This video is gold Shawn, good job 🙂
I’ve always found golf grips ridiculously small compared to a tennis racket or a baseball bat. Bryson Dechambeau uses huge grips (XL size which is +6/16 whereas Midsize is +1/16) from the company jumbomax. Without going to extremes like Bryson, using a bigger grip could allow you to gain in feeling by holding it more in the palm but without create the famous space that makes the club float usually with a smaller grip.

What do you think?

Shawn I’ve been working hard on this and the draw was giving me fits. I was lining up parallel to my intermediate point playing the ball back, getting behind it and still having issues for the ball going right on me and hooking even with a strong grip. Once I started lining up To the right edge of the intermediate point (another golf ball) by draw started getting much tighter and not going right. I guess I kept thinking I need to aim right at my target for the draw and expecting a push draw but this doesn’t work for me consistently.

Maybe it’s my anatomy being slightly different or the way my mind sees it but for me to draw back to target I must aim right and draw it back.

The Perpetual motion drill helped me feel the release so much better. And along with the alignment change I wasn’t hooking the ball.

I find that hooding the club at address and having my hands neutral (effectively the same as a strong grip of course) forces me to take the club back with my left (Lead) side in my backswing, and then it forces me to swing down through the ball with my right side and my right hand staying in lag position on order to not hook it. So the hooding forces me to really feel that I have to keep that lag longer and not release early. It’s honing the feeling of holding off on the release until I’m through the ball and then also releasing out to the right more. It’s great fun when it works. Great contact and picking up an extra club length.

Now, can you do a video on the angle of attack. I feel that the reason I’m still not getting enough compression to get the distance I should be is because of the angle I’m coming into the ball. Even at my best hits coming through the ball I can only carry my 9 iron 135yds draw. I’d like to get 140-150 out of my 9.

Your thoughts?

Shawn, I stumbled into something I wanted to share. My favorite analogy right now is cutting grass. While hitting balls off a mat I rolled a ball that ended up towards the front part of the mat. For some reason I addressed the ball and my front foot ended up being right on the edge of the mat. I took a nice easy cut of the grass and just striped the ball. I now fell like I’m cutting grass off the edge of a canyon. I finish into a solid right side ( I’m left handed). It’s like your old braced tilt videos!

Great video Shawn and excellent Instruction as has become your hallmark! Doug D here. If you go back and look at my videos from last year, you’ll see that I suffered from the “neutral” grip. But not anymore! Can’t wait to send you my video this month with the “strong” (45 degree close) as you describe in this video. Worked hard on it for a couple of weeks and I’ve got it. I have gained 10 yards in my wedges! 30 yards in my Driver and the ball is flighting straight. Or fading when I play that shot. But there is something else I discovered. When I take that grip and set up with that natural tilt, as you show in the video, for some reason, I automatically feel totally “connected to”, able to access easily, my back swing.! The takeaway, hip rotation and full turn all seem easily achieved now. I’m not sure why, all I know is how it feels. Any thoughts on that aspect of this? Look forward to your response.

Wow – history in the making – this video is GOLD.

OK – Sav, we have “ Nice Miss”, “ One hit wonder” and “ it’s not that you’re right”!!!!
Could be time for a volunteer to film from behind the net so we can see how the “1 hit wonder” goes hitting at a target!!!
Just joking – way to dangerous!!
Mmmm, unless you have some hockey gear?

Is the kinetic chain engagement of the glutes and quads going to be the same between the irons, fairway woods, and driver? I am thinking that the driver might be slightly less, since the ball is on a tee and we are catching the ball as the club is moving up on the arc. Is this correct?

Awesome video! Had problems to watch it quietly , got all nervous and very tempted to drive straight to the range. Lost a little bit my mojo the last weeks – listened too much to others – but feel back on track now. Love the baseball clip you added in – great to see this energy, power and similarity with golf. Thanks team!!!

Another great video. I don’t know how you keep coming up with this stuff.. I’ve struggled for years with staying connected to club through the swing, particularly with longer clubs. I’ve seen improvement when using the baseball grip.

Do you see any disadvantages to using the baseball grip or should I keep working on the overlap or interlocking?

Thanks Again!

Oh Wow!!!! That was a good one. Everything feels better.

Hi Shawn, I joined today after watching one of your grip videos. I have come back to golf after a few years out as I really struggled last time round with consistency. At one point I was to an 8 HC and then I would just start shanking the ball and this process would repeat over and over. Just to clarify the points here so I am straight on what you are saying.

1. close the clubface between 35 / 45 degrees and take a neutral grip / with the index hook (no problem this is my grip)

2. Take a braced tilt over the ball as if setting up to drive an axe into a tree, thus producing a flush clubface at address and impact.

Is this correct?

One other point, if I have gathered my facts correctly, where do I aim my shot. Do I set up just as I currently do, using a train track method with parallel clubface and feet to target line, or do I need to make adjustments to the right?

Thanks, I am really looking forward to trying this all out on Saturday and learning the “Wisdom in golf” way

Hi Shawn – Outstanding video and made me realize I was lifting my lead shoulder to create the back to square and not tilting properly. Do you close a hybrid the same as an iron?

Thanks Shawn. Awesome video. I believe my iron inconsistency is caused by trying to set-up with too neutral of a grip and then trying to time my wrists to shut the face. I am all over the course and working my tail off. Funny thing is I use a much stronger grip with my driver and am staying in the fairway much of the time. I got off my strong grip with my irons due to an instructor comment regarding my hooking the ball. I think it was more a of set-up issue. Can’t wait to get back to my stronger grip tomorrow and see the results.

Great video Shawn. Thanks to you I’ve been playing with a closed face for months and striking it better and better. It’s funny, because all my mates want to point out that my face is closed way too much..

Nothing prettier than Christian Yellich in full stride ripping a baseball. Great idea to show that momentum.