OMG: After 36 years of practicing endlessly, visiting a multitude of Golf Pro friends and others,running an on line golf shop with all the training aids and producing and hosting a Golf Television show, I have finally got the golf swing. Mike you are my savior. But let me say this, I have studied the golf swing like no other. And what I deduced, for a large percentage of right handed golfers, the left side becomes the dominant side, this in turn causes golf swing to become a difficult thing to master. This is where this video is a stand out, when you get the role of the right arm locked in correctly ; it's all over; all too easy! Mike you are the best, hope to see you Down Under for the Presidents Cup. Thank You so Much. John Lyons
Started playing at 12. I am 32 now, just learning this. Never questioned if I should be opening the club face, it's what I was taught growing up. Managed to play decent golf but learning this is taking my game to another level. So much more consistent and less complicated. I always had an issue specifically with my driver. Major slices unless I felt like I was over releasing the club. Now I am hitting bombs consistently. Also, there is obviously a ton of free content from Malaska on here, but I would highly recommend going to his website and signing up. He will take you step by step through everything, I saw immediate improvement from it.
A million thanks mike. I know this advice will help immediately. I fit right into the trap you hear everyone else saying about positions. I for the life of me would not take the club away properly and never knew why it felt like I was never in a good position. Thx so much
I’ve watched just about every video in YT related to the golf swing. This is by far the best. Rolling your wrists over, cupping, bowing, it’s all bs. Simply line your palm up with the face of the club, during your grip and feel like you are spanking the ball off the tee with your right hand. It works. It fixed my incurable driver slice too.
I got to a low single digit handicap in about 3 years with no lessons, wanted to get better, so I took lessons. You know where I'm going with this. Now I'm back to doing what you are doing once again. I quit golf for 4 years. I could not break 80 any more. I love your Golf channel......Thanks!
You are absolutely right sir Malaska, you know me and my friend just found you and all of the sudden started talking about you on the same day as we have found you and you know what? You are telling the truth and no one believes how I am capable to send the ball, 7 Iron 170 meters. I really appreciate it. Kind regards.
Took lessons a couple years ago and the first thing he taught me was to open my face up on the backswing! Been pull hooking ever since! Thanks malaska!
Mike, i was cleaning out some old mags and came across a Golf Magazine August edition 2000. Find your hidden power, learn to release like the pros.b I read the article 20% more power. I practiced this and played yesterday just doing what you say and I had my best round for months. Even in high winds I was hitting every shot straight. This instruction is invaluable. Thanks Mike, from NZ.
After 70 yrs of struggle you have givin me a real golf swing. I’m in great shape still walk and carry my clubs and shoot low 80’s but now after descovimg your channel last fall can’t wait for spring to shoot in the 70’s!! THANK YOU!
Very useful. Your most important observation is the difference between perception and what actually happens. We complicate our lives by trying to mimic actions that are misperceived. Thanks Mike
I took 20 years off of golf because of injury - started back practicing last year with pain gone. I figured this stuff out in the last few weeks on my own because I reverted back to my tournament tennis days and hitting my forehand and I kept thinking of DJ's & Koepka's swings (ie. the strong grip looks shut but exactly like my tennis forehand technique) . It is really shocking how incredibly wrong teachers were for the last 50 years and how easily it is to hit a ball repeatedly well using this technique. Start at impact, move the club back to parallel with the club face still aimed at the ball holding the club only with your right hand (repeat this 10,000 times and memorize your right wrist position). Move the club back to the top of the backswing and you will either have a 'closed' club face like DJ & Koepka or 'square' as shown here - pick one. If you simply practice these 3 positions holding the club only with your right hand to train your right wrist where to be - you will become a good ball striker in a few days - it's that easy. Then go figure out how to score well. Awesome video
People can make the golf swing so complicated, Mike makes it so straight forward. I’ve wasted so much time trying to twist with lag and lead with the trail elbow in the downswing, not anymore. Thanks Mike from the UK 👍🏻
I used to play baseball; I just started playing golf about two years ago! I love this game! I tried what you are just speaking about on this video and I saw the difference from the start! Thank you!
Great instructions, I didn’t learn this until I was past 60 years, better late than never. I was much like this instructor, was told to open and close the face ( 1950’s instructions) ....I made it work but I cloud have done much better using this method.
After over a year of working on Mike's ideas I finally found the key (for me). On a video with Brandon from Be Better Golf, Mike said "the heel of the club leads on the backswing and the downswing". That thought is it. Mainly the downswing. I always felt the toe leading and fought the hook. Game changer. Thanks Mike!
Top explanation ... On the few occasions i have been absolutely pureing the ball this is what i was doing but couldn't figure out how , it was just a feeling and the next time i played that feeling was gone . This has helped in finding that feeling more often . Anybody struggling should pay attention to what to he is saying in this video you will hit it long and straight .
persona250 that feeling your trying to explain is exactly right. I never had that feeling and would pull hook my irons all the time then this video and the same concept by Danny Maude showed me the light. When this is clicking my irons are unbelievably pure. But some days the feeling goes away. I just learned this technique and feeling so I’m praying this feeling will become more and more ingrained into my mind/swing. Gives a lot of hope to improve and shoot more consistently and lower scores.
Thanks Mike, you're my new golf god. Never have I hit it so straight and pure. I had a bad case of the flips for yrs, lots of lost balls off the tee, high and left.
