Stop Coming Over the Top in the Golf Swing and Slicing
Stop Coming Over the Top in the Golf Swing and Slicing
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You're well aware that slicing destroys your distance and your scorecard. What you may not be aware of is what really causes you to come over the top in the golf swing and slice and the 2 relatively simple steps to fix it. That's why you MUST watch this golf instruction video. Simply put, it's the best I've ever produced to teach you how to stop coming over the top in your golf swing!
Video Practice Points
- The slice is a common fault in golf, but is easily fixed with weight shift and using the left arm correctly
- Many right handers allow the right arm to dominate the downswing, causing the club to come over the top
- Pull with the left to naturally shallow out the swing plane
- Getting a proper weight transfer also shallows out the path
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One of the most frustrating faults most
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golfers struggle with is coming over the
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top and slicing it, leaving the club face
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open. And to be honest with you, it's one
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of the easiest things to fix in golf. You
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just have to know two critical keys that
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are going to help you stop coming over
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the top immediately.
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The first thing is, unfortunately, and
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what makes golf so difficult, is that
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it's
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predominantly a left-arm, left-sided
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dominant game. It doesn't mean the right
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side doesn't do a huge part and the right
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arm doesn't do a huge part. It absolutely
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does. If you've watched other videos, you
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know that.
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But in terms of controlling the club face
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and the angle and the swing plane and a
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lot of those things, a lot of it is the
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left arm that has to do a lot of the
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heavy lifting. And if you don't know how
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to use the left arm, that's where the
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difficulty comes in.
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And so what I'm going to do today is show
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you one simple key that if you do this
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correctly right away, your left arm will
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change your swing plane and path so that
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it will make it almost impossible for you
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to come over the top. And so what I'm
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going to show you first is what typically
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happens because most golfers play golf
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right-handed and they're right-hand
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dominant. So what happens is they way
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overuse the right side when it comes to
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the downswing. And so what I'm going to
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show you is what happens when you overuse
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the right side and underuse the left. And
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so, of course, a lot of the stuff on the
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website is talking about pushing versus
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pulling. And that's what we're going to
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go back to now is to show you what
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happens when you push with the right
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side, the right arm in an effort to try
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and get power from the swing instead of
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learning how to get speed and using the
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mechanics. What you're going to see is it
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changes the pitch of the shaft and that's
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what steepens the plane and causes you to
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come over the top. So let me show you
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what that looks like. If I go to the top
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of my swing with my right arm only, my
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right arm and the musculature that I have
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available to use to me here is really
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strong at doing this. And you can see
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what's going to happen if I take my right
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arm and twist it this way, which feels
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really powerful and trying to get the
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club to move really fast, the shaft is
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going to steep and the pitch of it is,
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and that's what's going to get me coming
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over the top and lead to a chicken wing
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and all these other things. The same
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thing is true if I want to overuse the
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right shoulder, which again feels really
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powerful. I heave my right shoulder at
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the ball and again, the shaft is now
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coming out over the top of the swing
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plane. And now I'm going to come across
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it again and run into the same problem.
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So it's almost predominantly overused to
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the right side that causes you to come
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over the top. Now let's look at the
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opposite of that. If I go to the top with
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my left arm now and I try and use my left
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arm really hard, guess what happens? The
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shaft shallows out automatically. It's
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very difficult, it's a very weak, awkward
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feeling and you wouldn't do it to use my
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left arm and try and heave across the
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ball like this or throw the club into a
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steeper pitch position. What's going to
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happen if you pull with the left arm, the
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club shallows out and that's how you
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start coming too far from the inside. But
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if you're an over the topper, that's a
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dream come true. You're going to, you'd
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love to hit a big snap hook, which a lot
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of golfers are terrified of, but as you
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start using the left arm, that's what
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allows you to shallow out. You start
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using the right arm, you get into that
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motion. It's very hard to get your right
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arm to do this to come from the inside.
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Unless you take this right shoulder and
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drop it under like this. And then you're
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going to swing out into out too severely
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as well. We don't want to do that either.
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We just want to learn to use the left arm
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correctly, especially at the top of the
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swing. And that's what's going to allow
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us to shallow out. Now the second key to
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this is your weight transfer. The weight
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transfer shallows out the swing,
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shallows out this pitch of the shaft,
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shallows out the plane. And all that is,
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is going from being loaded up on this
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right side to shifting our weight back to
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the left. This little move here of
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shifting your pelvis from your right leg
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to your left leg, shifting your weight
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over shallows out the shaft. So from face
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on, it's pretty easy to see. It's just a
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little move like this from down the line.
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Now watch what happens as I shift my
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weight. That's what pulls my arm down.
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It's not that I go to the top and just
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rip my left arm down by itself. That's
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not happening at all. You're using your
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mass, your body mass and your weight to
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change the direction of the club because
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there's a lot of momentum going back. So
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we've got to use some big muscle mass to
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change the direction of the club. And
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once we do that, that club will drop down
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into this delivery position. And that's
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when we start to fire with the arms and
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everything else at that time. If you
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don't shift your weight first, you'll
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still run into a lot of other swing
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problems. So it's critical that you put
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these two things together. You're going
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to shift your weight and pull with the
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left arm.
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Obviously, you notify with the right arm.
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Where you got to learn how to use the
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videos on the side is when you're
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struggling with one or the other. So if
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you need speed in your swing and you use
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the left arm really well and transfer
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your weight, it's something you don't
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struggle with, but you need to get more
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speed. That's when you focus on the right
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side movement. That's what's going to
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help give you speed and energy transfer
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and those things.
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If you struggle with plane and path and
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are coming over the top, typical more
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high handicap kind of problems, then you
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need to work on using the left arm and
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working on your weight shift and those
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two things together. The higher the
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handicap typically, the more these
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problems are severe. The more you're
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going to tend to shift your weight less
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and not use the left arm correctly. The
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higher handicapper is going to kind of
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hang back here on the right side and
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throw the arms at the top and get stuck
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back here on the right side. Because
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they're creating a lot of force with the
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arms early, that causes the body weight
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to get trapped back here. The lower
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handicap guys may be focusing a little
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bit more on getting some speed back into
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their swings as they learn to do these
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fundamentals correctly. So again, two
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keys, weight shift, left arm, and you'll
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never be able to come over the top again.
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