This for me is the Holy Grail of the golf swing............game changer!!

@joegvoll6017

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it had such a positive effect on your swing! I hope it does for me as well. I was taught something much different, and unfortunately I never questioned what was taught to me in lessons.

@LandonAshworthDirects

3 жыл бұрын

You on tour now?

I think this is the best golf lesson I have ever seen... wish I saw it 30 years ago.

@daveeppley1640

4 жыл бұрын

I think an overhead view of this lesson would really help many viewers

Possibly the single best golf video out there...

Absolute genius! I was having such difficulties w driver. Hitting pushes n slices. Club not releasing thru. Incredible how this just brought my "whole" swing together.

Very fortunate.!! I just had a lesson with Bradley Hughes and all I can say is dont walk but run to get instruction from him personally or his programs. (No i don't know him)This was one of the things i was corrected on and for the first time ever I saw real benefits to my swing within a week. His lessons to me unlock the "mysteries" of the golf swing not by empty complex words nor by a series of positions, but by a feel, that with some drill practice, is easy to repeat. It is extroardinary that the best golf instructor is relatively unknown especially by KZread subsribers. He is the only one who did not confuse my swing but made real improvements that makes me yearn to get on the course every weekend again. These instruction clips are Gold. Thank you Mr Hughes.

Thank you so much! One quick note about some of the mistakes I've made because of the illusion of how this video was filmed (or maybe it's just an illusion that I personally had and couldn't figure out). I learned that the arms out move happens as you are still rotated into your backswing, meaning your back is still facing the target as this happens. It looks from this video that arms out happens as the body is back into address position but it actuallt needs to happen at the top of the backswing without the shoulder leading this move. Hope this helps someone who may have struggled to understand this like me at first.

@darrenbliesner4210

Жыл бұрын

That’s spot on. This has been my main swing thought for a couple years now. Hands arms move first which induces lower body to then rotate

This is absolutely brilliant Mr. Hughes!! I currently play to a +1, but have struggled with consistency (decent short game and putter saves my @$$). I could never quite grasp the "feeling" of letting the hands drop in transition until I saw this video. I decided that despite the fact that it seemed the opposite of what I was trying to accomplish that I would give it a go because I've realized over the years that golf truly is a game of opposites. All I can say is WOW!! My Ball-Striking is insanely good, and on video my hands are actually working down!!! My swing has never felt this good - EVER. Thank you beyond words for sharing this!!! This combined with releasing the heel through impact has changed my game - effortless power and accuracy. THANK YOU AGAIN SIR!!!!

I wished I had seen this video years ago all the years I have played golf I have never hit the ball so consistently since watching this instruction Bradley Hughes I salute and thank you

This is 100% gold. Bought Brad’s drill series a few years ago and it’s completely transformed my swing and game. It takes a bit of effort to ingrain the correct feels but once you get them there’s no better solution. Golf is way more fun when you make consistent contact with tight ball dispersion.

Best instructional video on golf period.

I am like everyone else on here Bradley, I have been fighting the release for 30 years an you fixed it in 5 minutes. Great lesson....

@soccerlove_dad

2 жыл бұрын

This should be the secret move explained!😂

This is absolute gold. I struggled with it at first because I was putting the hands out more on the downswing. Once I got the feel of my hands going out from the top of the backswing the club swings around on a natural arc and the it just releases. If anything I was hitting too big off a hook but I can work with that. Man I would love to have a lesson with Bradley!!

Bradley Hughes is Brilliant and his Instruction literally is 2nd to none...Such an Excellent Lesson above...Thank You!!!

You are a true gift too the golfing world. Thank you so much for this explanation you are a master of Cause and Effect.

This is the knowledge I have been waiting to learn since I started golfing.

Mr. Hughes.....you are the greatest. All these years I've been wondering about the release, I didn't know what it was till now, thanks....this is amazing. That is what I do with my swing without knowing it, but by doing that....I certainly knew I was squaring the clubface. Thanks again from N.Y.C.

Bradley should have a million subscribers.

Thank you so much. Changed my ball striking in the best way possible. Taking me to the next level!

You have come to the right place, a jewel of golf instructors. The truth is out there!

Counter intuitive for me at first but having tried its absolute gold!! Game changer! Thank you so much Bradley Hughes.

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

Жыл бұрын

remember what Hogan said...."reverse every natural instinct................"

