Hi shawn ,
Question about the eyes . When you are cutting through the stem do my eyes remain on the stem until the body collects the head ? I seem to be a bit unsettled with my eyes

Hi Shawn,
After a long period of neglecting your advises and accumulating issues with my swing, which led to losing the enjoyment of playing golf, I’m back to the basic series, and I’m confident it will help me a lot.
I have one question: when you gripped the club at 8:30, it seems like you didn’t close it to 45 degrees—it appears to be straight instead. Is that an illusion, or is it because your body is already tilted?
Thanks a lot!

Shawn, please add a longer visual (longer alignment rod?)of your target, from the target out into the course, and an alignment rod showing alignment stance as it relates to downrange final ball position. It’s hard to see from our vantage point. Maybe a couple slow mow overhead views? And snapshots of your ball position for fade, draw, nuetral that we can compare on one visual. It’s hard to see when watching live shots, or place a ball representing all three at the same time? I am sure I have seen parts of this on several different videos, but to see it all at once, like a cheat sheet. Appreciate all your feedback. I understand this is no small production task. Thanks

For some reason when I try to watch I can no longer expand to full screen. It’s like the former controls are no longer available with the new formatting. Any way to add those back to add the full screen functionality?

Hi Shawn,
When I hit a forehand with a tennis racquet (right-handed), my right palm faces down during the backswing, and my elbow flares out. Applying this same motion to my golf backswing, I rotate my right palm to a closed position, which gives me a feeling of more leverage over the ball and better control toward the target. However, I’ve noticed my ball flight tends to draw to the right because the clubface is slightly closed at impact.
Do you have any thoughts on hand rotation during the backswing or any videos you’d recommend to help me improve this?
Thanks!

Hey Sensei! Followed your recommendation to cement weight shift and throwing the club to No Arms – it world a treat to remain focused on the task, using big muscles to heft the club and gravity to send it down the paddock! Makes life easy!

Hi Shawn – im 5foot7 and holding the grip from the end whilst keeping the club a palm width away from my belt makes the club shaft flatter than your position on address and the toe lifts a bit. What are your thoughts on holding down bit on the grip (Like Tommy Fleetwood) – is that a good adjustment to make?

Hi Shawn,
My backspin on drives is way up, around 2500-3000+. Any thoughts on what might be causing this? Great video series!
Thanks,

Hey Shawn
This is,as usual, AWESOME information and Golf Expertise.
I’ve been watching you for years and when you try to hit a fade with your Driver, 99% of the time,it does NOT fade.
In this Video you acknowledge that your Fade is a Straight Draw, and who doesn’t like Straight shots? Hahaha.
But, NEXT TIME YOU ARE TRYING TO TEACH FADE SHOTS with your Driver, can you try it by just opening the face just two degrees and let us see what happens.

So many of the Golf courses I play in Pennsylvania have trees on the right side of the fairway for a medium dogleg right shot.

I’m just curious if that very Modest opening of the c Driver club face will perform the way I think it should. Moreover then if you can show us the Ball position etc with your OPEN Club face, You might be able to help a lot of us reduce our scores on these Right to Left holes, because there are Trees on both sides, so that Straight Draw option has been causing me to be Out of Position on these moderate dog leg right holes.

Thanks and as usual Your Lessons you provide are truly beneficial !!
Thanks

Hi Shawn
My direction with my driver is good but my grip continues to break down slightly thru impact. So the slight loss of compression hurts my distance by 10%.  Is it “not fully committed”, otherwise a “mental” lapse or something in setup or technique?  
Thanks so much!
Ken

Hey Shawn when I swing I feel that I release with the trail side, and my shots are good. Whenever I think and try to swing from the lead side my swings are weak and ineffective. I’ve heard that to have a good swing it must be from the lead side. Is that true? Or is it what each golfer prefers and works best? Thx

Awesome video Shawn. Changing to pulling through with my lead side over the last couple months has been a game changer. For me I visualize using the butt end of the club as a battering ram to use the super slow super relaxed full turn of the body to send heavy momentum pulling through like the frisbee from my lead side to drive that butt end through the ball sending a “gouge” of grass with it in front of the ball to target and full finish. As long as I imagine my lead side of my face gently resting on an imaginary plane of glass coming up from the back of the ball I can get that full turn with up and down motion using ground forces without swaying off and staying bolted and centered behind the ball. I’ve likewise seen a club difference in distance thinking pulling/ramming through engaging the lead side vs pushing through with trail side. I am still working on perfecting my distance to the ball with the driver to feel total abandonment. The further away I envision sending the butt end of the club with lead side pulling through as the battering ram the more speed I seem to generate. It’s a very different feeling than my old swing so still a work in progress letting the trail side stay along for the ride. Anyway thanks for highlighting this as it really has made a huge difference for me. Thinking of moving the butt end through has really helped generate more lag without thinking too much as the frisbee has the tendency to make me think about my wrist action too much but the feel of whipping through is definitely amazing so I think I will continue to practice that feel but use the swing caddie pro utilizing that lead side whip feel with it. I’m sure you’ve already noticed you can make that thing click over much easier using that lead side. Cool stuff! Have a great Holiday season and Merry Christmas!

Dave Pike

Hey Shawn! I am here watching after your swing analysis, and the focus for me is engaging my legs properly. I am currently taking a few days off from swinging because my lead leg’s knee has been experiencing strain and actually swelled up on me. Is there any insight as to what could cause that, and will properly engaging my legs prevent the strain on my knee? I’d love to hear your thoughts because I’ve heard the lead knee can be a danger spot for golfers. Thanks!

Love this video!! I think while practicing my swing at home with out a ball I would forget about the real impact of hitting a real ball. Game changer in my mind now knowing the difference between swinging with out a ball and anticipating the collision and compression when the ball is in the way of my swing.

For those of us in winter states without access to an indoor golf facility, what at home drills would you recommend? Specifically, I was beginning to see some constancy with feeling my release at the target instead of at the ball.  I have room for the the perpetual motion drill but my wife will not allow me to throw the club in the basement. What can I add to winter indoor program 🙂