Man is this a great video explaining how I played for years and years (since the late 1970's). About 4-5 years ago I took some lessons to help me learn to hit the ball on a lower trajectory. By the end of the first lesson the "teacher" was having me rotate and swing the club to "left field" and rotate the lower and mid core as fast as possible to the left while silencing the hands (mostly the right hand) as much as possible all while also limiting my lower leg movement. My handicap went from around a 2-3 up to 8-10 and some weeks higher. This fall after several frustrating years and injuries later I tried to give up that swing idea and feelings and have attempted to go back to just what youve stated in this video. But I feel now that Im in my late 50's in age Im pretty much shot at ever becoming the swinger of the club I used to be because of attempting to hold off and swing left for these past several years. Thanks for putting this information out there, I wish more instructors would do this. Any of you golfers out there been told this by the "new era" teachers...."you have too many moving parts in your swing, we have to limit youre movements so you have a better chance of repeating a swing"???. Well if you have, RUN AWAY FAST because youre going to injure yourself and the damage will be more then a physical one. Ty again for the video, glad I stumbled upon this site thru a Be Better Golf video you were in.
Hey Brett....and to think, to hit the ball on a lower trajectory all you had to do was move the ball position in your stance and slightly de-loft the club. Malaska has a great video on this very same subject.
I'm really surprised this guy doesn't have more subscribers. I started watching MM Golf on TH-cam about a year and a half ago. He just made sense to me. I decided to completely forget ALL the instruction videos I watched up until then. I went from an 11 index to a 6 (those 5 index point get tougher as you get lower) using his drills and listening to what he's saying about the golf swing. The swing has become a simple thing for me. I can't thank Mike enough for allowing me to play golf and not golf swing.
Hi Mike Thanks for helping me starting to play the game.. I’ve been in a golf lesson for forty years playing wrong. I was taught to play wrong . Thanks for teaching me
Mike, Thanks! I have found that using my right hand to squire the face and swing thru the ball gives me great results. I have shanked many a ball trying to bring the club down with the face parallel to the plane because I didn't rotate my forearms to close the face. Thanks again!
Absolute gold. Had my back swing "fixed" a while back and ever since been trying to get some consistency back. Now I know why I feel so wristy/handsy. Looking forward to some range time this week to re-discover my golf swing.
Probably the best lesson in golf. 40 yrs teaching martial arts one of the things we work on is how the hand effect the over all position of the body. If you take it back like Mike describe your posture will be in a much better position.to deliver club face.
Mike you have helped my game more than any other. You are the best instructor. The biggest improvement you have given me is the eye position first over a putt, then the body follows. Thank you for making me better.
Mike, I watch all of you're videos. Please take this advice seriously. I think you should expand on this teaching concept, because this video translated to me so simply and gave me such clarity that I was actually able to duplicate your instruction moments after watching this. This video expressed so clearly what you've been saying for years. Thank you so much for the free content and can't wait for more.
Love it...I also came from baseball and tennis. I never rotated my arms much but went to a pro recently and he had me trying to learn to rotate my arms more to roll the face open and then try to roll it closed. I cant seem to do that well. after seeing this I went back to my old swing with some other improvements and am hitting better. I wish teaching pros would do it they way I saw you do it when talking about the grip that is "neutral to the player"...and teach the swing that best fits the players natural tendencies.
God bless you, Mike, for sharing these secrets of the golf swing with those of us who love to play the game. May many blessings flow to you from your generosity of spirit.
This lesson shouldn't be free. It's priceless. It's been a tough transition for me, going from the sidearm throwing motion of the downswing, which in fairness allowed me to smoke the ball in my college years, to "getting the hands under the swing plane." But man, once it clicks, it feels great. Better on the back, and fewer "huge" misses.
This is brilliant Mike. I used these principals today after watching a bunch of your videos last night and had some real breakthroughs on the range. Definitely way less hook spin than I’ve had in a long long time and arguably, my right hand seems to be in a stronger position coming from the 80s era instruction. But I can’t deny the results. Thank you!
Hi, I was told because I played fast ball and later slow pitch, to forget that ball swing when I went to golf. And I had nothing but problems. Now that I hear your history I feel that I can start hitting like I feel I can.mTHANKS MIKE. 👍🏻
Absolutely me! for years I have played with the same open club face swing, recently changed to what you are saying, and it has been difficult to transition, however I am hitting the ball better and more consistent you describe it perfectly.
You can hear the pain and passion in Mike’s voice. Do what this man says. Plus, if you keep rotating the shoulder in the socket like that you get what’s called a “slap tare.” You do not want that. Thank you Mike! Good stuff.
I have struggled as a ball striker forevernand its exacerbated in wind-particularly left to right. My consistency is usually dreadful and usually bad miss to the right. You're explanation of what the right hand should do as opposed to what perhaps nearly everyone strives for in terms of forearm rotation(which i never seem to be able to achieve) is frankly a light bulb moment. I have practiced the last few days in left to right strong winds and now i can hold the ball against and back into it. Ive missed a few to the right but my goodness the confidence to give it a strike as i have started to retrain what my right hand does at impact is astounding! It sort of feels like the handle of the club is going backwards through impact.Thank you. I mean seriously-i was on the verge of ceasing to play golf.
Started again after 10y layoff. And this is exactly what I needed to understand. I was also a rotating hands player, very difficult for me now to control...
I too have read a great deal of instruction over the years. Your explanations are t very similar to those of Jim Hardy regarding how to release the club. thank you for making it so understandable.
