MONTE: THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SKILL IN GOLF AND HOW TO USE IT. BE BETTER GOLF

[@georgeslupski5987]

I love Monte's advice. For those of you that don't know much about him I will give my 2 cents. I competed in longdrive from. 1986-2015, there is nothing about the sport I don't know. Monte from 1991 92 and 93 was the best there was, he was so hard to deal with because he hit it straight also. Back then longdrive was just as much an accuracy contest as it was distance, not like today where u get 6-8 balls on a 70 yd wide grid Monte and I got 4 balls on a 35 yd wide grid at times. Every few years you have your top dog in the sport. It was Zuback in the late 90s early 2000s. Sadlowski late 2000s. Berkshire now but it was Monte in early 90s. Love his advice

[@ksuno1stunner]

Your videos are absolute gold. The format of talking with these top instructors works really well

[@ToddCiehomski]

It works folks. I commented on the 1's and 2's video Brandon did with Milo. Do 9 to 3's at the range every session. You'll start compressing the ball. It's actually useable on the golf course.

[@Omnis2]

So, since I've been a beginner I've been practicing mainly my irons like this and I feel like they've significantly improved. How do we work on the drivers sequencing though? Because my driver is still trash and is the worst part of my golf game. I think I could knock 20 points off my handicap if I didn't have to hit my 2nd shot out of the rough between the tees and fairways, or from the woods on the right.

[@zoots15]

The best way to learn would be from green to tee,(putting 1st, then/chipping/pitching /half shots/full shots) but not many would have the patience for that.

[@cubfan69kmz85]

Brilliant video and a very important video. First off, I admire what you have done with Be Better Golf. Secondly, I love Monte and his teaching style and thoughts. He is absolutely correct. You cannot make swing changes swinging fast. It just won’t work and if someone tells you that’s what they did, then they are liars. Keep up the good work.

[@cscoetzee]

It's actually amazing, if you think about it. You would expect a higher clubhead speed to make it more difficult to hit the ball in the center of the club. But in reality, as your handicap improves, not only does your clubhead speed increase, but also your accuracy in terms of hitting the sweet spot. Kind of counter-intuitive, almost.

[@kennyg63]

Without going to the range if you can hit the 7 iron into a net from waist high to waist high with center contact that is how you can improve.

[@1cpcook1]

I feel like Monte has been begging us to do this for like 5 years... going to actually do it this time!

[@ryandavidtrapasso]

Lmao he literally has

[@seantaylor3244]

@@ryandavidtrapasso Yea he has!

[@andystafford4463]

Check out Marcus Edblad, he was a long drive competitor a while ago, the most simple explanation of the golf swing on You tube imo.

[@DeepakSharmaChd001]

He is awesome

[@jacobmccain8082]

When I feel my swing get out of sequence, I often do this. Like a jason Day pitch with a 9-8-7i.

[@moefoley567]

I'm getting a handle on backswing fundamentals; still trying to grasp downswing instructions. To keep from plowing club into ground I realize you have to rotate, when does that effort commence? My full swing is 3/4 length. Thanks

[@georgefettersjr.2238]

Go look at his videos No Turn Cast and or the Complete Swing. There's enough free content from him to answer that. For me, it's about P6 that I feel like I'm not just dropping the arms, but also turning and firing off my left toes. I'll just say, he has two drills: Counter-Top. And The Two Justins, that are great for training that feeling of when to pour on the rotation, and shoving back with the front leg and hip.

[@ronsudul232]

So how do you get better at this? Just practice over and over going slow and checking the clubface?

[@iupab]

Ok first of all with my bad casting swing I generally hit the middle of the club face because I manipulate the club in my downswing to compensate. But no distance! Second, sadly I can hit solid shots almost same distance as full swing with half swing. Third, I can hit solid chips and pitches with my sand wedge to score consistently in the 80’s. The problem for me is knowing what goes wrong when I go to the full swing ?? If I could get on par 4s in two I could get in 70s. My distance between 50 degree to 7 iron is 80 to 125 yards !! My point of all this is hitting the sweet spot is the least of my problem. The frigging casting and flipping is

[@guyr7351]

Best comment is leave the driver, I have started to do this recently trying to work on the basics with the irons to get consistency. I start with the PW and I might do 5-10 shots at the end with a 5 iron if it’s gone well going through the clubs. Trying to get that feel for approach shots, I now pick a bay in the range where I have a line of target flags in front of me, and I want my shots to be gradually going down that line longer and longer.

