Hi Shawn Love your stuff I am a long time follower of your advice
Way back perhaps 8 years . Since starting back after almost a year out I am struggling to get my left hand placed correctly. Whenever I hold the club like an umbrella my face rotates closed. I find myself fiddling with the grip to get the face square. Any thoughts that you feel might help.

Shawn

your umbrella or suitcase analogy shows the shaft to be at 90* to the palm. Doesn’t the shaft follow the line at the base of the last three fingers, or at an angle of approximately 105* to the palm.

Respectfully
Ron

Shawn i’m a right hand golfer former D1 pitcher. I have a hard time keeping pressure where’d my right thumb pad overlaps the left thumb. The bigger my swing the bigger that instability. I have a natural tendency to let my right elbow get away from my body. Any thoughts or video suggestions?

Shawn,
Been struggling with Right to Left breaking putts in that I can’t seem to get my Right Hand out of the stroke – I tend to get anxious when starting the stroke and “Hit” the ball rather than stroking it resulting in a few 3 putts a round. I sometimes will resort to putting 1 handed almost with my Right Hand just resting on top my Left wrist but it’s not very consistent. I’m currently using an Arm-Lock putter and the standard Claw Grip. Any thoughts or suggestions or drills?

How in the world would a good Canadian boy not know the call for a delay of game penalty????

Haha! Only watched hockey until 1986! Then just got too busy teaching 12 hours a day and kinda forgot! 😝

I notice that on some videos when you are outside you do a lot from the rough. Is that so you can see the ideal strike location through the taller grass? Would be good for practice. Also the front view of this video shows how far back in your stance off the trail toe. I have been having trouble pulling my shots to the left but its probably due to the club already turning over because its past the ideal impact point. That might also explain why I have a hard time getting forward shaft lean to obtain a better impact.

Yup that was the video that I have been trying to find. Where I first saw you close the face with a neutral grip and causes you to get the club square by the tilt. It also caused the shaft lean that I was looking for. So now using this and Goldilocks for ball position should make it happen. Thanks

As I am practicing this, I noticed a slight grip adjustment is needed for the chip. Different from the full swing, I move the index finger and thumb of the trail hand back up the shaft (connected more to the other fingers). This seems to give the ACU more stability to maintain the lower case “y” throughout the swing. Does this make sense?

Shawn I see videos when chipping to choke down on the club. For me I tend to choke down with longer clubs say a 5 iron and more of a normal hand position with a higher club such as wedge. Is this still the correct thinking?

For some reason the ability to make the video full screen seems to have disappeared. Any particular reason. I have always found it useful.

Thanks
Brian

Still confused about the set up for this. Do you align first with the feet parallel to the target line or the line to the right edge of the shaft? Same with the face of the club, do you align the face to the target and if so how do you do that with a face that you close for a draw and a face that you open for a fade? Do you do this when you first set up and then what about the braced stance? doesn’t everything change again? I have looked at your beginner series and other videos and still not sure how to set up. Please cover this for me and not refer to other videos, because I have looked and can’t find a simple explanation. I think this could be covered better in the beginner series.

So much more powerful after doing this drill with my dominant trail hand. I was making the same mistake of not loading my trail arm. So I was only .using my weaker lead arm to play!

In this video, you talk about the circular movement. In my practice range session yesterday, I realized that this movement needs to start after a full turn and my back to the target, as I grip the ground. So, my tendency is to swing through to the target before going to grip the ground. So it seems that my focus needs to be…. grip the ground at the top of the backswing (levitation)…. then the circular movement to the release on the planted front foot. Do this make sense, as I think this through?

Since the last episode we can’t put the video in full screen. the option in the lower corner disappeared.