0:58 Just wanted to say thank you very much for this video. I actually came to TH-cam because I video'ed my swing, noticed this was happening and thought I needed to "fix" it. Now I realise that isn't necessary :-)
Spent 7 weeks hitting 000s mid irons in garage went to course pull hooked every iron for the 1st 6 holes! After that played great and my driver which i hadnt hit for 7 weeks was the best ever!
This is a lightbulb moment I think. I’m like him with the rotation, I’m fighting it and years of inconsistent ball striking but I learned to get by, and my short game saved me. This I got to work on!
Great stuff...I am a former advanced tennis player who learned how to play on my own. Watching this video made me realize my swing wasn't wrong. I reached a 6 handicap but struggled to go further. I went to a local pro who wanted to change my swing, telling me I needed to rotate the club open and close it on the downswing like you describe here. I tried working on this for months but never repeated well on the course...I just don't rotate my arms that much. I went back to my old way, as the times I really feel like I'm striking the ball well it feels like a leaned over tennis forehand. The problem is I am now struggling with pushing long irons right and pulling short irons. I cannot go to a local pro as they all want to change my swing to rotate the club face more.
We are similar in our tennis pasts and now golfing. I've had my clubs fit a TXG in Toronto and I had the lie angles on the shorter clubs flattened by 2-degrees, my 6 iron is standard and then I play my 5 iron 1-degree upright - this fixes most of the curvature issues. The other thing to do is look at Viktor Hovland's swing and see how he can hit a soft fade from a VERY strong clubface position (like an in-to-out, down the line, top-spin forehand)
Man, great video. I unfortunately figured this thing out myself last week. In my quest to use the similar motions from other sports (tennis, throwing a ball) it clicked. I took lessons and I was inconsistent striking the ball....I knew something was wrong. The golf swing had little in common with the other sport swings...I knew that was the problem. You nailed it. I just wish I didn’t have to wait to figure it out myself. I could’ve used this tip 10 years ago!
Outstanding. I wonder how much of the decline in playing golf is from athletic people who got turned away from the game failing miserably trying to time that rotating wrist tip! Thank you for helping march it the grave!
I get it! Old time instructors have only taught how to manipulate the club face and position. I guess Malaska's game was ruined by this for a long time. Thanks for solving the issue
I can't find the other video, but I experimented with a new grip and did what you said basically in this video and I can definitely see what you're saying. I was also taught to flip through the ball, but what you describe here is so much better. I'm having some aim issues, but I think I can work that out with some range practice. I'm going to fly down there and thank you in person some day Mike!
Finally I see it. As I tried to swing harder thru the ball I pull hooked more. I kept fight that my losing my grip and trying to swing down the line-but it kept coming back. Some times I never knew what the next hole would bring on bad day. Now I see that it was all wrong. We were all trying to "time" the closing of the club face-close at the top, the middle etc., so that when you reached the bar the face was "closed" to perpenticular to the ball. Now, you don't need to time-just swing.
This lesson was very helpful for me. It's taken me a long time to get a grasp of what happens to the right hand when going from club parallel to ground on backswing to top. It always felt to me that I was swinging up to a closed position. With your explanation about the shoulder rotation's contribution, I think I now get it and I am hoping that it's warm enough to get the range. I'm now going to be able to say good bye to excessive forearm rotations. Thanks.
Yep, sounds familiar. Personally I've no idea what my swing looks like but I sure know how it should feel. I don't even need to look at the ball flight to know whether I've hit a good or not so good shot, it just either feels right or it doesn't. I think we get stuck way too deep in the technical instead of the natural. I'm due to have my first lessons in 25 years later this month as a treat for my 50th birthday and before booking a coach I had a specific outcome I wanted to achieve in mind that he would need to adhere to. I told him I didn't need the prettiest swing in the world and I didn't need to be in 'all the right places at all the right times' in my swing but I did want a swing that was suitable, reliable and repeatable for me and enable me to be competitive in my monthly club competitions. Time will tell if our working relationship will be fruitful.
Traditional golf instruction had me believing my hands were the enemy and I would try to feel less and quiet them. I played all sports using my hand baseball basketball football tennis, and one time watching you exposing the throw simplified all the BS for lack of better explanation the industry is peddling. It’s so confusing and misleading it’s upsetting lol. Thank you as always
This method of "throwing" the club as opposed to holding it off or rotating your forearms has changed my entire golf game. I went from hitting 40% of GIR to 65%, I am hitting more fairways as well. I am still working on the timing of it to make sure I am not flipping at it, and sometimes still struggle with holding it off, but for the first time in my life, I feel like I know how to get the clubface square at impact.
Mike is pretty special. Damn good teacher. In 1986 at the US open at Shinnecock Hills GC, after round 2 he made the cut and was sitting in a two round total of 148. Jack Nicklaus was on 149, Phil Blackmar 150, Greg Norman 139 and The eventual winner, Ray Floyd on 143. At the bottom end, John Daly shot an opening round of 88 and followed that with a 76 to be cut. Round 3 for Mike saw an 80 followed by a 75 for a 303 total. He won $2761, and the winner Ray Floyd picked up $115,000 and his total score was 279. Total purse was $700,000. In 2020, purse was $12,500,000 and the winner BD, picked up $2,250,000. Just some golfing trivia.
