I Gotta say I've watched hundreds of golf video I mean hundreds and this video you've shot is probably the best explanation of a proper golf swing I've seen ,,, no bullsh""""" absolutely awesome !!! Should be in the Training guide for beginner golfers ,,, iam no pro an 18 handycap and a picker of the ball full administion!!! That said iam a pretty smart guy and that was perfect ,,,,ty soooo much for what you taped ,,, going to help alot of golfer out there !!! Top of my watch list !!!! Ty again a year later lol.lol please be safe!!!!
This explanation made me understand. Especially the part where you talk about how far the arms travel and the role of the pivot in this. Thank you Milo!
Milo, In July at age 67 I developed a herniated lumbar disk, thought my golfing days were over. Found you by searching causes for bad backs. You taught me a better swing without pain. This week I’m playing Vegas, mesquite and st George implementing the Milo way. Thanks, the pinched nerve.
Thanks Milo. Best instructional videos I have found on the 'net. I am now drawing the ball for the first time. For me, a video on a putting routine would be great. Drive for show, putt for dough! Ewan, New Zealand.
Great explanation and Champ is a good example to see the hands and arms disappear behind his body as the clubhead moves out and down the line which makes you feel once you get this you can swing faster into the ball knowing the sequencing works cheers GM
Quite the paradigm shift going from an over-the-top swing due to sequencing issues to better sequencing and trying to keep the hands from going left due to years of bad habits. I spent several months working on a proper sequence in the golf swing, then learned what it feels like for the hands to move left at the bottom due to body rotation. This is a great video that pulls all of these thoughts together for me. Well done, Milo!
Makes sense, especially if you have a camera position from your eye position. That angle helps clarify everything, if you could do a video like that (if you haven't already)
After many years of stumbling thru golf videos, you explain or maybe I understand the relatively short distance the arms travel. Because I play a lot, daily 9 holes my scoring is in the low 40’s often high 30’s. Long time over the top player looking forward to utilizing body motion to improve swing. Your explanations are excellent keep it up and thank you!
I have watched this video several times, and each viewing clarifies what you are conveying a little bit more than the previous. I will keep watching and I hope you keep teaching. Please be patient and explain things in different ways because i am a slow learner and frequently don't understand the first time something is explained.
James I’m 68 and Milo has taught me so much about the swing it’s incredible. Most folks aren’t slow learners they just need the right teacher, you’ve found the man!
Very eye opening how little the arms move. Best description on the web! Thank you sir. This is miraculous and no other instructor has said this. Is this same with driver?
I think you’re an excellent coach / instructor. I love the way you simplify the process of swinging - it just clicks so quickly for me! I’ve watched soo many utube videos on golf and your approach is the best I’ve seen. I also like the short length of the videos - clear, concise and to the point , no lengthy explanations 👍🏼 As far as more content I’d appreciate bunker shots, different lies and elevations required. Thank you 🙏🏽
Because I was a bad slicer, I had to feel like I was swingbout to the right, but I can see now that its the clubhead that does that, not my hands . Thanks Milo
Brilliant material Milo! What I (and I suspect many others would also really appreciate) would love to see is a demo of a comparison (indicating swing speeds) between higher handicap golfers (eg 18 or so) throwing club at the ball as hard and fast as they can; and the proper swing back to ball. Thanks Regards Ian Inverness Scotland
please expound on how you set your hands for face angle control on your transition into the downswing because the drill and the actual swing looks and feels different to my eye, thanks very much. Awesome ideas you are sharing here, really helps me lots!!!
Milo- I would like to see a video with you working on hand path with a student to see what drills you use to change how the hand move. That would be great!
Another content thought. Might be interesting to get your take on the forces that the club shaft feels and when. I don’t know if anyone has hooked up sensors to the club, but I think there’s some confusion about what force is applied to the club, and which are created naturally and which are created by muscle patterns. -JS
Good one Milo. Nice clarification. Now that I’m lagging the club better and leaning the shaft for compression, I’m having some trouble with chipping/pitching, and using the bounce. Especially from bad lies. I know you have some videos on this. I’d just like a little more detail on the similarities and differences in the full swing and short game swing. Also using the bounce vs leaning the shaft for compression. Thanks! Keep em’ coming. 😀🏌️
Thanks Milo, great content very useful. I'm having trouble with constant coming over the top. I think it may be from my baseball background. Any feedback drills I can do to prevent coming over the top and also my tendency to flip instead of compressing golf ball. Thanks!
Thanks Milo, I really appreciate your content. I‘m always struggling with over the top move, so I try hard to correct this by moving the right shoulder - and the hands! - down not foreward in beginning of the downswing to avoid by all costs this crossing the target line with the club before impact. but now I think that‘s wrong, too. The hands MUST come down FOREWARD on the path to impact while keeping the right shoulder more or less back, otherwise I have this too much in to out swingpath, the contrary of OTT. The hands alone don‘t cause this crossing, if right shoulder movement is reasonably correct. Please correct me, if I‘m wrong again with this comprehension.
Thanks for posting these. Content ideas: putting, bunkers, flop shot, improving compression on the ball, best training aids, best drills. Also, I would like to see more real lessons, especially with average golfers. Please keep up the great work.
