Drill: How to Use the Ground to Generate Power in Your Golf Swing with John Novosel, Jr.

I’ve been having some great conversations with Lee Cox and John Tattersall, two of our GoGolf365 teachers. One of the things they've really imparted to me on ground force is as follows:

As you go back, if you don't start to push this trail foot this way, you'll basically just sway over here. And then what I see everybody do is they sway back, they don't create any power.

So the drill is a little bit of a Bryson Drill almost. I'm kind of going straighter arms, trying to use the body levers.

As I get back, I'm starting to push in the ground this way, it's moving me that way. So I'm going to be feeling that, and then I'm going to do that frisbee tug.

If I go right away with the upper body, I lose the lever and I lose the fulcrum.

What I'm trying to feel here is pretty wide backswing. As I get about halfway, I'm really feeling that push this way, which has moved me towards the camera. Then once I get there, I'm gonna do that. 

That's a great drill, a great feel for you to create power through the ground. Using the fulcrums, or levers, in the body - not the wrist. That's a whole nother topic.

So, going a little stiffer here, trying to just feel this wide, super wide backswing so that I feel this force push me this way so I have to counteract it.

But then just like the Frisbee staying here, so then I can go.

So give that a try, let me know what you think, leave me some comments. I know it's going to help you for speed and power, better use of the ground. 

Have fun, golf strong