Hi Mike Thanks for great and honest vids. You must get so angry when you think back to your early days as a youngster when you already had a great swing. WHOEVER COACHED YOU SHOULD HAVE NURTURED WHAT YOU HAD INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CHANGE A GREAT SWING IN THE FIRST PLACE. I have tried to learn the golf swing but what stops progress is the crazy amount or misinformation out there from people who should not be teaching. Best wishes Tim Hayes from Virginia water surrey UK
In my opinion, Mike is an excellent teacher of the golf swing. I was a lot like Mike in my youth. I shot in the 70's, three years after taking up the game at 18. That's with no lessons. Then I started to read the stupid books and got worse. After so long of practicing the wrong things I couldn't remember my swing from the earlier days. Teacher after Teacher, I think I went to four over 20 year's. I never got better. I discovered Mike two years ago. My swing has gotten a lot better but it took a full year of struggling, shooting 90's while trying to learn this. It is just starting to click after a year and a half. It's brutal trying to undo years of bad concepts and mis understanding of the terms. In my opinion golf instruction is horrible on the whole. Especially on TV. Do not listen to one thing they say. The terms they use do nothing but confuse. Their are good teachers but they are hard to find. They teach positions instead of controlling the natural motion. Mike is the best teacher I have found. I wish I could get a live lesson from him. That would be a dream come true for me. I'll have to settle for his videos. Join his website. There is much more in depth teaching on there.
Like a computer, I wish I could just clear out the memory of all the yrs of "do this", "do that" we hear from everyone teaching golf. Then just listen to your simple, no nonsense swing videos! Golf would have been waaaay more enjoyable. But I love it even on bad days. lol Hopefully now there will be less of those. Thanks!!
This right hand move has changed my swing. Since I've gone to this my accuracy has improved along with my ball contact. Lastly and im not sure why but along with feeling more confident my swing feels smoother like I'm not trying to over swing. Oddly enough when playing with partners they never tell me they notice me swinging more free. Though I feel like I'm swinging slower in my mind their reaction tells me my swing speed is just fine also justified by my distance.
I just noticed this today trying this right hand move with a strong left grip to guarantee a square face. Felt like the swing became smooth where before it was jaded throughout. I hit further than any swing before, and even then I hit further still, I couldn’t believe it. Makes the game way more interesting, and it feels amazing to hit a nice draw when I’m actually expecting to. Mike is an amazing teacher.
@@Thegooob95 I feel fortunate to have found Mike's instructions. So many great lessons. I used to come from way under with my trail (right) hand and then try to flip to square the face at contact. Getting that right hand on top also got me in a natural position to really compress irons so that's a completely different feeling in a great way. I'll a pull balls every now and then but I think that's my mind reminding me of my old swing and how I used to be flippy at contact.
Right! And this is the difference between hinging your wrist and rolling/rotating. The face stays square to the arc and doesn't open and close. Hinging isn't flipping as long as you return the wrists back to what they were at address. A bowed wrist at the top is an example of hinging, the face is *not* closed. If anything it would be delofted.
Two things here. 1) There's a hard way and and easy way. Use the easy way. 2) Bullet point #3 at 6:29. In this video, Mike just talks about the right hand. You have to understand how the left hand matches up to this. Bullet pt 3 is the key to making sure the left hand does what its supposed to do. Face square to swing arc on the follow through as well.
I think the best youtube golf channel ive seen.
logical theory, not over complicated.
I agree. This channel is the one I constantly come back too.
Anybody starting golf, take notice of this man.
One of the very best golf instructors out there.
paul woolnough Mike malaska is the best simple instruction in golf 🏌🏼♂️
This dude changed it all for me today! Malaska for President!!!
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Finally. I found something that explains why I pull hook, while taking the club head back square. Thank you
Mike - you are one of the top ‘explainers’ in my opinion- thanks !
I’ve been an average 20 handicap for years .The last 6 months of watching Mike I’ve got myself down to a14 .Thanks Mike
Listen to everything he does!
This is the best golf instruction on the internet, period.
OMG: After 36 years of practicing endlessly, visiting a multitude of Golf Pro friends and others,running an on line golf shop with all the training aids and producing and hosting a Golf Television show, I have finally got the golf swing. Mike you are my savior. But let me say this, I have studied the golf swing like no other. And what I deduced, for a large percentage of right handed golfers, the left side becomes the dominant side, this in turn causes golf swing to become a difficult thing to master.
This is where this video is a stand out, when you get the role of the right arm locked in correctly ; it's all over; all too easy!
Mike you are the best, hope to see you Down Under for the Presidents Cup.
Thank You so Much.
John Lyons
Started playing at 12. I am 32 now, just learning this. Never questioned if I should be opening the club face, it's what I was taught growing up. Managed to play decent golf but learning this is taking my game to another level. So much more consistent and less complicated. I always had an issue specifically with my driver. Major slices unless I felt like I was over releasing the club. Now I am hitting bombs consistently.
Also, there is obviously a ton of free content from Malaska on here, but I would highly recommend going to his website and signing up. He will take you step by step through everything, I saw immediate improvement from it.
A million thanks mike. I know this advice will help immediately. I fit right into the trap you hear everyone else saying about positions. I for the life of me would not take the club away properly and never knew why it felt like I was never in a good position. Thx so much
I’ve watched just about every video in YT related to the golf swing. This is by far the best. Rolling your wrists over, cupping, bowing, it’s all bs. Simply line your palm up with the face of the club, during your grip and feel like you are spanking the ball off the tee with your right hand. It works. It fixed my incurable driver slice too.
