Is there any area of Melhorne golf you would improve on based on all the new technology, or up to date thinking today?

After watching and learning from all your videos, it appears that PGA instructors have made golf learning more complicated, way too complex, teaching swing styles, all 50 plus positions they want you to be in and golfers don’t get any better . I been stuck at a 5 handicap way too long. I cannot be I was hitting 185 yard draws yesterday on demand.

In this lesson you say a breakdown may occur in the arm sword unit. When my elbows point to my hips, I find that my right elbow bends early taking my arms and swing inside. My right elbow hugs my upper chest. However, when I take my grip and then point my left elbow to the target and my right elbow behind me, my right elbow bend is delayed until I reach the top of my background. At the top my elbow bends and set my wrists. Is this an appropriate fix? If not what would you suggest? BTW, great videos and great lessons!

I see you have your index finger , as a hook on the trail hand grip and separated. Why? Are you trying to grip, hold onto club with the index finger. Are you using any type of pinching with trail index finger and thumb. I would think pressure would allow the club face to shut more at impact!

Is there a disadvantage of using a 10 finger grip, since I have small short fingers? Do I loose anything, such as feel, touch, etc.

Lets say that you know what your average distances are for each club, what percent effort do you swing at when you are dialing in. So if I know that my max 7 iron is 175 and you have 175 yard to the pin, would you hit a different club, since 7 iron is max. Would hit a 6 iron at say 80% effort. How do you do it?

Every time I straighten my trail leg on the back swing, the golf coach indicated I was coming out of posture by doing that! Isn’t she wrong on that, it does appear that you do that, but hard to tell with pants on. When I do the whip drill, my trail leg straightens up every time. I’m i doing something wrong by doing that?

You think stance width would be at hip width , down to center ankle.

Hey Shawn, I’ve been away from your fantastic channel for a couple of months and I’m doing a bit of catching up.
Congratulations for your thoroughly deserved Golf Channel Academy Award and I’m just loving seeing The Shawn and Sav Collaboration – truly inspirational.
Thank you dearly for this video, great food for thought once again. I’ll experiment with my grip pressure tomorrow when I go out for a practice round.
I’d just like to share that a little while ago, my putting really improved when I felt the weight of the ACU as you’ve suggested. To do that I had to loosen my grip pressure, or else I pushed it right in trying to manipulate the putter instead of letting the weight of the putter fall. But then one day my putting went awry for a few holes and my golf mate commented that my grip was too loose. He was right, my putter was too wobbly, I’d gone a bit too loosey goosey, too far mumma bear (I’m probably not allowed to say that anymore haha). So with a slightly firmer grip, but still feeling the weight of my putter, my putts were back on the intended line. Recently, though, I’m missing too many 3 footers due to too much grip pressure because I want to make them drop too much, trust issues I suspect hahaha.
Best wishes, Mike G

Hey Shawn,
I’ve noticed how you mention the right elbow dropping down in front of your body and my question is with me being a bigger guy with a big midsection I’m not able to get my right elbow down in front of me, should I let my elbow stay tight to my right side or what would you suggest in this situation?

Exellent👍 I noticed when i was trying to do “double pendulum short stop throw” my grip was much lighter. When i was doing “revolving door slinging, collect release throw” my grip was much more tighter. So maybe the task can also effect your plane? I mean the task gives you automaticly right grip pressure and plane? Does this make any sense?

I have always loved the pause at the top of my backswing as a checkpoint to ensure that I am still with my initial intermediate point come time for the down swing.

Been having some difficulty with my 30-60 yard pitch shots…
How would this drill be applied to pitching of the golf ball because on occasion there is little to a very small amount of wrist hinge needed for these shots.

Is the trail leg getting straight on the backswing and the led leg straightens at posting up?

When you take the club back on the backswing , are the arms moving like a door opening or like a dog door . Hope that makes sense!. Cause I feel like I can do both!

I have fought the club for years trying to control it, throwing from the top with my hands & shoulders. I was hitting into the nets after my chiro appointment this morning and I was using what another instructor calls the heave to get the club to the top of the back swing. I guess that would be your levitation. After the initial heave the club felt like it coasted to the top, floated there for a second, then started falling. As my arms and the club fell back down I turned my body accelerating the arm club unit through the ball. I have never been able to feel this. My wedge & 9 iron were solid, the 6 iron was a little harder to hit consistently and the 5 wood and driver were bad until as you pointed out in this video the swing on a flatter plane.
I can’t wait till spring to play!

Another great video. Love the slow mo showing the “double pendulum” and release foreword. It amazes me, watching Savy and your swings, how for most golfers the brain sabotages this process with a ball strike mentality. It feels so great when that sequence is created and so incredibly frustrating when the chain is broken. One of my first lessons with you was the elephant walk later becoming the grass whip- cut. This is now a pre shot routine for me to focus on the feel of the correct sequence. My 5 year old granddaughter knows all about cutting dandelions . OMG….en francais…OMD…..n’est ce pas? Thanks.J.