After many years of searching, I developed a much easier, repeatable golf swing. This golf swing uses the Large Muscles (Shoulders & Body Turn) to control the club. This new swing is more Consistent, Powerful and Reliable. This is done by removing all disruptive movements, that “Let” the Large Muscles Control the arms, hands & club.
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Lesson Categories & Samples
- The Setup – 13 Lesson Videos
- The Swing – 26 Lesson Videos
- Practice Drills – 8 Lesson Videos
- The Short Game – 8 Lesson Videos
- Advanced Shots – 13 Lesson Videos
- The Mental Game – 18 Lesson Videos
- *New Pre-shot Routine Video Series
- *New Putting Routine Video Series
Why a need for “New Golf Instruction?”
- Because, some “Traditional Instruction” can be replaced with more reliable, athletic movements and setup. For example … learn more
Please check out the other Sample Lesson Videos. There is one in each category. As a Member you can access all 80 Lesson Videos and have your Golf Swing Analyzed. Be sure to check out additional instruction in my Blog too. I am always available through the Contact page and will answer your questions quickly. Let’s Improve Your Game! … Ross
Hi Ross im a new member, been using your method for a couple of weeks and showing great improvement, i tend to have a bit of a pull on my short irons but weak slices with my hybrids and longer irons, my driver is a bit short but much more reliable, any ideas and keep up the good work
Andy
Hi Andy
There are a couple of reasons for a pull on short irons:
1. You inadvertently setup with the toe off the ground like your mid irons. This points the face left to begin with because shorter irons have more loft. Instead, setup sand wedge with the bottom of the club flat on the ground… you will be closer but shots go straight if this is your problem.
2. You are using your hands at the ball flipping and closing the club face… keep hands passive the whole swing and let your turn hit the ball.
3. Your arms and club pass your body rotation because you stopped your turn too soon. Finish your turn then the club and arms pass.
Thanks. I’ve always had a pretty centered ball position with driver, and hit down on it.
Ive tried to put it up, but always seem to cut it, not pull or hook. I seem to gain accuracy as I move it back, but i will give it a go, with your advice.
I appreciate it.
You will love having the ball way forward and unwinding to the finish as fast or slow as you need. You will hit up on it naturally while you just turn through. It is when you try to help with the hands that the trouble starts. Just keep you hands passive and allow your body to pull your arms and club along through to the finish. The ball will be long and roll. Please, if you have a problem, tell me and I will help you… fight the urge to move the ball back to fix your problem. That is trading problems… Ross
Hi Ross,
Recently picked the Ttilesit 910 d2 10.5. I swing about mid 90′s. With this passive hand swing, would a regular flex assist in sqauring the face? I have a stiff flex in it, and have to “help it” a bit at the bottom to sqaure it. If i simply turn through, I start straight and then fade.
Thanks
No, flex is not the problem. It is either ball position (most likely) or your are using your hands and rolling the face open on the back swing and not getting it back to square. The ball position on driver should be about 4″ out in front of your front foot so you can turn into it and hit up on it (with your turn not hands) in an ascending trajectory. This launches the ball and it will also roll when it lands. Most play driver too far back in their stance and use their flip to square the club or have to raise up as to not hit the ground. Now, once you have the ball out front it may get pulled or hook, THAT IS BECAUSE OF THE HANDS FLIPPING OR THE BODY STOPPING AND THE ARMS AND CLUB PASSING. Just keep your hands passive and keep turning. You want to feel the body turn pulls the arms and club back down in front of the body as you keep turning.
can you comment on how to execute sand shots with uphill , downhill and buried lies?also how do recommend to control the distance of sand shots?
Hi George
On an uphill bunker shot you want to pre-set your weight up the hill into the front leg playing the ball on that foot. Your center is up the hill across from that foot. You do NOT want to open the face in that the slope is already adding loft. If it is a short shot choke down. Use your front shoulder to push straight back, then the hips unwind to rotate to face the target. Let your body rotation impact the sand an inch behind the ball and keep turning. The faster you rotate through impact the farther or higher the ball goes… or your can push back farther and rotate completely at a slower pace for a drop kind of effect.
On Downhill bunker shot (toughest shot in golf), you want to open up the face and your stance so you can swing across the slope. This give the path a more level environment vs. a path following the down slope (too hard to get the ball up and stop with a path down the slope). Stopping the ball on a downhill bunker shot is usually the tough thing. You must also commit to this shot to pull it off, you can’t quit on it. Needs practice to build confidence
The buried lie you want to first create what they call a “Dig Sole”, which is closing the face or hooding the face a bit. What this does is to remove some of the built in bounce in the SW and the club can now penetrate much easier down and pull out your buried lie. You must use your body rotation and mass to keep turning to use the sand to bring the ball up and out. The ball will roll more and you must compensate for it.