I got to a low single digit handicap in about 3 years with no lessons, wanted to get better, so I took lessons. You know where I'm going with this. Now I'm back to doing what you are doing once again. I quit golf for 4 years. I could not break 80 any more. I love your Golf channel......Thanks!
One of the very best golf videos on what's really going on and what's probably held most of us back. Brilliant.
You are absolutely right sir Malaska, you know me and my friend just found you and all of the sudden started talking about you on the same day as we have found you and you know what? You are telling the truth and no one believes how I am capable to send the ball, 7 Iron 170 meters. I really appreciate it. Kind regards.
his instructions have helped my game drastically!
Took lessons a couple years ago and the first thing he taught me was to open my face up on the backswing! Been pull hooking ever since!
Thanks malaska!
Hope you never went back to that guy for a lesson after that advice
“Frigin’ hits it straight”. love it!
Mike, i was cleaning out some old mags and came across a Golf Magazine August edition 2000. Find your hidden power, learn to release like the pros.b I read the article 20% more power. I practiced this and played yesterday just doing what you say and I had my best round for months. Even in high winds I was hitting every shot straight. This instruction is invaluable. Thanks Mike, from NZ.
After 70 yrs of struggle you have givin me a real golf swing. I’m in great shape still walk and carry my clubs and shoot low 80’s but now after descovimg your channel last fall can’t wait for spring to shoot in the 70’s!! THANK YOU!
Very useful. Your most important observation is the difference between perception and what actually happens. We complicate our lives by trying to mimic actions that are misperceived. Thanks Mike
No non-sense instructions from Mike again. Clear and simple, which sets him apart from the entire industry.
I took 20 years off of golf because of injury - started back practicing last year with pain gone. I figured this stuff out in the last few weeks on my own because I reverted back to my tournament tennis days and hitting my forehand and I kept thinking of DJ's & Koepka's swings (ie. the strong grip looks shut but exactly like my tennis forehand technique) . It is really shocking how incredibly wrong teachers were for the last 50 years and how easily it is to hit a ball repeatedly well using this technique.
Start at impact, move the club back to parallel with the club face still aimed at the ball holding the club only with your right hand (repeat this 10,000 times and memorize your right wrist position). Move the club back to the top of the backswing and you will either have a 'closed' club face like DJ & Koepka or 'square' as shown here - pick one. If you simply practice these 3 positions holding the club only with your right hand to train your right wrist where to be - you will become a good ball striker in a few days - it's that easy.
Then go figure out how to score well.
Awesome video
People can make the golf swing so complicated, Mike makes it so straight forward. I’ve wasted so much time trying to twist with lag and lead with the trail elbow in the downswing, not anymore. Thanks Mike from the UK 👍🏻
Thank you for the detail on the right wrist position. Very informative and helpful. Great stuff!
I used to play baseball; I just started playing golf about two years ago! I love this game! I tried what you are just speaking about on this video and I saw the difference from the start! Thank you!
I just spent 2 hours in a simulator trying to get rid of my hook. Came home and watched this. I could have saved 2 hours ! Excellent explanation.
Great instructions, I didn’t learn this until I was past 60 years, better late than never. I was much like this instructor, was told to open and close the face ( 1950’s instructions) ....I made it work but I cloud have done much better using this method.
After over a year of working on Mike's ideas I finally found the key (for me). On a video with Brandon from Be Better Golf, Mike said "the heel of the club leads on the backswing and the downswing". That thought is it. Mainly the downswing. I always felt the toe leading and fought the hook. Game changer. Thanks Mike!
That helped me as well
Top explanation ... On the few occasions i have been absolutely pureing the ball this is what i was doing but couldn't figure out how , it was just a feeling and the next time i played that feeling was gone . This has helped in finding that feeling more often . Anybody struggling should pay attention to what to he is saying in this video you will hit it long and straight .
persona250 that feeling your trying to explain is exactly right. I never had that feeling and would pull hook my irons all the time then this video and the same concept by Danny Maude showed me the light. When this is clicking my irons are unbelievably pure. But some days the feeling goes away. I just learned this technique and feeling so I’m praying this feeling will become more and more ingrained into my mind/swing. Gives a lot of hope to improve and shoot more consistently and lower scores.
Thanks Mike, you're my new golf god. Never have I hit it so straight and pure. I had a bad case of the flips for yrs, lots of lost balls off the tee, high and left.
Jim, watched this video a few days ago. It has transformed my swing!
Man is this a great video explaining how I played for years and years (since the late 1970's). About 4-5 years ago I took some lessons to help me learn to hit the ball on a lower trajectory. By the end of the first lesson the "teacher" was having me rotate and swing the club to "left field" and rotate the lower and mid core as fast as possible to the left while silencing the hands (mostly the right hand) as much as possible all while also limiting my lower leg movement. My handicap went from around a 2-3 up to 8-10 and some weeks higher. This fall after several frustrating years and injuries later I tried to give up that swing idea and feelings and have attempted to go back to just what youve stated in this video. But I feel now that Im in my late 50's in age Im pretty much shot at ever becoming the swinger of the club I used to be because of attempting to hold off and swing left for these past several years. Thanks for putting this information out there, I wish more instructors would do this. Any of you golfers out there been told this by the "new era" teachers...."you have too many moving parts in your swing, we have to limit youre movements so you have a better chance of repeating a swing"???. Well if you have, RUN AWAY FAST because youre going to injure yourself and the damage will be more then a physical one. Ty again for the video, glad I stumbled upon this site thru a Be Better Golf video you were in.
