Use Your Lower Body for Distance - Tiger Squat

How to use your lower body for top distance and consistency.
Matt Walter here with Performance Golf. We're at the wonderful Vanderbilt Legends Club today, and what we're going to show you is how to use a Tiger squat to maximize your distance with the long stick and hit some big drives down-range.
I'm going to show you how to set up a drill so that you can work through this and learn how to use your lower body to maximize power and increase club head speed in the transition and into your downswing.
One of the main things that everybody talked about when Tiger was in his heyday in the early 2000s was how much his head dropped when he started his transition into the hit and into the delivery of the golf club into the ball. That's how Tiger was creating power in his downswing and how he was creating that massive amount of club head speed that he was able to generate and hit it by everybody in the field about 40 yards.
The move I'm going to help you do today may not hit it as far as Tiger, but I'm going to help you maximize some more distance into your game. So, what did Tiger do so effectively different, and how was he able to use the ground to create that pressure so that he could create that club head speed? The best way I would think about it is, when you're making your golf swing and you're in that transitional move, Tiger is basically shooting a jump shot. So, it would be, the effective way of thinking about it would be, if you were going to shoot a little jumper, you have to squat and explode up. Well, what Tiger was doing was effectively that, and what I see a lot of golfers doing right now in their golf swing is that they take the basketball, shoot, and then try and jump, or they jump and then try and shoot. So, they're not timing up the sequence of when that explosion has to happen, and so because of that, you can create a flip, you hit the high flare-out to right field. And so, you have to be able to sequence the motion to match up with what you're trying to do.
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[@PerformanceGolfZone]

*Shallow the club to hit longer drives:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGnEp4F7htWUpc0

[@pm1a]

Good explanation. Everyone talks about squatting like it’s simply sitting down which is recipe for disaster. The key to keeping posture is feeling the chest/forehead get closer to ground as pelvis pushes back and turns.

[@lawofvisualization]

This is so good! Thanks

[@chelseaant1]

Very good video. I have been working on this movement as I stand up and get no hip turn in the downswing. A very good golf instructor basically explained this to me last week. It’s great to have this video so I can check on what I’m practicing is correct. I play off 9 and it’s proving to be a very difficult change at full speed. Thanks

[@ferg_life3841]

Pushing back with my lead toes/foot has fixed my hip movement thank you

[@johnlysic6727]

This looks like an effective drill... I will add it to my morning routine - thank you

[@PerformanceGolfZone]

You're welcome! Enjoy!

[@760284jackiegolf]

Awesome Info🥃🥃🥃🥃👍

[@sshin980]

Thank you!!

[@nooskids007]

Great video very helpful thanks 🖒

[@3dcadconsultant]

Thank you

[@padysrini9955]

Good tip

[@jg1316]

Is there any way you would talk some more about the last phase of that swing, the butt squeeze at the end.

[@76MUTiger]

At 5:20 you say shake and bake is a necessary skill, but I cannot see where in the squat move you use it. Please explain. Thanks!

[@libsrcrazy9634]

Is this move just for the driver? I can’t comprehend how with an iron or wedge you can jump up at impact but still hit down on the ball.

[@GB-xh7hv]

this is with everything

[@sunilmishra100]

You see I tried this swing but in this case ball move to right direction or fade. Any remedy for that

[@thabifnt4972]

Sunil Mishra ball placement

[@PerformanceGolfZone]

Control your wrist angles better through impact

[@kyledavis5063]

Does this have anything to do with his 4 back surgeries though?

[@georgeyod286]

Kyle Davis it could be a culmination of things. These pro golfers practice 6-8 hours a day on the range, hitting millions of balls, and doing it for years. If you think about it, the golf swing is an unnatural movement, you’re twisting/turning your body etc. So eventually the body is going to give out. I’m sure Tiger during his teenage years, hit a lot of golf balls, then into his professional career, and his body just gave out. Not only that, he added lifting weights. Weight training was never really a big thing during Arnold or Jacks time.

[@georgelafave8789]

it has nothing to do with his back surgeries.

[@vimalmittal5603]

Just bend both knees for squat so simple.

[@poggimonsipmmm4599]

Except that's not gonna help you

[@tmt7912]

Action not talking

[@chelseaant1]

It’s a very complexed movement and 1 only a better golfer may grasp, hence the 20 dislikes.