Hey Shawn, another question about driver. I recently got a new Callaway Smoke AI Max D driver and at times i hit the longest drives i’ve ever hit with it but probably 50% of the time I am getting really high launch with not much roll out and shorter distnaces. it’s not a pop up but just really high launch and not enough penetrating flight. I’m trying to see the arc blur and moving the ball almost at outer edge of my lead foot as it seems thats where my practice swing would place the ball to catch on the way up but that’s not really helping. Was thinking about going to a stronger shaft at it’s currently a light 50gram reg flex shaft. Im swinging around 98mph. Any tips to help bring that driver ball flight down?
Shawn, seems like there’s no limit to how you make your previous great videos even better. Just watched your “Anatomy of Greatness Book” videos and loved the detail on the grip. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t understand why in most of the videos you show hands in front of the clubface at impact. Hands are never like that at impact. Just pause any videos (yours or other), there are aligned with the club. (Data show hands actually slowing down close to impact and the club catch up, this acts as a powerful lever.)
Shawn’s hands and all good golfers hands will beat the club to the ball (outside of speciality shots like driver or flop shots). You better hope this is the case if you’re slinging towards a target
Hi Shaun, my right arm forearm doesn’t rotate due to an old injury. Broke radius and froze in that position. Would your advice be different in this case. I can only rotate forearm half way
The key here is to let momentum release YOU (your anatomy) into the direction you want to start the ball. Whatever is missing to get your flight, do it with the closing of the club face before hand. See “goldilocks series” as well as “draw fine tuning” and “fade fine tuning
My chipping has gotten better, but I still struggle with controlling rollout. My 54° usually checks up quickly; sometimes it stops dead, sometimes it runs out more than expected. What’s the best way to get consistent rollout? Should I switch to a lower-lofted club or can I manage that with my 54?
Are you going for landing in the first third and rolling the other 2 thirds to the hole? Start with that, then determine what club would deliver the best roll out.
Yes, and it’s working well on shorter chips. But on longer ones, I’m getting more backspin than I expect, and the ball checks up hard sometimes. I’m not sure how to control that spin to get more consistent rollout
Yes, you bet!
here is my routine written down and which takes 25 seconds tops to execute:
1-Best option for shot
2 rules: 1-Release into safe direction; never release towards trouble and draw or fade away from trouble; this puts unnecessary tension in the system with the “you better make sure you do this or that to not go there”
2-No strain required to execute your shot; understand that you have 2 general yardages per club; one for the flush shot and one for the good miss about 12 yards short of the flush shot. The good miss happens 82% of the time and the flush shot 18% of the time. This helps determine what club to use based on where the best place to miss will be.
2-Once the shot option is chosen, confirm the flight plan-what line do you want to start the ball and what line do you want to end? (include roll out)
3-Choose intermediate point; can be straight on or slightly off line, as long as it’s easy to see and well into your peripheral vision (6 to 12 inches in front of ball only)
4-Confirm alignment of momentum-get ready to see the blur of the path of the club and match it to the ball and intermediate point and prepare to make the ball a PRECISE INTERSECTION on the way through the IP into the flight plan!
5-Confirm ball position matches the flight plan and the direction you want to start the ball.
6-Confirm distance to ball and see that when you let momentum ride through the blur through ball and IP that you don’t feel the need to reach out from being too far or hold on from being too close and you can let it ride
7-Confirm Grip club relation; see that you know it will curve the way you want to in the air once you allow the momentum to release you through the arc-blur into the flight plan through ball and IP
8-Confirm levels with relaxed and engaged legs; legs are ready to heave the arms and club into the backswing that would match the direction of the flight plan; and feels like you are ready to allow that solid dose of momentum to ride through the arc-blur through the ball and IP into that flight plan
9-Ready? See the arc-blur already moving through ball and intermediate point? You are feeling the arms and club already tracking the arc and the body already gliding out of the way of these tracking arms. What does that feel like again? Witness the shot that is being played out for you; you have done your homework and it’s time to get out of the way and let it happen with full abandon; the glue that holds EVERYTHING together is the letting the swing stay with the direction of flight and fully witness momentum taking care of that for you.
You make it look crazy easy. ❤️ I am working on speed these days without hardly any success. Throwing hammers further with legs but all that does not transpire into good timing when it comes to feet apart on the course. Club head speed about 80. Distances are down by at least a club. Of course strain free. The catapult effect goes missing. Is it a breakdown in the Kinetic Chain engagement or some issue with the task at hand I wonder.
Hi Shawn, just for clarity on this — weight distribution matches the task. Make sense! In my mind then a bit more weight at address on the right side (obviously depends on the slope). If (being right handed) i put my weight on the left, no longer am I cutting grass along the surface — i’m hammering something into the ground and that can’t be right). Is this correct? thanks!
Hi Shawn (this video is so darn helpful and the hammer drill is king for me). But my question: Through the impact zone your right hand palm is facing what looks like 90 degrees to the target line? This is the anatomically strong position to hammer the nail in the direction of the target. It seems a great external focus for me is to swing (watching the blur // tracer) and waiting for the hammer//club to release me like I’m hammering a nail in the direction of target (thinking more about my right hand). Wow this is revolutionary for me. Is my thinking correct? I also find that when this is my external focus — i’m forced to use the legs and just let the hammer fall from the top — there is no other way to do it. And yesterday in practice this virtually eliminated my pulls as somehow this just clicked for me. Thanks as always Shawn!!!
Very good! This would be the most powerful way to hammer a nail for sure! This is Ryan Fox and Bubba Watson and Aldrich Potgeiter and Savy to name a few… Get with a doorframe and a household hammer and experience fully what you just described! 👍🔥👊💪
Shawn- Thanks so much for your videos and the commentaries. I’ve adopted the “feet together” stance as my normal game playing stance and the results have been phenomenal. I am much more consistent and I routinely out drive my playing partners. Is there any disadvantage to staying with the “feet together” stance instead of a regular “feet apart” one?
NONE! Zip, zero, zilch! 🔥👍💪
I have never been able to find any downside and have found nothing but upside and smashing success. Good on you for taking it next level! Let’s start a trend! Send me some clips!
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