Thanks Milo. I enjoy your focus on the pivot and body rotation, with a responsive and pivot-driven left arm. I would enjoy more on how to fix the problem of tipping and the over the top swing. I would like more on how to get the chest properly open at impact. I would like a video on how to solve the problem of hanging back and how to achieve a full and balanced follow-through position. I would like more real-time lesson videos involving amateurs and pros. I would like to know your favorite swing drills.
Jim George thanks I have been so busy with lessons I haven’t had time to create anything but as thing slow down here in the next couple months I’ll get to more of these topics. I plan to spend some time in Utah in June so we’ll have to get together.
No problem. I just keep reviewing your current videos. I do believe tipping is something that keeps hounding me. Jeff and I are looking forward to talking in June!
One more content idea for your consideration. I think it would be extremely helpful to have a video that packages all of your favorite drills into something we could take to the range for an effective practice session. On the days I’m not playing, I like to go work on my game but I know I could use this time more effectively. Maybe separate videos on short game, putting, and your thoughts on a solid warm up routine before a round of golf. As always, I really, really like your live lesson drills. I also like to hear your analysis of pga players. Maybe a video with some thoughts on what in the world is going on with Spieth’s Driver. Thanks, Milo.
Hello Milo really good instructions. I have a goal for this winter season and that is to learn to hit my approach shots (from 150-100 yards) with a fade at it’s end. We have pretty hard and fast greens and I want to give the ball a chance to stay on the green. I would be very grateful if you could do something on this subject. Regards Olle
2:35 For me, this small amount of downward with the arms comes automatically when you squat and push the left hip back. Your swing should be the standard for teaching golf.
We go into more detail on this on my website for our academy members at milolinesgolf.com, but you can check out these videos as well: th-cam.com/video/tDNV3J6A4vk/w-d-xo.html
Another thing I don’t see anyone talk about is trail arm fold in the full swing. How the folding of the trail arm effects plane, wrist conditions, length of backswing, etc... Thanks!
Good video Milo. A few quick related questions based on video. Would you say from what you described, that from the top of backswing that the hands are passive and are brought down to let's say P6 simply with the pivot/transition? Or is there some arm/grip lowering action also going on? This is a critical point for me. Secondly, you talk about "lowering, which you talked about in another video". Which video are you relating to? And isn't the latest thinking that hands reach their low point around right thigh in downswing and then come up and around left? Lastly, there are DLT views of PGA golfers, near impact, that frequently show a space or significant light between left arm and right arm, maybe ? left arm "higher" than right arm (with right elbow still bent). What is significance of this "space"? Is that true impact, left arm higher? left arm/right arm closed? Hope you understand this question. Thanks
Vance Weber you have some good question and to help you understand each of them I think the best answer would be to take a 30 minute online lesson so I can answer them clearly for you
I'd have to see your swing to offer the best possible feedback. Have you looked into joining my online academy at milolinesgolf.com? Otherwise, here is a video I have on that subject: th-cam.com/video/2UG7_n2tHmE/w-d-xo.html
Hello Milo.. definitely some tips and drills with the driver, my nemesis. Keep up your great videos. I may need another online lesson though just on driver. Thank you.
Milo to follow up on your video would I be correct to start by at address as you showed with hands ahead than turn or pivot and hit short shots using body turn only? Thanks
Milo- I had another content idea that I think your audience would enjoy. The idea is to have a weekly video in which you select one swing flaw that you encountered in the past week and show how you fixed it. Just a thought.
Great instructional videos!. I find the biggest challenge is to maintain passive arms in the downswing with my lower body being the engine of the swing. Difficult habit to break, as the upper body generally has muscle tension at address or in the backswing. Focusing on the core and breathing helps. What drill you recommend?
This is my issue also. When I started playing as a teenager my lower body always drove my swing and I had very passive arms. I was so much better and it came naturally. Nobody gave me a lesson. I just swung that way naturally. Somewhere along the line over the next thirty years, I lost that. Too many bad lessons and many years of being arms first has just caused nothing but tension and ruined my ball striking. Some days I hit the ball awesome. Then the very next day it's like I never hit a golf shot in my life. I'm still in great shape and have been really working to get my lower body working again with passive arms. At first, I could not do it at all. My lower body just would not work from years of arm swinging. The sitdown move helped me a great deal. I'm now hitting it so much better and I just focus on my lower body and let the hands and arms fall into place. I hit the ball so much more solid and consistent now. I can only do it at 60 percent speed but at first, I couldn't do it at all. I still can't get it to the course. I get very armsie still when I play. I used to be a very low handicap player but years of erosion with bad swing concept has ballooned my handicap into 12 to 15. Milo and Mike Malaska has helped alot. I blend the two together. I would much rather focus on the lower body and transition. It just seems more natural and easier for me.
One topic would be high approach PITCHING (not chipping) shots from 30 to 80 yards particularly when you want to use sand or lobwedges. I think this is so important for the golf course once we approach green from these distances. What is the best method ? (some say only upper body motion, some say arm motion, some say raise up, some wait until the ball goes out, some say not hing up, some say narrow arc, others wider arc)...I think a video on this topic would help anyone. Thank you.
Hello Milo, a little confused on the video - around 4:15 in the video the club appears to “release”....how does the release and recent videos on “towing” the club relate? Thx
I try this and sometime ball straight to the left, I feel I have a shut face at the impact, and I feel hand path around me, kinds of low and left. but gain more distance.
milo, my topic of choice would be hitting irons off the turf. i hit a lot of fat and some times thin shots, and have trouble getting the swing to bottom out in front of the ball. if i always set up with the club grounded at the bottom of of the ball i guess that's where i hit first the ground. should i be aiming the bottom of the club differently? help!!!
