Shawn, your method and the way you present your points of view are great. Thoroughly enjoy.
My question is about the swing: do I need to lower my left shoulder in the back swing and then lowering the right shoulder in the down swing??. The reason for this question is that if I don’t do the lowering of the shoulder in the back swing it feels uncomfortable and cannot go as wide nor as high as I want to.
Thank you so much!!

Very good video series and it was fun to watch! 🙂 When we throw it is maybe more feel and less thinking. With golf club there is offcource clubface and impact. So to get speed we need arms pronation and supination through impact, like in ping pong. However when you show this (Dustin/Broeks) strong grip style, it looks like there is very litel pronation or supination and club face rotation. My question is : How your grip effects your release patterns or your favorit tasks?

Love the slight forward press to activate your turn back away from the ball. Ever so subtle, but effective in helping you load up on the back swing. I love that you narrate your way through the thin shot to bring on ‘bliss on a stick’ on the next one. What I love about how you go through this lesson is that you’re using data. You’re using the sound, the feel, and the contact as data to inform your next steps. Data has no emotion! You aren’t taking your thin shots, or the glancy, sliding shots off the face personally. You are using them as data to inform your next steps. Removing the emotion from not so good shots is critical to finding the joy and curiosity in our own games. It’s hard to be joyful and curious in the moment when our games fail us, but you are modeling the importance of doing so. As we’ve done a couple lessons together, I’m finding a new energy in my swing and my game. I’m still coming up short applying it on the course, but the contact is there and the distance is coming back into my long game. What is your advice for being patient on the course in order to find joy even if we aren’t striking it well? I’m guessing your answer might be ‘let go of expectations and enjoy the ride’. Do you encourage tinkering on the course or just getting on with it and playing? Talk to me Coach!

Shawn, a question about “compression”. It seems to me hitting off the mat and hitting off grass changes things a bit. Doesn’t the mat force the club “up” occasionally? Thanks for the video! Looking forward to next week.

hi shawn, appreciate this chipping lesson. One question : i struggle with the engine of the motion. You say the weight and the momentum does it all. The knees , like in the full swing , are , so i presume , are also an engine . Anyway the arms do not participate. Do I understand it correctly?

So Shawn I just had to share that I had a “breakthrough” range session today using the throw the football task. I was having trouble getting the feel of throwing the driver to the right and as I was trying to diagnose why the ball was slicing out to the right even with a more closed face I stumbled upon the fact that it had to do with the path of my elbow. When I imagined my elbow passing closer to my side without getting stuck I started to get a better swing path more inside to out. I didn’t like thinking about body part positioning while trying to complete the task of throwing the club clipping the tee to the right edge of my intermediate point but I couldn’t find the right feel. So I sat there for a while going throw slow motion with the club to try to capture a feeling from a task that would allow me to throw in a way that would put my elbow in a better position without thinking about it. That’s when it clicked. I needed an underhand throwing motion. My mind then went back through the archives of your videos and I remembered the recent one containing the football throw. I then took my setup and visualized throwing the football underhanded to the right edge of my intermediate point. It was an instant fix. I was absolutely amazed at the difference. All of the sudden I was getting consistency and compression like I’ve never experienced. I then used that same football throw task with all of my clubs. I use Wishon Sterling single length irons and it was like an epiphany of immediate bliss on a stick. I finally felt like I was using my kinetic chain as I see you demonstrate. I went through a large bucket of balls with all clubs having shots fly off the club like I’ve never experienced. After I got home I went back and looked at the earlier football drill videos and learned even more which I think will help fine tune what I’m doing. I think I might have finally unlocked the final piece I’ve been missing. I can’t wait to go out and see if I can repeat and build upon my progress. I never realized how important leading with the elbow and giving it space is to proper kinetic chain, swing path, directional control and generating massive lag. I finally feel I can work the ball as desired with both the fade and the draw. Such a simple concept that I’ve been missing that has unlocked a whole range of untapped ability. I also have adopted using the diagonal stance for all clubs now and that in conjunction with discovering the football throw task (I’d never tried it before) has opened up a whole new level for me. I am Very excited to start working these developments from the range to the course. I can already sense that my problem is going to be re-establishing my gapping as I think I’ve added 20+ yards to all clubs if not more! Thanks for all you do. Your efforts have really gotten it down on the shelf where even a knuckle dragger like me can reach it! I broke 90 for the first time in over 15 years a couple weeks ago. I just picked the game back up a year and a half ago and thankfully I stumbled upon you and Wisdom in Golf. Hopefully I will be able to report I’ve broken 80 for the first time ever very soon. I feel I’m on the brink of a Major scoring breakthrough as my short game has also improved dramatically especially since incorporating the flow state concepts of your latest videos. I’m actually seeing the desired shot and putting, chipping and throwing the club into the picture with so much more confidence now. So Absolutely Amazing how our brains and bodies work. It’s been such a fun ride following your lead and tapping into things I’d never dreamed I’d be able to do. All the best!

