So to help you do this, I’m going to give you a great drill that will help you to learn to swing from the inside.

To do this drill you will need a cardboard box. A shoe box works well for this, and I’m going to assume that it is what you are using for this golf drill.

So to do this drill, place a ball on a tee and then setup to the ball with your 5-iron. Once setup, I then want you to position your shoe box so it is just outside the toe of your iron.

Now you simply have to swing as normal, and by having the box so close to where the club is coming through, it will force you to swing down from the inside.

Naturally, this is exactly what you want to happen so you hit a powerful, professional looking draw.

But there is a good possibility that when you do this drill you’ll hit the shoe box before you hit the ball. If/when you do that it will be great feedback for you, because it’s instant… and it will probably give you a bit of a fright!

Your brain loves to avoid pain so this will help you to swing from inside the next time you swing.

If you have struggled to hit a draw in the past, you should do this shoe box drill often to help you groove a swing path that is moving from the inside. When you have this move down pact you too will be able to hit powerful, professional looking draws. How good will it feel when you can do that?

But please understand, you’ll only get to that point by putting in some serious work on this drill. Don’t just do it once and think you’re cured.

No!

Do this golf drill over and over again so that when you play golf you swing naturally and automatically from the inside to produce the converted draw shot.

The first drill is a simple release drill.  To do it get out your driver and grip it as normal.  But instead of swinging it like you normally would, I want you to hold out the club straight in front of you and then swing your driver like a baseball player.   Do this swinging back and forth and use your legs as you’re swinging.

This is a great drill because it forces you to release the club through impact.

Next up I have another great drill to help you feel the correct release through the golf ball.

To do this drill tee up a ball quite high.  Then get your driver and setup to the ball as normal.  But before you start to swing, split your hands on the grip so your left hand is at the top of the grip and your right and is down near the bottom of the grip.

Once you have done this, then place the clubhead on the ground about 2-3 feet behind the ball and about a foot inside a line that would be straight back from your ball.  So your club will be well on the inside of your target line and on the ground.

This is the starting position of your swing, and without any backswing I want you to swing forward sweeping through the ball, and finish your swing about half-way into your follow-through making sure your hands have rolled over and released through impact.

This drill has nothing to do with how well you hit the ball.  You will probably hit some terrible golf shots, but that’s ok.  It’s more about the feeling of swinging into the ball from the inside, sweeping the ball away, and releasing/rolling over your hands through impact.

The final drill I have for you today that will help you to release the clubhead through impact is very easy, but very effective. To do this drill you simply need to hit golf balls with a normal swing, but where you hit golf balls from is the crux of this drill.

You see, for this final release drill you must hit golf balls from a very side-hill lie where the golf ball is well above your feet. Hitting balls from a side-hill lie like this will help you to release the club naturally and automatically through impact.  You shouldn’t try to do anything mechanical when you do this.  Just let the lie do it for you.

Ok, so that’s three great release drills.  If you do them often then you’ll soon train yourself to release through impact, so you can hit longer and better golf shots. Also, if you have a slice problem these release drills will help you to fix it.

The first drill that I’m going to give you today can be done while you’re sitting down.

So to do this release drill, find a place where you can sit down and swing a club (preferably your driver) safely and fully on a horizontal plane.

Once you’re set then hold out your driver straight in front of you, and then swing it like a baseball player. Hold the club with your normal golf grip however. Now when doing this release drill, don’t just swing once and stop, but rather keep swinging back and forth without stopping.

Do this about 50 times.

Naturally, because you’re sitting down, you won’t be able to use your legs – which is exactly as it should be. By doing this drill it is forcing you to just swing with your arms and hands so you release the club through impact.

Once you have got used to this feeling, you can move onto an advanced version of the same drill that allows you to hit golf balls.

To do this next golf drill simply tee up a golf ball quite high. Then get out your 7-iron and setup to the ball BUT when you setup to the golf ball place your feet together.

From this feet together setup position, I then want you to swing back about half way and then swing through to about the same position in your follow-through.

By hitting balls with your feet together and with the ball teed quite high up, it will force you to swing with your arms and hands only making sure you release them through impact.

These two golf drills are great to help you train yourself to release the club through impact. When you get this you’ll hit your shots much longer with much less effort. So the little effort you put into these golf drills will be paid back many times over.