Hey Brett....and to think, to hit the ball on a lower trajectory all you had to do was move the ball position in your stance and slightly de-loft the club. Malaska has a great video on this very same subject.
Your right arm rotates in your shoulder socket. Another bingo moment. 👌🏻
I'm really surprised this guy doesn't have more subscribers. I started watching MM Golf on TH-cam about a year and a half ago. He just made sense to me. I decided to completely forget ALL the instruction videos I watched up until then. I went from an 11 index to a 6 (those 5 index point get tougher as you get lower) using his drills and listening to what he's saying about the golf swing. The swing has become a simple thing for me. I can't thank Mike enough for allowing me to play golf and not golf swing.
Hi Mike
Thanks for helping me starting to play the game.. I’ve been in a golf lesson for forty years playing wrong.
I was taught to play wrong .
Thanks for teaching me
Mike, Thanks! I have found that using my right hand to squire the face and swing thru the ball gives me great results. I have shanked many a ball trying to bring the club down with the face parallel to the plane because I didn't rotate my forearms to close the face. Thanks again!
Absolute gold. Had my back swing "fixed" a while back and ever since been trying to get some consistency back. Now I know why I feel so wristy/handsy. Looking forward to some range time this week to re-discover my golf swing.
I love it
when somebody proves we have been fed total nonsense for ,in my case, 30 years! Many thanks Mr Malaska!
Amen to that and I have been in the same boat as you. Yes, many thanks Mr. Malaska!
Probably the best lesson in golf. 40 yrs teaching martial arts one of the things we work on is how the hand effect the over all position of the body. If you take it back like Mike describe your posture will be in a much better position.to deliver club face.
Mike you have helped my game more than any other. You are the best instructor. The biggest improvement you have given me is the eye position first over a putt, then the body follows. Thank you for making me better.
Thank you sir for sharing your knowledge. I have fallen in love with the game again😊🍺🍺
Mike, I watch all of you're videos. Please take this advice seriously. I think you should expand on this teaching concept, because this video translated to me so simply and gave me such clarity that I was actually able to duplicate your instruction moments after watching this. This video expressed so clearly what you've been saying for years. Thank you so much for the free content and can't wait for more.
Love it...I also came from baseball and tennis. I never rotated my arms much but went to a pro recently and he had me trying to learn to rotate my arms more to roll the face open and then try to roll it closed. I cant seem to do that well. after seeing this I went back to my old swing with some other improvements and am hitting better. I wish teaching pros would do it they way I saw you do it when talking about the grip that is "neutral to the player"...and teach the swing that best fits the players natural tendencies.
God bless you, Mike, for sharing these secrets of the golf swing with those of us who love to play the game. May many blessings flow to you from your generosity of spirit.
This lesson shouldn't be free. It's priceless. It's been a tough transition for me, going from the sidearm throwing motion of the downswing, which in fairness allowed me to smoke the ball in my college years, to "getting the hands under the swing plane." But man, once it clicks, it feels great. Better on the back, and fewer "huge" misses.
This is brilliant Mike. I used these principals today after watching a bunch of your videos last night and had some real breakthroughs on the range. Definitely way less hook spin than I’ve had in a long long time and arguably, my right hand seems to be in a stronger position coming from the 80s era instruction. But I can’t deny the results. Thank you!
Mike and Travis Fulton are the 2 best TH-cam instructors by far.
Hi, I was told because I played fast ball and later slow pitch, to forget that ball swing when I went to golf. And I had nothing but problems. Now that I hear your history I feel that I can start hitting like I feel I can.mTHANKS MIKE. 👍🏻
I just found you and LOVE your work thank you I needed you 35 years a go bless you
Absolutely me! for years I have played with the same open club face swing, recently changed to what you are saying, and it has been difficult to transition, however I am hitting the ball better and more consistent you describe it perfectly.
Your instruction is awesome MIke...so proud to be a Malaska golf member!
You can hear the pain and passion in Mike’s voice. Do what this man says. Plus, if you keep rotating the shoulder in the socket like that you get what’s called a “slap tare.” You do not want that. Thank you Mike! Good stuff.
I have struggled as a ball striker forevernand its exacerbated in wind-particularly left to right. My consistency is usually dreadful and usually bad miss to the right. You're explanation of what the right hand should do as opposed to what perhaps nearly everyone strives for in terms of forearm rotation(which i never seem to be able to achieve) is frankly a light bulb moment. I have practiced the last few days in left to right strong winds and now i can hold the ball against and back into it. Ive missed a few to the right but my goodness the confidence to give it a strike as i have started to retrain what my right hand does at impact is astounding! It sort of feels like the handle of the club is going backwards through impact.Thank you. I mean seriously-i was on the verge of ceasing to play golf.
I learned the concept. Can’t wait to see that work out on the course.
Absolutely sublime, you make this action work for you, and your buddies will not have to work to find your nutt.
Started again after 10y layoff. And this is exactly what I needed to understand. I was also a rotating hands player, very difficult for me now to control...
I too have read a great deal of instruction over the years. Your explanations are t very similar to those of Jim Hardy regarding how to release the club. thank you for making it so understandable.
