Never Get Stuck Again

Southern California PGA Metro Teacher of the Year Zach Allen helps prescribe a great drill to help your game. For those of you suffering from getting stuck, early extension, caught inside, and all the ailments from them. Usually a good players problem that leads to big hooks and blocks, and saving it with your hands.

[alexquraishi]

Wow your the first instuctor that I found that exaxtly relates to my problems pushes and hooks. What a valuable lesson you saved me hundreds in golf lessons. Fantastic informion glad I found you!

[benlemoi]

Great tips for sure I know it will help me out big time. It’s kind of ironic all those years of trying to hit it right to left now I hate seeing right to left 😂

[jimhoffman]

This vid helped me greatly playing at scratch again after ballooning to a 9 this season!

[bh]

Very interesting since my Golftec coach wants me to take the club inside as I take it away. When I started doing that I immediately hit pushes and pull hooks.

[epickleuva]

Holy cow this is pure gold for me. The exact prescription I've been looking for!

[nrider]

Just came across this video searching for a fix to hitting those big swinging hooks. I'm a low single digit player but have struggled with this exact issue for years resulting in terrible inconsistency in my play. This is the best explanation of the issue I've come across and it finally makes sense to me now. Thanks

[tonytanti]

when I take the club outside I feel like I get disconnected

[jasonclark]

I stumbled upon this after having a particularly awful range session with my driver. 90 percent of my shots were big push-slices missing by 50 yards.

I couldn't believe how many of my swing issues were specifically addressed in this video. It's like it was made just for my game. I can't wait to go back to the range and work on this. Thanks Zach!

[firstname]

I have a one piece takeaway where I don't start the hinge until after P2 (shaft first parallel). Not sure how to implement your drill.

[dagreen]

The visual aid around the grip where did you get that?! I'd love to use that for my students!

[karemariuslunde]

This was a real eyeopener for me . Thank U so much for this video.

[jareroken]

This video is 7 years old but I’ve only just seen it! This guy has some really solid advice that you can actually use, there is some garbage on YouTube unfortunately but every so often you find a bit of gold. Watched a few of the other Zach Allen videos. Really good and stuff you can apply and use without 100 balls a day for 3 months!!!

[MrLuigiFercotti]

Finally someone with a method to fix "stuck" that doesn't involve making a conscious movement of the arms down in front of the body. Which IMO introduces just another timing move to eliminate a different timing move. There is a reason Tiger hit nine million golf balls under Harmon learning to drop the arms down. It's just another move that requires precision sequencing. Just MO. Flame suit on. 

[jontasch]

I am a low single digit handicap, but I've been struggling with the overdraws for quite some time- it rears its ugly head mostly with the driver. Golf has gone from an enjoyable experience to a grind. I can still shoot in the seventies because I'm long enough where I can hit 3 wood on a lot of par 4s and my short game is good. Still, I need to get the club working more around my body and on a better plane, rather than the wicked inside to outside move through the downswing. I love your position at the top. I'm going to try this out today. I'm so frustrated being under plane on the way through- I'm a good enough player where I instinctively flip the hands and get the massive overdraws, but it's frustrating as you know what.

[jetviser]

Only 2 guys in history have won majors with a takeaway that gets the club inside the hands -- Tom Kite and Ray Floyd.  Both engage in complicated contortions to cure this fault.  Zach's advice is sound.

If you look at Hogan down the line, he has the same position at the top that Zach gets to with the take away.  In fact, Hogan makes the same cupped-left -wrist "twist" (as he called it in his 1955 article) but slightly later in the backswing. At the top,  Hogan's club is laid off and square to open.  Even though Hogan takes the butt of the club further inside than Zack does, the club is always outside his hands.  

[conbaz]

I'm struggling with a push from being stuck. However, I'm afraid if I open the club face too much in my back swing but I'll develop a slice.

[baspernahkesini]

does it mean, more cupping on the left wrist instead of a flat left wrist at top of back swing?

[stationstation]

THIS IS ME. Thanks for the thoughts. I re-route it under and hump the goat. Blocks and overdraw. A LONG WAY. I'll work on this. Most helpful video on YouTube.

[prorobo]

Whoa your student is in very dangerous shaft-breaking territory with the club slapping against his back on the follow through!

[jamesj]

Brilliant lesson...golf feels much more free and natural...allow the left forearm to rotate a little at takeoff...when you restrict this motion and keep the clubface closed then good luck.. you'll need it!