Hey Shawn hope your well. I have just recently started back playing golf after a good few years out. I have joined back up to the premium channel . I somehow always end up coming back to your teaching. I am going to find somewhere to have a go at this divot drill. When i’m playing i never take divot’s always pick the ball off clean. I am sure this is robbing me of compression and distance. One question i do have. I came to see you some years back on your road trip to the UK at the Forest of Arden course. You spoke about possibly finding someone to take up your coaching system here in the UK . Did you ever go forward with it?

Hi Shawn.

At driver address, the face of driver should be closed or opened like “Working the ball” lesson? It works very well to me for iron swing, draw and fade.
In many driver lessons here, you seem not caring the degree of driver face for draw or fade except the direction of target. the face seems square to me so… I am a little confused.

I wish you understand my trouble on driver- working the ball.

2 points of clarification in this video, 1: Should we be thinking of the swing as more of a pendulum and does that feeling of more of an upright pendulum carry over to longer clubs or should the longer clubs feel more of a baseball style plane? 2: I noticed how much you bobbed up and down. Is this motion of extending in the backswing, collecting the ground in the downswing, extending in the follow through, a feeling we should be focused on or a byproduct of the task at hand? Thanks!

Hi Shawn, Any chance, now that you all are indoors for the winter, that you guys can put the dots on your clubs so we can see club head speed and club head angle at contact? You are so precise and I very between 5 and 10 degrees. I’d like to better understand what you are consistently hitting. Thx.

This is a great video, a lot to think about in there. Especially using your weight to compress the ball. I have being working on my compression so I will try to put this into action.

Fairway wood ball position with Mu: this video gives the clearest demonstration of that difference for fade vs neutral vs draw intent. Helpful. From other videos on the topic, in setting up for draw with FW, following the instructions, I’ve usually ended up feeling that the ball position was a hair too far back — but it’s subtle — maybe a 1/2 ball width. Finding the fade position comes easier for me with this club (3w; 15 degrees).

Subtle in some ways is tilt vs tilt with the balancing butt rotation. If I’m not in sync at setup, I can tilt without that rotation and then get stuck behind the sternal notch/ midpoint and thin the ball strike. I find balanced tilt with butt rotation, slow backswing to allow for nice transition and engage the ground with the front foot and then ball grass dirt…or sweep with the woods..thanks

I’ve been working on my braced tilt. This was a great video for me to reinforce the concept of maintaining the tilt throughout the swing. I am confused about the position of the sternal notch. It was my understanding that the low point in the swing is below the sternal notch. I have been trying to set my tilt and keep my sternal notch in front of the ball for iron shots. From what I can see in the video the sternal notch is actually set behind the ball and kept there throughout the swing?

Hey Shawn! Having some grip problems. No matter how I change my grip in my fingers I always seem to get movement around my pinky on the lead hand, no amout of in the fingers or grip tension keeps the bottom end of the grip from sliding up. Could this be a problem with grip size? I use standard grips and I wear a L-XL glove.

hey Shawn – new member here (long-time lurker on youtube!)….my question is re: the closed vs. open face of the driver during setup. I have a pretty good feel on that with my iron play to work a draw or straight fade, but not exactly sure how that should look with my driver. Hope that makes sense…thanks in advance!

Another favorited video, Shawn! Everytime I find an icing on the cake video, you cut us another piece. 😉 Grip strength, ball position, tilt….all knobs to adjust to achieve the flight plan!

Hi
Is it possible to have the vidéo in french..?
thanks
patrick

Hi all from Italy. I wanted to clear up a doubt once and for all. The swing is guided by the body and not by the arms. Do these have to be totally defenseless? As if they were anesthetized? Should the arm and the right hand impart speed or is gravity combined with the oscillation of the body sufficient? Thanks

I have just started your program and wondered if you have a recommended path to follow for viewing your videos?

ccrosby

Just re-watched this video. I decided to give the looking at the hole option a try. Once I trusted my motion and focused on seeing the ball roll in and using a pendulum of momentum to roll the ball to the hole it really started to click. I worked on it yesterday afternoon and evening in my basement on carpet. Today I took it to the course and putted better than I have in months. I made more 5-10 footers than I ever remember making in a round. That’s just after one day of practicing it. My distance control was amazing, even on uphill and downhill putts. Looking at the hole has let my brain solve the momentum equation and keeps me so much more focused. Would recommend anyone try it. Maybe it will click for you like it did for me?

Dave Pike