This is commonly referred to as the over the top swing.

So in this article I’m going to give you one drill that is the fastest way to fix an over the top swing. It’s called the loop drill, which is aptly titled, as you’ll soon see.

Before you do this drill, however, I must warn you. If you do it properly it will feel very, very strange. But that’s exactly how it’s supposed to feel, because it’s the exact opposite of what you’re currently doing. So even though this drill may feel strange, do it anyway to fix your golf slice – fast.

Ok, to do this golf slice cure drill get out your driver and setup to an imaginary golf ball. Then start your back swing normally with a one-piece take-away for the first few feet. But from that point on move the club on a very, very, very upright plane. This must be so upright it feels ridiculous but no matter, simply complete your backswing with the most upright swing plane you can muster.

Once you have completed your backswing, then I want you to do a HUGE loop with the golf club to make it come down way behind you and very, very, very flat. Then swing down through the ball feeling like you are swinging out to the right, and then follow-through to a full finish as normal.

Do this loop drill as often as you want, knowing that the more you do it – the faster you’ll fix your slice problem.

Honestly, this is the fastest way I know of to help you fix your slice problem. Now you know it, your success will come down to whether you do this drill a lot, and whether or not you can exaggerate the drill enough to make a difference in your normal golf swing.

But I’m sure if you did this loop drill ever day for at least 30 days then you would fix your golf slice. Remember, it does take a while to change a habit. So keep doing this drill and you WILL fix your golf slice once and for all.

To fix your golf slice you want to do the opposite which is to have a steep backswing and a flat downswing. To help you start to do this I’m going to give you a great drill that will train you to swing the club back steeply like a Jack Nicklaus or Fred Couples.

To do this drill get out your 7-iron (or you may want to use an old club) and then setup to an imaginary golf ball and do this next to a wall so your bottom is just touching it.

Once setup I then want you to swing back normally. But if you swing back and hit the wall that means your swing is too flat which again, will be the major reason why you have a slice problem.

When you try to fix your flat backswing you MUST not do this by simply picking the club up. That will lead to even more ball striking problems. Instead you must take the club away with a one piece take away and then when the club is parallel with the ground (about 1-2 yards into your backswing) then the club should be hinged up wards to move the club on a very steep plane.

If you’ve been swinging flat for a very long time then this will feel very strange to you but that’s ok because that means it’s something different to what you do normally and that’s good because it will lead to a change.

Now you just need to continue swinging up the wall. By doing this it will get your arms into a very upright position.

Again, this probably feels very odd to you. If it does the quickest way to stop that feeling is to do this drill over and over again!

Then after you can swing back “normally” with your 7-iron without hitting the wall then repeat the drill with your 5-iron and keep repeating this drill until you can do it with your driver.

Now it’s true that this swing with your driver will be far too upright. But I’m sure you’ll find that by exaggerating it when you go to swing normally your golf swing will be no where near what it is when your practicing this wall drill. However, if you’re concerned about that video your swing before and after to see.

You’ll be shocked I’m sure at the results because you’ll quickly see that what you feel you’re doing and actually doing are two different things. You may feel that you’re swinging very uprightly but the video will show you that your “new” golf swing will probably be very close to your “old” golf swing.

So exaggeration is the key with this drill. Keep doing it until the exaggerated upright swing feels normal. Then when you swing normally you’re more likely to be in a good backswing position to attack the ball from the inside and cure your golf slice.

So if you suffer from a slice problem, you’re going to love this golf slice cure that I’m about to give you.

To do this I’m going to give you a golf drill that is going to help you to groove a more upright backswing plane.  Before I give you this drill however you must understand that the backswing plane is largely governed by the shoulder turn so that’s what I’m going to help you focus on with this drill.

To do this golf slice cure drill I want you to setup to a golf ball with good posture.  Then place the club behind your neck so it is lying across your shoulders and hold each end of the club with one of your hands.

Once ready I then want you to move your shoulders in a similar way that you would when swinging a golf club.  But when you do this you must exaggerate the steepness of your shoulder plane.  You do this by trying to point the club to your ball at the finish of your backswing.

It’s important when doing this drill however to keep your back leg in the same place as what it was at setup. Do not cheat by letting your right leg collapse when doing this golf drill.