This is brilliant. I have tried every approach to hitting the golf ball over 30 years. I have managed to piece together a plus 1 handicap. I'm in the process of teaching my children how to play after all I have tried this is the truest least complicated way I have seen. I made the move to this when I started with my girls and it is the way its done.

HI, In 4 Years I have been learning this game and studying you tube , and having personal lessons with 5 you tube coaches and never getting anywhere then god lead me to your channel. OMG, I am stuck for words just thank you lord.

Best golf instruction ever!

Excellent video Mr. Hughes! Great explanation of how the arm path should work to properly release the club.

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

Just an excellent explanation. Thank you so very much

The right video at the right time!

Took one lesson from a student of yours...Shawn Hodge. 5 months later and its all come together. Perfect swing concept.

Just came from the course after using this tip. I've never hit the ball with the crisp authority that I did today. Before this I was playing "paddycake". Now I'm playing golf.

Oh my goodness! Agree with previous comments absolutely. Brilliant video.

@vincetramonte4172

4 жыл бұрын

Onj

I believe Mike Malaska teaches the hands drop down close to the body. He demonstrates a practice swing where his hands drop almost straight down and he swings the club head out. I like Bradley's way of teaching the motion of the swing.

@shrimboy7492

5 жыл бұрын

malaska's method doesn work... tried it... was confused why my ball flights suck.. now i know

@guitar1950

5 жыл бұрын

Bradley keeps me on track! @@shrimboy7492

Just revisited your clip today. That hands out is very well demonstrated by J.B. Holmes. Never seen anyone more out and hands forward at impact than him.

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

5 жыл бұрын

Swing Searcher yeah good example

This is probably the only the video I should've ever watched whilst learning to play. Finally, my body and mind understand what the hell is going on. Thanks, Bradley! Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!...

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

Жыл бұрын

its the formula

This reminds me swing lesson from Shawn Clements which is very true and genuine. Thanks

Simply the best

Thank you Brad 🙂👍🏻⛳️

No one has ever described how great ball strikers hit the ball - until this. I’ve had lessons from 20 pros. None of them were able to explain this.

Love this

You have changed my life.

No way to get stuck if you do this! Very great instructor!

Yes spot on I have just stumbled over this while practicing but didn’t know understand what I was really doing now this confirms otherwise I will wander off inn some other direction bill from Mildura Australia brad long way to go for a lesson are you still coming back to Australia to give lessons

best golf video ever - thanks Bradley

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

Жыл бұрын

we think its great too!!!

Great vid!!

Great stuff

Wow! I've got to try this drill in the morning! Unfortunately I was taught something much different!? In fact, I was taught to hit Iron shots with a handkerchief or small towel in between my right armpit and body, and not let it fall out until after impact. The idea, I suppose, was to promote an inside to outside swing? Well I stopped improving at about age 17 and that's about when I was taught this nonsense. Thanks for the tip/drill! I'll be up at daylight to try it!

very good and ez to understand. thnx

Gold!

Brilliant explanation now I finally understand

This is such a great video Brad, thank you for sharing as always!! Explains a lot, question I have tho is how to you get an in to out club path into the ball from having the hands so far out in front like that?

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

6 жыл бұрын

Scott Johnson the more the hands feel out- the more the forearms can turn & the more the wrists can stay cocked-that is what lays the shaft back

@strone33

6 жыл бұрын

GolfAus thanks Brad as always, so generous!

I discovered this today and my mind is blown at the unbelievable difference! If there's a "secret" to the golf swing then this is it. I finally understand what those terms like "skipping a stone" and "you hit the ball out in front of you" really mean. It is way way way more in front and away from your body than you think. For me I try to get my hands to go right through the ball. And yes it's that drastic.

hi Mr Hughes just wondered how you feel about those drills that recommend tying a belt or something around the torso and right arm, then playing short shots to get the feeling of keeping the bend in the right arm at and to a degree through impact until it (they arms finally straighten after impact? Cheers

Just went to the range and tried this, my brain tells me that its an over the top move however the ball flight was baby draw, for most I hit it really well I missed left on a few and right on a few drives but that's the old right arm back to the hip thing that causes the over top move, going to be hard to get that out but it feels great having what seems like more freedom to swing.

My old instructor used to tell me to swing "out" from the top and not "down". I never understood what he meant but now I do. I never was able to do it as I tried. My hands would just always go down in transition and get the shaft steep. When you do swing "out" it gets the clubface wide open and I just don't know how to deal with that. The shots would just be big high push slices.