0:58 Just wanted to say thank you very much for this video. I actually came to TH-cam because I video'ed my swing, noticed this was happening and thought I needed to "fix" it. Now I realise that isn't necessary :-)
Spent 7 weeks hitting 000s mid irons in garage went to course pull hooked every iron for the 1st 6 holes! After that played great and my driver which i hadnt hit for 7 weeks was the best ever!
Good stuff Mike! Man, I wish we would have had TH-cam 25 years ago!
This has helped so much! My hands are quiet and ball flight is more often straight! Superb
This is a lightbulb moment I think. I’m like him with the rotation, I’m fighting it and years of inconsistent ball striking but I learned to get by, and my short game saved me. This I got to work on!
Great insights as always @mikemalaska. Back to a natural movement in the swing
Great stuff...I am a former advanced tennis player who learned how to play on my own. Watching this video made me realize my swing wasn't wrong. I reached a 6 handicap but struggled to go further. I went to a local pro who wanted to change my swing, telling me I needed to rotate the club open and close it on the downswing like you describe here. I tried working on this for months but never repeated well on the course...I just don't rotate my arms that much. I went back to my old way, as the times I really feel like I'm striking the ball well it feels like a leaned over tennis forehand. The problem is I am now struggling with pushing long irons right and pulling short irons. I cannot go to a local pro as they all want to change my swing to rotate the club face more.
We are similar in our tennis pasts and now golfing. I've had my clubs fit a TXG in Toronto and I had the lie angles on the shorter clubs flattened by 2-degrees, my 6 iron is standard and then I play my 5 iron 1-degree upright - this fixes most of the curvature issues. The other thing to do is look at Viktor Hovland's swing and see how he can hit a soft fade from a VERY strong clubface position (like an in-to-out, down the line, top-spin forehand)
Man, great video. I unfortunately figured this thing out myself last week. In my quest to use the similar motions from other sports (tennis, throwing a ball) it clicked. I took lessons and I was inconsistent striking the ball....I knew something was wrong. The golf swing had little in common with the other sport swings...I knew that was the problem. You nailed it. I just wish I didn’t have to wait to figure it out myself. I could’ve used this tip 10 years ago!
splitting the hands and hitting balls really helped me with this move! I am the lefty PGA guy you just gave a lesson to in Snowmass.
Do you play often in Snowmass? The price keeps me at bay.
@@michaelclark8368 Not much, just taking lessons from Mike.
Outstanding. I wonder how much of the decline in playing golf is from athletic people who got turned away from the game failing miserably trying to time that rotating wrist tip! Thank you for helping march it the grave!
I get it! Old time instructors have only taught how to manipulate the club face and position. I guess Malaska's game was ruined by this for a long time. Thanks for solving the issue
I needed this!!! Your story/mechanics exactly my story, lol. I was told I was holding off, smh!
I can't find the other video, but I experimented with a new grip and did what you said basically in this video and I can definitely see what you're saying. I was also taught to flip through the ball, but what you describe here is so much better. I'm having some aim issues, but I think I can work that out with some range practice. I'm going to fly down there and thank you in person some day Mike!
Finally I see it. As I tried to swing harder thru the ball I pull hooked more. I kept fight that my losing my grip and trying to swing down the line-but it kept coming back. Some times I never knew what the next hole would bring on bad day. Now I see that it was all wrong. We were all trying to "time" the closing of the club face-close at the top, the middle etc., so that when you reached the bar the face was "closed" to perpenticular to the ball. Now, you don't need to time-just swing.
What an excellent lesson. This improved my aim immediately and is easy to repeat and wow, how simple it is to hit the Driver.......Thanks
This lesson was very helpful for me. It's taken me a long time to get a grasp of what happens to the right hand when going from club parallel to ground on backswing to top. It always felt to me that I was swinging up to a closed position. With your explanation about the shoulder rotation's contribution, I think I now get it and I am hoping that it's warm enough to get the range. I'm now going to be able to say good bye to excessive forearm rotations. Thanks.
Love this lesson, simple is always better.
First 2 min of the video is my golf game. Self taught and got to 8 handicap. Then start taking lessons and work with pros. Now I’m at 18 handicap...
Yep, sounds familiar. Personally I've no idea what my swing looks like but I sure know how it should feel. I don't even need to look at the ball flight to know whether I've hit a good or not so good shot, it just either feels right or it doesn't.
I think we get stuck way too deep in the technical instead of the natural.
I'm due to have my first lessons in 25 years later this month as a treat for my 50th birthday and before booking a coach I had a specific outcome I wanted to achieve in mind that he would need to adhere to.
I told him I didn't need the prettiest swing in the world and I didn't need to be in 'all the right places at all the right times' in my swing but I did want a swing that was suitable, reliable and repeatable for me and enable me to be competitive in my monthly club competitions.
Time will tell if our working relationship will be fruitful.
Same
Nice, remove the excess . Eliminate unnecessary movements.Run the face into the ball. My new mantra Thanks Mike
Nice, now that's what I'm talking about. The best tip like ever.
This really clarifies things for me. I also come from a baseball background so this has helped me.
Traditional golf instruction had me believing my hands were the enemy and I would try to feel less and quiet them. I played all sports using my hand baseball basketball football tennis, and one time watching you exposing the throw simplified all the BS for lack of better explanation the industry is peddling. It’s so confusing and misleading it’s upsetting lol. Thank you as always
Thanks Mike you are a wonderful instructor I tried this on the range and it is phenomenal thanks again!!
incredible mate, love your simple style. equating the sing to other sports really helped me
Great explanation ! I’ve always been a wrist roller too and it’s very inconsistent. Thanks
On point. Any chance you might do a video of this same bad habit coupled with the correct way to grip the club? Thnkx in advance.