If you have a slice problem please make sure you do this drill often.  Then when you go to swing normally focus on moving your shoulders on a very upright plane and keeping your right leg in the same place as it was when you setup.

By doing this you’ll be grooving a much more upright backswing and this will help you to swing down flatter so you can cure your golf slice.

When the club is parallel with the ground a few yards into your backswing it’s a critical place in your backswing that you should check. Because if you get that position correct the rest of the backswing should fall into place naturally.
Now first I’m going to explain the position your club should be in and then I’m going to give you a golf drill to check your backswing position.

When your club is parallel with the ground a yard or two into your backswing your clubhead should be either pointing directly up to the sky or slightly closed. You should not have the clubface open (i.e. pointing to the sky) at all when your club is parallel with the ground.

Also, at this point in your backswing it’s important that your club shaft is pointing parallel to your target line and here is a great golf drill to check these two things.

To do this golf drill setup to a golf shot with your driver. Then place an old golf shaft or umbrella into the ground one yard behind your right toe, directly on the same line as your toes. This must be positioned so that if a person were to look at your setup from behind the golf shaft/umbrella,

your toes would be all along the same line.

Once this is in place then I want you to start your backswing with a one piece take-away and keep moving the club away until the club reaches a position where the club shaft is parallel with the ground and then stop the club.

Now at this point the club should just be touching the umbrella/golf shaft and the toe of your club should be either straight up and down or slightly closed.

If you do this golf drill and the club hits the umbrella/golf shaft a lot earlier than when the club reaches the position where it is parallel with the ground that means your backswing was too flat and this is wrong and will most likely lead to an over the top move and a slice.

When your club is parallel with the ground just into your backswing, it should be pointing along your toe line. This golf drill makes it very easy to check this, so keep doing this drill to get used to taking the club away into the correct backswing position.

When you do this you’ll consistently find the golf swing is easier to perform, and as a result you’ll hit better golf shots. This is a great golf drill to help you achieve this – so go to it.

But let’s see how the top golfers in the world today fear as far that is concerned.

Pictures of the top ten golfers as at August 2012 are below with their setup positions, compared to their impact positions.

1. Luke Donald

2. Tiger Woods

3. Rory McIlroy

4. Lee Westwood

5. Webb Simpson

6. Adam Scott

7. Bubba Watson

8. Jason Duffner

9. Matt Kucher

10. Justin Rose

So 10 of the top 10 golfers in the world DO NOT return the clubface to the same plane line that they started at at address.

Why did I show you that?

BecauseI believe the plane line should be more vertical than a one plane swing, and not as vertical as a two plane swing. Somewhere in the middle. A great model I’m going to show you in a minute for this, is Louis Oosthuizen.

But these impact pictures begs the question… are they trying to do that?

The answer is no!

Because it’s been proven that the golf swing is moving way too fast at impact to consciously do anything. So what is happening at impact is this…

The forces are so great at impact that the hands are being pulled up.  That’s just a natural occurrence of the modern, powerful golf swing.

So that got me thinking how it would be good to swing on a plane that is similar to what happens at impact. Because you can talk all you want about one plane and two plane swings (in terms of the backswing and shoulder plane, left arm angle etc.). But at the end of the day, it’s what happens at impact that matters.

So my Consistent Golf Swing Plane theory, is to swing back so that at the half-way point in the golf swing the club shaft points down at the ball.  Then at the half-way point in the downswing, the clubshaft again points at the ball. I’m now going to show you this theory in action in one of the best swings on the planet.

Louis Oosthuizen is the 2010 Open Champion and has a golf swing that many believe is one of the best among professional golfers. So let’s put my swing plane theory to the test, and I’m going to draw a line through his setup at address right through the middle of his back.

Setup

Half-Way
Back

Half-Way
Down

Impact

Follow-Through

Pretty damn good swing, with a very consistent swing plane!