There was a Mike Austin invention called the Flammer that addressed this issue. Hard to find since he passed.

Bradley Hughes - I dont want to pump this guy's tires up too much but he is absolute brilliant. although he didn't mention in this video but he does in other videos, this "out" is actually very natural if you get the right concept in your mind. since human beings were born to hunt and kill, we are genetically and evolutionary incredible at aiming straight and using our hands and body to project objects. however in golf, because there is an object on the ground, we essentially become disoriented and our perspective becomes skewed, that's why 99% of all handlcap golfers aim 45% to the right thinking they are in line with target and they come way over the top, and they never get any better. this out to in move isn't the only way to hit the ball but for the majority of the hackers in the world, including myself, this is the easiest way to create speed, consistency and most importantly a stable shaft/face dynamic, assuming of course are you aimed correctly. if you aren't aligned or aim correctly, all bets are off, one day you can shoot near par and next day you can barely break a 100.

There has been a big “ flattening “ kick and I think this is a key component to flattening your plane relative to backswing plane Great stuff!

This advice is so true but so completely counter to how the swing looks and how most golf instruction advises. Unless you miraculously discover this feeling (as I recently did) there is no way you would assume this swing feeling and move is correct. I find that it actually feels like a form of casting the club with the hands (but without the shoulder involved). Jack Nicklaus also mentions he focused on throwing the club head from the top and I assume this is what he means. Brad do I assume your lower body moves first before your hands and arms make the move?

@SaintKimbo

6 жыл бұрын

You are missing the point if you need to ask 'what moves first'. The correct arm and hand action will automatically trigger the body, you just need to trust it. It's the conscious movement that gets in the way and ruins it. If you trip on a step, you don't need to think about what part of the body moves first, as you try to regain your balance, do you? Do kids think about body positions etc., when they expertly skip a stone across a pond? This is the 'secret' of the golf swing, if there is such a thing.

If I use my forearm rotation actively in the downswing, I can hit it further and lower. The feeling is that I start early with this in the downswing. The more I feel to rotate my forearms clockwise in the backswing the more I can use my active counter clockwise arm rotation in the downswing. Is that a problem or misinterpretation of what you do?

Great video. Do you have a suggestion as to the best position at the top of the backswing? And, secondly, would you prefer that the left wrist is flat or cups at the top of the backswing?

@darrenbliesner4210

Жыл бұрын

I have my wrists a little cupped at the top but moving hands in transition flattens the left wrist

Would keeping my hands too close to my body in the downing cause the the feeling that my right palm (I play right handed) is facing up at impact? Or am i just dropping hands too steeply trying to shallow the club? Probably sounds like repeating the same question, just worded differently. Thanks for all replies. .

I saw another video of yours which is important to get the back swing at the right height then release it from 4.30 Will woods and driver go the same?

This was an awesome instruction!!! I was trying control the club path to the ball. I had no idea that when you have your hands go out that the club would come back down to the ball. My perception was soooo off. And by doing that, your body would rotate after impact not before. I've been doing the opposite. Also how flat should we have our clubs? If you're using the shaft/hosel to go through the swing/ball then it would be good to have the lie angle really flat?

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

5 жыл бұрын

Charles Doral maybe have a flatter club to practice with to initially help see this happen but generally the full set wouldnt need to be too flat- standard lie is fine

@donkeychickenboy

5 жыл бұрын

@@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf I'll try that. Thanks!

How tall is the cone? Am trying to find something that is already in my garage to use for this drill. Thanks. You are the best out there.

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

5 жыл бұрын

Matthew Stensrud prob about 6 inches- a water bottle works too, just put a bit of water in it to make it stand up

Moe ,Norman's "horizontal tug". Tough one to believe!

Brad agree but then ball position has to be further away from your body to hit the ball this way?

Great video Brad. I'd love to organise another lesson next time you're back in Sydney? We met at Stonecutters Ridge and Mona Vale previously.

I know the video is a few months old, but every other video was using the "water bottle" method. You know, during the downswing your hands brush against your right pocket and it "hits" the water bottle in your pocket. This works way better. Or am I just stupid....

@jtsimikas

5 жыл бұрын

Did you continue using this method. Is it still working? Yes, I know this counter intuitive to everything else you hear from instructors.

If only there were people teaching this in UK. If there are I'd love to know.

