Load, wait, panic: Clay Ballard's feet-first answer to bad hands
A short that tells golfers to look down at their pressure shift before changing their grip passed 7,500 views in its first day and a half.
Top Speed Golf - Clay BallardStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Struggling with inconsistency... Change what your hands are doing 👀
Clay Ballard put out eleven uploads over the week, and the youngest of the bunch is the one doing the work. "Struggling with inconsistency... Change what your hands are doing 👀" went up on October 4, and within about a day and a half it had drawn more views than anything else he posted in those seven days.
The title points at the hands, but the description sends you straight to the feet. Chunks, thin shots and a swing that feels all arms, Clay argues, often come from a pressure shift that arrives too late. The load should stay on the inside of the trail foot, and the move toward the target starts before the backswing is even finished. He sums up the right order as load, shift, rotate, and the wrong one as load, wait, panic, a line most weekend golfers will recognize from the range.
The rest of the week circled the same theme from different angles: a helicopter drill for the forearms through impact, a fix for golfers who shallow the club and still get stuck, a 9-to-3 sequencing drill and a wall drill against sliding. One downswing short borrows Tommy Fleetwood as its model, a fair choice given how often the Englishman's rehearsal swings turn up in instruction circles.
Overall the channel ran a little below its usual daily pace, and the subscriber count held steady. Among similar sports channels it was a softer week across the board, with Big Wedge Golf and the cricket channels also well under their normal levels, while Adam Celadin was the one keeping to his usual rhythm.
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The videos drawing views on Top Speed Golf - Clay Ballard right now
HelicopterDrill9,013 views · 2026-09-30
Hips in the downswing8,606 views · 2026-09-29
Inconsistency? Change what your hands are doing1,956 views · 2026-10-02
You Shallow Yet Still Get Stuck in the Downswing? I got you.1,563 views · 2026-09-30
Get your body moving in the right sequence!1,467 views · 2026-10-02
Still Sliding? This Wall Drill Fixes Your Weight Shift 👀679 views
- Subscribers
- 723,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 384,543
- Videos published this week
- 11
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 7,503
- Views on its first day
- 4,444
The numbers
Here is how Clay Ballard's channel moved over the week.
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Jack Nicklaus, one of the swings Clay studies, won how many major championships?
Nicklaus won 18 professional majors, the record in men's golf.
