Shawn – good video! I’ve been struggling with slice. This lesson and football drill helped me tremendously. The big take away for me was that I was not completing my backswing. Completing the back swing with my elbow on task for throwing the football at target through intermediate target produced nice ball flight with no slice. Hit driver 270 yards….not bad for 62+ years old.

Another good one guys – Savvy, that finish position is 🔥 🔥 🔥!

Bill Mehlhorn said “The last thing to move in the take away is the club head”. It is a great way to hit the ball, especially if you have stiff wrists. Good series.

This was a great series! #5 really helped me out of my recent quandary, which was…… ” trouble getting the club in the slot while maintaining leverage.” Maintaining leverage (for me) is “being able to whip the club.” Went to the range after watching #5 twice; to confirm that I interpreted the lesson correctly. Wow! Just pounding the ball! Effort 4 and velocity 8! Hit about half a dozen drivers and the last couple I amped it up. So much fun!
Thanks Shawn, Mu and Sav!

I have played for 60+ years by defaulting to the ball and have learned to square the face by manipulating my hands and timing my “release/flip”. I don’t have direction issues but am seriously distance challenged. I now know why!! FWIW I would never hammer horizontally like you show. I need to rethink that and think about lining up the radius and ulna to deliver the club through and let the release just happen?? Are there other videos that you can suggest? Thanks so much for all you do.

When you and Sav go to the top, it appears to me that as you start the downswing you both actually raise the arms slightly higher is this automatically happening with you being aware?

This has been my worst year, for the past five years. Because of health problems in 2019, I was unable to practice or play golf until late Spring of 2020. I still am unable to practice; I can play 9 , though.
Until I turned 75, I am 80. I often shot in the high seventies.
I have been a premium member for three years, and I just do not swing through to a good finish. I have lost my power.
I do not seem to concentrate more than a few seconds!.
I do believe my game could improve if I would lower my expectations, right?

Sav’s swing is starting to look ‘text book’. A smooth flowing motion. Full turn and extension on both ends. Fully stacked on the end. She has been paying attention! Nice lesson.

Shawn – noticed Sav’s club face is facing sky at top of backswing, while yours is more parallel to target line. To get your CF position at top, I feel like I have to roll/twist my wrists during the hinge, which makes it difficult to square CF during release. When I hinge like Sav, I feel less moving parts, and I can focus simply on the throw, with confidence CF will release correctly.

Hi Shawn, great video series. I have just recently subscribed but not watched all of your videos. I was wondering if you could enlighten me about what I need to do with the club face.

For a draw (right hander)I would aim right of an intermediate point, stance pointing right, ball slightly back. But where am I supposed to aim the club face?
I know that to achieve a draw, I need the club face slightly closed to path. Am I supposed to close the club face at address, pointing at the target line (where I want the ball to land, which for this instance could be left edge of the intermediate point) and want the blur to be right of the IP?

Sorry, I hope I am making sense.

Hi Shawn, I have a big problem wit the windshield washer lead foot. Do you have any recommendations/drills for me to work on this?
Thanks,
Tim

I am starting to get a lot of width with the diagnol stance which I have started to try out on the course which in turn helps me load much better and the throw also is very strain free because of better engagement of the KC. 👍🏻

This is what I was looking for. However i worked very hard to get my weight to the front foot earlier in the downswing to syrike ball first the ground. Now I am thinking that iI am getting it to the lead foot too early instead of pushing off the trail foot longer. Should I be letting the weight shift forward later in the downswing? I think it is costing me power. Your thoughts?

Hi Shawn, been working hard as prescribed but I want to check in on something I experienced to see if it is real. Turns out it is not the forearms that help feel the Arm/Club weight..seems to be the pressure from the floor that allows me to feel Arm/Club into and through the back swing. 

I found I can more easily feel the weight through the toss when I use the momentum of the transition of pressure to the trail foot to start the club toss into back swing. However, there is a distinct sequence, pressure toward inside of trail foot then movement of club into back swing being leveraged by the pressure in the inside heel of the trail foot. If it is not in that order then it I don’t feel the A/C as much probably because it is out of sync or manipulated by the upper body/arms. Is that a kinetic chain helping with the back swing toss? 

I know when throwing the club you talk about planting the foot to get the body out of the way then throwing the club with the legs. You say it in that order…what I did not realize is there is a sequence to it. Pressure move then club move off that pressure. I guess that’s how you throw a baseball, so it makes sense but wanted to confirm I’m on the right track. I think before I was trying sync the back swing toss with the pressure move and was not in tune with how the body wanted to me to react to the pressure and sequence things to activate the chain maybe? 

This synced idea might be piece of misinformation from baseball long ago. I was taught to stride toward the ball as you are swinging to hit the ball. I see now that would be terrible because you have no lead foot pressure/leverage from the ground to transfer into the ball. Explains why I had what I call “warning track” power. 

I hope I’m onto something and not chasing a wild hare. It upped my PW from about 107 to 120 yds when I did it right so I’m looking forward to trying it on longer clubs as well…if this is real. 

Thanks and keep up the good work. I really am enjoying the off season series thus far. It is good to see different swings from the 3 of you and how there are different ways to get to a similar place. Gives me hope!

Hi Shawn
This lesson helps me to put in place the drills from last weeks.
Since I started t follow your lessons and advices my game has changed a lot (for better results!!).
I still have some problems:

• to keep my balance
• to find the goog rhythm or momentum (too fast too hard)

this last video is helpfull to slow down the machine but what could you advice to improve those points?

Un grand merci de France!!!
Laurent