Milo, What would you think about practicing thinking only about feeling the correct hand path and just letting the club face do whatever it wants to do? JS
From Palm Springs area. Used to be a +3 back in college. Now I’m a 10. I struggle with pulling my arms straight down and the club gets really steep and fight the tiger block and occasional snap hook. No matter how hard i try, i can never seem to shallow the club. What do you recommend for shallowing the club?
In my 30's I was scratch. Mike Bender built my swing. Now I'm 65 and have a bad back and bad left hip. My game and swing have fallen apart. Can you suggest how to come up with a shorter easier swing for a senior? Great video!
Hello Milo. I believe all of us students of the game suffer from one significant misconception. We seek instruction, feedback, tips, and all sorts of information that we can potentially use to improve. However, in carefully studying film going as far back as a 1930s in the late great Bobby Jones, it appears that the answers lie within each player and not outside of the player i.e. a coach a tip TH-cam etc. Can you please address this to your viewers, because I believe you come very close to being the most concise, cogent, streamlined instructor that I have come across on the World Wide Web. Essentially, I am asking for your advice on how to empower each individual to work from their respective unique capabilities and struggles, to improve. To somewhat poorly paraphrase the late John Jacobs, how do we adjust what we do in striking the ball by observing what the ball does and what the ball teaches us about our successes and failures. Thanks so much for allowing me to be itinerant and long-winded
Brando Baggins long hitters don’t need the added distance of a draw and over cut misses seem to stay in play, however over draws usually end up rolling into trouble.
Milo, I know you have had a video on how to stop shanking. I would like to see a video on hitting off the other side of the club face. I have a horrible habit of hitting off the toe. Even in slow motion, with doing the proper pivot I still find a way to clank it off the toe.
Hi Milo, I think I just had an "AHA" moment with your examplification of how little the arms travel before contact. I believe my problem definitely is that I use to much arms and to little lower body. My impact position becomes much to square to the target line with my arms coming from the outside in. So to control the ball-flight, I slow my swing down and feel that I have no power (Driver carry between 190-205 metres). Any recommendations or any videos where you show how to work on that "passive arms" feel? Thank you for sharing from Denmark.
I have several videos on this, but I go into greater details and give actionable practices through our online academy on my website at milolinesgolf.com. Seeing your swing would also help me offer the best feedback!
Can we talk about the differences (if any) in a short pitch, 20 yards, and a longer pitch 80 yards. I hear some claiming its the same swing and some saying it is a much different swing. Thanks.
Great work. I can't seem to keep my right arm from straightening just before impact. Probably why I hit little inside out flares in baseball. I know you and Malaska were both baseball guys
Could you explain taking the butt end of the club to the ball from the top of the backswing? A friend told me to try that but it seems to me that would cause me to swing too far right.
Hi Milo, great work! I was looking forward to your next video thank you. I do intend to send in a video for you go review soon but i have not been able to get it filmed from the correct angles. I have had some of the best shots i have hit since trying to implement your ideas. I play Links golf however and the odd massive hook or block/slice has been deadly to the round. I fully realise that it is by not executing the fundamentals that you teach. Until i send my video in i have a few question marks. How do you keep the club closed on the way down? You have mentioned its by holding a structure in the right arm and hand in combination with the strong grip but you also mentioned that your arms should be like noodles. The question is how to avoid the right miss (block or block slice) If i may ask another couple of questions also. I feel sick looking at videos of myself because my right arm is straight at impact and i can see that it is necessary as its too far from the ground to remain bent. I wondered if you could describe how the rib cage bends and turns in the backswing and downswing to remain close enough to the ground for the right arm to stay bent? The last question was could you make a video on how the drive hold release is achieved. I know you have done a video already describing this but i was wondering if describe what motivates the left hand to be forward and the right hand also? Is it the fling off the chest? Is the right arm supporting (trying not to impede) the acceleration of the left arm? I first hear about the drive hold release reading Kelvin Myahira’s articles but i have never seen a how to anywhere on the net. I see a lot of Robert Garrigus in your swing and his is one i have always admired so your content is very interesting to me. Great work Thanks
Sorry one more Milo, my swing is consistently stuck under (which would go some to explaining my blocks). Question is how do you rotate and let the club follow whilst keeping the clubhead on or above the plane. I would love to hit a cut. I know DJ swings it like you describe but how does he manage to hit his consistent cut?
I do not turn well in my golf swing. My hips are barely open at impact and my shoulders square. Every time I try to turn in my swing, I hit it in the heel or cold shank it. Would it help me to feel like I’m swinging in to out while turning, almost a v like movement, body turning left and club going away to the right? Would that be a good feel for me?
can you address the diffrence between your swing and Mike Malaska that you refrence as your mentor. It seem you are using forearm rotation and Mike uses shoulder rotaion.
Mike and I have some similar thoughts but definitely some differences on how we see the golf swing. I choose to present my ideas and try not to discuss the ideas of others.
I have the opposite problem. My body out races my arms and I get stuck. When I film my swing, my practice swing looks perfect but once the ball's there my swing completely changes. How can I get over that?
