guy na
med Tony Luscak. I teach as a side hustle and this Drill is a game changer. After they get this down I have them hit balls with feet together, wedge thru Driver.(I have them grip down a little with the longer clubs). The overall goal of this Drill is to quiet down the lower body.
This my all time favorite drill Chad. I have played whole rounds using this setup. I stopped me from swaying. This is my go to swing when the wheels come off during a round. This has saved me more times than I can count. Especially before I found Channel Lock.
I have gotten away from using the Flamingo setup since I found CL. Having used this swing for years made the switch to CL a lot easier. When you use the Flamingo drill, you are basically hitting the ball off your back foot just like CL. This forces you to swing from the inside because the club gets to the ball a little quicker in the down swing just like in CL.
The feet together drill is another variant of the Flamingo drill which helps with swaying.
IMHO, using the Flamingo swing is basically like playing CL with a very narrow stance and a small amount of back cock. Great video Chad.
Cheers FJ
Thanks FJ! And I was using my front leg, but you're right; Using the trail leg only is basically CL all day.
Ernest Jones was a genius. His “Swing The Clubhead” book is one of the all time best. There’s a swing sequence in the book of a 1930s era pro named Leo Diegel swinging while on one leg. He was on his right leg instead of his left, but the principle is the same. Apparently Diegel used to play entire rounds hitting every shot while standing on one leg, and would typically shoot right around par. Great video, thanks very much.
I've actually seen a few things on using the trail leg only. Seems like using lead leg or trail leg ends up curing different flaws.
Chad, I literally just started doing this drill yesterday and I am in total agreement (it fixes sooooo many faults! ). Nice to learn how this drill was adapted from Ernest Jones losing his leg in WWI ! Thank you!👍🏽
Great stuff Charlie! Such a great drill.
A great drill. Also makes you release your hands. I remember Jim Flick doing this drill.
It really forces you to make a swing rather than chopping and hacking.
@@GolfTestDummy True that. Funny enough I have been having a case of the blocks and been using the L to L drill to try to make me release the club a bit sooner. The one foot drill would achieve the same thing, I think so will give it a go. Thanks for the content.
Weight on the front foot is a fundamental of stack and tilt. The side bending “ tilting” and the front weight”stacking” allows for a centered body and weight favoring the front foot. In essence by maintaining weight on the front foot you eliminate swaying and the body remains centered.
That's true. The JV swing, the Channel Lock swing, and Stack and Tilt keep weight on one side.
Great drill. I have never been a slicer but it would definitely help those with a slice. When I have tried this drill it frustrate me because it was a reminder how simple the golf swing is (lol). When my feet were apart again, I would go right back to my pulls… and hooks.Fortunately, I am on the straight and narrow hitting it beautifully. Awesome content as always !
Thanks Jeff! I appreciate the support and positive comments always.
Good advice thanks for what you do👍 will try this drill at the range
Good luck!
Chad awesome drill. I had an instructor show me that years ago and I forgot about it. Also love the shirt.
Thanks Scott! I need to use this drill on course lol. And I made that shirt myself! So, thank you.
Shawn Clement has some great videos on this topic. I almost quit golf one summer due to shanks, I was doing this drill on the range and not only not shanking but flushing it and added 10 yards per club. I’ve shot my personal best on 9 holes (38) on one leg.
I have been honestly thinking about doing a one legged round. Just see what happens.
@@GolfTestDummy I highly recommend it. Its enjoyable and when you’re playing with others it’s great to see their reactions and especially when you outdrive them with it
Haha, that's like a drug.
Chad, You’ve hit a big nail on the head and it is good that you have highlighted this for us. Shawn Clement is an advocate of this and the feet together drill,. The later helps to teach the feeling of turning with balance and the one legged drill teaches the correct club head path with balance. How is it going on the course?
I havent played a round on one leg yet, but I think I might try it.
Hi Chad the one foot drill is absolutely the best drill in golf to help us feel the swing and correct balance in our body when we swing the club correctly.
But do we know why and how it works?
And if we were to fail at it?
Should we skip it altogether?
My answer to anyone is do it until you can get it done right. And here are my thought provoking reasons why I am saying this. Hope you bear with me a little bit on this one. OK?
Believe it or not; our muscles inside our body can only do one of three possible moves with any weighted object we are holding in our hands.
1 The muscles of our arms, elbows, forearm, hands, and wrist as well as our entire body can work to gently place the objects on the ground where we want them to go
2 The muscles of our arms, elbow, forearm, hands, and wrists as well as our our entire body can relax ; dropping the object in our hands hard on the ground depending on its weight
3 The muscles of our arms,elbow, forearm, hands and wrists as well as our entire body can continue to lift the object in our hands until we cannot possibly lift the object any further.
The one and only option us golfers possibly have in swinging our club back and forth is to use option 3 for both the backswing and forward swinging of our club. And of course as you said to get into our correct golf posture and staying balanced as we swinging our club is most essential
It is time for all golfers to begin to realize that a swinging of our club we are holding in our hands is actually a lifting of our club up using all the muscles inside our body and upper extremities ; and, then once our back is towards our target; we can suddenly and much more quickly use our muscles inside our core to uncoils so that our arms, elbows; forearms; hands wrists can continue to quickly lift our club up again to the finish of our swing; all the while using the the natural uplifting clock wise movement of all the muscles inside our body. To put it another way their is no downswing in golf except when we hit the ground with the head of the club. And I am certain we all have done that way too many time. Right?
