How to Get Tour Quality Shaft Lean

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You’ve probably been told to keep your hands in front of the ball at impact…
This helps compress the ball and lowers the effective loft of your club… turning your 8-iron into a 7-iron for better distance!
Unfortunately, it’s not always as easy as it sounds.
So if this is something you’ve struggled with, or if you just want more distance with your irons… today’s video is here to help!

[@nelsonjames1272]

Thanks. The thing I find so important that is not seen by so many golfers is the connection with your arms and body. Most will never learn this because they’re not understanding this feel. The best way to learn it is yes, doing punch like shots and then progressing to a full shot which has that same feel.

[@Feverdream7777]

My experience, coming from a person who casted his whole life until this year. Proper shaft lean happens when you do two things: 1. Don't cast (DO NOT use your wrists or hands muscles to advance the club in the swing). 2. Allow the hands to lead the swing; let the shaft trail behind naturally, as if the hands are not pushing at all. This keeps that proper wrist cock/position naturally; no need to "force or hold' a lag angle, it is a natural effect of the forearms leading the shaft, and letting the shaft lag behind. I hit tour quality shots now, every time. After I was exposed to the DST methods and information...It took me about 2 months of irregular practice, but I got it now, and I couldn't be happier about my golf skill. Thank you Zach, DST and Clay Ballard... You guys rock.

[@CheddaGaming]

You always are very clear and easy to listen too. Thanks for the tips Zach

[@hbspecial9738]

Nice video, Zack. Have you thought about flipping the view of the overhead camera (instead of your head facing down in the video your head would face up)? As a righty, this would help me better visualize the angle of the shaft instead of requiring me to try to “flip” the image in my head.

[@Willie-t5409]

Great explanation for the why....thanks for taking the time to share and using the o'head view to show what we should see when over the ball ourselves.

[@gortklatu3784]

Zach, I get the body rotation part, but the key for me is impact. Good impact comes from extending my right forearm on the downswing and concentration on the ball strike. I tend to pull shots left, so I weaken my grip, open the clubface and strike at 7 o'clock. Combined with the right forearm drop, I get a nice fade. Then it's easy to bring the ball flight back left by reducing any of those elements. Thanks for the video.

[@Bast-kavothe]

Great content Zach. Thank you. I have been working on this but you’re absolutely right, somehow my brain wants to regress to flipping,even though I’ve been having a lot of success with it. It particularly wants to regress under pressure playing. Ugh. I have good days then horrible days / swings where my head gets ahead of the ball and the right arm / shoulder get ott and rotate internally (?).

[@TerdFerguson]

Another great video. Thanks for letting me know it's ok for the club face to point a little to the right. I was always under the impression that the face had to be pointing to the target and I would have to jump through mental and physical hoops to figure out how to shift my weight and position my body/arms so that I was properly leaning the shaft all while pointing towards to the target. Nice to know (finally!) that I was doing it all wrong and I couldn't be happier as I never could do it consistently. I'll work on your drill later today.

[@aniballugo555]

Best instruction on KZbin!!

[@CoolRaul]

Love the concept, makes sense...up to a point. When you "begin straightening your club face by using rotation, are you not now turning your shoulders before contacting the ball or as you contact the ball but thereby thereby breaking the plane of your swing that is turning your upper body to the left? I thought you want bring your left shoulder up and not left? Or are only your hands traveling inward independent of your shoulder plane? Again, love your stuff.

[@billenright2788]

Very cool. Good explanation of what happens.

[@jordangourley3955]

I never understood how you can hit the ball while rotating. I have a hard enough time delivering the club when I’m stationary.

[@KawmLusMekas]

Thanks for sharing this. Very helpful indeed!

[@johnnybravo9087]

What is this? What about the final piece of the puzzle…how do we go from 10 yards right to straight?

[@swing.solutions]

Great explanation. I can hear you teach for hours. Such a great talent. Love the studio but it needs one thing to bring it all together.....a photo of 'the Dream' just above the staff bags. 1 day over 9k views....I'm happy after 1 day to have 100 views.

[@louisrubino722]

great tip on shaft lean

[@edwardgreen6102]

great lesson. Thanks

[@stashthevampede0]

More instructors need some form of top down view, this is very helpful.

[@m3toz4]

Zach , how about trying the punch shots with hands about waste height finish with shaft parallel to target line. When I do that I automatically get shaft lean without thinking about hitting to the right. It likes let the finish dictates the impact.

[@VimMitt]

Sir u need to rotate hips first to do shaft lean forward. So please rotate hip and chest to have this position.

[@profpat70]

Why not close the clubface at address 10/20/30 Degrees? works for me.

[@paullunseth4365]

your correct in that I have tried to lean but flip always comes back.

[@cglpcg2128]

You always say signing up your email down below, but I can’t find any where to do that

[@JoeManausa]

I bought your program but have not been emailed the user and password I’ve sent request through support and have heard nothing

[@dhakh24982]

Big fan of ur work, got all the modules on ur site- does this rightward path predispose to an early extension/lateral move with the pelvis?

[@joevelte4252]

it feels like the handle goes first and then the clubhead flies around to the ball. You cant hold off the release of the clubhead for long.

[@SavedInANanosecond.]

Mike Bender teaches this...

[@rickmidkiff9990]

So,what your saying is to turn harder?? Totally confused ..