This Move Changed My Ball Striking

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Have you see the Arm Alarm to allow you to swing like Ben Hogan? kzbin.info/www/bejne/moaZqHR3bsmjeKc

[@mountaintop0616]

Have to say my ball striking has changed as well. Will continue to work on the swing but the compression you get was a welcome sound. Thanks again Steve.

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Keep it up 👍

[@miker5502]

Well Steve this certainly did change my ball striking!…went out today to play 18 holes at my home course and was blown away. This really simplified my swing. Hit all but one fairway with the driver(and long) and hit 13 of 18 greens in regulation…my word, if my putter had been working as well I would’ve possibly had my best score ever🎉😊. I can’t thank you enough for this gem of a lesson. Cheers from Nova Scotia MikeR. ( I've been telling all my golfing friends to get over to your channel, and learn from you as well. )

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Hey Mike, thanks for your feedback and thanks for spreading the word. Much appreciated..thanks again 👍👍

[@petethomas7164]

Another top video clip. Mr Hogan was a genius, of course......he knew so much about what works and why....and Steve pays plenty of tribute in many clips. This is about Steve and his way....helping so many understand concepts necessary to appreciate the power of the golf swing. Optimum force applied correctly. John Jacobs (another giant in instruction) often referenced power as of no use unless applied correctly. Steve is today's go to for understandable, relatable and useful advice. The dinner plate/sheet of glass diagram in Mr Hogan's book showing plane of swing, and how you never break the glass , staying below , or on it , is this concept. Brought to life, in motion, by Steve. Brilliant.👌

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Power is no use unless applied correctly. Having clubhead speed of 100mph around 12 inches before impact and having 100mph clubhead speed at impact is just no good. Club travelling at 100mph with zero acceleration…..pointless 👍👍

[@ronmullard5718]

thanks for clarrifying this...when I used to swing like that I was told was swinging to flat....

[@stevejohnstongolf]

You were lied to🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@tomrichards4606]

Steve - this video is a nice follow up on the driver video you put out a few days ago that covered basically the same movement (hands lower and around). I took that to the range yesterday and hit it better than I have ever done with not only the driver, but every club. Absolutely amazing. Why haven't you told us this before! :) Tom in San Francisco

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Hi Tom, thanks for the amazing feedback. 👍👍

[@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices]

One of the best lessons I’ve ever seen . Thank you.

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Thanks👍👍

[@stevethompson386]

Swing plate helping me with this. Great training tool.

[@russellbell6484]

I’ve only been actively golfing for about two years. I’ve struggled with topping, thinning and just plane not being comfortable with my setup and swing. As soon as I finished watching this I went out to the yard to try this out. I’ll be darned if it didn’t feel way better and even though I was not hitting any balls, I could tell my swing path was inside to out. I’m a victim of paralysis of analysis but this made so much sense that I had to try it out. I truly do enjoy how you present your teaching points. Keep up the great work. Sincerely, An American Fan.

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Hey Russell. Thanks for your feedback. Great to hear my videos are of value to you. 👍👍

[@stuartmcgregor8330]

Brilliant Steve. I've recently been trying this with good effect. Cheers

[@FelipeGonzalez-ue7yv]

My hands were very high, lime above my ear high. Had a very steep swing. Saw some of your videos a couple months ago and changed my swing. This really did help me. I have to work on club face control but i’m now striking my irons consistently. Gonna start implementing this into my driver swing. Thanks for your videos

[@davidd1395]

I love this lesson. What a great looking part of the world you’re in.

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Thanks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@kip2095]

Great tip! You aren’t on plane if you are above the shaft angle. Gonna try it at the range right now! Bravo!

[@jefffinesilver7442]

Brilliant! Thank you for all your insights Steve. So poignant and useful.

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Thanks👍👍

[@johnaleck8672]

Well Steve, Im going to ponder filing a class action law suit for all golfers who have thrown money for incorrect golf lessons. I was taught the same and struggled for years. I’m trying your tip tomorrow. Can’t be worse than the inconsistent results I’ve been getting for most of my golfing life. Love your site, tips and humor.

[@stevejohnstongolf]

What humour 😉

[@derekhornsby677]

Thanks Steve, so simple.

[@mikelancashire1433]

Stunningly simple, I can take that to the course

[@rayfieldlewis8780]

Absolutely perfect Steve. Thanks

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Cheers👍

[@bobhunt249]

Very good instructions

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Glad it was helpful!

[@paulfox4821]

Got my uncle to do this and what a difference in his golf shots. Also love the crazy detail on Eureka the start of the takeaway helped me loads 👍

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Hi Paul, uncle happy and crazy detail made you happy….win/win👍👍👍👏🏻

[@kenbrudenell921]

It all makes sense but remember to keep your posture throughout. Nice one Steve😊

[@fraserlawson8522]

Spot on, Steve. Just a personal view, I've never been convinced by the "hands high then drop it into the slot" fad. Maintaining the same plane keeps it simple and reduces the variables. Then again, I am old school 😂

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Old school is good👍

[@ahmadghanem2414]

Makes lots of sense . Thanks

[@archiestanners8826]

On to a winner,Steve.

