Club head speed is difficult for me. I feel like when I throw the club through the dandelion stem to fast I am all over the place. If I throw t slow and easy I generally hit good shots. However I know I am leaving distance on the table. How can I gradually increase the speed and then be able to gauge distance?
Hi Greg! See “task update” and “the kinetic chain facilitation series” and I will have a fantastic update on this within the month on premium, so stay tuned!
Are you going back to talkies anytime soon or just sticking with silent movies for a while longer? All in all your instruction has helped my game. Thanks
Yes, I was aiming left of the IP, which makes the ball position look forward in the stance; the best way to see this and feel this for yourself is with a door frame and goldie locks! See the goldie locks series ball position video!
Hi Shawn ! So much information here it’s getting crazy ! 🙂 My grip adjustments (stronger) similar to Sav’s has really helped with my driver as I’ve added a good 15 yards of carry. But somehow I seem to be hitting my irons FAT more often? Could you offer some ideas as to what is going on from a grip perspective ? Doesn’t a stronger grip encourage more Lag ? Thanks so much !
The stronger grip does mot guarantee more lag; that is what focus is for!!!
If say your task is like “task update” or “kinetic chain facilitation #6” or “throwing the club to the direction you want to start the ball with the “goldie locks predictions” that the ball is in the way and will go that way BECAUSE THE GRIP IS STRONG ENOUGH, then you get lag, power, solid contact and everything you want in a great shot!!
Hi Shawn thanks for sending me the videos of you hitting the ball properly unlike me I’ve got you on my swing analyzer so i can look at you then me can see what you mean your head moves backwards mine goes forwards my club in laid off .do you think with my bad back and left hip it would be better if i bring my left foot well in towards my right leg also my left arm is quite bent in the backswing your’s sav and mu looks straight .been checking out the backswing direction video i think i seem to bring the club to far inside cheers Steve
Hi Steve! Yes, please let the lead heel come off the ground immediately and let the lead knee rotate in behind the ball as the butt swivels towards the target! See “diagonal stance series” too! This will take the strain off the lead arm and allow for it to maintain more natural and effortless width in the backswing!
Shawn. I practised the legs together today at the range of a mat. I hit a few well, not your length at 74 years, but I also hit some fat. Is this likely to be because I am still hitting at the ball rather than out into the picture. Advice would be most welcome.
Remember, the goal is to use the returning of the butt to catapult the arms and club PAST YOU and out into the picture! If you look down, and you see a ball to hit, you are setting up for fat, top, shank, pull, loss of power, swinging with arms only, no finish etc…
You need to SEE-FEEL-HEAR a whoosh towards the target with the fastest point of the swing out in the direction of the target and well past the ball when looking down at the ball.
see “pre-motor cortex series” and “target confirmation series” and combine those with feet together.
Shawn, have you thought about adapting this drill to chipping/pitching? I use it with great success pitching and am considering it for chipping. Thoughts?
Flop shots, bunker shots, pitch shots yes; but chipping does not require WRIST HINGE. So I do not recommend this for chipping at all. See “chipping” video on premium which is Mega complete and then see the chipping video in the “kinetic chain series”
Shawn – hope all well my friend – what videos (premium or standard) do you recommend for getting the trail elbow in front of thigh on downswing ( aka Lag ) , merci, Declan
Shawn, I have been out practising the legs together and one leg drill. However, even on these drills I hit fat. I think it is because after 35 years of hitting at the ball my brain does not want to let go. Can you direct me to videos that will help get through the ball. I have been throwing but still want to hit that darn ball.
If you have been throwing the club, (you must go out and actually do it!!) when you use the goldie locks from above the ball, then lower to top the ball then lower to THIN THE BALL.
KEEP THE ARMS AND CLUB HANGING FROM THE SHOULDER SOCKETS AND DO MOT LET THEM REST ON THE GROUND; just slightly off the ground and grazing the grass.
THE FOCUS AND PREDICTION: If you throw the club through the arc blur to the right of the IP for a draw, you PREDICT that the sole of the club will graze the grass and therefore hit the ball thin.
When you flush them, you will realize you need to be like 40% of tour players who never ground their clubs at address! 👍😀
My backswing is always collapsed by right elbow folding too much at the top, so the width of the backswing is shortened. Also, I figured that my shoulder turn is stop much earlier than my arm swing since my turn is only half of the 90 degrees. What should I do?
The best feel for the backswing is in the “lead hand release” video and use the backswing portion of the video; it is my favourite and actually it’s time I do a separate video for achieving proper “backswing status”. Enjoy it!
Is the illusion of alignment with longer clubs do to the distance the ball travels? It seems the shorter clubs hook/fade sooner because the ball travels a shorter distance
Shawn I noticed it appears that you use a diagonal stance for your draw and more of a normal stance for the fade when you line up left of your target. It also appears the ball position is more towards your lead foot for the fade and further back for the draw. Is that the actual case or is it just the angle of the diagonal stance that makes it appear that way? Could you clarify that and if there is a difference in the relative ball position give a ball park distance like a ball width, 2 ball widths etc.? I watched the videos for both slow motion draw and fade several times and couldn’t tell exactly what you were using in your setup for each. Do you normally get a lower, more penetrating ball flight on your stock draw than for the fade? Is your carry and roll distance significantly different for the different ball flights? I understand it is all relative to the direction in which you release the ball to start and the clubface closure determines the amount of fade or draw relative to that path. Could you be a bit more specific on when you are using the diagonal stance how that affects the ball position for the draw?
Hey DL! See
“great driver Nugget” which explains the reason behind the Diagonal stance and the reasoning behind the ball position as well. Here I am going for mid height on both and the camera angle on the fade will be a bit off to show the alignment from face on and this will distort the ball position’s appearance. Ball position cannot ever be determined by how much it is inside the lead heel, YOU ALWAYS WANT TO PLACE IT WHERE YOU FEEL YOU WILL CATCH IT ON THE WAY UP AND INTO THE DIRECTION YOU WANT TO START IT ON AND ONLY YOU CAN FEEL THIS!!!! See “goldie locks series” with ball position for the PURPOSE of ball position.
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