The Pelvic Punch

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This drill is the pelvic punch. This drill is one of my favorite drills for

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working on power in the golf swing and specifically power from your lower body.

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So whenever I'm talking about power, I'm mostly talking about lag if you

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remember from the overview video and lag is essentially moving the part that's

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closer to the ground before you move the part that's closer to the club. So we

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're

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gonna do a specialized version of the 9 to 3 drill trying to hit the ball quite

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far, getting the power from the lower body. So what makes this special is you

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're

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gonna swing back to this waist height position and you're gonna stop. So from

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a dead stop, you're going to use your lower body to initiate the downswing and

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what you're gonna feel is as the lower body initiates, you're gonna get this

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stretch through your left side. You're gonna then transfer that stretch into

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the

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shoulder, let the hands work just in front and then finally your hands are

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gonna release. If you're the type of player who's the ball very straight but

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doesn't have a lot of power, there's a good chance you'll do this drill by

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releasing your arms first and then kind of timing everything together through

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the

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ball instead of having the sequencing of going lower body arms and then club.

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So

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this is a very challenging drill to do correctly because contact is going to be

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a little bit of an issue going from a dead stop and exaggerating this lag on

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such a short shot. As you'll see in the short game section, lag can actually be

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counterproductive when you're hitting short shots but for this drill you're

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gonna try to get as much as you can. So you're gonna go to waist height, you're

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gonna relax your arms and relax your grip because you want your lower body to

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initiate this movement. So you're gonna try and keep the club in the 3D space

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that's in while your body gets into this position, gets into that impact

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position. So I'll do a couple again just for for demonstration purposes but

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your

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goal is to hit the ball quite far or as far as you can comfortably while

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maintaining good impact and follow through alignment.

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I don't think I can do much better than that. One of the things that you'll see

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is if you have the tendency to stand up, which we'll get into in the early

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extension section, but if you have the tendency to stand up on this movement,

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you're gonna tend to kind of pick the ball or top it or catch it a little thin.

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So this can be a great drill for learning how to stay down and cover the

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ball with your upper body through the impact zone as well. So there's one of

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the best lag drills for learning how to use your lower body, it's called a

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pelvic

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punch.