[@bga9388]

This is a very good lesson. Probably for tall ams; and hopefully also for many teaching pros whom stack up to 5ft and a bit but keep on explaining to persons of 6.3 their swings are too flat. Please spread the word Steve! Thanks.

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Thanks👍👍

[@mikegreene8461]

Thank Elvis there is captions.

[@tireemacleods]

Brilliantly as usual 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Thanks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@sscully67]

Steve, can aspects of this be applied to pitching/chipping? Would like to see you do a refresher on those.

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Great idea. I’ll do that👍👍👍👍

[@Graemedargo]

Brilliant! Well thought out and explained. I will be giving this a shot. The weather is always like that in Peebles right?

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Thanks Graeme. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☀️

[@stevenolmstead]

You are one of my favorite KZbin instructors. OK, got that out of the way. I have tried this move with the hands more around with not great results. Big pulls/hooks/ pushes. I am wondering if it is because like Rory's swing at min 1:17 while his hands do go around, the shaft is not lying flat but is quite upright, - with the butt of his club pointed well inside the ball. Your thoughts?

[@MartialGolf]

Great video. This helps shallow my swing but I started hitting fat shots. Do you have a video on hitting fat shots?

[@marklucey1]

Looks like some great shots there Steve. Can I ask you though......looking at your swing in slow motion, you are significantly under the club shaft plane on the way back, and your club head is behind the hands in the early backswing. So much teaching nowadays is "hands in club head out" and keep the club head "on the plane line" on the way back which for most of us that suck it in and under feels like a really early and aggressive hinge up of the wrists putting the shaft kind of between the arms at P2-3. Should we really care about any of that, or, is there something about your swing, or flexibility or something (very likely skill!!), that allows you to hit it so well demonstrating what you are talking about in this video? Keep up the good work!

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Don’t be scared to go inside on backswing. Watch footage of Hogan he took club very much round the body. Stack and tilt is very successful and also promotes this move👍👍

[@rteach1]

Thank you.

[@mattyoung2854]

The area I need clarification on is the "open" stance that you promote via the Eureka swing method. In this video, it does not look at all as though your stance is open when swinging the 7 iron or the driver. Am I missing something or do you not always choose to use an open stance?

[@daveparsons7756]

That’s a good question Steve. Doesn’t appear to be Eureka type set up. Are you actually employing that or not on these shots? Thank you 😊

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Decided to stand square here so not to add confusion to the content🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@daveparsons7756]

But do you regularly employ the tenants of the Eureka Swing? Thanks👍🏻

[@scubart]

Yup, and that’s exactly why Stack&Tilt is such a natural and easy way to swing the club and play golf.

[@LordVader2U]

Great insight !!! Question … how about using this swing with GEM training tool ?

[@stevejohnstongolf]

You can

[@73henny]

Interesting video. Also interesting you film at Cardrona when you're attached to Peebles GC?

[@donb7474]

Steve, Excellent as always. With the Eureka golf swing is the face of the club square to the red(outside) cane or square to the white ( target line) cane. If the red cane I hit it mostly along the line of the red cane, i.e. to the right of the target. How do I fix that? Love your instruction. Now mostly in the mid 80s using you tips. :-)

[@seanb9530]

Hi Steve Thanks for all your videos.. Are your shoulders / plane flatter on the driver?

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Yeh in compliment with the lie angle of the shaft👍👍

[@seanb9530]

Thanks very much, I've been trying to think of the plane as the pane of glass from the shoulders to the ball so wanted to check this was right.

[@bryonwhite745]

Fantastic

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@MPerski]

I think most of us raise our arms in the backswing because 1) we know the swing plane is TILTED down, and 2) we swing DOWN to the ball (thus think, “to hit down, swing UP on the backswing) But “swinging LOW (around the shoulders) makes a lot of sense. Going to take some practice to ingrain, but … I’m definitely going to try to keep my arms down and BEHIND tomorrow when I play. I’m a’scared of the results, but … I’ll try anything after the way I played Monday 🙄

[@jeffmcclaren9126]

Outstanding

[@davehurley26]

Fantastic 😊

[@garethlennon9750]

Incredible results from this, thanks Steve. Just need to work on the other million aspects of my golf game now to become half decent! 😂 Golf man!! 😂

[@WendelltheSongwriter]

And I was taught that you basically had to choke yourself with your bicep... But I've been swinging more like this the last few years because I'm old and everything hurts, sometimes I tend to come a little bit inside too much, but that's when I get tired. It's easier to swing this way, and to really get distance I think with the driver I will usually tee it up even a little further out front like instead of at my heel, which is that about 45° to the target, I'll have it somewhere in the instep or where the arch is. You pick it up there with this swing and you could really hit it a long way, even a geezer like me.

