Learn how to hover the club from the shoulder sockets down just above ground at grass level; use longer tees and start at driver height and just clip the tip of the tee with the sole of the club and progressively lower it to the grass and continue doing that.
Doing the hammer drill with the left/lead hand helps me be feel and be more aware of the performance of the left side of the body and the left arm in the swing. The feeling of the swinging the weight of the arm/hammer unit with my left hand really turbocharges my release and promotes rotating into a full follow thru position with my chest facing the target and up onto the toes of my right foot. First tested it yesterday at the range and my clubhead speed and distance has really increased with more snap in my release and completing my swing follow thru. Pleasant surprise for a senior golfer like myself.
My legs are like statues after so many years of being told to restrict my lower body. Where should we feel the pressure in our feet? I end up getting stuck on my right side and end up pushing off, which I heard you say in another video that your student had the same pushing off problem (though I can’t remember the video).
Hey Jeremy! See “dynamic posture” video and the “senior series” as well as the “lead hand release in the backswing” and “purpose to the backswing” videos!
Very good, can’t wait until the snow goes to try it out… Also wanted to let you know that for some reason over the last several weeks I haven’t been getting your notices sent to my e-mail box of the next training video, I have to come to the website and check out the latest list to see what’s new if any. Thanks again Hope this can be fixed..
Hey Mike!
Don’t worry! Every Wednesday we put out a video and we had told everyone that we would send emails to communicate every other week or so as we don’t want to overload everyone’s email boxes!
I’ve always kind of wondered what to do with my trailing hand thumb. In this video, it’s kind off of to the (in)side. Any problem with that trailing thumb to be on top? Kind of similar to the lead hand thumb? Also, I liked your description of keeping the trail index finger supporting the club at the top and end of the swing. I don’t think I have been doing this and it seems to help during my brief swing practice so far.
Hi George! The thumb can easily be placed to the side when you get the proper hook of the index finger on the grip to apply that “knife pressure” through the grass; have you tried against the door frame yet?
I love the idea of sticking the finish… I think it is an area to work on for me right now. lately I seem to finish too far over the left edge of my lead foot holding on to balance for dear life. Sometimes I feel like I’m falling a bit to my left heel when I finish as a righty. I somehow have escaped that inside bracing of my lead foot. If I back off and finish nice and firm into the lead side, I loose a lot of distance/speed because I’m not able to get pressure to the lead side, there is something a kin to a reverse pivot feel happening. Would the shortstop side arm throw feeling from the top of my backswing help this out?
Yes, the throwing of the club in the direction you want to start the ball and when you don’t let go of the club, the force releases the arm anatomy and you go into the finish. See “target confirmation series” and see which task combined with sticking the finish is best for you. For me it is the spinning task into the finish; just amazing how my game is going to the next level as we speak!
How does eye dominance play a part in this? I’m right handed and right eye dominant, and when I see my swing on video it always looks like my head is moving in an effort to see the ball and my tilt is a goner
Yes, I saw this on your swing analysis you sent and I will be doing your’s tomorrow. It is not eye dominance (I thought so 30 years ago); it is wrong task! See “Hammer drill” video and get a hammer in your hands and get ready to hammer a nail into a doorframe horizontally at waist high; see the way you look at the nail and immediately be aware of how you tilt your structure. Now place a ball at the bottom of the doorframe and get a 7 iron and see and feel the same in the set up as you get ready to stamp the ball into the doorframe.
For a breaking putt, do we look at our aim point or would we still look at the hole? I can easily see myself trying to steer toward the hole and not my start line
What you see is the plan of the roll into the hole; not just the hole! The speed the ball will roll into the hole and the curved line the last 4 to 6 feet the ball will travel to the side of the hole it will roll into it.
Hi Shawn,
I have been told by teachers that my club is open at the top of my backswing. When I am able to keep it more closed, it makes a huge difference in the contact and distance I get. Which drills would address this issue? When I try to correct, I usually start to think about my hands while I’m swinging, which in turn gets me back into thinking about positions, which in turn gets things tight and out of sequence. That’s a swing killer!
Thank you!
First let me say thanks. My understanding of my swing have improved so much over the past couple of years. All aspects of my game have improved. However, like you said in this video, sometimes when I see that ball in front of me, especially with my driver, my instinct is to swing hard at the ball – my timing goes bad, and I don’t finish my task, especially with my final transition of weight to my left foot. The ball usually slices badly, or I top it, or even sometimes I duck hook it. My wrist hinge releases prematurely, and who knows where it is going to go. What can I do to get a routine where I can just perform the task and finish sticking it?
Probably peeling divots and grass cutting. When practicing these without a ball, my swing works flawlessly. I like the feet together drill also as it is very difficult to heft my arms. But when I put a ball on the tee, the urge to swing hard often takes over; I don’t get my backswing all the way back before I start down; too fast on the down swing, and then the club is past the ball before my hands are through, or my weight is forward. I keep working on this and some days are better than others, but I seem to have those one or two holes where the daemon comes out.
Ok, now we are getting somewhere; on those shots you miss on the golf course, go back to one in your mind, did you have a flight plan that allowed you to release your tee tip into a direction that was safe? Or were you releasing towards trouble hoping the ball would come back? If yes you had the wrong option off the tee box. And if that was not the case, what was the distraction that prevented you from delivering your action task with ease into the direction of the flight plan? Did your set up feel comfortable?
It’s almost like I panic and feel I need to swing harder and faster. My arm muscles engage, and I often look up. Good formula for a disaster. Right. I know it’s mental, but just can’t seem to break this old habit.
You think you are looking up but you are not; you are simply falling off your task; and what I would do is perform your task softly with pitch shots and chip shots and then full soft swings with short irons and then ramp up the velocity towards the target when you have it nailed on the short ones. Going to do a nice series on this because you are far from being alone!
See the “goldie locks series” and feel where the ball needs to be in the stance when delivering a specific shot (fade of draw) so that the low point is just in front of the ball (on the target side of the ball) when you deliver your action task in the direction you want to start it. We don’t do well thinking about where the body parts are, but we are excellent in predicting where the ball needs to be when we are getting ready to deliver into the flight plan.
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