Thanks for replying Milo I look back on what said my shots with my driver is going left and right it doing my head in my irons are ok thanks Milo thanks what doing all my friends are watching you on site. 🏌🏿♂️🏌🏿♂️👍
billymac29 I need to see a video to know for sure what the problem is. Normally players had a fat when they get in a hurry to get the club back to the ball
@@MiloLinesGolf I wish I could afford it at this time. It’s hard enough to afford these expensive green fees. Nobody is likely to get a raise these days but gas, food and utilities, taxes all go up. The American way I suppose. When I get more stable I’d like to join. Thank you
You may not need more content ideas, but here’s another. It is very difficult, when playing in competition, to keep a good tempo. I know that if I let my arms be free of tension, I hit the ball pretty good, but under pressure, it’s so easy to get quick and let the old tendencies take over and shorten the backswing and yank on the club. So, maybe a video on any tricks you use when you are playing in a high pressure situation.
If the hands and arm are out and in front of the body on the downswing, what is Justin Rose trying to accomplish with his pre shot drill before he hits. The one were he drags his left arm down his chest and keeps his hands back by his right side
That's his way of getting the hands and arms down in front without rotating too early, essentially staying turned. I like to go about it a different way as you'll see in my videos. Thanks for watching Joseph!
Thank you for the video. However, I am still confused as how to get an in-to-out clubhead path. At 0:51 You show that the body rotation pushes the hands in an outward direction and you talk about 'a hint of lowering'. Does this 'lowering' need to be increased at this point, for in to out? You start of with the aim of showing how to correctly get in to out, but end up by focussing on the hands which are pulling up and left before impact, and we should let that happen, instead of trying to push out to the right. I assume this applies to all shots, but you never seem to explain what you said you would, initially.
Stefan Coetzee I’m sorry if I didn’t explain this concept clear enough. However the answer is simple the hands are swinging in a circle around the body and the club is swinging in a circle as well but because the club is following the hands and the hands arrive at the ball before the club and are ahead of the club at impact when the club begins to kick out toward the ball it is traveling from in to out.
@@MiloLinesGolf Thank you for replying. But why would that cause in to out and not just straight? In fact what distinguishes this action from producing a fade?
Stefan Coetzee The difference between a slight draw and a slight fade is almost invisible to the eye. I want you to do me a favor set up to a ball make the club follow your hands down in slow motion get your hands in front of the ball and then allow the club to release out to the ball and see which way it comes into the ball.
Great! I have followed your instructions with regard to leaving the hands behind and I'm hitting the ball further and on line. But, I' still getting a lot of toe hits, mostly with my irons. What am I doing wrong? I' m 73 years old and played golf for 60 years.
⛽🔥 *Milo’s Favorite Drill to COMPRESS the Golf Ball: milolinesgolf.com/compress
Best description I’ve seen wish I’d seen it years ago! Well done👍
Glad it was helpful!
I’ve been following Milo’s videos and it’s pretty cool how he seems to cover all the problems people might run into.
Thanks!
I Gotta say I've watched hundreds of golf video I mean hundreds and this video you've shot is probably the best explanation of a proper golf swing I've seen ,,, no bullsh""""" absolutely awesome !!! Should be in the Training guide for beginner golfers ,,, iam no pro an 18 handycap and a picker of the ball full administion!!! That said iam a pretty smart guy and that was perfect ,,,,ty soooo much for what you taped ,,, going to help alot of golfer out there !!! Top of my watch list !!!! Ty again a year later lol.lol please be safe!!!!
This explanation made me understand. Especially the part where you talk about how far the arms travel and the role of the pivot in this. Thank you Milo!
You got it Olle, thanks for following along!
Milo,
In July at age 67 I developed a herniated lumbar disk, thought my golfing days were over. Found you by searching causes for bad backs. You taught me a better swing without pain. This week I’m playing Vegas, mesquite and st George implementing the Milo way.
Thanks,
the pinched nerve.
Hope it's helping Barry and thanks for following along! If I can be of any further help, please reach out at milolinesgolf.com.
Milo is easily the best TH-cam golf coach AND anyone else is not even close
Thanks so much for following along!
Excellent video! Mucho good stuff in this one - 🤔🙏 thank you for the help.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Thanks Milo. Best instructional videos I have found on the 'net. I am now drawing the ball for the first time. For me, a video on a putting routine would be great. Drive for show, putt for dough!
Ewan, New Zealand.
Glad it helped! Will be adding more short game videos. Thanks!
Very clear explanation. I’ve been struggling with this concept. You made it understandable. Thanks!
Glad it helped!
Great explanation and Champ is a good example to see the hands and arms disappear behind his body as the clubhead moves out and down the line which makes you feel once you get this you can swing faster into the ball knowing the sequencing works cheers GM
Quite the paradigm shift going from an over-the-top swing due to sequencing issues to better sequencing and trying to keep the hands from going left due to years of bad habits. I spent several months working on a proper sequence in the golf swing, then learned what it feels like for the hands to move left at the bottom due to body rotation. This is a great video that pulls all of these thoughts together for me. Well done, Milo!
Thanks
Makes sense, especially if you have a camera position from your eye position. That angle helps clarify everything, if you could do a video like that (if you haven't already)
Will be doing that soon, yes. Thanks for watching!
I have studied many great swingers of the golf club. I think your approach to the swing is the most in line with applied physical movement.
