Hey Joe! No, this is not good as it means you are out of balance; I see this a lot with golfers trying to “make sure” to keep the head down in the backswing or turn the shoulder under the chin or whatever positional distraction you may have that prevents your machine from performing.
1-do some feet together drill (see video)
2-then see “feet together back to feet apart”
3-see “perpetual motion drill series”
4-see “balance mile markers”
Very important question you sent!! This will help a lot of golfers who have the same issues!! So thank you for that. Shawn

You are on the right track!
1-you gotta be able to put your hand in the fire and swear you stayed with a nice RELEASE in the direction you wanted to start the ball.
2-if not, what distracted you from performing that?
3-if you do stay with it, congrats! You are on your way as then you can identify a pattern and make small adjustments as you go!

That’s exactly it!

Confirming the release has been huge. When I know I released it where I intended, it’s easy to observe the pattern as you said.

No thinking about wrist angles or back swing depth. Just making the adjustment to the release or the face or simply playing the ball flight!

If I set up left of the fairway and release to the center of the fairway and the ball goes straight down the fairway, who is gonna argue with that?!?

Boom!! You get it!! 👌💪👍😀

Hey Tom! Next step is the “perpetual motion drill series” and the “kinetic chain facilitation series # 6” and another great drill that matches up in the “battering ram drill” video; enjoy!

Thank you I am very glad I subscribed to the Member site. Very valuable.

At the pin for a draw and in the direction you want to start the ball for the fade; fade the ball is forward of centre and draw the ball is back of centre. Ball position makes alignment. See “the goldie locks series” to learn how to predict set up and see fade fine tuning and draw fine tuning for more!

Hey Gregg! You always play with a task or a collection of tasks that you match up with different situations! Example: Door frame or Battering ram would be for into the wind shots and sending dandelion stems into the air would be for high shots downwind. You would be delivering with the feel that you need to deliver like in the “pre-motor cortex series” which is mucho money!!

I noticed when I practiced yesterday that when I was making solid contact my ball flight was lower then what I expected. The area I practice at allows me only to use my wedges. I got more distance but my ball flight was lower

Not a problem! When the time comes when you get back outside or into a higher area like a dome, then you can have fun with higher throws! See “matching task to golf shots” for high and low shots as well as “club speed” video which is a really cool throwing video and I highly recommend it if you can get into a space to do throws like that! Be safe! 😀👍

Sounds to me like you are shanking the ball and not slicing it as this issue does not make sense; shanking is when you strike the ball in the neck of the club and the ball shoots off to the right. This means you are releasing at the ball and or are too close to it or losing balance forward into it. See the “football drill series” and this video here I just uploaded on youtube that we will be making a nice series on premium with! https://youtu.be/apXe9yfe6Q4

Nice addition huh!? 😀👍💪

Good stuff! 👍😀

Yes, definitely an issue! See the original Grip video at the bottom of the list of videos by date. The thumb must allow for a full hinge without feeling a buckle in it and if your thumb is too much on the “short side” you will feel that skin get pried off the nail!

OK… quite a revelation, so my thumb was not really buckled as much as I was getting a tiny bit of slippage down the club on my trail hand as I came through then the prying happened on the rehinge. I found if I really concentrate on resting the club on the thumb/ trigger finger pad on both the back swing and follow through it lessened the effect. I also had to really feel the throw with less effort.
Does this make sense? If so, I guess I’m going to have to practice this until it feels normal because I find looking for that resting feeling in my backswing/rehinge takes me away from task focus…unless in your wisdom you have a better idea? Thanks, Tom

No, this is good! Once you get past this and feel that it will stop injuring your thumb, then it’s full on task focus once again. You are still on task now but being aware that you can accomplish without injury; so very important!

Hey Bruce! You simply want to stay with the a task to get you through the ball; like throwing the club (see the throwing series-especially the football throw where you need space for the trail elbow) so yes, conscious at first the then because this is a self preserving human thing to do, it will quickly become unconscious.
2-farther behind is a big no-no!! See “how to match backswing to ball direction” video for that and “draw fine tuning” and “backswing levitation” and “using the weight in your swing-axe drill with Savy” and finally “kinetic chain facilitation series”

Thanks!

Hey Doug! This is a job for the throwing the club task!! See the “throwing series” and the “snap release polish” video to go along with it; you will be throwing the club away from yourself into the direction you want to start the ball and when you don’t let go, the weight of the club will snap the trail hand over the lead hand and back around your neck and head which leads to a big helicopter finish for me (and Bubba, Arnold Palmer, Bernhard Langer and many more!)

Yeah man!😀👌

Do you have a rotator cuff issue? I am uploading a youtube video today on this!! Here is a sneak peak just for you! https://youtu.be/0NK7Jri-dsI

Nice!! In the days when John Daly was the man! 👍😀👌💪

Hey Doug!
go to the throwing series and see the short stop throw! That one is more under and through!