Get Into The Slot Golf
Posted : admin On 4/4/2022Do you struggle slotting your golf club?
A lot of golfers are being told you have to externally rotate your shoulder to get the club into the slot.
Jim McLean believes that the optimum golf swing requires a golfer to drop the clubshaft down into the imaginary 'slot box' during the mid downswing, so that the clubshaft can move along an inside-out path towards the ball. This concept is fundamental to the idea that a golfer needs to generate an in-to-square-to-in clubhead path as depicted in the. Hitting great golf shots that travel accurately and maximum distance isn’t difficult if you can get the golf club into the slot on your downswing. The slot is the optimal pre impact position to deliver the golf club through the ball from. In this video Natalie Adams from Smash Factor golf coaching shows you what. How To Get The Golf Club In The Slot The Slot, is simply the optimum angle of the left arm and club coming down into impact. The idea is to keep the club head behind the hands for as long as you can. This is really what Width means in the golf swing. Jim McLean believes that the optimum golf swing requires a golfer to drop the clubshaft down into the imaginary 'slot box' during the mid downswing, so that the clubshaft can move along an inside-out path towards the ball. This concept is fundamental to the idea that a golfer needs to generate an in-to-square-to-in clubhead path as depicted in the.
Well, I work with some players that are older, and I actually have a Mini Tour player, who struggle with getting that kind of range of motion in their shoulder.
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If you get set up and you place your arm like this, and you try and twist that shoulder back, and you try and get as much rotation this way as you possibly can, what you’ll find is, you may not have a lot of range of motion.
You may only be able to go to here. So, if you can’t slot the golf club because you’re trying to get your elbow in front, up to your belly-button, which is kind of the theme to externally rotating your shoulders, trying to get the elbow up, and if you can’t do that, well, you’re never going to slot it. You’re going to be over the top all day.
What we’ve done, and when I was working with one of my Mini guys is, we got to the top, we wanted to feel that right elbow slot back behind the seam of their shirt and getting that elbow to line up. So, if you have a seam in the side of your shirt, use that as your point of reference. And what you’ll want to feel is, let your right elbow soften up, so feel nice and loose, put that elbow on that seam, go to the top, and return that elbow on that seam, then smash the golf ball to the finish. I’ve learned some of these tips through the BioSwing Dynamics group, and what we’ve talked about is, when you have your palms up, and like you’re doing a bicep curl, you’d put your elbows in front and curl up, but if you flipped your grip and went palm-down, you would retract your elbows and put your elbows back.
If you’re a neutral to weaker grip golfer, preferably more on top, right hand or trail hand, then you want to feel that elbow line up a little bit deeper in your downswing as well. It matches up to that trail-arm action on the golf club. So, if we do it all correctly, you feel that right elbow soften going back up to the top.
Again, feel it get back behind your hip like you’re trying to drop your elbow into your butt pocket. Feel that elbow get back, smash it down to the ball, and have an awesome delivery into the impact area. This is a great tip and a great use of your trail arm to slot the golf club if you struggle doing it, because if you can get your hands a little deeper, your elbow a little deeper, especially if you have a hard time doing this, it’ll help push that club from the inside and you can start hitting some tight little draws.
Why You Need This: In this video, you'll learn how to start the downswing and get into the slot.
I'm sure you've heard the term 'get into the slot' but there's all sorts of questions about it.
What exactly does 'get into the slot' mean?
And how do you perform this swing move?
You'll discover the answers to those questions, and more, in this video.
Find out...
- What angle your club path should travel on,
- How not getting into the slot hurts your swing, and
- What you should feel in the swing to make sure you're getting into the slot.
Watch this video now to get your club into the slot and boost your consistency and power!
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All right, guys. Hit that one pretty well. How do we start the downswing and get into the slot? Everybody wants to get in the slot, that ensures that your club is going to be delivered squarely to the golf ball with a lot of power.
So the way we’re going to think of the slot is, when I’m coming in my downswing, and the big piece of this is getting the camera lined up correctly.
I want to line up the camera behind my body shooting through my toes and then out to my distance, out to the target in the distance.
