STOP GETTING THIS WRONG - How to release the golf club
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2023
- The release is a pivotal element in your golf swing that can either make or break your game. When executed correctly, the release sets you on a straightforward path to playing exceptional golf. However, if done incorrectly, it can lead to frustration.
A crucial, yet often overlooked aspect is the necessity to align your release with your swing. There are two primary types of releases: the body release and the roll release. In this video, I will guide you on how to identify the release that best suits your style and how to refine it through simple, effective drills and sensations.
Finding your perfect release will also result in your perfecting your impact position and clubface control.
Mastering this fundamental skill is imperative for enhancing your golf performance and playing your best game!
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Hi everyone, curious to hear what release pattern you are?
Body rotation for me!
@@ptnpharmd great release pattern
Roll release for this 8.4 , @ 71 years old
@@daveparsons7756 perfect!
Absolutely great video. This has given me much clarity on how I have been playing. TBH I actually utilize both types of swings. High lofted clubs full shots 56-8 I use roll release. Gives me high shots for more stopping power. 7+ I use body release giving me more piercing shots. I didn’t realize this is what I was doing until I watched this video. Love it
Great explanation! As I've got older, I've started to struggle with rotation, and losing swing speed. Time to work on the roll- release. Thank you for the validation!
Best explanation of the difference between the two release patterns I've ever seen!
Thank you!
Excellent job Giles on explaining the two types of releases in the golf swing. As a senior golfer and the toe up position I was taught almost 68 years ago, I would probably be more comfortable with the forearm release! I have worked on the "toe slightly down" position, but as you stated in the video, this requires more of a body rotation. Well Done Giles!
Sounds like a toe up roll release was made for you!
THANK YOU! I knew there were 2 different release types, and how to roll release, but this is the FIRST VIDEO I've seen where someone explains how to release a body release. The underhand throw explanation really helps! Most other videos out there only talk about turning the club face down and rotating, and they offer no explanation of how to release with a body/square release. They give the false impressions that you just keep rotating through the shot while your arms /wrists do nothing, which is aggravating to people trying this at home. Thank you!
Exactly! You must must must release the club no matter what pattern you are. I share your frustrations when watching videos
@@Gilesgillgolf So do both hands roll together a little when the right hand unhinges in the square release? Or more after?
@@dj-flights7376 after around left arm parallel in the downswing both wrists will start to unhinge otherwise the club would never get to the ball
@@Gilesgillgolf yes, I’m assuming there is a small degree of forearm roll going on while they unhinge in the square release. Just not nearly as much in a full roll release. Does that sound right to you? Thank you.
@@dj-flights7376 exactly that
I am definitely a roll release player. For many years I was stuck in between. I'd be toe up but then try to release with the body. Once I understood the different release patterns I realized I needed a roll release for my swing. I know most modern players use a body release but the roll release works beat for me. Thanks for your explanations. Getting your release pattern right is fundamental.
Be sure to check out my senior release pattern as it’ll be perfect from what you described
Brilliant explination of the two types of release.
Thank you!
Great video and explanation
Thank you!
Excellent explanation - thank you - very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
excellent explanation .... can't agree more to this wonderful video.... thanks so much Giles 👌👌👌
Amazing! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Great video, explaining the two options, without trying to say one is wrong and one is right ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thank you Graham
yes!!! right on!
Outstanding stuff! Just what I needed to understand. Thanks
Glad it helped!
Great video! Clear to understand which is which. I was combining both release patterns and getting inconsistent results. This really helped. Thanks Giles!
Fantastic!
I've never seen any of your videos before but I really enjoyed this. All very clearly explained. Thank you. In my case I have previously had too much roll, with the result I've had too many shots going left. Have been trying to correct this, but am not finding it easy!
Thank you! Sounds like you’re heading in the right direction with more of a body release
Good video as always
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent video on a topic very few explain so well. Outstanding job on this. I'd love to see a full video on the body release someday if possible...swing thoughts, feels, positions, drills etc
Isn’t this a full video 😅
@@Gilesgillgolf yeah my bad, I meant to say a full vid on the body SWING. I feel like there's some different dynamics there throughout the whole swing, not just in the release yeah? Or is it truly a release thing only?
@@iowabowtech1 it’s mainly a release thing. Backswing more than likely is the same. Downswing is just a bit more rotation
Great Advice video drill tips
Thank you!