@paulr705

6 жыл бұрын

chrislynch52 if you can get to Milton Keynes look up Sam Jarman. samjarmangolf.com Sam is a big fan of Brad and has worked with him last year.

The reason why this hands out front is correct is years ago I tried out one of those swing plane hoop contraptions that you’ve seen and the first thing I noticed was that at no point was it ever behind me everything was in front. Felt really strange but I know it was correct..

You coming back to Australia any time soon?

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

6 жыл бұрын

Jake West was just there - wont be back for a while now

Hi Brad just wondering why Ben Hogan said My left arm swung right across my chest on the backswing, and was the strongest part of my downswing.

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

4 жыл бұрын

Doug Kercher cos he rotated his arms a lot- he also said he wished he had three right hands- both play a role

This is true I feel like I’m swinging way out but on camera it looks normal

I'm confused. In you video The Release- Bradley Hughes Golf you suggest to keep the arms closer to your body feeling connected to the chest and rotate through the strike. WTH

@paulwoolnough3770

5 жыл бұрын

That`s golf instruction for you, more contradictions than a politicians speech. Having said that Bradley is one of the best instructors out there.

@guitar1950

5 жыл бұрын

In that video I believe Bradley explains to keep the upper arms closer to the body (mass) but the hands don't get close to the body until the motion toward follow through as you rotate.

You can really contain the club post impact .

Starting at 3:20 mark around the 4:00 mark you talk about the arms coming close to the body later from that "out" position. Its a reaction to the release as far as I understand you. How does that influence the path? Tighter before impact is more in-to-out and your promoted action seems to be more out-to-in. Is that an illusion?

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

6 жыл бұрын

illusion....more hands and arms (especially the right arm) can be out the more rotation you will have in the arms (to lay the shaft back) and also in the wrists (to keep the clubhead up)...both lead to an inside entry of the clubhead.. opposite forces of hands working left from what feels outside and the club working from the inside... no straight lines in a swing...opposite pressures are what create the better functional swings

@swingsearcher7536

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to answer that.

I understand your "out" practice swing position between P5 and P6 more as an exaggeration feel and assume that you don't want the hands actually that far out when striking Golf balls, correct? I mean between P5 and P6 the left arm is about vertical in 2D video like your student picture at 5:35, right? Or your attack angle would be very steep and/or in-to-out.

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

6 жыл бұрын

Swing Searcher they wont go out as far as shown- but the more they feel out the more arm turn and wristcock you will have which is what keeps the shaft behind and uo for inside path to ball

@swingsearcher7536

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to answer!

@judsonholliday8549

4 жыл бұрын

GolfAu

Brad, it appears you have changed your thoughts on releasing the club through impact. I just watched a video you produced in 2011 on releasing the club and you talk about having the arms connected, packed is the word you use, and you indicate the more room between the body and the left arm the more difficult to control the club. Just wondering what changes have you seen or experienced to cause a 180 degree change in your instructions? Or am I mis-understanding the first video?

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

6 жыл бұрын

Ed Bleackley packed in into and through impact is the key... all my videos I talk about having room on the backswing which means not connected

@edbleackley8444

6 жыл бұрын

Brad, thank you for your response, appreciate your insights and I will take that information and review the videos that I was looking at that caused me to make the inquiry.

I’ve always been terrified to use an outward hand path on the downswing as I thought it would hosel it?

@darrenbliesner4210

Жыл бұрын

Point the hands out don’t overdo it

On the downswing, it looks like the club face is wide open???

I’m not too sure on this drill..If you hand path gets too far out over that cone, it looks like it would promote too much right side bend and dump it under to save the shot..or the body would early extend to release the angles..

One more thing... how far in front of you do you have that cone?

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

6 жыл бұрын

Jake West says it in the video- between my feet and the ball and just beyond the right foot.. can put a ball up on a tee or use a water bottle if you dont have cones

Please may you do this video up the line?

I've tried this the last couple days and I hit shanks half the time. Am I exaggerating the hands out too much, not rotating the forearms enough at impact?

