Hi Shawn, I’m a new premium member. Have tried multiple on line lessons. Re grip pressure and “letting go” release I’ve been asked to see Vijay Singh and Fred C’s right hand coming off the grip to teach us the holding a bird grip.. Can you please clarify?
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Hello Sriram! This is very old and outdated teaching where if a player was hooking the ball the teacher would say hit shots with a very weak right hand because the right hand was too active. The problem with that is that the original cause for the hook was something completely different!! What was the focus just before they swung? Did they stay with the shot or did they blank out? What was the effort level? If you practice letting go or you have a weak hold on the club, then how is the club going to release your anatomy? Did you hear me when I talked about tennis or hammering nails or cutting down trees with an axe? I don’t blame you because of the brainwash golf instruction has brought and this is why I work so hard at bringing you back to WHAT YOU WERE DESIGNED TO DO AS A HUMAN MACHINE ON PLANET EARTH. See “snap release polish” and “target confirmation series” and “pre-motor cortex series” to understand how this works more.
Hi Shawn! thank you for recommending this and the other list of videos to me after analyzing my swing! I am really grateful for your help. You and your student have such a great looking swing. I hope I will be able with time to find a swing that is as natural.
One of the skills you and Savannah are able to do pretty effortlessly now is this clock like swipe the grass or mat motion to find and maintain your center from both sides. It appears pretty foundational and seems like an excellent exercise. It was not anything I had ever considered or attempted before and I was so impressed. I tried it and I think it will take me a while to master.
Am I right in thinking this is a skill I should try to perfect first? Are your students able to pick it up very quickly generally? I feel pretty awkward attempting it but I am sure it will get better with a little time.
You bet! Very important skill to acquire to get to next level consistency in ball striking! And the great news is that 10 minutes of leggit practice per day will get you to expert level within the month!
Hello Shawn. Yesterday you answered a comment I made on your YouTube channel and suggested I start by watching the senior’s series. I did just that and I just got back from the driving range. Took me a few balls to get the hang of it but to my very great surprise and pleasure, I was hitting all my clubs further and with a smoother and easier swing than I ever managed before. Hard to tell for sure on the driving range, but it looked like I was getting an extra 15 to 20 yards carry on most shots. I will definitely watch the other videos you recommended and keep working at it. I have to get set up to film my swing so I can send it to you for analysis. Thank you for your great work. Thank you to Sav and Mu also. You guys make an awesome team.😎🏌️♂️⛳️
Hello Shawn,
you talk about your carry distances.
Would you mind to comment on the follwing scenario, probably common to most of us:
I am in play, 145 yrds out. My thoughts are: “with full abandon and flush contact my club might carry up to 155, with a bit less abandon and more control my carry may be just right. A club less might do it with full abandon, but will I hit it flush enough ?”.
These thoughts related to carry distance reduces my will to swing freely, I start controlling the heave and my target related thinking diminishes. The resulting swing will reflect my thoughts – neither controlled, nor abandoned – with a random ball flight and a short carry.
Is there a way to improve my ‘pre motor cortex’ in this scenario ?
This is a management issue Eckhart! If you miss slightly, where do you want to miss? At our golf course, short is good on many holes and long is no good; if short is water, then you take an extra club. Always plan for flush contact (what you want) and if you do miss, you already planned to miss in that area so that you can stay free as a bird! 😀👍
On a sunny yesterday with winds gusting 15-30 MPH I shot my 2nd 77 in a row – 1 each on the 2 courses at my club here in Memphis. Had not broken 80 since Dec 2020 so this is amazing. Your teaching is the reason and this video helped me to understand that there is more than 1 way to “default to the ball”. In my case, I didn’t come over the top but I did throw both my hands (handle first) directly at the ball with elbows very close together. Sometimes it worked and I’d have a decent round if my misses didn’t get in too much trouble. Now, I think of “battering ram” from the top with lead arm feeling like it is passing slightly over the ball and trail elbow in front of my body. Just have to trust that the kinetic chain will happen through the impact and I won’t miss the ball completely. This is where the magic happens and I’m nutting the ball a lot and my misses (thins, fats, left, right) aren’t getting me in much trouble. Your chipping and pitching take care of those (still hard to putt in 15-30 MPH wind though). Thank you and hope this helps someone else.
nice post Craig; way to place your faith in the human machine and next steps is to connect the battering ram to the target or direction you want to start the ball, if you have not done so already! 😀👍 it should feel like the ball has no choice but to go to the target.
Forgot to tell you. Bought a tru-temper grass whip to train with. Easter Sunday went to my amazing 84-yr-old father-in-laws to help him with chores that are too hard for him. He has about an acre of land that he plants each year with vegetables. I was supposed to weed eat everything (very hilly – lots of tall weeds) but took the whip instead. He had never seen one. I perpetual motioned everything for about an hour and wasn’t tired but learned why you want a firm grip on your instrument. Some nice blisters from letting the bird free too much.