If my camera’s set up to where it’s too far this way or it’s too far that way, it’s not going to be lined up to where I can really see if the club’s in the slot or not.
What I want to do, is I want to go ahead and have this club working down my forearm in the downswing. So this club shaft is coming through my forearm and the club head will be kind of traveling through my forearm.
I’m going in slow motion here, so I’m not sure I have this exactly right, but that should be basically traveling down through my forearm into the release through the ball. That ensures that I’m coming into the ball correctly.
Now if I’m steep, if my club shaft is over top of my forearm, that would be kind of an over the top type move, or some people get steep and they kind of back up out of it. If you’re losing your posture that’s very common, you’re getting steep and then having to move back out of the way.
If I was steep and I just kept on going down, I would just slam the club into the ground, so I’ve got to back up out of it to create space. That would be too steep. It would also be an over the top kind of slice, would be to steep this way.
If I’m too shallow or underneath, now my club’s getting stuck in under. I’m blocking out to the right, or I’m hitting some of those snap hooks that really start to turn over, where you just miss them a mile out that way. Either way, we’re going to have a little bit of trouble.
The first key is, what starts our downswing? What’s a good visual to start our downswing that we can actually take out to the range? Then second, what’s a good way to feel how I get in the slot.
So to start the downswing, the thing that I would recommend – let me grab this tee so I can set up another ball – I would recommend feeling like you have a 2,000 pound concrete ball or steel ball, and the center of your hips is the middle of that ball. It’s just kind of wrapped around your body.
As I start this downswing, I’m going to feel like I do that with my lower body. My legs, and my hips are going to get that ball starting to kind of rotate.
Imagine a 2,000-pound ball, I’m not going to be able to rotate that very fast, I’m just talking about building momentum.
The lower body, the big piece is the big muscles of your body create momentum in the swing, so that my arms and hands and club can add speed to that, that can add the snap at the end of the momentum.
So feel like in your downswing, I’m going to go ahead and get a little bit of a weight shift to the left, start that ball rotating, and then at that point I’m going to be in the slot and I can go ahead and release my hands and arms, get a lot of that snap and that speed.
So now how do we feel like we’re in the slot? Well I’ve got a great little drill for you. If I go ahead and set up my club like I’m going to swing it like a baseball bat, if I set it up in front of my right shoulder – I’ll try to get as lined up as well as I can with the camera.
This left arm’s going to be nice and straight, it’s going to look like that. My left wrist is going to be flat or even a little bit bowed, and then my club face, my club head, or let’s talk about the right arm first.
My right elbow’s going to be pointing up, my back of my elbow’s going to be pointing toward my hip. My palm is going to be up toward the sky like that.
Now from there, this club is going to be down below that a little bit. So if I’m swinging this baseball bat, it’s dropping below it slightly and then kicking up square.
So it’s slightly below that, now you notice if I go this way, and I get into that position slightly below with my club head, as I tilt forward, now that’s in the slot. I’m perfectly on line with my forearm.
So again, it’s about right shoulder height. My hands are jut below my shoulder, if I had to get really technical with it. This club is going to dip down about, let’s call it 10°.
My right arm is up, and then from there I’m going to hinge forward, and now I’m in this position where I have a bunch of lag and my club’s coming down in the slot.
The way I’m going to practice this, is I’m going to make four or five swings first working on momentum. Imagine that big ball around my hips that has a bunch of weight.
Once I get that momentum going, I can add to that with my hands and arms. So I’m just going to do a couple little practice swings feeling that, and swinging on through.
After I’ve done about five of those, now I’m going to do the one where I get in the slot here. Get that same position, I’m going to hinge forward with my hips.
How To Get Into The Slot Golf Drill
You’ll notice as I start to videotape from down the line, that’s about where it needs to be as far as coming into the slot. In slow motion it may not be perfect there, but we get the idea.
Golf Swing In The Slot
Five or six of those swings, and then I’m going to be ready to put those two pieces together, and get a good momentum, start the downswing in the right way, and then be in the slot where I can go ahead and rip this golf ball.
How To Get Into The Slot Golf
There we go, guys. Work on starting the downswing the right way, getting in the slot. You’re going to play some great golf.