Great tips. Looks so easy playing the draw. I have been mostly playing fades and when it comes to draws, my success is 2/10. Cannot get to release to the right. I have mentioned that one on one as well.
Hi Mohanjit! I think you just simply need to practice the “turbo charge lead hand release” and “turbo charge trail hand release” and “snap release polish” videos until it feel like the snap is legitimately fully natural and emphatic. Then you should be fine! 👍😀
This drill is terrific! (74 year old 9 hdcp). It has improved my consistency setting things at the top of the swing. + my release is more consistent. My pitch shots (40 to 70 yards) also improved. Better path and release so great compression creating more spin etc.
Thanks Shawn, Sav and Mu!! Top notch!
Today was my first day I could implement the “battering ram” drill and to my surprise……I saw immediate distance gains 🙂 I did a better job with my driver than my irons, but it was the first day and we have had lots of rain so sometimes with my irons I was digging potatoes and not peeling carrots :D.
Right on Todd! You are close! Just keep using the drill to deliver your peels and when conditions are wet, send just the stem of the dandelion with some grass clippings to minimize the digging! 👍😀
Shawn, I have strengthened my grip (although sometimes it’s too strong) and have utilizes the heave up and the coming back down to the ball. More distance as well as accuracy. It’s been very freeing. However, every now and then I go down too far on the downswing and hit the ball fat. I don’t know if I’m going down too far or I’m not extending back up soon enough. Also every now and then I throw in an abrupt opening of the left shoulder that is a hard pull to the left (I’m right handed). Is it right to say that at impact you’re still largely facing the target line?
thanks, I’m probably overly analytical, bit I’m having more fun than ever in my golf life.
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Hey Paul! Good stuff, all part of the development of a golfer!
next step is to get a solid feel for your release BEYOND THE BALL. See “lead hand release”. “trail hand release”. “release fine tuning”, “snap release polish” then “turbo charge lead hand release (and the trail hand release one too)”
then once you get a nice feel for that with the grip staying intact, you go to the “throw the club” and the “throwing series”
then once we have a THROW INTO A FULL RELEASE INTO THE DIRECTION OF THE FLIGHT PLAN, we do to “predict contact” and “the goldie locks series” to predict how the ball gets in the way of this throwing action.
Great video Shawn. I have couple of questions though. You mentioned that with short irons and wedges you can’t slice the ball because of the loft. Starting with what loft you can start fading the ball more an more? 27- degrees? . also, you mentioned that you open the face slightly. I already have a very strong grip, can you explain what slightly means? how much?
Hi Alfredo! See “the goldie locks series” and adjust based on the flight that you see; some of my students actually have to close the face more for fades and many just keep the same grip-club relation as the draw; truly surprising! You need to see for yourself! And yes, 30 degrees is a good start for seeing some movement without loosing too much distance.
Love your favorite drill! Was crushing my 7iron and 3wood and swinging my driver faster then ever before. Got to 112mph hitting balls at the range because I started focusing on swinging to my target and not at the ball!
OMG. Major issues for me , apart from the correct swing/ kinetic chain, are- 1 ..don’t trust side vision EVER…..2..get that intermediate point and play to that. I already picked the club for the distance so if I go back to the target visually , not the IP, then the brain takes over with…” hit it close, avoid the bunker, don’t go in the woods, avoid the pond, hit it hard…” bla bla bla and as you say -> black out happens….am I right? I try to concentrate here at the IP and minimize the distant target.
You have trained your brain to buy in to the process so even the non robot gets pretty nice mostly very good results….what a sport…
Haha, you are OOZING WITH WISDOM in this comment Jeremy! 😀👍
and yes, you want to use the IP for delivery purposes and allow the unstoppable momentum to ride the arc through the ball and IP into the picture.
When the kinetic chain is firing on all cylinders, the arms and club get pulled through and there is never a need to interfere or adjust or compensate. It is when you black out or have a distraction from your action-task to target picture that you feel the need to use them. After the fact, after the swing, you may get some flavours of tone, compression, release but these are just glimpses of what the conscious mind was able to observe in that fleeting fraction of a second. Do not dwell on that or try to repeat. Just go to the next shot-flight plan and deliver your task-action into it.
You used the previous divot for Mu’s IP, but what do you do in a pristine fairway for an IP? I have trouble distinguishing a distinct IP in the fairway. Any thoughts? PS, tee boxes are usually very easy with divots!
Yes! We have a great system for that! Use the perpetual motion drill to scuff the turf beside the ball on a length of a few inches; then step back away from the ball and look down the line and see if it points where you want. Then use the “blur of club” video to match the arc-blur of the swing to the scuff mark. If the scuff is too right, line the blur left and vice versa! 😀👍BOOM you are welcome!
I struggle with making the task my main focus. It gets me too ball focused and I can’t seem to flow into the picture. My best shots are when the starting target is my main focus and the blur of the club is secondary. If my mind is locked on to where I want the ball to start the body seems to find a way to get there. It’s more a feeling of whipping through the intermediate to the target. Maybe it’s just the way I process the shot from years of concentrating on the target and I need to continue to find a task that works for me.
Very good! Sounds like the “throwing of the club” task is the one for you; as long as you make your prediction based on the throw into the picture, then you are free to go! 😀👍
Hey Neal! It is the PELVIS AND RIB CAGE that pivots as a unit on top of the hips and legs to allow the arms and club to swing freely into the backswing and then into the finish. See “ARM SWING VS BODY TURN” towards the bottom of the “list of videos by date”
I love this drill. Especially when my swing sequence is out of whack. However, I start the step as.soon as my back swing starts. This is a great drill when you have “lost your swing”.
Shawn:
16 handicap An update on my progress,. Joined Premium In late June, struggled at 1st implementing the SC swing. Hit it good on range but not on course. I was still using some of my old swing thoughts after shooting back to back rds in the 100’s was getting discouraged and I just doubled down on your swing and rewatched this series and let go of all other swing thoughts since then low rd has been 82 with a high rd of 95. One of my golfing buddies commented on my swing looking better today and said he wanted some of what I have after I cut a corner over some trees with the driver that I have never covered before. I told him the secret. FYI: I have started listening to your podcast on the way to golf course helps me get ready to play.
Thanks for all tour help!
Yes!! This is the key!! Because all the other guys are “making sure” and “being careful” with their “positions of doom”. This machine of ours is a free machine with no strings attached and just needs clarity in the task at hand. You give it that, and it shines and still amazes me to this day. I hit iron shots yesterday at a friend’s tournament that were incredibly satisfying and will remember the sound and feel for a while to come!👍😀
I had not seen this video before now. I have been trying everything to get my swing more in to out and notice its hard to get my hands up past my shoulders when I am trying to swing around my body. limited flexibility in the rotator areaI guess.
I see that at the top of the backswing your hands and club are more straight above your shoulders. I assume you draw the ball from that position. I can get my hands higher by doing your move and impact seems very good. My question is how you draw the ball from that position? Seems to me that position at the topwould promote a very steep down swing. What am I missing?
Hey Craig! We are anatomically and neurologically designed for self preservation and the biggest weapon the human machine has is the kinetic chain. See “football drill series” first and then see “kinetic chain facilitation series” and you will light up when you see that baseball hitters have the same way of swinging. Imagine, so many teachers have said that baseball and golf don’t mix and IT’S COMPLETELY THE OPPOSITE! 😝😀👍
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