Awesome! There will be some movement depending on how off centre some of the weeds get cut; so put a nice tennis wrap grip around it and 2 golf gloves.😀👍
Hello Shawn! I recently discovered that throwing the club is the absolute best way to get me out of “manipulation” mode. My distance on all clubs has improved tremendously. The only issue I’m having is the direction of the throw as it relates to working the ball. If I simply throw to the target, things go well but I lose the ability to work a draw or fade. If I resort to throwing left or right of the IP, I lose focus on the target and become so consumed with the IP that I feel as though I’m manipulating again. Any recommendations here? Thanks!
Good stuff and great question! Use the IP as a stepping stone to the “flight plan” and throw the club into the flight plan until you achieve the proper release; see “target confirmation series” and the “lead hand release” and “trail hand release” and “release fine tuning” and my favourite “snap release polish”
when you throw, and don’t let go of the club, the club head weight releases the anatomy of the arms which is a big event as the club stops going towards the target and snaps back towards us. You throw into the direction you want the ball to start until you feel that change…see also “pre-motor cortex series”
Hello Shawn, love this video. I have noticed on Your’s, Sav’s and Mou’s set ups that the shoulders are slightly closed to the path and the knee is canted a bit into the ball for a draw.
I have been trying to find a video (I’m pretty new to your site) that explains in detail the body set up on your website. I had been instructed to keep everything (hip, shoulders, feet) parallel to the target from all the lessons I have received, but I really like this set up that you are using……it looks more powerful in delivering the club head to the ball and promoting a draw…thanks in advance.
Jim K.
That is the beauty of this site; no static stuff . See “draw fine tuning” and “fade fine tuning” and then see “diagonal stance series” and “how to match backswing to ball direction” and search “alignment” on the search box too.
Ooo, good question! See the “2 tee drill”-use the search box;
in about 45 days, you will have access to my videos on a new platform that you will be able to search “coins” and it will bring up the video at the exact place I talk about it! Stay tuned!!
Hi Shawn – do you have any videos for hitting out of the rough? I’m having a very hard time hitting the ball first cleanly. I can see this drill helping and wanted to see if you have a specific video for the rough – thank you.
Hi Brian! Stay tuned for a huge upgrade coming soon to the members of this website where you will be able to search “hit out of the rough” and it will bring you immediately to the video and time stamp for the information. REVOLUTION IS COMING!! In the meantime, yes, we have the footage and it would be in the on course videos…
New subscriber here… Been golfing for a number of years. I’m a 60 y/o lefty. After watching and implementing some of the techniques, I went to the range a few times and starting hitting the ball better than I have in a long time… using the neutral grip with the club closed to about 45deg.. using the intermediate point etc. I was very satisfied.. Until yesterday when I went out to play 9 holes for the first time this year. Needless to say I was all over the place.. mostly with pushes to to L..bad missing, hanging back,etc… my nice little draw was nowhere to be found. I found myself concentration on swinging left of my intermediate point… throwing the club,etc. but I was lost. In assessing after the round, I was probably still too focused on the hitting the ball, even though I was telling myself not to. There are so many videos.. can you recommend some that I could watch and try to implement that would help me out?
Hi Rich! LOL! We just did a podcast about that and it is a 2 week transition period from indoors to outdoors as there are so many more distractions that come your way! Ease into it and just keep your pre-shot routine very consistent and keep your task from and centre when it comes time to deliver the shot. See “pre-motor cortex series” and “target confirmation series”
Thanks for the quick reply! I’ll definitely check out the videos mentioned above. Also I came across a video where you talked about looking between the ball in the leading edge of the club and concentrating on swinging through at that spot which I think may help me to stay more on task, and not hanging back or hitting at the ball.
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Hi Sean, so this drill promotes staying on your left leg throughout the swing, but in other videos you mention while in a normal stance you need to feel your weight on your right heel at the top of the backswing, then sink into your left side as you squat, obviously these are 2 very different feels for a full swing, so which is correct for a normal swing?
Haha! Very good question! The DOWNSWING feel is LIKE THE ONE LEG SWING. But the golf swing is a dual kinetic chain machine and the next videos you want to watch are the “weight shift with Savy”, “feet together back to feet apart”, and “the walking drill”. Then go to “the kinetic chain series” and the “Kinetic chain engagement series” which we are unveiling part 4 of today!
I have great range sessions applying all that knowledge, flushing ball after ball, with both fades and draw, with all the clubs. But when I’m on the course I feel uncomfortable over the ball. No amount of goldielocks seems to make me more comfortable. It doesn’t end up in anything catastrophic, but I can see my distance reducing and my shot pattern being more blocky when I hit a draw, and more like straight pull when I hit a fade. I’m not quite through the ball. I need to find a way to bring all that work and confidence onto the course.
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