Hello, Rather new here. I see a lot of tilt in all your set ups. When I look at the ladies on the LPGA I see very little tilt. Lydia Ko is more of my size. Also when you tilt – do you bump your hip forward to create that side bend (a la Axys golf?) or do you just bend the upper body to the right (right handed small lady 68 years – hcp 15). Weight equal?
Hi Barbro! Welcome to our channel!
what you want to look at is the tilt they have through impact; most of them remember have been classically taught and they have succeeded despite their distractions to body parts. If you watch Rory or Tommy Fleetwood or even Saheeth Thegala who almost won as a rookie on a sponsor’s invite last weekend through impact, they get to the deep tilts we advocate as this is the only way to get through the ball in an anatomically friendly way!
just search the words “head position tilt hip turn” in the search box on the “list of videos by date” page. Enjoy and talk to you later! 😀👍
Thank you, I look at your daughters wonderful swing and to me it seems as she is setting up almost to impact and then leave that position (naturally) in the backswing. For me when I (almost stack and tilt?) do that I get very stiff and I loose the feeling. Guess I have to stick to it and give it a further try. Understand what you are saying about – forget positions. Just focus on the target.
Love all your videos and your explanations and the fact that you have your daughter on the show.
BTW Have never before closed the faced – (thought that was a bad thing in the past lol). I love it and I can swing more freely out to the right. Hopefully some nice draws will show up soon.
Good stuff! What I would like for you is to get some good HOOKS going and show your brain that side of “goldie locks” like in the “draw fine tuning” video and then it will find a better balance and get you there much faster. As for the “forget positions” YES-But you forgot an important “interchange” which is the TASK and the “target” is the direction you will deliver your task into which is a “flight plan” and therefore the direction you are delivering your task is into the beginning of this flight plan or the initial direction of the ball to the right or left of the intermediate point.
Task examples:
-send the dandelion stem into that direction with a nice momentum
-send a divot peel into same
-squeeze a ball through a doorframe with weight (momentum)
-throw the club into a nice release into the initial ball flight with prediction that stem or peel is in the way
-spin those tees that way with momentum
enjoy! 😀👍
Hey Aaron! Welcome to the channel and you bet!! Use the search box and see “grass whip training” and and the “tilt and hip turn” videos as well as get with the “feet together drill” and “feet together back to feet apart” videos and “weight shift with Savy” which will give you the proper feel of the backswing turn-fine tune this with “the walking drill” and the “kinetic chain facilitation series” (number 6 is my absolute favourite!)
Other videos to help you get out of the S&T pitfalls are “uphill shots” “downhill shots” ball above and ball below feet which you will see in the latter part of this video series Wisdom 1.0 which are by far the best in the industry and are the ultimate acid test to any golf swing!
I have watched several of your throwing the club videos. I find that I do get to a full finish when no ball is present At the beginning, I missed right of target most often and now I am missing left. In this video, I noticed your rhythm and how your head picks up the target during the perpetual motion. You also appear to be releasing the club in front of your body. Finally, I am much more accurate with the hammer throw. Is it because of the weight?
I have just finally gotten to the “ball and turf in the way” or ball in the way with driver in the latest spinning series; in there, we talk about the weight of the ball will SLOW DOWN SLIGHTLY your ability to spin the tees using momentum, but it won’t PREVENT YOU FROM DOING THE TASK. This is the secret to having the ball in the way of the swing towards the flight plan and not becoming the destination. We will elaborate in the “target confirmation series” 2.0 soon!
Shawn: Very helpful video lesson. It all makes sense to me, and most of the time it yields great shots. However, I continue to get a very disturbing number of double hits when chipping. More frequently with shorter shots. Any suggestions?
Make sure you see all the chipping and short game videos in here as they are by far the best; the key is to use ONLY THE WEIGHT OF THE ARMS AND CLUB to perform the task of cutting the dandelion stem; no force, no interference. It is either ball position or direction of backswing not matching that forces you to get involved and that is when it gets messy.
Hi Shawn, Really enjoying the content. I tried this out yesterday at the range and it was working well. I noticed on the draws that the ball was coming out a bit lower than I’d like. Especially the longer irons. Otherwise I was mostly on line and creating the draw shape I’d like. Should I tilt more if I’d like a higher draw? It could be the cold temperatures here atm, but I felt I was losing carry on 6 iron and below on draw shots. Thanks, Dan
Right on Daniel! This will bear a lot of fruit later! As for height, this is why fades and draws on the longer clubs end up going the same distance and the fade gets you more carry on low to medium height shots and then when you get really confident, YOU GET TO CHOOSE the HEIGHT you want to send the draws up into. Simply match the set up; which would have the ball less back in the stance and more centred and even a smidge forward for the very high ones. For Driver Draw, if you have issues with toe shots and pull hooks because you can’t seem to get all the way through, see the “great driver nugget” and the “diagonal stance series” which gives you more anatomically sound options! 😀👍
Thank you Shawn. Much appreciated. This has helped the draws a lot and I feel confident with them now. Fade on the other hand I find trickier with the longer clubs. It feels like I come over the top when I try to chop the dandelion (and throw the club) to the left of my marker. I catch some well for straight fades, some I catch heavy and some slice (usually when I’ve been testing with opening the grip some more). Any tips and or videos to not come over the top when trying to fade?