Really beneficial and now makes sense. 25+ years ago taught more like roll release and just getting back into golf videos teach the body roll which I didn’t realize there’s two methods. Makes sense. This really helps
Amazing! Glad this helped and good luck this season
I body release. This video was a good explanation of both types of release.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Sorry Giles, if I keep gushing about your instruction. I can't recall another instructor who made reference to being right or left side dominant. Having viewed your video mentioning how you like to hit with your right shoulder, I tried that drill. It works beautifully!! The feel is 1,000 percent natural. Simply put, I've been focusing on the wrong side of my body. Beyond any doubt I am right side dominant. Focusing on my left side has kept my game from being dominant!! What a waste of time it was watching instruction that doesn't utilize this principle. I love how trying to hit with my right shoulder gives me that beautiful tilt and clears my left side automatically. Just as your phenomenal instruction has cleared my mind of senseless clutter. At least in terms of golf. Like spit shining an attic!! When I tried this pressure drill and it's as if the club travels to a perfect position every time. Like your instruction. PERFECT EVERY TIME. There is no instructor I've seen that's in your league. A fraternity of one.
Wow thank you so much! It’s amazing to hear you’re enjoying the content so much & that the movements are natural for you! I’ll keep it coming
Best release video I have seen 😊
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks again Giles! this is so good, as i was looking for swings and tips from y.tube and so many coaches just tell and teach about "one release all"!! so now i get it, my release is a body release, and seems to be aboutthere ok! Just have to take maybe a couple of coaches and delete some, so i dont get me head messed up! as i said before obviously gonna follow you!!!
Great to hear it’s cleared things up for you
This is the EXACT thing I was working on the range today. I'm VERY closed at left arm parallel. But I was try to do a roll release. Now I see I can't achieve that. THANK YOU! You have a new subscriber
Thank you! Glad this has cleared this subject up for you
@@Gilesgillgolf well let's not get too excited, I still have to do it 😂. I've learned that KNOWING what to do and actually DOING it are 2 different things lol
Terrific video. As a senior golfer with limited left hip internal rotation it looks like I can use a more toe up, roll release to square it up and get as much distance as possible with my slower swing. Thanks,
It will definitely help!
Been watching for a while now and stumbled on this video while searching closing the club face, thank you saying the rolling release is okay to do..
I’ve been driving myself to tears trying to get a body release, I can’t do it lol I’m not made that way.
Welcome aboard! Hope my channel can bring the joy back into the game for you
Good stuff here!
Glad you like it!
Nice job explaining! Have watched toooo many overexplain, one hour videos that still don’t come across.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Always been a body releaser, recently trying to change to more roll release but misses are too frequent and personally less errors with body release
Only change if you’re clubface is telling you too. If your clubface is in a body release position then stay with the body release
Thanks Giles, an excellent tutorial on the different club release patterns. However, it's my understanding that an open club face is incongruous with a shallow swing plane and proper compression of the ball. Therein lies the problem for most club golfers. I have been working on keeping the the club face squarer on takeaway (aka Max Homa) which for many club golfers who roll the forearms too early will look closed. Hence rolling the wrists through impact is almost impossible with an open club face in my experience. Only by getting 'knuckles down' can I properly compress the ball, which I believe also promotes a shallower swing plane because the golf swing is a sequence of (good...or bad) movements. Just saying - interested in your thoughts?
Well yes of course because on the hands and wrists control clubface so unless you learn how to control the face with them you won’t be able to produce functional moves
Very good.
I can see that an instructor like Milo Lines preaches the body release, but a Mike Malaska promotes a roll release
Koepka roll release, Lucas Glover (what a swing!) body release.
Isnt a combination the best.?
Flipping a danger with the roll release?
I would say avoid a combo and keep it simple. Let the clubface dictate what’s right for you
Flipping danger only if club head beats your hands to the ball…..(aka “scoop”)
@@daveparsons7756 exactly. You need to do the under hand thrown sensation
So which release type is better or can we we combine both in one means both body and forearms release to increase the speed? Tks
Neither is better. Both can be very fast but you just have to achieve the speed different ways. Don’t combine the releases other wise you’ll spray it all over the place
man i wish i hopped on to your skillest montly when you were cheaper, found you like half a year ago and have seen you grown alot. Ive been struggling with my release and this vid gave me a aha moment. I strived for a body release but i always had that chicken wing held off look in my follow through and I didnt know why, Im a slicer of the ball so i feel like i should just resort to doing the roll release.
A roll release is one of the methods to fix a chicken wing so be sure to give it a go
Great Video! May I ask what is the root cause decides your club face open or closed at the check point in your video? Can it be controlled ? or just natural to your body?
Loads of factors: grip, wrist conditions, shaft pitch, forearm positioning, etc
I use roll release so far but find it harder to get awareness of clubface at impact. Trying to experiment with body release.
What’s your clubface on the way down
I know this might seem a silly question but is this the same for driver? I am more of a toe up and do try to match it by rolling slightly but with driver it comes out to low with irons I get good launch with driver not so much
Yes it’s the same for driver. What differs is low point relative to ball and shaft lean. Watch my driver vs iron video
Hi Giles! When doing body release do we need to have tension in core?
