The chicken or the egg? Which comes first, does the body react to the arms swinging or does the body use ground forces to swing the arms? Thanx!

Shawn – I could not find a video on alignment other than this one, so here goes. I play in a company golf league and have played the same course for 32 years. There is one hole that is wide open and I have had trouble hitting my tee shot in play on this hole – it is a 500 yard par 5 that must have 200 yards of width to hit it into. Another player mentioned how hard it can be to hit a good tee shot there even though it was wide open, this past Thursday.

The thing about this hole is that it is wide open and straight away like a runway – there is really nothing to aim at. There is a fence along the right side and a stand of trees left. Those are both common miss locations – as if the finish of a Don’t hit it… at the trees, at the fence, line of thinking.

Have you ever done anything with how to aim on a hole where there is nothing to aim at? You have your intermediate point, but the mind (at least mine) can be unsatisfied with that, despite familiarity with the hole? I pick out a location on the fairway but I think it may be easier to lose that spot versus a tree.

Two questions: it appears in the Mu demonstration at the top of the swing, you had a cupped lead wrist. Is this a concern? And I am trying to find the right position for the trail hand on the club and grip type (overlap or interlock). Should the trail hand come alongside the lead hand On the club or more on top of the lead?

Question Shawn…does this make sense to error on the side of a narrow stance in general? I feel like times in an effort to be careful I widen my stance…this drill makes me think that that is about the worst thing I can do. The wider I get the less my pendulum works. As a general rule should I error on the side of narrow with all clubs?

Hi Shawn
What is the fine tuning needed so that the club brushes ahead of the ball towards the target and behind the ball away from the target.
Thanks

I’ve been working on this perpetual swing with the various clubs. Sometimes, when I gather at the top and grab the ground, my push to follow through misses the timing and hands come down before my body is coming up to the finish. Would you suggest working on isolating the lower body motion as a drill to the movement correct?

Shawn, you used to have videos on youtube where you would lift your lead foot off the ground a bit on the back swing. Do you still advocate that?I find it to be very natural, but I’m wondering if thats leading to some consistency issues on my end. It seems like sav and Mu do not do that move either.

I do not see any braced tilt in his setup, what am I missing here.

How did Savannah choose to hit left handed? Did she try right handed first then switch?

Hi Shawn. First of all thanks for your great videos. You make golf so much simplier.

Then to my question. When I simply use throwing the club to the target I get great outcomes and my hip turn to both ways is good, but when I start to try and get the kinetic chain and use my lower body more by the walking drill I seem to just shift my hips toward the target so that they get far too forward compared to my arm club unit. What would you suggest to do about that? It could be thoug that Im not too comfortable yet with the walking while throwing the club so that I dont let my hips turn in the backswing either so then they dont really turn at all. Anyway, what drills or tasks would you suggest to get the feel for getting my hips turn through impact and not shift?

Thank you
Linda from Finland 🙂

Speaking of engaging the kinetic chain… working on the driver yesterday, I noticed that it is critical for me to grab the ground well before the club reaches the top of the swing, otherwise I tend to clip the ground on the way through the shot. Am I just dealing with timing/rhythm issue? It is clear that there is a difference between the 4 pound hammer and the sledge throwing.

Still struggling with lag Shawn…this video has me thinking that I might be able to drop a baseball donut onto a club and try to build the lag feel with that (actually making the club feel more like a sledge hammer). Is that a horrible idea?

HELP!!!!!! Earlier in the year I battled toe contact. All of a sudden the last two days I’m making contact towards the heel. You can’t play that way.

I’m not sure what changed all of a sudden. I was working on trying to get the driver to draw more 2 nights ago.

I’ve tried all of the things that I thought it could be:
distance to ball
alignment
ball position
I still feel like I’m focused on the target and not the ball.

I take some toe contact immediately!!!!

This is a critical focus for me at the moment. I seem to have the grip, posture, gathering, and collecting while gripping the ground piece working (for the most part). However, getting the glutes and quads engaged through the swing seems to want to pull my head and upper body forward a bit too much resulting in a pull to the left. Any ideas or drills to work on this? By the way….. great insights and love the kinetic chain videos. This really fixed a lot of parts in my game. Thanks.

Good morning Shawn I’ll be 75 this week 11 hcp low 80s driver swing speed. I’m a bit lost in a sea of video instruction Could you please suggest a sequence of 4-6 of your videos. In addition do u review a videotape of my swing with subsequent suggestions? If so where would I send. Thanks Karl