By: Porzak Golf | Duration: 00:11:19
Video Description
*** Full Swing Master Class HERE *** https://fullswingmasterclass.porzakgolf.com/
Want to hit your driver further without swinging harder? Sam Snead’s secret to instant distance was lifting his lead heel in the backswing—allowing for a bigger turn and more effortless power. In this video, I’ll show you how lifting your lead heel can help you generate more clubhead speed, maximize your coil, and send the ball farther down the fairway. Learn how to apply this classic move to your modern swing and start crushing your drives today
*** Get Online Lessons With Us – https://porzakgolf.myshopify.com/pages/lesson-plans
*** Get a Personal Lesson With Porzak Golf – Info@porzakgolf.com
Todd!!!!
I’m confused about how to do this without ruining my connection. Since I started watching Porzak Golf videos I’ve worked very hard to stay connected. It helped me tremendously.
Awesome , great video Adam, like when Todd comes on
Wow! Didn’t know the whole Sam Snead quote. Makes sense!
As always, so well explained. Many thanks again Adam for your trusted advice.
Adam sorry to say this, but it really stinks to get older! . I am 77 and still think I can hit the ball like I did when I was in the 50s.
Getting old sucks lol but at 54 i am hitting the longest drives of my life! Over 300 yds btw
I have to think the top down coil also helps keep the takeaway on plane. For me, I tend to straighten my trail leg early (turn the hips early) and this pulls it inside. It's almost like trying to feel like your takeaway is like a finesse type wedge with little hip turn, mostly shoulders, and then after that, just finishing your turn into the full backswing? It's your shoulders pulling your hips and subsequently, your lead heel up, into the top.
So let's get real. The people need this. Time to partner with Bryan Bros, Horvat and DeChambeua. Let go next level.
Just took a lesson today working on my driver swing. His advice letting the left foot heal come off the ground increasing my turn increased club head speed by 5 Miles per hour increasing the over all distances by 20 yards. And he shows Sam Snead videos too..
People work on swing mechanics way too much, yet forget about hammering the ball by the hands, which is supposed to be the purpose of a golf swing.
Hammer it, and let the body react!
Not sure if this is the best place to mention this but the bump in setup that you preach doesn’t work for me. I find bending my left leg slightly helps me set up much more efficiently for everything that follows. Left leg slightly shorter than right I don’t know but it works. If you happen to know please elaborate for me. Thanks
😊
Time for some devil advocate. Does lifting the lead heel truly provide any benefit, or does it just give the illusion of coil, length, rage of motion, or whatever you want to call it while adding more variable and inconsistency to the swing. To use some Nick Price numbers for reference lets say the hips turn 4 inches in the backs, the shoulders turn 8 inches, the hands travel 6 feet, and the clubhead travels 14 feet at the top / end of backswing. Let's say you lift the lead heel, and that gives the illusion that your hips have turned 2 inches deeper (They haven't really as your flexibility hasn't changed. The stretch between your leg muscles and your hip muscles didn't magically increase the distance between the two didn't change).
The illusion of an observer (or camera position) of the hips turning deeper then gives the illusion of the shoulders turning more and going deeper (distance from hips to shoulders looks more, but you didn't gain flexibility and separation as the muscles still have the same maximum range – say the hips turn 30* and the shoulders 60* (for a 30* gap). Let's say lifting the heel gives the illusion that the hips are able to turn 15* more to 45*, and that in turn gives the illusion the shoulders turn to 75* (they haven't really because the gaps due to flexibility still caps out at 30*). The illusion of bigger turn gives the illusion of longer arm travel, and that gives the illusion of club traveling further.
The illusion is a bigger swing, and you now have more variables: when do you put the foot back down, how fast do you put it down, how do you put it back down in the same exact spot it was before. As Adam has mentioned in past videos long arm swing, big or fast body rotation do not correlate to fast swing speed. Swinging the arms and hands down fast and in the correct direction are what produce fast swing speeds.
John Rahm and Tony Fenau don't swing their arms back far, and they don't rotate their body parts to huge depths, yet they produce hgh swing speeds (because they produce high hand speeds from the top of swing). Want more backswing hip turn? Flare the back foot out more at address. Turn your rear hip straight back behind you instead of laterally moving it. Turn your rear shoulder behind your head toward your spine instead of tilting it. There are ways of getting a deeper turn (if that's what you want) other than compromising your swing by lifting your heel. Is it a coincidence that Ernie Els played some of his worst golf while Claude Harmon the 3rd had him lifting his heel, and since he stopped getting instruction from him and started keeping his heel down he's performed a lot better? I think not.
best exchange on YouTube always.
Some nice little nuggets there Adam. I have been working on getting my right hip to turn a bit more and might give lifting the heel a go, again like most things to do with the golf swing, it might work for some and might now work for others.
Can you do a video on the momentus heavy club and why you like it? I see it is one of your videos. Just curious what benefits you see from it.
So, I don't know if I agree with grip comment. I am a new golfer, 3 years into it. I just happen to have unusually strong grip due to years of weight lifting and my former occupation and good grip genetics I guess. So my issue is I can't stop putting a death grip on the club and has killed my game. Granted I picked up the sport much later in life and sometimes treat the club like Im holding a sledge hammer instead of a golf club but it has been challenging for me.