Yes, you will see some really good questions and answers in the comment sections! No garbage here, all gold nuggets from like minded and incredibly passionate golfers! 😀👍
Awesome, glad you are having a blast! See “fade fine tuning” and “draw fine tuning”
To me it sounds like club face or initial alignment or a bit of both;
Shawn
Love you approach and knowledge. One thing that struck me. I am a barrel chested 6 foot 2 guy, making room for my elbow through the ball has always been a challenge as it is a constant fight for me to keep my elbow away from my body in the back swing particularly when I am using the longer clubs. Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated
Hi Michael! Sorry I missed this one!
You need to see the “football drill series” and the “throwing series”
This will get you a terrific start and we can go from there after!
Shawn
I completely understand the concept and my practice swings feel great with good speed. When I get over the ball, my brain malfunctions, I default to the ball, and my upper body (arms) takes over. I’m unable to let my arms fall. I’m losing all the speed and follow-through extension I get in my practice swings. I also feel like I’m swaying more that squatting, which I’m guessing is opening up my hips too early. Are there specific drills or swing thoughts you can point me towards?
Update on grip pressure: now I’m about a 6-7 out of 10 and trail hand pad pressuring my lead thumb on club. Showing about 3 knuckles on lead hand. Laying the club on my lead hand on my last life line , then having thumb slightly to more on the right side of the club. V pointing to right shoulder and right ear. To my amaze my driver has pick up swing speed and ball speed. Maybe not being too loose on trail hand of a 1 grip pressure is keeping me more connected and not being too loosely of swing.
Only problem I’m having is making sure I do the secondary tilt and keeping upper body not so tight . I tend to make my body tension the same as grip tension.
It’s all about having the “TONE” to accomplish the task. What would the body tilt look like when driving a nail through a door frame and what would grip pressure be? See “hammer drill” video on premium.
Another gem Shawn. I was always trying to control the dominant right arm. The right side always wanted to get into the action and over the top pull or slice. Now the football drill is purposeful through this video. The turbocharged right trail hand release also helps with my tempo, chipping, driver….thanks.
Trying to understand the 2 tees. Are they standing upright or laying down? Also since good players and ball strikers are reducing the loft by as much as 20% how do you get that much deloft, getting hands ahead of the club face, moving the body out of the way or something else?
They can be lying down or pegged;
This channel is a haven for delofting the club as golf Is the ultimate “collect the ball from where it lies and release it into the picture you want it to fly into.
See “throw the club” for the action that creates the tour caliber lag and then see the first video in the “consistency series” to understand what lag does to the club face and to ready for this inevitable and predictable event! Then see “predict contact” and “the goldie locks series” to polish.
I found the Impact Snap trainer interesting and purchased it online, apologies could not find your Pro Shop page. You mentioned making a video on how to train with it, is it available now?
Fantastic! What I love – other than the running commentary from Sav and Mu – is the simplicity of your tuition! We can see it, hear it and just squeeze it – boom!
Yes I am biased but why not be when you are hitting balls on the range and the guy that used to coach you(years ago) stops and asks who is your new coach! So much fun telling him – “Still Shawn” !!!
None at all! It is the engagement of the kinetic chain that is the most important! See “how to use the weight in the swing-axe drill with Savy” and the “kinetic chain series” followed by “throw the club” and “the throwing series”
That slow backswing of yours has a great home here!! 😀👍
Thanks for the reply. I apologise for not noticing till now. Watched the videos you suggested and incorporated it, not massively changed but the elbow isn’t welded into my side anymore, the driver is closer than the wedge which I presume is to do with the driver being on a flatter plane than the wedge. Saying that my carry distance has increased so all good. Thanks
my homecourse is very small and has a lot of tight lies (Austrian Mountains). It happens very often, that the ball is in den semi rough very close to the green and i have the feeling, that i need the most of the weight/energy to get through the semi rough.
In this situation it happens a lot, that my club gets “stuck” in the rough because i don’t want to send the ball to the other end of the green or even further. Then happens everything from yips….
What should i do?
This is where you need to learn the “OPEN FACED CHIP SHOT”
You need a good “LOB WEDGE” with 60 degrees of loft and maximum 8 degrees of bounce and a sole grind that matches the “TS” wedge from Ping or the “C GRIND” sole of Callaway or the “M Grind” of Vokey.
Then see my chipping video on premium, the most complete!
Shawn, this is fascinating to me and I look forward to sending you my first video for you to review. In regards to takeaway matching essentially the shot shape you want to hit helps my brain and bodywork in conjunction tremendously. What I am finding though is when I’m looking to hit a draw and I place ball position a little back center I’m still leaving the ball out to the right even with a take away that matches where I want the ball to fly. Any suggestions on really working to get that nice draw shape?
All you need to do is close the face of the club more! The vast majority of my early students cannot believe how closed the face needs to be and when they see it at address, they think OMG, hook city! Then they whip THROUGH the ball and into the direction they want to start the ball and their jaw drops; “ how come no hook?” Because they are not DYNAMIC in their thinking yet! See the first video in the “consistency series” and do what I do with the club head and also see the latest “historic” grip session we did with Savy and Mu!
Shawn
Ok, great! Thanks for the input, I’ll work on this. And for the fade, I’ve noticed your videos on opening the clubface juts a bit more but grip stays the same, and alignment and swing direction are slight left.
I’d love to come up and take a lesson sometime. I live out in San Diego but grew up in Maine so not that far from you in Canada. I’m home often visiting so I could scoot over to your neighborhood sometime :).
No, you want to have a more open face because we are not loading the arm-club unit like in the full swing! See the original chipping video earlier in the list! Shawn
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