Is Paul Azinger on your payroll? 😉 In Hawaii he started a discussion about mechanics vs feel. He said that if a PGA player gets tied up into mechanics he will really struggle on the tour. He followed that up with an analogy about having tour players trying to punch out the individual lights on a traffic light with golf shots. He said “I guarantee you none of them will be thinking about mechanics. It is all feel.” I hope you stood up and took a bow. Maybe you could get an excerpt of the NBC telecast and put it on your web site.

All right, but I don’t sée how we can have a strong left hand grip as you recomand on your last vidéo with thé thumb on thé top of thé club, and not lateral.

Great video Savy and Shawn. Love that curly haired Goldilocks. I preload inside my r foot and rotate into my left . Get a nice catapult to the target with no sway and free rotation…out of the way. Stance too wide is impossible leaving me stuck in the middle and attacking the ball.
Short game review would be good video. A weak spot for me.
Audio clips with imaging techniques would be helpful. I use them for taekwondo kicks and punches in prescribed sequences. I do this when I can’t sleep and will now do this with golf swings and putting. Here’s.J.

Idea for future video
Camera above
Alignment rods on ground
I think this would help us see another important detail of the setup and the golf swing.

I am a lefty and really appreciate seeing WIG swing done more often by a lefty. Sav’s swing is looking so cool, just love what you guys are doing.

Shawn and Savy what a Great video. I played, in Florida, a couple of days ago and I was hitting the ground first and really loosing distance. I know I struggle with weight-shift and understanding the feeling of that weight shift. I play again tomorrow and look forward to practicing this at the range today. Look forward to your next video.

Important video. Had a good summer then fell apart until recently I narrowed my stance and pulled back right foot slightly. Interesting how over time we can make subtle unintentional changes that cause major issues. Would like to see slow motion of you and Sanannah demonstrating your natural lag and right elbow motion in swing (right sided swing). Would also like to see short game videos of you and Savannah as refresher. thanks

Hi Shawn,

Do you have a 2020 schedule available for when you are in the US for lessons/schools etc?

Thanks,

Tom

Hello Shawn! Really well done video. The teachings with Savvy help me so much as I am a lefty. I’ve been working with different widths/stance as well as angled approach. These are both excellent standards. I tend to get a little more spread out with 5 iron and hybrids. What are your thoughts on this? Thank you and enjoy FL. We are at Belleair CC on west coast. It’s been great playing weather.

Is there any difference in stance width for the diagonal stance? I need help in getting turned all the way back, and the diagonal stance appears to do that. Is the stance width the same, and then just drop the rear foot back?

When you show the battering ram technique with the butt of the club leading I would appreciate the slow motion transition of the wrists as you go towards the target. I found I was going towards the target but did this literally and I did not follow the plan line and found I was blocked. Tried to do the hockey wrist shot but only got better at hockey and failed going to the target : until I followed the plan line going forward as the same plan line as when I went on the backswing. This put things on auto pilot and the wrist action fell into a better perspective. ( The left and right hand following the plan line on the battering ram technique appears to put things in perspective and the lag is there with the club head going to the target. The wrists are going on plan to the left of target with club head going to target. Otherwise I get blocked and can throw the ball further than I can launch the ball. Your insight is appreciated. Med.

We never got the end of the story of Shawn’s journey into golf. I would be very interested in knowing when you did let go of the old ways? What made you realize what you were teaching at the time wasn’t effective?

Hi Shawn,
I luv all your videos with Savy and it was one of the reasons why I joined as a Eagle member. I was surprised to find that you don’t have all of Savy’s videos on this site, and would consider it an improvement is you had a Category that was Savy and your videos with her.
One of my recommendations would be over the last year, Savy went from just out of College and getting back into Golf, to now playing exceptionally well! What was your lesson program with her during this time? How much time did Savy work on these items to improve as much as she has?

I may be interested in your Palm Springs lesson program – please send me more information –
Thanks and keep up the great work!

Great Father/Daughter combo there. Some of my favorite vids. It is a big reason my daughter and I are planning to visit in Phoenix. We have many of the same flaws…both of us tend to open and yank it left when we loose focus so I can’t wait to see if we end up with the same fixes.

As for ideas, you got me curious about next week as my current quest is to really figure out how to give up control. To do that I need to learn how to feel and use the weight of the club. I feel the weight of a sledge hammer but something as light as a club is easy to manipulate and more difficult to feel and hold on to that feeling. I’ve gone out to the field and tossed hammers and clubs switching off and the only way I start to feel that weight is if my arms are extended and my biceps are not engaged and club is hovering just a bit off the ground. That works for the first part of the back swing but about the time the hinge happens, the weight of the arm/club unit is gone never to return during the rest of the swing. Need to figure out how to maybe find another way to find that feeling and hold onto it so I can deliver that to the target.

Another idea is I see you with a hockey stick and you talk about collecting the puck as a similar feel to collecting the ball and sending it toward the target. The idea makes sense but I am baffled how to get that feel with a golf club and ball. I did play a little hockey when I was younger so I think I know that feeling. It is like what we did for a wrist shot or to pass the puck but not so much the full windup type slap shot which was more of a hit. But that was back in the day with wooden sticks made of Mulberry.

As for audio subjects, I would like some on course correction ideas in audio podcast. Example; I’m playing pretty well and all the sudden no matter the flight plan, I hit 4 or 5 shots that go left. What is a good way to reset and change your focus to get back to fundamentals? Or do I just play the left shot and go with it until it starts going straighter again? Similarly, putting and quieting the mind while you putt or do those fine motor skills. Do you visualize the ball dropping in the cup? Do you see the ball on the line rolling toward the hole? For me putting is all feel. If I am on, I don’t have to think. So when I’m not on, I try not to think and that does not seem to work! Need a plan to reset and get back to a better place on the fly during the round.

One more subject that may be helpful is talking about practicing and the idea of using it for training vs. testing. I think sometimes I feel like I spend the whole range session just testing what happens when I do this and when I do that. At the end I am tired, I’ve hit a few good shots but I don’t really feel like I’ve trained myself to do anything better. In fact I know this because going back to the range the next day I get similar results. So sharing some thoughts about how to use some of these videos to structure a practice session to train yourself to use the wisdom being imparted upon us?

I’m certain I could come up with more but I’ll save them for Phoenix!

Wow!! I don’t know why I ever stepped away from your teachings a couple years ago!! I found you on youtube two years ago and just absolutely loved the way you taught the anatomically correct swing which I grasped right away. I slowly started listening to more online teachers and completely lost my way. Now I’m so glad I’m back and vow never to let myself wander off!! Thanks so much, Shawn!! I’m loving my new subscription!