Controlling distance depends on how deep the ball sits in the sand and how much sand you need to go through to move the ball. This just takes practicing various scenarios of bunker shots to gain experience and confidence. The big key… use your body rotation to execute all these shots. Old golf instruction says to use your hands and arms to hit through the sand, but Old Style is not near as reliable as using your body turn… Ross
I’ve been hitting it like this for years..very passive hands, very rotary. I believe if folks looked at Zach Johnson’s swing, they would see a pro do what you communicate.
Thanks,
Todd
Great. Yes Zach for sure and Steve Stricker, Hunter Mahan (before he started messing with it), JB Holmes… I call them “Turn” players and Azinger and Dustin Johnson have the square hinge at the top of the swing that you get to use when you turn and don’t flip at the ball… Ross
Hi Ross,
Thanks for the great and swift support you gave me to get me going as fast as possible. Everything works fine now and I will definitely use your tips&tricks on a regular basis!
Thanks again!
Jef
Hello Ross! I want to say thanks, again. On July 29th I wrote to you regarding a conflict I experienced. The conflict concerned teaching traditional concepts versus what I learned through you. At the beginning of this past November, I decided to abandon tradition and share with the University of Washington Golf Classes I teach everything I learned and am still learning from you. It’s truly amazing. I ask my students, “How does it feel?” Students responses reveal the swing is easy to execute and they love the results. Some tell me they’ve never been able to strike the ball “like this.” To see proof folks can befriend me on facebook and watch the videos I post of my golf students. Some of my students take the time to watch your sample videos and it shows in their progress throughout the classes. As for me, I’m very happy that I’m able to teach the swing I exercise. As a result, I’m working to launch a new website, moderngolfinstruction.com. which will follow your lead. If it’s alright with you, I would like to reference you and your site within the site, because you deserve the credit and I want to share from where I learnt “Move Less Get Good”. Additionally, I noticed students like myself who have played a while or a long time had a more difficult time employing the concepts than beginning students. I realize now why this is. It took me over a year or more to undo and let go of many concepts about my “old” golf swing in order to execute “Move Less, Get Good!” In fact, I too was a bit skeptical and didn’t want to revamp my swing and swing ideas. But, I surrendered and the effort has been rewarding. Something you told me that helped the most was, “It’s like a bunt” in baseball. Every time I see a student “flipping” or “scooping,” I tell them, “It’s like a bunt” and the flipping soon disappears. I’ve had great success with your help and education on the golf swing. Thanks Ross, Martin
Hi Martin
You bet! Please let me know if there is anything specific you would like from me. Not sure if you know but I’ve got 4 apps now in iTunes and 2 more to be added any day. Please read below what Robb wrote about the “Ross Move”. Once the basic setup is being followed, focusing on this move brings in an athletic element that easily connects all the parts. Also make sure with the “it’s like a bunt” concept, they know to keep turning… like bunting while you’re turning. Nothing stops or happens at the ball, the shaft is just in line with your front arm like a bunt… great to hear from you… Ross
Do you actively push off the back foot to help power the downswing rotation or do only use the muscles in the front leg and hip to do all the work with the back leg following passively?
This is an individual thing. Assuming you are keeping your weight at least 60% on the front foot for the entire backswing, you are already in perfect position to just unwind as fast or slow as you need. I feel as if someone is behind me pulling on my front hip belt loop and spinning me around. This is a ROTARY move. If there is a need to slide towards the front foot first to start the downswing before you can unwind, then you need to work on not sliding on the backswing. Here is a great drill to practice how the downswing starts and unwinds: http://www.youtube.com/user/DUPLESSISGOLF#p/u/7/YNvMd2aMOn4 I hope this helps you, if not let me know and I’ll give you another way that might help you… thanks, Ross
Without using the hands and wrists in hitting the ball, will there be a loss of distance compared to the traditional golf swing.
Just the opposite… more distance and more controllable distance. This is because of more mass moving the ball and a square club face. Most golfers don’t realize that when they “Release” (really flip) their wrists at impact, they have cut their radius in half and the club is decelerating AND the body stops rotating for the split second the hands take over (so the body is not helping). When there is no flip, the length of the radius is the entire shaft and front arm and also connected to the core and all the body rotating… EVERYTHING MOVING THE BALL. This type of impact is accelerating and looks effortless because nothing happens at the ball… Ross
Hey Ross, just from that first one hour lesson you gave me, I went to my home course and played with my dad. I almost chipped in for birdie about 5 times and and almost chipped in for eagle twice. That was after our first lesson and i shot 79 which is my lower score I have ever shot. Can’t wait to keep working with you. Thanks for the coaching.
I didn’t really do anything. You are already an athlete. I just taught you how to setup and think so you could do what you already know how to do… see you on the 28th,
Ross, love it. Honestly, I have a conflict. I teach golf. I provide students with the opportunity to strike the ball the way I have learned from you or to strike the commonly practiced way. Most are afraid and want the traditional way. After every lesson, I practice what I learnt from you and gain more momentum. What you’ve shown me is practical and easy. It’s difficult to express my feelings. But, thanks a million, Ross. How can I make your revolutionary ideas identifiable. Lately, I’ve been playing and providing proof. However, folks can’t believe and feel the magic, Martin
P.S.