Swinging is easy if we simply allow it to happen and do not stop our swinging especially at the extraordinarily brief trampoline effect when the club head meets the ball. Hope you liked what I have written so far
Hogan once told us the golf swing is easy; and he was not lying.
The golf swing is not as hard as many PGA teachers tells us. For example the golf swing has absolutely nothing to do with imaginary centrifugal forces working against the golfer as the PGA believes exist. The golf swing is 100 percent centripetal force of which moves our golf club to be compelled to move to it’s center of origin which is the core of our turning body and nothing else.
It took me 40 years to finally uncover these truths and simplicity of my own repeatable golf swing and I simply want to share it freely with you and others who may want to listen to me and simply swing their clubs and think of nothing else.
Believe me one more time when I tell you it is mush easier to balance on two feet then one as we swing our club back and forth. Cheers
Love Ernest Jones, swing the whole club
You have mentioned that this is the greatest golf drill and think about what you are saying. All the benefits to one Leg left weight and shallow angle of attack, not Overswinging, allowing circle and allowing to release down line, etc. You just described all the benefits of the JVGA swing.
Haha, that doesn't seem like a coincidence. Conventional golf is just a gross complication for most of us in my opinion. The JV swing is a much better approach.
I agree with you ... instant feedback, right? Maybe take this technique/mindset to the driving range and give it a go. Would make a great follow up video, yes?
It makes your body forced to figure it out. Great drill.
Isn’t that drill essentially the Jim Venetos method?
Yes and no. Jim would encourage the player to avoid any shoulder rotation until after the ball is struck, whereas Chad is demonstrating a swing with body rotation in the swing. Channel Lock swing, as I understand it, is another swing method that essentially uses a one side weighting technique ( trail side) . It also keeps the trail shoulder back during the swing, thereby promoting a shallow circular inside to out path swing ( as does JV's swing). Stack and tilt also has elements of this drill incorporated into it I guess.
I think there are similarities absolutely. Staying still, or at least quiet with the lower body.
@@GolfTestDummy Hi，Chad, I followed you 3 years ago from a blog of JV siwng and practiced about half year , the problem is if I try hard to keep my low body quite and will become stiff and affect the flow of my swing. I pratice RSS swing and with targert focus and keep low body quite feel most shot getting solid. By the way, if I use too much body swing, it is hard to keep balance for me at age 57, so I changed to fast hinge and balance is better. Hope you have more course shot and share the feeling and results.
Thanks for supporting the channel! Happy to hear you're finding your way.
When you do that it is similar to the Jim venetos swing
Excellent drill. But you are not directly referencing one of the main reasons that this helps most golfers. The swing is really just adjusted rotation; because of weight shift the axis of symmety of that rotation inclines slightly in each half of the swing in opposite directions. Also hip drive and back arch and side bend slightly change the planes of rotation in each direction but especially in the downswing because of movement toward the lead side by the lower body while the head moves much less until after impact. THE NATURE OF THIS ROTATION IS THE TRAIL SIDE FOLLOWING THE LEAD SIDE AROUND THE APPROPRIATE AXIS OF SYMMETRY IN A VERY TIGHT ROTATIONAL ARC (caps for emphasis). Obviously this is challenging with weight shift, lateral hip movement, back arch and side bend going on. These adjustments of spine angle (from the previous sentence) are necessary to keep the club shaft moving in line with the aforementioned rotation (while transferring momentum; weight shift, hip drive) so that it can be released squarely without dumping angles so if that is what you mean by "circle", I guess that I am agreeing with more detail.
The important thing with this drill is to notice that it forces you to keep the two halves of your body aligned for rotation through the strike. Most people get the lead side out of rotional alignment on the way down and through impact and therefore cannot release the club properly (efficiently). If you look at your hip movement during the drill, you will notice how tightly your trail side is following the lead side rotationally through impact. This drill fixes the lead side in position so that it must rotate in alignment, but the additional complexities of the rest of the swing can still easily mess someone up.
What you need to know with this drill is that during a normal swing, your lead side should "feel" like it does in this drill especially into impact and beyond. A HUGELY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS ISOLATION OF THE LEAD SIDE IS VERY MISUNDERSTOOD; BECAUSE OF NO WEIGHT SHIFT THE LEAD SIDE IN THIS DRILL IS ALIGNING FOR ROTATION BUT IT IS ALSO MOVING THROUGH IMPACT GOING IMMEDIATLY FROM BEING IN A BENT LINE STRUCTURE FROM LEAD FOOT TO LEAD SHOULDER INTO A MUCH STRAIGHTER LINE. This is the mirror image of the backswing, where the trail side moves into a straighter line and the lead side moves in to bent line. This straightening must happen ALONG WITH aligned rotation in order for the club shaft to be released powerfully on plane in line with the rotation.
You might be validating what Jim Veneto is teaching.
It’s a useful drill. But not my go to when the game goes off. My favourite is one handed lead hand only . There is not enough strength to cast the club so that draw comes back. That then allows me to reset just how gently I should be holding that club.
That drill makes it really tough to make manipulations or overpower it. Great drill!
@@GolfTestDummy might be a problem specific to me but my tendency is to try to steer shots to improve accuracy so every few rounds I tend to lose distance as my wrists and grip tighten.
I shot 70 playing a whole round this way
I think it would help a lot more than it would hurt, for most golfers. Keeps you in check, and swinging within yourself.