After many years of stumbling thru golf videos, you explain or maybe I understand the relatively short distance the arms travel. Because I play a lot, daily 9 holes my scoring is in the low 40’s often high 30’s. Long time over the top player looking forward to utilizing body motion to improve swing. Your explanations are excellent keep it up and thank you!
I have watched this video several times, and each viewing clarifies what you are conveying a little bit more than the previous. I will keep watching and I hope you keep teaching. Please be patient and explain things in different ways because i am a slow learner and frequently don't understand the first time something is explained.
James I’m 68 and Milo has taught me so much about the swing it’s incredible. Most folks aren’t slow learners they just need the right teacher, you’ve found the man!
What an awesome teacher. TU!
Very eye opening how little the arms move. Best description on the web! Thank you sir. This is miraculous and no other instructor has said this. Is this same with driver?
desano1975 yes
I think you’re an excellent coach / instructor. I love the way you simplify the process of swinging - it just clicks so quickly for me! I’ve watched soo many utube videos on golf and your approach is the best I’ve seen. I also like the short length of the videos - clear, concise and to the point , no lengthy explanations 👍🏼 As far as more content I’d appreciate bunker shots, different lies and elevations required. Thank you 🙏🏽
Thanks for the kind remarks Hilda, will keep these in mind for future content!
Because I was a bad slicer, I had to feel like I was swingbout to the right, but I can see now that its the clubhead that does that, not my hands . Thanks Milo
Thanks for watching!
Really helpful lessons you put out!
Glad you think so!
You’re the man nice breakdown
Same Mike Austin concept, great!
Been thinking about this all wrong. Thanks for this!
You bet, thanks for watching!
Brilliant material Milo! What I (and I suspect many others would also really appreciate) would love to see is a demo of a comparison (indicating swing speeds) between higher handicap golfers (eg 18 or so) throwing club at the ball as hard and fast as they can; and the proper swing back to ball. Thanks Regards Ian Inverness Scotland
please expound on how you set your hands for face angle control on your transition into the downswing because the drill and the actual swing looks and feels different to my eye, thanks very much. Awesome ideas you are sharing here, really helps me lots!!!
Genius that's 2 added too playlist buddy really appreciate videos and been helping me a lot
Excellent explanation!
Thanks for watching Arthur!
Milo- I would like to see a video with you working on hand path with a student to see what drills you use to change how the hand move. That would be great!
Another content thought. Might be interesting to get your take on the forces that the club shaft feels and when. I don’t know if anyone has hooked up sensors to the club, but I think there’s some confusion about what force is applied to the club, and which are created naturally and which are created by muscle patterns. -JS
Good one Milo. Nice clarification. Now that I’m lagging the club better and leaning the shaft for compression, I’m having some trouble with chipping/pitching, and using the bounce. Especially from bad lies. I know you have some videos on this. I’d just like a little more detail on the similarities and differences in the full swing and short game swing. Also using the bounce vs leaning the shaft for compression. Thanks! Keep em’ coming. 😀🏌️
Will do
Thanks Milo, great content very useful. I'm having trouble with constant coming over the top. I think it may be from my baseball background. Any feedback drills I can do to prevent coming over the top and also my tendency to flip instead of compressing golf ball. Thanks!
Thanks Milo, I really appreciate your content. I‘m always struggling with over the top move, so I try hard to correct this by moving the right shoulder - and the hands! - down not foreward in beginning of the downswing to avoid by all costs this crossing the target line with the club before impact. but now I think that‘s wrong, too. The hands MUST come down FOREWARD on the path to impact while keeping the right shoulder more or less back, otherwise I have this too much in to out swingpath, the contrary of OTT. The hands alone don‘t cause this crossing, if right shoulder movement is reasonably correct. Please correct me, if I‘m wrong again with this comprehension.
Love the intro music!
Back in the old days haha!
Spot on drill! Thanks.
Thanks for posting these. Content ideas: putting, bunkers, flop shot, improving compression on the ball, best training aids, best drills. Also, I would like to see more real lessons, especially with average golfers. Please keep up the great work.
catawbasprings1 all on the docket
Thanks Milo. I enjoy your focus on the pivot and body rotation, with a responsive and pivot-driven left arm. I would enjoy more on how to fix the problem of tipping and the over the top swing. I would like more on how to get the chest properly open at impact. I would like a video on how to solve the problem of hanging back and how to achieve a full and balanced follow-through position. I would like more real-time lesson videos involving amateurs and pros. I would like to know your favorite swing drills.
Jim George thanks I have been so busy with lessons I haven’t had time to create anything but as thing slow down here in the next couple months I’ll get to more of these topics. I plan to spend some time in Utah in June so we’ll have to get together.
No problem. I just keep reviewing your current videos. I do believe tipping is something that keeps hounding me. Jeff and I are looking forward to talking in June!
Great I've been wanting to know how to release the club
Hope this helped.
That makes sense now when you turn fast the club goes faster. Eye opening. Light bulb came on. Thankful
One more content idea for your consideration. I think it would be extremely helpful to have a video that packages all of your favorite drills into something we could take to the range for an effective practice session.
On the days I’m not playing, I like to go work on my game but I know I could use this time more effectively.
Maybe separate videos on short game, putting, and your thoughts on a solid warm up routine before a round of golf.
As always, I really, really like your live lesson drills. I also like to hear your analysis of pga players. Maybe a video with some thoughts on what in the world is going on with Spieth’s Driver.
Thanks, Milo.