Good, this is common; and we are never trying to “make the ball fade” with our swings; the set up creates the fades and all we want to do is “throw the club into the direction we want to start the ball. Backswing needs to match so see “how to match backswing to ball direction” and alignment must match as well otherwise you have to come over the top if the alignment is not left enough.
Depends! When you get a full release on the target side of the ball like in the “target confirmation series videos” are you getting the ball flight you are looking for?
Shawn
I have an odd thing going on with my swing that I’ve recently found since purchasing a GC3. For all of my irons/hybrid clubs, i have a nice in to out swing path. But for my driver, i have an out to in swing path and can’t seem to catch it clean. Will this drill help with that? Is there another lesson i should be reviewing as well to fix that in to out path with driver that’s causing my slice?
I’ve had this issue as well. For me it was caused by the ball being too far forward relative to the center of your swing. I would then hit it with poor contact or had to lunge forward to reach, causing change in the arc. It sounds like you could easily rule that out – move it back and try to make the same swing with the otherwise same setup and see if your path is read differently!
A huge issue for my golf swing was that I never understood (or that at least never clicked) via WiG videos how to feel the proper rotation in the golf swing. What I found was that I needed to do was
take my normal knee bend to heave heavy stuff
take my neutral WiG grip with a super closed face on the club
hold the club straight out. Pretend I’m hitting off the high tee, or slashing the sword through a waist-height bamboo, with the toe of the club staying up as long as possible throughout the swing.
At the end of the backswing, there was no swaying, perfect weight shift, loaded arms and my head and body tilt happens automatically! Then I take the ‘tee’ down a bit lower and continue. I started to understand how the arm levitation happens at the end of the rotation, and how momentum now comes into play when we’re dealing with an inclined rotation. After this I would take it to full golf posture and pretend I’m cutting through bamboo or stem or tee or compressing the volleyball with the toe of the club staying high just the same as doing it shoulder level.
Once I had this benchmark for what centered rotation really felt like and plugged it into perpetual motion, light bulbs went off. I know feet together and the perpetual motion should help with this type of thing but for some reason after many hours of trying, I didn’t make this leap until understanding through the way I described.
This leads into how the task of spinning things seems feels the same to me as cutting through things but with keeping the toe up – the deeper your spin the longer the toe of the club stays up (as in, makes the release later because the toe turning to the left means the forearms are rotating and hands turning over)
Anyways, I would like to put forth this concept to help understand the golf swing is just the same as turning ‘level’ but on an inclined plane! Hope this helps someone as much as it helped me.
The above post describes the “horizontal swing drill” I found recently at Dr Kwon’s YouTube channel. That kind of drill helped me with feeling the ground—fully activating kinetic chain—leg driven swing, on both sides. The pump (of my understanding) was well primed from WIG principles and task descriptions. Has given me better club-head speed and seems to help swing path, to make more neutral. And with driver and tilt, to finally click that tilt extends all the way thru tailbone and not just feel at shoulders. Playing some winter golf here near Vancouver.
Hey Brian! The hand you throw and write with and the leg you kick with.
and that does mot have any bearing on your grip; you simply deliver a nice throw with momentum in the direction you want to start the ball and see how it flies; if you like what you see, your grip is good; if not, adjust the face until you see the flight you are looking for or get really good at the “release” (see all the release videos) or a bit of both. There is nothing else (that’s the good news…😝)
This is close to Mu! The key is to see which side engages the kinetic chain the best; if you played tennis, Mu plays right handed but has a better backhand, so he plays golf left handed and it is working out pretty good so far! 😝
Shawn I joined awhile ago after watching many of your videos, the question I have is you state in one of the free published videos if you don’t require distance or better said have a problem with distance of the tee you can gain more accuracy by setting up with the club in the middle of your stance ball just in front and swing along the ground allowing the ground to serve as and aide. However in that same video you correct or say differently to place the center of the driver or middle of the driver in the middle of your stance. So I’m unclear if u actually mean the actual center of the driver head or just. The driver centered in the middle of your stance. Can u elaborate here.
Hi Clarence! This was for the driver for accuracy video and we simply want to set up the same way as a fairway wood with the CENTRE OF THE CLUB HEAD in the centre of the stance which would of course place the ball between the centre and the lead heel. You want to play the “straight fade” and aim a tad left centre of the fairway and let it drift back towards the centre.
Wow, thanks for such a quick reply, Shawn just one more question regarding setup on 3-5 fairway woods. Are they also setup with my nose or sternal notch directly in the middle of the club head? If I understand your reply below correctly , as I will now do so for the driver. Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this, don’t mean to be anal about this but I want to be sure I’m not misunderstanding any guidance you’re providing.
See “hammer drill” video to understand how to be behind the ball regardless of the clubs; it’s a great visual with the fairway woods. Then find a nice doorframe and place a ball against it and set up with a 3 or 5 wood like you were going to drive it through the door frame. Very powerful set up.
Shawn, You should have some videos with real students. I have been watching Dr. Kwon Golf on youtube and I learn a lot watching him work with real students. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwCWfCapZNK_ulayYNTBJxQ/featured
Hey Neal! Yes, we have plans to do more series with students in the future when travel resumes; our clients here in Quebec City are 95% French Speaking and the last 2 years have been a challenge here in Canada. We do have over 5 series with students in premium already, have you seen them?
Shawn
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