Understanding What Release Is In Golf

Hi, so we’re talking today about release, about releasing the Golf Club. What is releasing the Golf Club and how can I get into the positions that we see these tour players deliver day in, day out on the TV. So I try and understand this what is released for me, it’s this understanding of I’m trying to generate as much power as I can in my body throughout my swing and I’m trying to release it at the correct point to ensure that power goes through my body through the club. And into the ball giving a good release pattern is actually what I see daily on in the teaching room is actually when I get to the top. Here players actually start to release either too early, they have this casting kind of effect or they actually get to the get to impact bodies frozen. It hasn’t moved and actually the club kind of breaks down. You get this scooping kind of effect or you get this kind of chicken wing. What we like to see is actually I like to see if I was to imagine there’s a tea or put a tea just down in front here, I want that club to be just past the ball pointing at that tea. I like to think of that club head the furthest point away from my body at this position. I like to have my chest open, my hips open and everything is pointing at that T So a lovely little drill you can do. Bear in mind I just said it’s about body rotation as well. To allow that release to kind of happen naturally is to to let’s set the body in a good position first. So a lovely, lovely little drill that you can do is set up and actually I’m going to put you in impact position. So I’m going to want your hips to be rotated, your chest to be rotated and I like your hands to be ahead of the golf ball. So it’s your hands are in front of the golf ball in this position. What I want you to do in this drill is actually take the club back so the lead arm is parallel and I want you to feel that the lower body is going to turn, it’s going to pull you back to that impact position and just pass once we hit a good checkpoint as my arms are together and that club is pointing at that tee. So if we can put it all together, hopefully the shot looks like this.