Hello Milo really good instructions. I have a goal for this winter season and that is to learn to hit my approach shots (from 150-100 yards) with a fade at it’s end. We have pretty hard and fast greens and I want to give the ball a chance to stay on the green. I would be very grateful if you could do something on this subject. Regards Olle
Great 👍🏻
Thanks Chris!
If I could I would subscribe repeatedly.
Haha
excelent content !!!
Thank you Frank!
2:35 For me, this small amount of downward with the arms comes automatically when you squat and push the left hip back. Your swing should be the standard for teaching golf.
Hello Milo
Thanks for all the help
Can you cover set up?
Especially feet knees hips and they affect rotation
We go into more detail on this on my website for our academy members at milolinesgolf.com, but you can check out these videos as well: th-cam.com/video/tDNV3J6A4vk/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/bPRXlx15zuQ/w-d-xo.html
yeah, good video. I really need to work on that.
Thanks Fenton, hope it helps.
Another thing I don’t see anyone talk about is trail arm fold in the full swing. How the folding of the trail arm effects plane, wrist conditions, length of backswing, etc... Thanks!
Good video Milo. A few quick related questions based on video. Would you say from what you described, that from the top of backswing that the hands are passive and are brought down to let's say P6 simply with the pivot/transition? Or is there some arm/grip lowering action also going on? This is a critical point for me. Secondly, you talk about "lowering, which you talked about in another video". Which video are you relating to? And isn't the latest thinking that hands reach their low point around right thigh in downswing and then come up and around left? Lastly, there are DLT views of PGA golfers, near impact, that frequently show a space or significant light between left arm and right arm, maybe ? left arm "higher" than right arm (with right elbow still bent). What is significance of this "space"? Is that true impact, left arm higher? left arm/right arm closed? Hope you understand this question. Thanks
Vance Weber you have some good question and to help you understand each of them I think the best answer would be to take a 30 minute online lesson so I can answer them clearly for you
Golfletics sounds good. I know there was a lot in that question. How do I contact you? Thx.
@@MiloLinesGolf Sounds good. How do I contact you etc?
Great video! Any drills you could recommend to get hands working left? I tend keep pushing my hands out and flipping the club.
I'd have to see your swing to offer the best possible feedback. Have you looked into joining my online academy at milolinesgolf.com? Otherwise, here is a video I have on that subject: th-cam.com/video/2UG7_n2tHmE/w-d-xo.html
Love the channel, more please.
Tiny Toons 👍
Hello Milo.. definitely some tips and drills with the driver, my nemesis. Keep up your great videos. I may need another online lesson though just on driver. Thank you.
Best tip. SWING FAST AND TING BIG
Milo to follow up on your video would I be correct to start by at address as you showed with hands ahead than turn or pivot and hit short shots using body turn only? Thanks
Oldie but a goodie
Thanks!
Milo- I had another content idea that I think your audience would enjoy. The idea is to have a weekly video in which you select one swing flaw that you encountered in the past week and show how you fixed it. Just a thought.
Great instructional videos!. I find the biggest challenge is to maintain passive arms in the downswing with my lower body being the engine of the swing. Difficult habit to break, as the upper body generally has muscle tension at address or in the backswing. Focusing on the core and breathing helps. What drill you recommend?
This is my issue also. When I started playing as a teenager my lower body always drove my swing and I had very passive arms. I was so much better and it came naturally. Nobody gave me a lesson. I just swung that way naturally.
Somewhere along the line over the next thirty years, I lost that. Too many bad lessons and many years of being arms first has just caused nothing but tension and ruined my ball striking. Some days I hit the ball awesome. Then the very next day it's like I never hit a golf shot in my life.
I'm still in great shape and have been really working to get my lower body working again with passive arms. At first, I could not do it at all. My lower body just would not work from years of arm swinging. The sitdown move helped me a great deal. I'm now hitting it so much better and I just focus on my lower body and let the hands and arms fall into place. I hit the ball so much more solid and consistent now. I can only do it at 60 percent speed but at first, I couldn't do it at all.
I still can't get it to the course. I get very armsie still when I play.
I used to be a very low handicap player but years of erosion with bad swing concept has ballooned my handicap into 12 to 15.
Milo and Mike Malaska has helped alot. I blend the two together. I would much rather focus on the lower body and transition. It just seems more natural and easier for me.
One topic would be high approach PITCHING (not chipping) shots from 30 to 80 yards particularly when you want to use sand or lobwedges. I think this is so important for the golf course once we approach green from these distances. What is the best method ? (some say only upper body motion, some say arm motion, some say raise up, some wait until the ball goes out, some say not hing up, some say narrow arc, others wider arc)...I think a video on this topic would help anyone. Thank you.
I have a whole series on this topic for milolinesgolf.com members.
Would like more content on raising the handle through impact and the follow through with the drver
Have you watched our video on hitting up with driver?
@@MiloLinesGolf Definitely will watch, thank you
Hello Milo, a little confused on the video - around 4:15 in the video the club appears to “release”....how does the release and recent videos on “towing” the club relate? Thx
Hi! Great channel. How does the body move in the golfswing?
Milo ,does this apply to the driver. Thanks
excellent, great explanations. Carry on….
I try this and sometime ball straight to the left, I feel I have a shut face at the impact, and I feel hand path around me, kinds of low and left. but gain more distance.