Dave Pike

Shawn could you please do some slow motions you say watch the blur and that is what we see. A slow motion would give us more insight to your position at different parts of the swing.
Great stuff
Graham

Shawn, After watching hundreds of your videos many times, something new hit me (Maybe,I think ; – )). I have always assumed (if not assumed subconsciously) that there is increased sense of tension that develops into the back swing due to the windup up/coiling of the muscles against the resistance of the spine at set up. However, the more reps I watch of your motion into the back swing, I get the sense that you LOOK like that you do NOT resist against anything as you release into the back swing ??? Though you say that you stretch into the back swing as you gather “out of the way”, you do not look that you are resisting against any body part or position that you started with at address?? Should I interpret your “getting out of the way” as not only making room for you arms to swing BUT ALSO as not feeling as you are coiling/resisting against anything?? If so, I would imagine that you would not feel that much tension or resistance near the top of the back swing? Great vids! Thanks, Otto.

Hi Shawn, thank you for your clear concepts, target oriented focus, and body logic. It has given me much back that accident and age had started to take away, as well as clearing out alot of mental garbage/baggage that had accumulated and was in my way as well. This Focus series is Gold!
My question is this, do you still see the blur of the club when you hit the shot? Do you actually see the club blur pass through the ball on the way to the target? i ask because i have gotten such great results so far with your concepts, but, i don’t really think that happens with me. The target seems to take over when i actually hit the ball. Just wondering if i am missing something basic i hadn’t considered before. Thanks again, the money spent for Premium is SO worth it. Will be upgrading before end of year! Can’t wait for March! Joel

Hi Shawn –
I struggle with my driver horribly. I typically shoot 87-89, but I lose a log of stroke off the tee. I have a typical amateur slice, which I am here to correct 🙂 That’s not my reason for this comment though. With that, I have a steep swing with the driver as well that is not on plane. I want to improve my swing plane, but also I want to know the cause of my biggest issue with driver. I often hit very low screamers. Sometimes, these tee shots skip off the tee box, which tells me I am hitting in with a descending blow. I can still hit the ball very far, but I have to be losing a lot of distance since this thing is like a rock skipping over water. I sometimes take a divot with my driver too. I just want to revamp my swing and find the best video to start with. This video was great, but is more about strategy and how to achieve certain things. I am needing more basic and how to improve plane and ball striking. Wow that’s a lot to work on haha. I’d love to never see a divot on the tee box or a mark where my ball has went leaving a rooster tail across.

Shawn: For all my clubs except my driver I am able to see the target in my mind’s eye and stay with that picture to produce a non-manipulated swing. But I still default to the ball on my driver. Two different swings in effect. My arms swing freely with my irons but not at all with the driver. Need your help.

Hi Shawn. I started playing again last year after an 8 year hiatus. When I came back I went through a massive swing overhaul that “felt” good but only proved to be problematic and unrepeatable. What has caught my eye is your address is very close to how I addressed the ball for 15 plus years before I quit. That address and swing yielded great results for me. Is that something you could cover or expound on? Loving the videos!

Hi Shawn,
How does one line up if we are binocular creatures? If I use the line on the ball it obviously feels like it’s aiming very left but is correct. Perpetual motion in that direction then feels weird. If I don’t use the line on the ball then I’m going to be aiming incorrectly because of the way our vision works.
What do you do?

Also, if I hang my putter straight down (relaxed wrist hinge) then the heel is higher and off the ground a lot more than the toe?

Finally, if I don’t forward press a bit then there seems to be too much loft and the ball goes a bit left often?

Thanks,
Rob.

Shawn, you are incredibly supple with a wide range of motion because of your suppleness. How can a 78 year old golfer like me possibly get to the positions in the swing you reach? My problem is I can make a full turn going back but I stop at the ball at impact. If I could get off my right side and send the “Y” in the swing to completion I would be so much better. How can I achieve a full release? Thanks

Shawn,

I live in the metropolitan Washington, DC area and winter is upon us. What can I do through the winter months to prepare for the golf season once the weather warms up? I always feel like I’m starting over at the beginning of every golf season.