Will always be tension in core yes
@@Gilesgillgolf Thank you for answering:)
@@nomanishfaq9011 no problem
Is there a better release for distance or does it matter?
Definitely a lot more clubhead speed with the role release
Roll release tends to have more but it’s not as much as people think
Doesnt the body release require a quicker exit low left?
Club never goes low left. It goes up and left but that happens due to you rotating more which creates the space. Manually try and do it and you’ll chicken wing
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Hi - Many thx for this. As an older player, 55+ with much less back flexibility than I used to have in my 30s. Is their a release which is easier on the back?
Roll release requires less body rotation so is easier on the body
I was curious with which release I should be working on since I had back surgery in the early 90’s. Now 52 and was old school roll release but was working on body release but everything is drawing left. I agree the roll release would be easier on the back.
@@bearois1 roll release does provide less strain but remember your clubface dictates your release so if you want to change release you need to change clubface
I actually learned to keep my club face parallel to my spine (modern instruction) on the backswing where as my natural swing was toe up in the past. Now I understand why everything was starting down the line and turning over too much. Club closed at impact and not body releasing. Great explanation of both swings 👍🏻
body release all the way for better control from wedges to Driver.
For some but not all
I think short iron is easier with body release，the Driver need more arm release@@Gilesgillgolf
Why is it im always struggling on my driver. Most are slicing, can you teach me how not to slice my drive thank you so much
Can be lots of reasons. Is it a clubface issue, path issue or strike issue
Totally body release. Less timing dependent to square the face and it syncs the club with my body rotation naturally.
Does your clubface match the release pattern?
which is better?
Depends on your swing
Great channel. But would you really tell a player with an elite pivot and body motion to not do it simply because his club face happens to be “open” at downswing lead arm parallel? Would you really tell a poor moving golfer to use a body release who happens to have a “closed” club face at downswing lead arm parallel? Isn’t the roll release really more of a swing fault, a less than ideal release pattern that occurs when a player has a less than ideal pivot or body motion, or that occurs because of a forced release based on the misconception that somehow it is a good thing?
My release pattern? It depends. The better I move my body, the more I release the club like Viktor Hovland. The worse I move my body, the less I’m like him. And, if I stall my pivot or force the release, I get a roll release, which is a crapshoot.
Thanks for your work. You are a great instructor.
You 1000% would. Would you say Patrick Reed, Mickelson & Will Zalatorious are bad players because there clubface is open and they have roll releases? The issue with the golf industry is they teach models but that doesn’t work as we aren’t all the same. Now if your model can adapt for different situations, variables & matchups then that is a model people coaches should teach. Not a one size fits all model which is technically what you’ve just described
Where did I say everyone needs to swing the same? So you would tell Hovland to stop doing a body release if his face was open at p6, and instead tell him to do a roll release and drop his elite body motion…instead of the logical approach of keeping his elite pivot and simply changing his grip or wrist structure to change the open face at p6? Of course, a roll release is fine if you are a pro and can manage it or you are a player who has no choice and can’t move properly. But this doesn’t prove that a roll release is not a sub-optimal release pattern for anyone who has a choice, can move well, and can do a body release with a much more stable club face release pattern like Hovland.
@@jimgeorge72 I have video right here on my iPad showing Viktors clubface is pointing down and shaft parallel in downswing so he is a body release. I don’t know what video you’re looking at but I can email you over the videos I have showing he has his clubface down
Take a breath. I’m on your side. I know his face is pointing down. I said, what if his face was instead open or facing upward. What instruction would you give him? Would you change his release pattern or fix the open face at p6?
@@jimgeorge72 it depends on the player. Viktor wouldn’t be in that position and have an open face because his body wouldn’t allow him to get there
What if you combine those two?
You wouldn’t want to. You’d lose control over the face
@@Gilesgillgolf But what if you do not :P, you would gain massive speed and so distance. I'll will try next week on the range :D
@@bartosdiagos no you’d more than likely hit it miles off line as you won’t have any club face control. See it more as you are one or the other
@@Gilesgillgolf I feel l ike you can offset that with speed, but like I said, I don't have the time right now, but next week i'll try it on the range.
@@bartosdiagos how can you offset that? Your clubface determines the release. If you try and combine it you’re going to rely on pure timing which is a recipe for trouble
My club face is vertical …..so I must be half and half 🤷♂️😂
Toe up is a roll release pattern
Calling other release body release is misleading imo. Which one you need is depending how strong your grip is and how your wrists are set at top of the swing. Just go with one that feels natural and adjust wrist set if you start see too much curvature in ball flight. I call my swing "free flow" just letting it come naturally without too much thinking.
That’s what I said. Clubface determines your release. Grip & wrist conditions play the biggest role in determining clubface. We’re saying the same thing
@@Gilesgillgolf I mean that it should be called like underhand release Vs roll release.
@@oolaspalmas some people including myself do call it that