You guys make it look so easy!!! Thanks for a great video.

Have probably watched this chipping video and practiced it for months now and glad I didn’t give up on it. Can now chip great no matter the lie – almost always crisp contact. After 50 years of golfing it seems like I can boil all my small and big swing problems down to pulling my overactive arms inside on the backswing (manipulation). Now on chips and full swings I feel like my arms are responding only to my body turn back and through and my hands stay in front of my torso instead of my dragging them to the left of my torso looking for more power – that feels powerful but it’s not. It’s an incredibly hard habit to break – also trying to hit the ball with my arms and hands instead of just turning through and letting the ball get in the way – very ingrained! Hang in there golfers – Shawn is teaching the right stuff.

Great session. Thanks Shawn.. I try to get 4 things pre swing…in our COVID lockdown…for all shots except putter/ chip….1 flight plan…2. Intermediate point ..3 sword slash ..4 mini prep takeaway . Biggest deal for me in execution is WAIT in the backswing for the kinetic chain allowing the legs and core to drive and clear and release the acu. I know instantly when one of the action elements is off. I’m thinking the sabotage is ball as target.
For putter/chip I still need to wait for the kc to release the club through the intermediate point. Retiring end of may and looking forward to real world application.

I use interlock, and haven’t been interlocking too far, but I think I’ve been putting my right (trailing) thumb on top, so I’m going to ensure in future it’s off to the side.

Shawn on the fairway woods and your advice to find the deflection point I find my deflection (or start of my shallow divot) to be much further back in my stance than I ever thought it would be, even behind the midpoint of my ankles. But when I position my ball just in front of that point I feel it will be hard to get the thing airborne and if I do hit it solid it comes out with a very low ball flight. Is this possibly because my sterna notch is too close to my trail ankle and tilt might be too severe?

Hi Shawn, how do you feel about putting a paint brush on the hitting stick?

Do you typically hit the 3 wood off the ground from the tee?

Hi Shawn,
I have started to throw clubs and all of them go to the left ( Iam a right handed golfer). Even the one handed throws go way left.
I know I always fall towards the ball when trying to hit it, but I ingrained this so much in the last twenty years, that I even do it when there is no ball in the way and I am throwing one handed.
Any suggestions?
Regards,

Knut

Shawn, another great video. For the sand or grass lob shot, is the leading edge of the SW (for a right hand golfer) at 12:05 or 12:10 or more? Easier for me to understand than 30 degrees.BTW, I enjoy the music.

I’m psyched. After watching (again) went out and did PMD with feet together and finally felt that moment of weightlessness at top of swing. Not swinging with arms AT ball anymore. Now club’s just falling into slot with energy coming from my legs! What a difference. Thank You!

PS Waiting for covid restrictions to be dropped so I can come north for tweaking. Hopefully sooner than later.

Shawn you never mention whether or not your club face is open or closed when working the ball with driver or any of the clubs. I would find it so much more helpful if you pointed out face angle when discussing these shots. Thank you.

Fantastic video on two points for me. Firstly it reinforces clearly that the top of the back swing is tension free …in perfect balance focusing 100 per cent on the end of the kinetic chain (like a pitcher would focus on the release point of his throw). Secondly, it clarifies that at the end of the kinetic chain one is pulling away from the target slightly, exactly like snapping a towel in a wet towel fight,(or cracking a whip). It was also interesting to observe that most times each of you did the snap better (could see the slight movement of the upper body away from the target at the snap) on the second swing than on the first…in my opinion showing how the presence of the ball always seems to draw at least part of our attention away from the target.

I need to find a grass driving range. Unfortunately, in the Netherlands, they are as rare as gold… Mats are nice, but too much of it and you start having golf elbow.

I am working on my grip and set up and ball is really going left and I am coming in over the top I guess… what is a good drill for this ?

Similar question: I not sure if I understand the feet/body position. Your feet’s are not square to the target alignment (stick) – they are square to the intermediate point right? Or square to right of the intermediate point (draw) and left of the intermediate point (fade)? Ball position in the video seems to be not in line of the target alignement (stick) – but left of this for the fade and right of this for the draw – right? Thanks.