Kind of a trap draw? Would have to see. Thanks Aaron.
milo, my topic of choice would be hitting irons off the turf. i hit a lot of fat and some times thin shots, and have trouble getting the swing to bottom out in front of the ball. if i always set up with the club grounded at the bottom of of the ball i guess that's where i hit first the ground. should i be aiming the bottom of the club differently? help!!!
Milo, What would you think about practicing thinking only about feeling the correct hand path and just letting the club face do whatever it wants to do? JS
From Palm Springs area. Used to be a +3 back in college. Now I’m a 10. I struggle with pulling my arms straight down and the club gets really steep and fight the tiger block and occasional snap hook. No matter how hard i try, i can never seem to shallow the club. What do you recommend for shallowing the club?
1 frame from p6 to impact.. thats how efficient Cam champ is. insane!
He's got a good action
Good teacher a lot like Mike Malaska
Love the tips in this video. During my last round, I made some of the smoothest iron swings ever!
In my 30's I was scratch. Mike Bender built my swing. Now I'm 65 and have a bad back and bad left hip. My game and swing have fallen apart. Can you suggest how to come up with a shorter easier swing for a senior? Great video!
Steve Abbott sure I’ll do something on the topic
Hello Milo. I believe all of us students of the game suffer from one significant misconception. We seek instruction, feedback, tips, and all sorts of information that we can potentially use to improve. However, in carefully studying film going as far back as a 1930s in the late great Bobby Jones, it appears that the answers lie within each player and not outside of the player i.e. a coach a tip TH-cam etc. Can you please address this to your viewers, because I believe you come very close to being the most concise, cogent, streamlined instructor that I have come across on the World Wide Web. Essentially, I am asking for your advice on how to empower each individual to work from their respective unique capabilities and struggles, to improve. To somewhat poorly paraphrase the late John Jacobs, how do we adjust what we do in striking the ball by observing what the ball does and what the ball teaches us about our successes and failures. Thanks so much for allowing me to be itinerant and long-winded
Regarding your comment @1:33... what about longer hitters leads you to recommend that they hit a cut over a draw?
Great video by the way. Thanks!
Brando Baggins long hitters don’t need the added distance of a draw and over cut misses seem to stay in play, however over draws usually end up rolling into trouble.
Golfletics thank you.
Milo, I know you have had a video on how to stop shanking. I would like to see a video on hitting off the other side of the club face. I have a horrible habit of hitting off the toe. Even in slow motion, with doing the proper pivot I still find a way to clank it off the toe.
This has become a seemingly common question, I will add it to my list!
Hi Milo, I think I just had an "AHA" moment with your examplification of how little the arms travel before contact. I believe my problem definitely is that I use to much arms and to little lower body. My impact position becomes much to square to the target line with my arms coming from the outside in. So to control the ball-flight, I slow my swing down and feel that I have no power (Driver carry between 190-205 metres). Any recommendations or any videos where you show how to work on that "passive arms" feel? Thank you for sharing from Denmark.
I have several videos on this, but I go into greater details and give actionable practices through our online academy on my website at milolinesgolf.com. Seeing your swing would also help me offer the best feedback!
I would be interested in tips on keeping eyes on the ball, I’m feel like I can’t keep my eyes on the ball throughout the swing, thanks
We have a video coming out soon on this, thanks chris!
Can we talk about the differences (if any) in a short pitch, 20 yards, and a longer pitch 80 yards. I hear some claiming its the same swing and some saying it is a much different swing. Thanks.
Could you please talk about the proper coiling into the right leg.
Aram Avakian will do
Great work. I can't seem to keep my right arm from straightening just before impact. Probably why I hit little inside out flares in baseball. I know you and Malaska were both baseball guys
Right side bend will help to keep a bend in trail arm.
@@canefan17 thanks 👍
Could you explain taking the butt end of the club to the ball from the top of the backswing? A friend told me to try that but it seems to me that would cause me to swing too far right.
Enjoyed the lesson . Would love to have views from a camera above your head to see handpath v club head path from above .
Would be neat!
Hi Milo, great work! I was looking forward to your next video thank you. I do intend to send in a video for you go review soon but i have not been able to get it filmed from the correct angles.
I have had some of the best shots i have hit since trying to implement your ideas. I play Links golf however and the odd massive hook or block/slice has been deadly to the round. I fully realise that it is by not executing the fundamentals that you teach.
Until i send my video in i have a few question marks.
How do you keep the club closed on the way down? You have mentioned its by holding a structure in the right arm and hand in combination with the strong grip but you also mentioned that your arms should be like noodles. The question is how to avoid the right miss (block or block slice)
If i may ask another couple of questions also.
I feel sick looking at videos of myself because my right arm is straight at impact and i can see that it is necessary as its too far from the ground to remain bent. I wondered if you could describe how the rib cage bends and turns in the backswing and downswing to remain close enough to the ground for the right arm to stay bent?
The last question was could you make a video on how the drive hold release is achieved. I know you have done a video already describing this but i was wondering if describe what motivates the left hand to be forward and the right hand also? Is it the fling off the chest? Is the right arm supporting (trying not to impede) the acceleration of the left arm? I first hear about the drive hold release reading Kelvin Myahira’s articles but i have never seen a how to anywhere on the net.
I see a lot of Robert Garrigus in your swing and his is one i have always admired so your content is very interesting to me.
Great work
Thanks
Pro Pilot thanks for the ideas. You’re not the first to mention Robert Garrigus when watching my swing.
