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Is your downswing path too steep or out-to-in? That’s one of the biggest causes of slices and weak shots. In this GOLFTEC video, we'll show you a simple downswing drill to keep your hands and club on the right path — the same move the best golfers in the world use.
00:00:00Top golfers focus on a key aspect of their downswing to ensure their club path stays on track, which we'll discuss along with how to measure it.
00:00:14The best golfers keep their hands aligned with the middle of their trail bicep early in the downswing, while amateurs often move their hands too far out too soon due to opening their turns too quickly or tilting their body incorrectly.
00:01:01To fix the tendency to move hands too far out when hitting a draw, place a club or shaft at a 45-degree angle behind your trail foot and focus on bringing your hands down in line with it during the downswing.
00:01:49Practice a controlled golf swing by aligning your hands with the shaft during the backswing, optionally using a head cover to guide swing direction, and safely rehearse hitting a ball with the club angled at about 45° near your trail foot.
00:02:35Start slow and practice without a ball to develop a push draw that curves from right to left, helping you hit straighter shots.
🏌️♂️ Top golfers keep their hands in line with the middle of their trail bicep early in the downswing to maintain proper club path.
🔄 Amateurs often slice because they move their hand path too far out toward the ball by opening their shoulders and hips too quickly or tilting left at the start of the downswing.
🛠️ Practicing with a club or alignment stick angled at 45° off the trail foot helps train the correct hand path for straighter, push-draw shots.
00:00:00The best golfers in the world do something that's super important in your down swing to help make sure your club path is not too many degrees out to end. So, let's talk about what that is and then we can talk about how we measure it.
00:00:14The best golfers keep their hands in line with the middle of their trail bicep at the early part of their down swing. What I see a ton of amateur golfers do and a lot of people who slice and struggle with this game is they actually start to move their hand path too far out towards the golf ball too early on in the down swing. This can be caused by a couple of different things. So sometimes what people will do is they start their down swing by actually opening their turns. So they're turning
00:00:39their shoulders, they're turning their hips towards the target too quickly. That can shove the handle and move the hand path too far out. So that's one of the potential faults. And then the other one that I see a lot is when a golfer gets to the top of their back swing, instead of actually starting to move their right shoulder and their right hip downward to start the down swing, which actually tilts your body more to the right, they'll actually start to tilt
00:00:59more to the left. And when you do that, that increases your inclination to the ground and also moves the hands more out towards the ball, which is not a good thing if you want to hit a draw. So, uh, a really easy way to fix this, you literally just can grab any golf club, even an alignment stick or a shaft. All you're gonna do is you're gonna take this second club or shaft or whatever it is and you're gonna put it off of your trail foot and angle it at about 45
00:01:23degrees. So zero would essentially be in line with your target. You can think 90° would be pointing straight behind me. You want this at about 45°. You'll take your setup position and then what you want to do is just make your normal back swing and stop up here at the top. And then to start your down swing, instead of moving your hands and the grip out towards the golf ball, what you want is you actually want to get your hands and club to go more down and almost get in
00:01:45line with the shaft when your left arm or your lead arm is parallel to the ground. So you can rehearse this a couple times. Take a back swing. Pull your hands down so they line up with the shaft. Then go ahead and make your swing. If you really wanted to add some extra layers to this, I'd put a head cover right outside the golf ball here, angled slightly out to the right just to reinforce that swing direction. But rehearse that a few times. And then what's really cool about this drill is
00:02:09you can use this to actually hit a golf ball and you're not going to hurt yourself when you do it cuz you're not going to hit anything that's super hard and going to going to cause any injury. So set up a golf club or a golf ball. Get that golf club basically in line with your trail foot. Angle that out there at about 45°. Practice this a couple times. Take a back swing. Pull your hands down so they line up with the shaft. Then go ahead and hit. When you implement this, should
00:02:30look something like this.
00:02:35So, I would start super slow with this. I do this a few times without a ball, but if you do this correctly, what you should start to see is that golf ball should start out to the right, curve back to the left. It'd be a really good recipe to get you hitting a lot of those push draws and get you hitting that ball a lot straighter. [Music]
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