If you read this post I said a way to see if a person swings on a one plane swing, is to measure at the top of their swing the angle of the left arm and the shoulders. And if there’s less than 12 degrees difference then they have a one plane swing. Let’s see what the difference is for Louis:

Louis Oosthuizen – 22 Degrees Difference

Compare that to Moe Norman and Jim Furyk. Extremes of a one plane and two plane swing:

Moe Norman (One Plane Swinger) – 0 Degrees Difference

Jim
Furyk (Two Plane Swinger) – 48 Degrees Difference

And if you split the difference between those extremes you get 24 degrees. Louis Oosthuizen at 22 Degrees Difference is almost bang in the middle.

And this swing plane that Louis uses is what I term “the Consistent Golf Swing Plane”. I have a program you can see here in which I teach you how to groove a Consistent Golf Swing
Plane.

Having a consistent golf swing plane will help you to hit straighter, longer and more consistent golf shots. So if you lack consistency in your ball striking, working on making your golf swing plane more consistent can only aid you in improving your ball striking consistency.

Anyway, I hope this series I’ve given you on the swing plane has clarified a lot of issues you had with understanding the swing plane. And I hope that now you have a very clear idea on what swing plane you should be swinging back, down and through on.

#1. Swing Faster NOT Harder

It’s a fact that the faster you swing the further the ball goes, because for every 1 mph you increase your swing speed you add about 2.5 yards to your shots. The problem is that golfers often make the mistake of trying to swing harder… and that creates extra tension.

Please understand this about tension… it’s is a killer to swing speed.

When you’re swinging you should only be using the necessary amount of muscle tension in your body and no more. If you have more tension in your muscles than is necessary, you will be swinging slower than you should and that will cause shots to be shorter than you want. If you swing hard it may feel faster – but in reality it will be slower. Always remember this…

A Tense Muscle Is A Slow Muscle

So when you swing, make sure you focus on swinging faster NOT harder. Think fast not hard (unlike the golfer pictured above).

#2. The Release

Above I talked about being relaxed and tension free when swinging to help you hit the ball further. And one critical place where that has to happen is when you’re swinging through the ball. Sadly, a lot of golfers swing through the ball without utilizing their wrists, and consequently are only swinging at impact as fast as their arms are traveling… which isn’t very fast.

A great way to help you learn to use your hands correctly through the ball, is to hit balls off your knees. Simply tee up a ball like you normally would with your driver. Then get on your knees and drive the ball from your knees. Doing this will quickly teach you how to use your wrists to generate more power.

# 3. Swing Sequencing

As far as golf swing power is concerned, one of the big keys is getting the sequencing correct from the transition in your backswing to downswing. Because during that part of your golf swing, for a brief second your upper body should be completing the backswing while your lower body is starting to move towards the target. So to complete the transition successfully you should have two main segments of your body (upper and lower) going in different directions.

That sounds tough, but an easy way to feel this movement is to simply get your golf club and swing it on a horizontal plane like a baseball swing. When you do this you should feel like you’re starting to move your lower body towards your target as you complete your backswing. When you get that feeling down, then transfer that same feeling to your golf swing and you will hit the ball further.

There’s nothing quite like adding 20 yards to your drives quickly. That’s why I created the 21 Yards In 21 Days program. To give golfers a simple, daily program that will help them to add yards to their drives. So if you’ve got 15 minutes a day spare to do this, then go here and get this program while it’s on special.

You have probably heard about the one-piece take-away and you may have tried to do it.

Well, in this article I am going to give you a great drill that will get you to feel what the one piece take-away is like so you’re left in no doubt about how you should do it.

So to do this one piece take-away golf drill I want you to setup to a golf ball as normal with say a 5-iron. Once you are setup then slide the club up through your hands and place the butt end of the golf club into your navel. You should now be gripping the club halfway up the shaft.

When the golf club is in this position you are then set to practice a one piece take-away.

To practice this you simply have to turn your navel to start the backswing and keep moving your navel until the clubhead moves about one yard. It’s important to note when you do this that there should be no independent movement from your hands. They are simply moving as a result of your navel turning and your shoulders moving as a result.

Once you reach a position where the clubhead is about 1 yard away from where it was at address then move it back to the start position and repeat the one piece take-away move.

This is the same move you should use when you take the club away when hitting normal golf shots.

If you do this take-away drill a lot it will result in you perfecting a one piece take-away. And a one piece take-away will make your golf swing a lot more consistent and easier to repeat. This will naturally result in longer golf shots. So do this take-away drill often and reap the benefits out on the golf course.