Driver

Hi Shawn,

Long commentary here, but it outlines 3 months of work I have done with my swing.

I started your program pretty early this year following a spring trip to FLA (end of March). I live in the northeast, so our golf year is short here. 🙂 I have been progressing with your videos and working on my irons for the most part. I spent quite a bit of time working with your pulling and slicing videos. When I started the program I had a tendency to pull my irons and my fairway woods. A lot! I tried throwing the club in my backyard and the first throw landed on my deck on the upper level. I was facing away from the deck planning to throw parallel with it, but in the end my wife came running out of the house to see what all the racket was. 🙂

My scores on the course got a little crazy out of hand because I was hitting a bunch of shots OB every round to the left on dead pulls.

It is now July. I’ve finally worked through the pulling issue. I have gotten much more consistent with this swing and I still do hit a pull every once in a while. The frequency of these pulls is way down and the magnitude of the pull is much much less. Funny though, my boundary conditions for what I call a pull has gotten much tighter as I go along and I have made improvements in this area.

I want to thank you for all the great info you have on your site. My friends all see the difference in how I’m hitting the ball and I’m really starting to get consistent with it. Don’t get me wrong, this has been a struggle for me internally. When I started this I figured it would be a few weeks to a month to get to the point I’m at today. I’m 3 months into it. My handicap has gone from an 11.5 to a peak of 17. It looks like I’ve turned the ship around and it’s heading the other direction now. Currently at 16. It takes a long time to turn the aircraft carrier around. My friends will be grumbling the rest of the summer as my handicap drops (I hope).

I’m working on your driver videos now. I’m 67 years young and when I started this year, my clubhead speed with the driver on a trackman was 85-90mph. I was hitting my drives ~220 yards. I think my swing speed has improved, because I’ve added about 40-50 yards on the drive. I’ve been using a 10.5 deg Calloway driver and had it adjusted to +2 deg (essentially 12.5 deg total). Historically, I’ve been a low ball hitter with all my clubs. Using your Driver video techniques, I now hit the ball much higher. and can hit a draw or fade at this point most of the time when required. At my session on the range today I decreased the driver from +2 to +1 and then to standard loft as I went through a medium sized bucket of balls. I didn’t seem to loose much height and my accuracy didn’t seem to suffer. Does this make sense to you? Should I continue to try reducing the driver loft? I think I might get additional mileage out of the driver with lower loft. My driver historically been a very consistent club for me and I have lot’s of confidence with it. I don’t want to mess that up by monkeying around with it to try to squeeze a few extra yards out of it. I would be really interested in you comments on this. I was thinking I may eventually even go to 9.5 deg at some point, but I didn’t want to do it all at once. Let me know what you think on this.

As a note, I haven’t yet taken the lower loft driver to the course, but I plan to very soon.

Thanks again for all your great info and videos. This has been a fun yet frustrating adventure. Keep up the great work. This is a great system and I am confident that I will see more improvements throughout the rest of the year.

Best,
Paul