Shawn, great video. Watched a video from you a while back. It’s where you were indoors hitting the ball and then a penny in front with the same swing to ingrain hitting toward target. Do you recall the name of that video.
Thanks

Hi, thank you for your advices. Realy helpful, straigh-forward, simple and insightful.
As a high handicaper I am facing the following problem and I would like to hear your opinion.
When I make practice swings everything looks and feels alright. But if I put a ball down, muscles start contracting, body stops turning, hand are rushing and the stoke is poor. It seems like a primal fear of impact. The brain knows that impact with the ball might hurt and it does everything it can to avoid it. No matter how slowly I try to swing, if there is a ball there, I rush it and get out of sync. Do you have any insight on how should this kind of problem (which I am sure many beginners have) may be addresed. Thank you!

Shawn, I think I have full understanding on how to work the ball now, except for one question; when you FADE the ball, during the setup do you get “behind the ball” like you do when you DRAW the ball?
Thank you, Ron.
P.S. Your methods support the feels I have when I hit a great shot.

Hi shawn, do you close your club face at adress and when you take your grip or do you leave it square?

Great video, Shawn. I know the focus was on difficult lies, but I’m thinking the mental image of wood shaving would also work very well for fairway woods on good surfaces. Can’t wait to try my 3 wood!

Well exactly!! Well done!!

For fairway shots, where is the dandelion stem; below the equator of the ball, at/above the surface of the ground…? Does it matter?

Well appears the golf season is over in Michigan. Based on your recommendation I bought a set of Super Speed Sticks and plan to do the training program over the winter. I also bought a 2lb hammer and an 8lb sledge hammer. For inside drills with these hammers does it make sense to make mini swings with the (say from 9 o’clock to 3 o’clock with an emphasis on “getting out of the way going back and forward”. Work on that on that drill over summer and don’t want to lose any ground.

Thanks for all the wonderful instruction. Has really made a difference in my game, still fall back to making the ball my target but making progress.

Let’s see if I have this right: Watching the student’s hands I could tell when he hit a good shot because his fingers had ‘levitated’ to the top of the Henderson poster on the wall. (you could hear the difference in the ball compression) Against Bubba’s poster, the top of the student’s head also levitated from Bubba’s mid-section (at address) to above his chin (at the top of the swing). Then it drops back down for contact followed by a similar climb of the head and hands on the follow through.

So for a complete swing, this means that the orbit of the head is shaped like a ” U “. The bottom of the ” U” on the downswing is a head drop in a natural move to garner ground forces. The old style thinking was to hold the head rock steady. Strictly interpreting that concept messed up a lot of people over the years. I share the fear of the student in reaching for the sky since you feel your head and torso pulling off the ball on the backswing. Getting older I have lost flexibility so I have been fiddling with this to regain some distance. I have been getting mixed results. The ball does go straight with good distance but half the time it is chunky.

What keeps you from topping the daylights out of the ball or sticking the club straight into the ground? Is the best way to learn this is by incorporating high hands into the perpetual motion drill?

Should the lead elbow bend at top of backswing or should we try to keep it as straight as possible?

As you say, it’s time to get that grip down pat!

I notice your trail hand is significantly weaker than mine. Is this closer to where I need to be. I’m thinking a strong right grip promotes a bigger block or pull unless if you really have command of it.

I’m going through the acid tests all month until I’m confident with your setup, seem ok?

I would definitely work on that stinger with the driver ! What a cool and useful shot !

Hi Shawn, I defintely love this double overlap thing. I will try it on the range asap. Besides that I am always amazed to see your precise up and down leg motion and absolutely believe it helps boosting the swing but don’t you think that this precise leg move is maybe too challenging for us mortals?

Shawn I have been using this grip for my putter for a long time now. Would going to this grip as a “specialty” shot, say chipping or to take spin off pitch shots be advantageous? And does the ball position need to change a little bit?

Hey Shawn, Have you ever did a follow up video on Matt Wolff? Intriguing young fella