1. How To Get Into The Slot In Golf Swing Simulator
2. How To Get In The Slot In Golf Swing
3. How To Get Into The Slot In Golf Swing Test
4. How To Get Into The Slot In Golf Swing Trainer
5. How To Get Into The Slot In Golf Swing Training
6. How To Get Into Slot In Golf Swing

The 'slot' is the correct delivery position for the golf club. There are several moves you can use to ensure the club returns to the ball on the correct path. Watch this video instruction tip from TG Top 12 Teacher Adrian Fryer on the downswing and getting into that elusive 'slot' position will be easy. Swing to the top as normal, and hold the position. Now take your trail hand off the club and grip your lead wrist from underneath, as shown. Move slowly and smoothly into your downswing. As you do this, use your trail hand to pull the lead arm downwards; avoid any tendency for it to move out towards the ball.

The Key To The Golf Swing: Finding The Slot On The Downswing
The one key that 99% of tour pros seem to share in common is finding the 'slot' on the downswing. After reading Jim McLean's book, The Slot Swing, I have come to the conclusion that there is in fact a 'slot' in the downswing that all pros seem to follow. Check out the professional golf swings on YouTube and you will find evidence.
So from McLean's observations there are three different shapes of the slot swing (see below). Finding this slot in all simplicity requires having a clubshaft plane that is 'flatter'/ more horizontal on the 3/4 position in the downswing than at that same position on the backswing. It's the clubshaft that falls to the lower plane (finding the slot) a move that happens naturally when you trigger your downswing by shifting your lower-body center toward the target (also see Over the Top). For most amateurs who swing over the top, their shaft plane from backswing to downswing becomes more vertical and they have little choice but to swing over the top and hit weak pulls and slices.

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It's important to realize that the act of swinging 'on plane' doesn't mean that your hands, left arm, and shaft work in the same plane at the same time. Although there are some points in your swing where everything matches up, it's incredibly difficult to plane everything perfectly, including the clubhead, the shaft, the hands, and the arms. While it may look good on paper or to a scientist, achieving these perfect positions is incredibly difficult and unnatural. Trying to be perfect usually leads to over thinking, freezing up, and at times, quitting the game. The best thing about the Slot Swing is that it doesn't care about your exact backswing plane. [McLean] has build several Safety Corridors that simply demand that you get within a range. The only plane of extreme importance is the one you shift your clubshaft onto at the start of your downswing. The Slot Swing is designed to improve the swings of recreational golfers.

• Designed to give you more freedom in your swing (instead of asking you to follow a strict diet of positions and angles.
• Make it easier to approach the ball from inside the target line (the path opposite the one that causes your slice).
• Improve your rhythm and tempo
• Add power to your tee shots and to each of your irons.
• Eliminates the most damaging swing error you can make: coming over the top

You're not copying the swing of a Tour player, but rather the inside loop. The inside slot move requires the least amount of athleticism and has the greatest margin for error. Plus when you do it correctly, it makes it almost impossible to come over the top. You don't need perfect backswing positions. You just need to get the shaft more vertical and then one good move at the start of your downswing that causes your clubshaft to flatten out and approach the ball from inside the target line.
The Secret is in the Shift

How To Get In The Slot In Golf Swing

Regardless of what your top position looks like, your lower body is the first thing to move from the top, and the principles involved in this motion are the same ones you use in every other athletic throwing or hitting motion. These principles are shifting, rotating your body center, and releasing your right arm. Almost immediately on finishing your backswing, get your lower body moving towards the target. Lee Trevino always said that he liked to 'break my knees toward the target to start his downswing.' The leading action of your lower body causes a quick separation. Basically, you're trying to leave your arms and hands - as well as the club - behind. Causing your club to trail and flatten is what positions it in the slot. In addition you must drop your right elbow close to your hip and underneath your right hand. Done correctly, it should feel as if your right elbow is moving toward the ball. If you need something to focus on as you transition from backswing to downswing, key in on your right elbow.
There is the standard slot swing, which basically curves the look of an outside-in swing path, a single plane slot swing, which curves the look of an 'one plane' swing of the clubhead, and the reverse slot swing which curves the look of an 'in to out' action. All these golf swings can although they may look inside-out, outside-in, or on-plane can all hit a straight shot, a draw, and a fade, depending on what kind of strike you put on it (see Understanding Ball Flight). All golf swings are acceptable and professionals have won with one of these three swing types.

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Notice that the red line is the clubhead's backswing while the blue line is the clubheads downswing. In all three the downswing shaft plane is either flatter than or equal to the shaft plane on the backswing.

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A swing plane is basically the path that the club head follows during the swing. Ideally, the club's path stays on a single swing plane, as again the goal of the golf swing is consistency. If the club 'changes planes' or swings on more than one plane, it is more difficult to be consistent. Very few good golfers swing the club on a 'single plane.' For most, the downswing plane is a little flatter than the backswing plane.

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Ben Hogan was the golfer who first made the concept of swing plane worldwide in his classic golf instructional book, 'Five Lessons.' His vision was swinging the club so that his left arm followed the inside surface of a pane of glass. He didn't want golfers getting to upright. Ben Hogan had a relatively flat swing plane. Many professionals today have a much more upright swing plane.

The basic goal for a consistent golf swing is to swing the club on approximately the same plane both on the backswing and downswing.

To help swing the club back and through on the same plane one must maintain a constant spine angle. The spine angle is the angle at which the spine is tilted towards the ground. The body must rotate about a spine that doesn't tilt more or less during the swing.

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When swinging the club, one wants to keep the hands, arms and club on the same plane. To help understand what this means, visualize the set-up as in this photo.

The blue line is called the shaft plane. The red line is called the right shoulder plane. Ideally, as you swing the club, the hands stay in between the two lines. Many amateur golfers will start the downswing with the arms and hands, which brings the hands outside the red line, and thus an outside to inside swing path, causing a slice.

Some good players' hands get slightly outside the blue line at the top of the backswing, but they then drop the hands back to below the blue line in the downswing.

Observe the positions of the hands with this golfer's swing (outside to inside swing path and a slice).

Photo 2: At the 9 o'clock position, the club is not parallel to the target line as it should be; the hands or moving below the red line.

Photo 3: At the top of the swing, the hands are just outside the blue line.

Photo 4: Starting the downswing, the hands are moved outside the blue line. Note that there has been very little motion of the lower body, meaning the downswing has been initiated by the hands.

Photo 5: The hands a club are both well outside the blue line. The swing path is severely outside to inside, resulting in a slice.

Photo 6: The hands are moving inside the blue line.

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