Sorry one more Milo, my swing is consistently stuck under (which would go some to explaining my blocks). Question is how do you rotate and let the club follow whilst keeping the clubhead on or above the plane. I would love to hit a cut. I know DJ swings it like you describe but how does he manage to hit his consistent cut?
I can do a video on some reasons you are constantly under plane
Golfletics Thanks Milo! Sorry for the barrage of questions! Much appreciated
How about what the lat play’s in the swing?
I do not turn well in my golf swing. My hips are barely open at impact and my shoulders square. Every time I try to turn in my swing, I hit it in the heel or cold shank it. Would it help me to feel like I’m swinging in to out while turning, almost a v like movement, body turning left and club going away to the right? Would that be a good feel for me?
I’d have to see you swing to give be sure what you need to feel
Super!
can you address the diffrence between your swing and Mike Malaska that you refrence as your mentor. It seem you are using forearm rotation and Mike uses shoulder rotaion.
Mike and I have some similar thoughts but definitely some differences on how we see the golf swing. I choose to present my ideas and try not to discuss the ideas of others.
I have the opposite problem. My body out races my arms and I get stuck. When I film my swing, my practice swing looks perfect but once the ball's there my swing completely changes. How can I get over that?
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When I practice this I end up with weak shots with lots of spin, how do I make solid contact?
Hi Milo been watching your videos but how do you hit a draw 👍🏌🏿♂️
Lee look back at previous video from 2 years ago “How to flight it down.....” explains draw, fade, high shot, low shot 😀
Thanks for replying Milo I look back on what said my shots with my driver is going left and right it doing my head in my irons are ok thanks Milo thanks what doing all my friends are watching you on site. 🏌🏿♂️🏌🏿♂️👍
Yes, as Paddy said, I have a video.
Hey Milo, whats are some causes of fat shots? I seem to get to my left side, but still get fat deep divots sometimes.. any thoughts?
billymac29 I need to see a video to know for sure what the problem is. Normally players had a fat when they get in a hurry to get the club back to the ball
Omg I have been bringing my arms all the way down
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@@MiloLinesGolf do you have drills for this ?
All of my foundation pieces can be found on our academy site at milolinesgolf.com.
@@MiloLinesGolf I wish I could afford it at this time. It’s hard enough to afford these expensive green fees. Nobody is likely to get a raise these days but gas, food and utilities, taxes all go up. The American way I suppose. When I get more stable I’d like to join. Thank you
@@desano1975 we will be here
You may not need more content ideas, but here’s another. It is very difficult, when playing in competition, to keep a good tempo. I know that if I let my arms be free of tension, I hit the ball pretty good, but under pressure, it’s so easy to get quick and let the old tendencies take over and shorten the backswing and yank on the club. So, maybe a video on any tricks you use when you are playing in a high pressure situation.
If the hands and arm are out and in front of the body on the downswing, what is Justin Rose trying to accomplish with his pre shot drill before he hits. The one were he drags his left arm down his chest and keeps his hands back by his right side
That's his way of getting the hands and arms down in front without rotating too early, essentially staying turned. I like to go about it a different way as you'll see in my videos. Thanks for watching Joseph!
Thanks for explanation
I am 63 and play off 1 but have never really felt like I compress the ball properly (I do not take a divot) any suggestions?
Hey Alan, I would really need to see your swing to say. Have you looked at my online academy? milolinesgolf.com
Milo: could you comment on the hand path for short chips and pitches?
What are your thoughts on the Backswing?
I’ll do a video on this topic soon
Thank you for the video. However, I am still confused as how to get an in-to-out clubhead path. At 0:51 You show that the body rotation pushes the hands in an outward direction and you talk about 'a hint of lowering'. Does this 'lowering' need to be increased at this point, for in to out? You start of with the aim of showing how to correctly get in to out, but end up by focussing on the hands which are pulling up and left before impact, and we should let that happen, instead of trying to push out to the right. I assume this applies to all shots, but you never seem to explain what you said you would, initially.
Stefan Coetzee I’m sorry if I didn’t explain this concept clear enough. However the answer is simple the hands are swinging in a circle around the body and the club is swinging in a circle as well but because the club is following the hands and the hands arrive at the ball before the club and are ahead of the club at impact when the club begins to kick out toward the ball it is traveling from in to out.
@@MiloLinesGolf Thank you for replying. But why would that cause in to out and not just straight? In fact what distinguishes this action from producing a fade?
Stefan Coetzee The difference between a slight draw and a slight fade is almost invisible to the eye. I want you to do me a favor set up to a ball make the club follow your hands down in slow motion get your hands in front of the ball and then allow the club to release out to the ball and see which way it comes into the ball.
Stefan Coetzee and the biggest thing that distinguishes the draw and fade is ball position more forward for fades and more back for draws
@@MiloLinesGolf OK thank you.
My hands work up and backwards could this be why I steepen the shaft?
chubby chequer can you clarify?
Great! I have followed your instructions with regard to leaving the hands behind and I'm hitting the ball further and on line. But, I' still getting a lot of toe hits, mostly with my irons. What am I doing wrong? I' m 73 years old and played golf for 60 years.
Joe Kirkland I’d have to see your swing to say for sure.
Which video and instructions are you referring to here about leaving hands behind? Thx.
Transition and coming over top
I'm not sure I'm understanding your comment.