[@robsaxepga]

From Tiger Woods to Bobby Jones, the best players of all time have said they cannot feel making a swing at full speed. They get settled over the ball, see the objective, get comfortable, start their swing and the next thing they know, the ball is flying away from them. Monte is dead right. The full swing is too fast to feel. There is no time to consciously process it. Swinging slowly is the key to motor skill learning in golf. The primary concern of Nicklaus was setup and "going to the movies" which he credited as being THE thing that helped him be one of the best players of all time. The swing was a very small part of that in his opinion. Tommy Armour taught his students to master a slow 8 iron before they could move on to any other club. This seems boring, but it's the absolute best way to improve. Once practiced and mastered, it will be the go-to drill for the smart player. Lee sent me this, and I'm glad he did. Great series, Brendon!

[@mplunky1]

When does the clubhead pass your hands in the golf swing?

[@45marty45]

Been working hard for years {not terribly well} and I have come to believe most of the work has been worthless because I have been working on the wrong things. I feel Contact/Path/Center contact is the only thing you should work on. "The only Thing" Until you can do this better no swing Tip/Concept/KZbin instructor can help. I love golf You Tube videos and I have my favorites. Monty has never been one of my regulars but as for what he said here; He is The Wizard!

[@9to5golfhughmanning88]

The correlation between club head speed and handicap is accurate of course. Here is another accurate statement that completes the picture, "A 5 handicap is playing a slightly better version of mediocre golf than an 8. A 10 handicap is playing a slightly better version of (choose your own adjective:) golf than a 14. And so on, and so on." The point is, even if you level up your speed from the speed of a 15 handicap to the speed of an 11 handicap, and even if, because of that speed increase, your handicap dropped to an 11, you would still just be an 11 handicap. But if you take that same 15 handicap, and they learn to middle it with a substantively higher level of proficiency, they could get down to a single digit and maybe even a low single digit. All kinds of useful shots become available just by getting the sweet spot on the golf ball.

[@davebaker7503]

Hmm.. not sure about this. For staters, handicap is potential, not how you are playing in that moment. This is why you generally play 3 strokes more than your course handicap. As far as speed and that being a factor in lowering your handicap, I can get behind this. If you get faster clubhead speed and starting hitting the ball farther, you can then move further back in tee boxes. Doing this just changes the math. The course rating and slope increases, so if you shot 81 from white, but if the guy with faster speed shot the same score from Blue, his/her scoring differential will be lower. Which, will mean, a lower handicap over time.

[@9to5golfhughmanning88]

@@davebaker7503 Dave, read it again, slowly and carefully.

[@davebaker7503]

@@9to5golfhughmanning88 ha. We actually said the same thing.

[@9to5golfhughmanning88]

good one B

[@daved976]

Hey Hugh!

[@9to5golfhughmanning88]

@@daved976 Dave, how is it going?

[@lukedevore]

Great content

[@BEBETTERGOLF]

Thanks!

[@coburn_karma]

Golf and Finances should be taught in grammar school.....MB is one of the best teachers who actually can prove why the methods work or don't.

[@vvwalker7261]

Such a useful video!

[@godsdozer]

The best thing for 90% of golfers is to take a sand wedge from 50 yards and learn to flush it and I mean flush it., low, high, medium flight ect. When you can do that on command, you can play golf.

[@D.WhiteJr]

That’s my favorite shot is 30-50yards. Take pride in being a wizard with the wedge.

[@berniemiller1217]

So why not swing from hip to hip with all clubs in the bag. Looking for center hits on all of them?

[@BEBETTERGOLF]

Need more speed than hip to hip will allow. People should practice hip to hip a ton though.

[@billygraham5589]

Please Brendon, ask Monte about "hands and arms" swingers. Everyone is all "rotation, rotation, rotation." I think that has F---ed up more people than anything. Sure, maybe someone has some marvelous timing and can pull off the "rotation" type swing right off the top, but I cannot, and I have to keep my back to the target, pull down with the right arm, and I only start "turning" (and it is really just extension, and the "turning" is incidental) in the "hitting area." But I hit the ball maybe 270 with a relatively "moderate" swing. And if I try to rotate? Well, maybe I get a little more clubhead speed, but not much. And then the timing of the release to the rotation becomes a problem. Why would I give up consistency for power? Especially when I am getting 270 with a "moderate" swing in the "hands and arms" style?

[@tylerpohler3271]

Billy I think there are multiple ways to visualize the task at hand when it comes to executing the down swing, keeping your back to the target is what Justin Rose has done his entire career it has always been in his practice routine. By keeping your back to the target it allows your arms to drop before the hips start to rotate and potentially get you stuck. There are 3 main forces we use to create power in the golf swing, rotational, vertical, and horizontal and everyone's blend is different.