@DriveFarGolf

4 жыл бұрын

If I may offer my experience....I too have struggled with this since I first saw it when it was uploaded. I think I found something this week though. So I was trying to put my arms in this position during the swing but without success. No problem in slo mo but once you go to full swing speed, the pressures and forces are completely different. What seemed to click for me this week was grip pressure. In transition I feel a lot of grip pressure in the last 3 fingers of my left hand (right handed golfer here). It’s a feel like I’m trying to open a really super tight jar lid with my left hand and turning the back of the wrist away from me at the same time (I think I saw a Brad video talking about this but can’t find it). I had a mirror behind me at the range when trying this. It looked like it help shallow the club a lot. Brad’s teaching about forces and pressures is spot on. This opening jar grip pressure feeling helped me understand what Joseph Mayo talked about in his wrist angles video on Vimeo vimeo.com/252977915 Joe is one of the very few instructors worth a follow along with Brad. Good luck and remember, forget positions, think what pressures and forces are needed to execute the movement you want. ATB Paul R.

@darrenp9088

4 жыл бұрын

@@DriveFarGolf Thanks Paul. Ironically I have been working on flattening my wrist on the backswing as it's too cupped. So your advice is probably spot on and part of my problem. I think I also get too much weight on the balls of my feet on the downswing which I need to work on too.

@DriveFarGolf

4 жыл бұрын

Darren P sounds like we do the similar things, I take the club back a bit too much on the inside and get cupped at the top, but it took me a long time to realise I don’t need to worry about it, as I don’t hit the ball on the backswing 🙂 sure it might help get to the correct place in the transition a bit quicker but I don’t have time to spend hours sorting it. Plus so many f the greats cupped a little at the top, Sam Snead was one. For me the weight too far forward, I try and get armpits lined up over the toes so I know I’m balanced well. 👍🏻🏌🏻‍♂️

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

4 жыл бұрын

Darren P lack of hand speed- you would push the hands forward or use too much body- thats why I use a drill that trains the release first before I have people try do this (drill 1)

@darrenp9088

4 жыл бұрын

@@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf thanks Bradley. I need to learn to walk before I can run.

Brad I've watched every one of your videos several times, the BEST teacher available in my opinion. Teaching how the greatest ever ball strikers to live did it instead of this modern day wack teaching methods. Question however: I have practiced this a lot lately and I can't get over the sensation that I am going to totally miss the ball on the downswing with my hands so far out from my body... from your point of view while hitting, does it almost feel like you are cutting across the ball to the left from that point through the follow through? I understand that since the club is back behind our body it technically is coming from the inside, but I'm trying to gauge what the actual feeling is from early transition where the hands are out from the body to when you get to impact and beyond.. should it feel like you are coming way over top while simultaneously keeping the forearm range and club behind you? Please help, I feel once I can fully understand this it will be my golden ticket

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

6 жыл бұрын

As the arms rotate back towards the body the hands go lower and return shaft to very much where it was at address.. no need to try hit- it does it all for you

@pacmanjones5625

6 жыл бұрын

thanks so much Brad! I have been a disciple of your videos and online lessons and anyone who does not watch your content is doing themselves a huge disservice. Hope to see you compete on the Champions Tour one day soon!

@pacmanjones5625

6 жыл бұрын

Brad, is this a decent position in my video link? you can really see it if you put the speed on .25 it slows it down substantially... I have been really feeling like my hands are way out in front on down swing just like in this cone drill, but it still seems as if the arms aren't packing back in tight enough through the strike and the right arm is not staying bent and lifting up slightly at impact.. what is the move from this position that i should be feeling? kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZHyJz8irddyyeaw.html

AMG have proved the hands go down near vertical from the top.

@canefan17

2 жыл бұрын

Try that feel and let us know how it goes. I’m actually curious. When I do the “hands out feel” like Bradley demonstrates here, my hands do still pretty much work down (and out). It’ll never just work out.

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

Жыл бұрын

correct...see the name of the video

@johnnybravo9087

Жыл бұрын

Ok Bradley, so if hands out is actually down, how would one hypothetically actually move the hands out? By feeling them go up?! It’s illogical. If I try hands out they actually go out and make it like a trick shot to even hit the ball.

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnybravo9087 you wouldnt have them go out unless the ball was up in the air like a tee ball or like a baseball hit... remember this is the 4th or 5th thing I teach players....430 path first- footwork- post impact- then start to deal with this stuff

Can you not wear Black shirt so we can see your right arm and elbow in relation to right hip in downswing?

So many people telling different story how the golf swing should be. Some said, keep the hands in, now this guy saying your hands should be out.. I don't know

@GolfAusBradleyHughesGolf

4 жыл бұрын

Seilogo Lauago do you want your hands in front of the body or behind your body?

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thus ends a million and one pointless arguments 95% of coaches have with themselves on how to teach the golf swing.

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