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Shawn, I have seen this for myself, as I’m sure you have…where my eyes focus, so goes the clubhead. If I focus on the top of the ball, thin hit or top. Focus behind the ball, fat shot. The intermediate point is gold for sure, but I have found that once I’m set up after zeroing in on my intermediate point, I look once to make sure the clubface is set according to what I’m trying to accomplish, and then I’m laser focused on about 6 or 8 inches between the front of my ball and my roughly one foot of intermediate point as I take the club back and swing through. The fear factor is that your club face will go right over the ball and bottom out on the spot you focused on leaving you with a whiff or a top strike. What I’ve found is that, if I make a proper swing, the clubhead makes excellent contact with the ball and my focus brings the clubhead path right through where I’m looking. Basically I’m not looking at the ball whatsoever, but the results are quite opposite of what one might expect, a pure strike sending the ball pretty much along the point you focused in on. I have done the same thing with my putting stroke, finding my intermediate point, or start line, focusing on about two or three balls past my ball along my start line, and making sure the putter head travels through that spot after impact. Again, phenomenal results with the ball rolling down the desired line. The only exception is hitting driver and I focus on about 3 balls or so before my teed up ball, but in line with my selected intermediate point. Years of opposite aiming practice bring the fear of completely messing up the strike right to your brain because you feel you have to stare at the ball. Once it clicks that the clubhead will actually impact, for the most part, where your eyes are focused and you relax and just swing through, you realize you can now fine tune your targets, not just try to hit toward the general area and hope for a decent result.
Hey Michael! Just saw this comment; you are onto something as I have been experimenting with the exact same thing! It’s funny because it works best for the driver for me. As long as you have your eyes parked at the CORRECT HEIGHT past the ball where the club will be coming up through. I have also had amazing success with the tip of tee where I look and the focus is to make the tee summersault to the left edge of the intermediate point with my “ball on a string” like in the “throwing series hammer throw driver” video. Stay on this, what makes it work fully is the prediction process that you MUST CONFIRM (non negotiable) and the video series is called “the goldilocks series”
keep me posted to your developments please! 😀👍
Hi Shawn,
How to hit a big fade?
My home course is a Slicers paradise.
Hitting my draw and a straight shot well.
Hitting my small fade very well.
But many times I find myself with trees on my right and target is behind the over hang of the trees.
I set up my Ip left of the foliage, I stand towards the left of my IP and swing left of the IP.
Two things happen, 75% of the time I go straight into the Foliage or I start it way left and stays there.
What am I doing wrong?
1-you never do anything wrong
2-you can only start slicing clubs at the 5 iron and woods
3-NEVER RELEASE TOWARDS TROUBLE!!!!-use a different option and take your medicine.
Hi Shawn,
Thank you for your patience with me.
Like I said in the earlier replies; fades with long clubs and draws with short clubs is a tour standard; this is the most popular way for PGA TOUR players to get around! And you will burn yourself every time you think about weight shift and where the pressure is and where you back is during play as you will no longer have a task to a target which is the most important!
Makes it crystal clear… Thank you.
Shawn, love the stick in the ground as a visual aid. Do you think using an additional stick in the ground parallel to the target stick could be of benefit? I feel like my side vision makes it difficult with the intermediate point and I tend to “face” the intermediate point. Essentially aiming too far to the right. (As a right hander)
Hey Alex! Yes! I actually put out a video on youtube this week on that! 😀👍
https://youtu.be/kyBbruHCUwI
hi Shawn.. been following you and watching you for a decade now from the Philippines, even have your dvds. suddenly got confused or it might be an “aha” moment for me. my question is about the intermediate point and it relationship to a fade and a draw.. where do you aim the club face? especially if at address it is somewhat closed. you always say to draw you should swing to the right of the intermidiate point and to fade is to swing it to the left .. but on one of your videos you actually said and aimed your clubface to the edge left for a fade. so this might be the reason why i snaphook and fade way too far. because i line the clubface to center of the intermediate target with a closed face and swing it to the edge left or right when trying to draw or fade? thanks
Hi Christian! See “fade fine tuning” and “draw fine tuning” where we show you how to resolve this for YOUR DYNAMIC NEEDS. What you see at address is really not what you will see at impact in regards to the arm-club unit and the body’s anatomical alignment. Enjoy the practice! 👍😀