[@billygraham5589]

@@tylerpohler3271 Thanks for that. I have been a “fully rotational” swinger - swung like Moe Norman without ever knowing who he was. As the years went by I switched to a hands and arms swing. I like that better. But NO ONE ever talks about it. No one ever talks about keeping the back to the target either. But no one is talking about DeChambeau either, and he is the epitome of swinging “rotationally.” Was talking to an acquaintance at the golf course in Eagle Point OR where I’m hanging out (I’m from Long Beach, and I saw Brendon all the time at the range), and this acquaintance tells me his pro there is teaching him to bend at the waist more and turn from the hips, and, of course, I could not know how to swing it if I’m not focusing on “rotation.” One fellow (different guy) insisted it is impossible to turn too much or too soon in the swing - but I would beg to differ. Even when I was swinging Moe Norman style I had to not turn too much too soon or I’d get stuck. Anyway, I bend at the waist pretty good and I don’t have a stomach so with my back to the target I don’t get stuck. (Will get stuck if I try to enhance my swing power with my hip extension - premature extension.)

[@rapinjohn1]

@@tylerpohler3271 This 💯!!

[@cscoetzee]

There's a recent video by Russel Heritage which I feel finally gave me the missing piece I was looking for. It has to do with pulling the left shoulder back and up, and the clubhead just whips through effortlessly. I used to try and keep my back to the target as Niklaus said, but I could never get that proud erect finish pose the really good golfers seem to attain. Now I know how, and all I have to do is break the habits of 5 years of playing golf. :)

[@billygraham5589]

@@RCGolf I sling with my hands arms swing - with my Moe/DeChambeau swing (which I taught myself 35 years ago) I use brute strength and just turn forcing the clubhead around on plane. I get my highest clubhead speed that way but it’s too tough on my older body. Switched to a hands arms swing 10 years ago and got it working pretty good now. Much more complicated. With my Moe/DeChambeau self taught swing I shot 1-under at Montebello GC just 6 months after taking up the game. This was with a $95 set of Wilson clubs I got at K-Mart, wooden head woods. And I did have to time that release but with brute force to ensure it happened - so I guess it wasn’t timing but brute force. BUT I can tell you if I turned too much too soon I could not get the clubhead to catch up. So I was focused on forcing my body and club into proper positions throughout the swing - and too much turning off the top was the shot wrecker for me.

[@davecohn6407]

The probability of being able to change your swing significantly with full length full speed swings is almost zero. The problem is that the vast majority of people do not have the discipline to practice short, slow swings for more than a few sessions This is more about mental discipline , prioritizing long term rewards over short term .

[@TheRichardgrime]

My trouble with the half swing is a tendency to shank it from being to much on the inside. The fuller swing allows me to get a bit more “ outside” of it

[@larryhewes910]

Your proving his point. Work on it until you find the middle of the club. You might have to hit dozens of shanks. The other option is don’t and continue to play like crap.

[@stenzy282]

119 clubhead with my driver and I'm a 0.8 index, guess I need to work on my putting lmao

[@leepetersen4082]

boom!

[@nev7711]

So true...going slow gives the brain permission.

[@antefreeze]

I'm going to play devil's advocate - even though I have no credentials to do so - but why is it that we don't try to obtain skills in any other sport this way? We don't take short swings in baseball and we don't take half throws to put a spiral on a football. We don't reduce our tennis stroke to learn how to put top spin on a moving ball in tennis and we don't take weak wrist shots in hockey to learn how to shoot the puck. I could go on. The point is, flushing the ball with a half swing will maybe give you the feel of a compressed golf ball but you're not going to learn how to fully rotate, transition at the top, pressure the ground at the right time and generate the speed through a kinetic sequence. I'm not saying go rip drivers for 3 hours but hitting 30 yard 8i for a year doesn't seem to match the way all other sport skills are obtained.

[@sirfranciscanadianbacon1468]

I think the difference may be that the ball is moving in other sports. It would be hard to do this in baseball and make contact. But I also have zero credentials so 🤷🏻‍♂️ just a thought. With this drill, I would take 3-4 of the waist to waist swings and then hit one longer, maybe just shy of “full”, swing. Interleaving the two should produce results.

[@markfitzpatrick360]

Again love the channel but not so much Monty anymore. Every time he says Amateur Golfer it feels like an insult. I feel worse after watching him haha. I get that he knows his shit and he is an amazing coach and man but maybe he could go easy on us golfers who just like playing the game and don’t want to be the next DJ or Rory! p.s I am definitely not at the range on a Friday night unless that means Pub in America!

[@tonyscene9796]

just not a good version of Mike Malaska -

[@ajj53]

7 iron club head speed mid to high 90’s . You sure .

[@darrinlygrisse5287]

Well he’s a former world long drive champion, so..

[@benjaminhogan3157]

Monte needs to drop some weight. It will improve his game to.