The friggin ball goes straight, love it.. A
This method of "throwing" the club as opposed to holding it off or rotating your forearms has changed my entire golf game. I went from hitting 40% of GIR to 65%, I am hitting more fairways as well. I am still working on the timing of it to make sure I am not flipping at it, and sometimes still struggle with holding it off, but for the first time in my life, I feel like I know how to get the clubface square at impact.
I've always hit the ball straight until recently. This pull hook came outta nowhere. Thanks for your help here!!!
Mike is pretty special. Damn good teacher. In 1986 at the US open at Shinnecock Hills GC, after round 2 he made the cut and was sitting in a two round total of 148. Jack Nicklaus was on 149, Phil Blackmar 150, Greg Norman 139 and The eventual winner, Ray Floyd on 143. At the bottom end, John Daly shot an opening round of 88 and followed that with a 76 to be cut. Round 3 for Mike saw an 80 followed by a 75 for a 303 total. He won $2761, and the winner Ray Floyd picked up $115,000 and his total score was 279. Total purse was $700,000. In 2020, purse was $12,500,000 and the winner BD, picked up $2,250,000. Just some golfing trivia.
That is an excellent lesson. You really do know your stuff.
Hi Mike
Thanks for great and honest vids.
You must get so angry when you think back to your early days as a youngster when you already had a great swing.
WHOEVER COACHED YOU SHOULD HAVE NURTURED WHAT YOU HAD INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CHANGE A GREAT SWING IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I have tried to learn the golf swing but what stops progress is the crazy amount or misinformation out there from people who should not be teaching.
Best wishes
Tim Hayes from Virginia water surrey UK
In my opinion, Mike is an excellent teacher of the golf swing. I was a lot like Mike in my youth. I shot in the 70's, three years after taking up the game at 18. That's with no lessons. Then I started to read the stupid books and got worse. After so long of practicing the wrong things I couldn't remember my swing from the earlier days. Teacher after Teacher, I think I went to four over 20 year's. I never got better.
I discovered Mike two years ago. My swing has gotten a lot better but it took a full year of struggling, shooting 90's while trying to learn this. It is just starting to click after a year and a half. It's brutal trying to undo years of bad concepts and mis understanding of the terms.
In my opinion golf instruction is horrible on the whole. Especially on TV. Do not listen to one thing they say. The terms they use do nothing but confuse. Their are good teachers but they are hard to find. They teach positions instead of controlling the natural motion. Mike is the best teacher I have found. I wish I could get a live lesson from him. That would be a dream come true for me.
I'll have to settle for his videos. Join his website. There is much more in depth teaching on there.
Wish we had these videos 20 yrs ago. Working on that move love the power that ball just zings off the club plus finally z smooth divot.
Mike is your swing more of a single plane. Thank you Mike Palardy I New Jersey.
Best golf tips for. Shure 🏴👍
Advice at 4:15 is the absolutely best council he gives.
I was overdoing it, closing it down to start with on backswing and a bit steep but this is a great video.
This is great! Knowing how ad practice how to ROTATE your arms, but most people don't know how to practice!!
Like a computer, I wish I could just clear out the memory of all the yrs of "do this", "do that" we hear from everyone teaching golf. Then just listen to your simple, no nonsense swing videos! Golf would have been waaaay more enjoyable. But I love it even on bad days. lol Hopefully now there will be less of those. Thanks!!
This right hand move has changed my swing. Since I've gone to this my accuracy has improved along with my ball contact.
Lastly and im not sure why but along with feeling more confident my swing feels smoother like I'm not trying to over swing. Oddly enough when playing with partners they never tell me they notice me swinging more free.
Though I feel like I'm swinging slower in my mind their reaction tells me my swing speed is just fine also justified by my distance.
I just noticed this today trying this right hand move with a strong left grip to guarantee a square face. Felt like the swing became smooth where before it was jaded throughout. I hit further than any swing before, and even then I hit further still, I couldn’t believe it. Makes the game way more interesting, and it feels amazing to hit a nice draw when I’m actually expecting to. Mike is an amazing teacher.
@@Thegooob95 I feel fortunate to have found Mike's instructions. So many great lessons. I used to come from way under with my trail (right) hand and then try to flip to square the face at contact.
Getting that right hand on top also got me in a natural position to really compress irons so that's a completely different feeling in a great way.
I'll a pull balls every now and then but I think that's my mind reminding me of my old swing and how I used to be flippy at contact.
Great Video. Best Motion in Golf! Thanks for all you do for the game!
Thanks so much - another great, informative and straight forward video lesson - enjoyed it and very helpful too.
Right! And this is the difference between hinging your wrist and rolling/rotating. The face stays square to the arc and doesn't open and close. Hinging isn't flipping as long as you return the wrists back to what they were at address. A bowed wrist at the top is an example of hinging, the face is *not* closed. If anything it would be delofted.
Two things here.
1) There's a hard way and and easy way. Use the easy way.
2) Bullet point #3 at 6:29. In this video, Mike just talks about the right hand. You have to understand how the left hand matches up to this. Bullet pt 3 is the key to making sure the left hand does what its supposed to do. Face square to swing arc on the follow through as well.