What happenned to “Impact Golf?” I dug that concept.
Many golfers are set in their ways and want a quick fix for a golf swing with way to many moving parts. That is why many tour pros with traditional golf swings, fade under pressure. The more modern players with reliable swings are turn players (large muscles). Less moving parts. That is one reason I abandoned the Impact Golf idea … thought that “Move Less … Get Good”, said more of what my swing is all about… Great to hear from you Martin… keep in touch… Ross
Hi Ross, After 55 years of golf you are refreshing. I guess this old dog is learning some new tricks.. Thanks. Just a couple of questions: (1) I have difficultly understanding your concept of “slightly open” on the Hybrids and Driver. Without swinging at the target how can the ball get to the target? (2) If 60% of your weight is maintained on the front foot on the backswing is there no transfer of weight to the back foot?
I thought that for 30 yrs also, but reality is… the ball goes where the face is pointing at impact, even if the source of power is rotary. If you notice a baseball player hitting one out of the park, almost always open stance. This is natural for an unwinding move and is very “freeing” once learned. Your swing will not feel bound up or some need to hit with your hands. Your misconception right now (and mine too for years) is, that you have to use to use your hands thru impact to try to square up the face you opened on the backswing. Once you are turning and keeping the hands passive, you can setup slightly open and can hit the ball dead straight or you can cut or draw at will, by changing slightly how you hold the club… but you’ll never have to change ball position or how you move during the swing. That remains a constant. Your best bet is to just go try it, then tell me (if there is an issue) and I will tell you why. Or send me your swing video to check out. There are only a couple of working parts so it is very easy to maintain until learned. Once learned, does not go away… Golf is fun… Ross
Dear Mr. DuPlessis, I am a super-senior who has been studying golf swings from the days of Ben Hogan and trying, successfully at times to use them, but none lasted. I am losing distance and flexibility to just name a few shortcomings, so much so that I almost given up the game I have loved for many years, However, your instruction on YouTube has worked for me and given me hope. You have incorporated the basics in simple terms and have removed many problems I have encountered So, thank you. I agree you are on to something substantial, particularly with using the large muscles and taking the hands and arms out of the swing. In addition, your shoulder methods have greatly enhanced my putting. My question has to do with setup, particularly as it relates to ball position. The template and shaft in line withe the leading arm are good for me, but where do I place the ball, or is it a matter of distance from the leading foot? I do not wish to subscribe to anything. Answering this inquiry will suffice for me. Please let me hear from you, and thanks for taking so much mystic out of the game, allowing us to use our lower bodies more, simplify the swing, and enabling us to concentrate on the target. With admiration and appreciation.
Hello Charles
Thanks for all the encouraging comments. It is difficult to go against the grain and tradition, but I have seen way too many success stories now (myself included) to question these more athletic concepts. Besides, they thought the world was flat for awhile too. Now, for your question about setup.
First, a solid golf shot at impact, will have the shaft in line with the front arm leading the club head. This is a must. The opposite of this is, the club head passing the shaft, decelerating and closing the face, and more than likely, will hit the leading edge into the ball. This is what happens to most golfers that play the ball in the middle.
Second, the lowest point in the swing arc during the swing, is directly below your front shoulder (when the hands haven’t disrupted it). Essentially, right about at your front hip. And just so happens, this is were we naturally rotate to throw a ball, or rotate for any other athletic unwinding movement. On the downswing, a powerful unwinding golf swing, pivots around this imaginary front hip vertical line. It is not around your spine (that is another real misconception).
What the last two paragraphs were about, was for credence for you to accept why the ball is played just below the front hip socket. What changes, from club to club, is the back foot moves in closer, or farther away from the front, to compensate for shaft length and balance. THE BALL POSITION DOES NOT REALLY CHANGE, so to speak. Hogan had this concept way back. Look at the ball position on the front cover on his book. Now the ball will move forward for woods & driver.
But here is the real KEY. To allow freedom to unwind to face the target, the toe and body lines must be slightly open. Like any other sport… Baseball batter has an open stance to unwind to hit it out of the park…never closed. So with the alignment slightly open… A perfectly hit golf shot using the large muscles to unwind will feel like it is a BLOCKED SHOT DOWN THE MIDDLE. This is because the body is unwinding and when the club head returns naturally, the body is sill unwinding when the ball is picked up and it feels slightly blocked, very powerful and is very repeatable.
Didn’t mean to get this deep, but your comments and question sounded very experienced and knowledgeable so I gave you the whole story… hope this helps and please check back to read the blog… Ross
I paid $30 bucks for your website. I spent the evening looking over some of them. I went out today and won $30 bucks from my friends with a smooth 78 on a pretty tough course. Only one 3 putt and no double bogeys. I am nursing a sore back so I was taking a club extra. I greatly limited my left pulls.
A really good day on the links and I let my friends pay for the golf lessons.
Buddy