[@davegenet]

For years Golftec tried to force me to raise my hands and drop them into the slot. I finally decided to ignore that advice and my ball striking improved dramatically.

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Yes!!!!

[@VimMitt]

For shorter club like wedge is it more upside swing plane?

[@MykolasGilbert]

Simply Brilliant!! Thanks Steve!

[@justinking2369]

For me, this prioritises accuracy and consistency over speed. Is this a fair comment. Beauty of golf and all its swing styles and differences

[@texaswaldo61]

What is the role of the trail arm and hand. Power or passive. Due to rotation of body?

[@colinbrown1321]

I think all of your recent videos are based around the faults you saw in my recent lesson 😊. I'm off to the practice ground to try this.

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Excellent Colin👍👍

[@dry509]

Eureka! For real.

[@tallymclaren]

Hi mate Love your stuff I incorporated this into what Iv been working on and wow What the actual fux Seriously wtf 2 balls 9 holes 1 level par the other about 4 over 6 iron lay up to a 205 par 3 and it stopped 10 feet from the pin wow mate My usual 21 deg hybrid is my 200 club This is to long already you probably don’t read but if you do i thank you very much for hopefully my Eureka moment 👍 Yer sum man 👍⛳️

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Awesome Thomas (and Michelle) or perhaps this is Michelle I’m talking to🤷‍♂️ Either way, well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@tallymclaren]

@@stevejohnstongolf hi Stevie it’s Thomas btw lol I have been under par twice from my last message mate Had a couple of really bad rounds also but on the whole it’s been good Mid to high 70s has been regular from mid 80s just a few weeks ago Try this in a video it worked for me Dr Kwon step drill and your single plane swing explanation 👍 Amazingly effortless and would help the older golfers imo What feels like a 3/4 swing goes a good distance and you feel more in control of the club face effortless Thanks again mate ⛳️✌️ Ps the follow the path of the shaft video I saw today fits in perfect with what I’m doing Your 🔥ma man

[@bmatt9379]

You keep your feet parallel for the driver? And open for irons?

[@waynedavis9397]

Gary player comments about this is that the left arm should be against your chest - exactly like you are doing

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Poison he called it 💉

[@iaincushen3146]

I swung like that when I started golf at the age of fourteen

[@tedrstedrs6690]

I was swinging like this then made the mistake of looking at it on camera i was literally horrified by the way it looked even though i was shooting in the high 70's pretty consistently. I stopped over rotating my arms and started raising them straight up at parallel its working but it feels like work. This swing thought feels effortless. Im 6'4 so raising arms straight up and getting back in slot is difficult!!

[@Thebrownchannel00]

I thought the club head was supposed to be “outside the hands” at P2 ? Was told not to sling the club inside ??

[@davidprice579]

Just an observation: I notice in your backswing your trail leg doesn't straighten. I have been told that I must throw my trail hip upward by straightening my leg. True or false?

[@stevejohnstongolf]

No right or wrong there, just resonated preference.

[@davidring6845]

Can you hit a fade this way?

[@ronniec5643]

Like it big yin

[@Monnymoon22]

Open stance?

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Yes, check out www.eurekagolfswing.com to better understand my open stance👍

[@Nick-pl9gn]

Amen

[@philward2752]

The best ever

[@user-vbull]

Lots of instructional materials say that if you take the club that far inside on the takeaway you’ll get stuck on the way down. What are they talking about?

[@FlankerJackChannel]

So what leads the swing? Is it the hands the shoulders or the hips? Please don't say all of it. I can't think about four different things when I'm just trying to make good contact in the first place. I'll work on this like everything else thank you

[@alanfairley1387]

So your spine angle dictates flight

[@westrover123]

Hi Steve. From where you say you swing back in your practice swing, you are about 6 inches above that mark when you actually hit the ball. Please check it in your video, you will find you don't swing that deep in your proper swing. Cheers..

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Feel v real

[@timothymoorman7437]

That arm hanging swing looks like something out of the walking dead, but there is no argument with the results. Nice, crisp strikes. When I try it my knuckles get all scraped up ( just kidding!).

[@toddborsuk174]

Highest compliments, I would love to play a round with you and learn more. (Or Albert Einstein or...)You have a Great sense of humor😊 and excellent clarity of aging body physics and how things feel vs how things look depending on camera angles. I am signing up for the 7 day free trial of the Eureka golf swing, already pounding straight almost effortless shots just by copying the 3 canes in my living room and hitting my foam rubber golf balls outside. 🏌️🏌️💪😎

[@stevejohnstongolf]

Thanks for your comments. Keep me posted with your www.eurekagolfswing.com journey 👍👍👍