Developing Your Golf Swing From Waist Height Down

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The golf swing is much simpler than the average player thinks. Mike Malaska constantly reminds us that if we use our natural instincts to hit the golf ball, we usually get better results.

When Mike was a kid, his father taught him this drill that is used by countless baseball youth. Little did he know, he was developing a Golf Digest Legend Of Golf Instruction’s golf swing!

As said before, the baseball swing is your golf swing and this is just another drill to emphasize that.

Learn to make the golf swing simpler with the right tasks, and become a better player, fast!

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00:00 Title
02:39 3 Levels

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MIKE MALASKA TEACHING CREDENTIALS
Golf Digest Legend of Golf Instruction
2011 National PGA Teacher of the Year
2021-2022 Golf Magazine Top 100 Teachers in America (Lifetime Achievement)
2020-2021 Golf Digest 50 Best Teachers in America
TaylorMade National Advisory Board Member, 2020-Current
PGA Class-A Member since 1996
Honma US Advisory Board, 2019-2020
Worldwide Director of Instruction at Nicklaus Golf Academies
2017 PGA Southwest Section Teacher of The Year
25 years as a Jack Nicklaus Academies Trainer & Instructor
2017 GRAA Growth of the Game Teaching Professionals Elite Member
TaylorMade National Advisory Board Member, 2015-2018
2016 GRAA Top 50 Growth of the Game Teaching Professionals
Southwest Section Senior Player of the Year
TaylorMade/Adidas Instructional Consultant
Former Director of Instruction at Superstition Mountain Golf & CC,
Superstition Mountain, AZ

boom so once you know how to make this one work boom all you’re doing is you’re taking this action right here with a little grip change and you’re lowering that action down to here one of the reasons when I came to golf it was really simple now I had programmed into me probably the most important position in any sport when I was like four years old my dad put a tire on a tree in our backyard and he gave me a bat and I’d go out there and i’ just hit the tire now at 4 years old the hit was about about just above waist highe and I’d practice hitting and I’d practice hitting now when I did that he’d have me hit the tree and then push and when I would push my hips would open and my right arm would go right here and I could feel that real strong lever system over here so I hit that tire I I went through from the time I was a kid till probably 16 17 years old I beat up so many Tire was incredible now here’s the key for this if you just do this one drill with a little grip change so the face Works you’ve got your golf swing see golf you learn in yourself before you’re four years old the main things you need to play this game Hit and throw there’s hit throw and catch those three skills so all we’re doing is reinforcing what you already know now here’s the importance with this you start hitting the tree or hitting something up about this high why if I let somebody start with an impact bag they’ll come down and they want to twist even though the impacts bags there they don’t get their right arm in the right place so when you start up here nobody goes like this to hit something up there so you’re going to tend to go this way so you see where my right arm is below my left my left is hitting like this which is what I believe in grip my right hand is the one that’s going to change but you see this alignment and then I go down here then I go down here then I’m down to the ground but you see those alignments are the same the only difference is I’m taking this arm and this one that there’s my hit and there’s my push my body legs push out of the way and if you’re going to hit this tree I’ve never seen anybody go and move up into the tree they all move away from the tree and hit boom boom boom boom there’s your golf wing with just a little grip change now we’re going to show you over here I’m actually going to hit some balls but that drill will help you to feel the impact I did that hundreds of thousands of times before I ever came to golf so what we’re going to do here now I’ve got these three balls at different heights I’m going to show you how this works now the grip change my grip with a baseball bat I do the same thing with golf the only difference is I hit a baseball I get the face there I put my thumb on the side of the shaft now my right hand doesn’t go Palms opposing like you do in baseball it’s not doing this my right hand comes up so my right palm is doing this is aiming like the face but that’s really the only change you can even take your thumb off so it’s so it’s a real baseball that’s how I started then it goes boom boom so here’s your lever system and now you’re not having to twist and flatten this wrist to try to hit something you just lever it which is the strongest angle that wrist can make so now I’m going to put a baseball bat on here so you can kind of see what’s going to go on here so I’ve got that little grip chain I’ve got the face sitting there so all we’re going to do is we’re going to go there’s my impact position so boom same impact position boom same impact position boom so once you know how to make this one work boom all you’re doing is you’re taking this action right here with a little grip change and you’re lowering that action down to here but the relationship of my arms whether I’m up here or down here is the same the reason I don’t like an impact bag is people start down here and they impact it like this when you’re up here your shoulders tend to work the way they’re supposed to in a golf swing I promise you you learn impact and you get your grip right this game is really pretty simple all the stuff you want it to do solid impact distance speed consistency they’ll all show up because you’re understanding of impact that you already have becomes simpler and simpler for you to perform with a golf swing