Hey Shaun just wanted to say thanks for all the great teachings ! My goal was to break 80 ended up shooting 74 . It was so fun, and having a task on every swing made it possible . It’s so refreshing to have someone making the game easier for us!!

Shawn, I just received a notification from AVG my internet security software that it was terminating my connection to the Wisdom in Golf Premium channel because it is infected with Script:SNH-gen (Trj). Can you shed any light on this issue?

Shawn, considering the curved swing path along the ground of the driver and also the ball position forward in the stance for a driver, wouldn’t this cause the driver clubhead to be traveling upward as well as left of the target line by the time the clubhead reaches the forward driver ball position causing either shots pulled left or a slice depending on the clubface/grip relationship? I didn’t see this situation addressed when trying to hit straight drives. Is there something I am missing?

Hi Shawn, should we be worried about elbow position on the lead arm during setup?
Should your lead elbow point to the target when you grip and should your bicep face the ball when you grip with your trail hand?

Hi Shawn,

Long commentary here, but it outlines 3 months of work I have done with my swing.

I started your program pretty early this year following a spring trip to FLA (end of March). I live in the northeast, so our golf year is short here. 🙂 I have been progressing with your videos and working on my irons for the most part. I spent quite a bit of time working with your pulling and slicing videos. When I started the program I had a tendency to pull my irons and my fairway woods. A lot! I tried throwing the club in my backyard and the first throw landed on my deck on the upper level. I was facing away from the deck planning to throw parallel with it, but in the end my wife came running out of the house to see what all the racket was. 🙂

My scores on the course got a little crazy out of hand because I was hitting a bunch of shots OB every round to the left on dead pulls.

It is now July. I’ve finally worked through the pulling issue. I have gotten much more consistent with this swing and I still do hit a pull every once in a while. The frequency of these pulls is way down and the magnitude of the pull is much much less. Funny though, my boundary conditions for what I call a pull has gotten much tighter as I go along and I have made improvements in this area.

I want to thank you for all the great info you have on your site. My friends all see the difference in how I’m hitting the ball and I’m really starting to get consistent with it. Don’t get me wrong, this has been a struggle for me internally. When I started this I figured it would be a few weeks to a month to get to the point I’m at today. I’m 3 months into it. My handicap has gone from an 11.5 to a peak of 17. It looks like I’ve turned the ship around and it’s heading the other direction now. Currently at 16. It takes a long time to turn the aircraft carrier around. My friends will be grumbling the rest of the summer as my handicap drops (I hope).

I’m working on your driver videos now. I’m 67 years young and when I started this year, my clubhead speed with the driver on a trackman was 85-90mph. I was hitting my drives ~220 yards. I think my swing speed has improved, because I’ve added about 40-50 yards on the drive. I’ve been using a 10.5 deg Calloway driver and had it adjusted to +2 deg (essentially 12.5 deg total). Historically, I’ve been a low ball hitter with all my clubs. Using your Driver video techniques, I now hit the ball much higher. and can hit a draw or fade at this point most of the time when required. At my session on the range today I decreased the driver from +2 to +1 and then to standard loft as I went through a medium sized bucket of balls. I didn’t seem to loose much height and my accuracy didn’t seem to suffer. Does this make sense to you? Should I continue to try reducing the driver loft? I think I might get additional mileage out of the driver with lower loft. My driver historically been a very consistent club for me and I have lot’s of confidence with it. I don’t want to mess that up by monkeying around with it to try to squeeze a few extra yards out of it. I would be really interested in you comments on this. I was thinking I may eventually even go to 9.5 deg at some point, but I didn’t want to do it all at once. Let me know what you think on this.

As a note, I haven’t yet taken the lower loft driver to the course, but I plan to very soon.

Thanks again for all your great info and videos. This has been a fun yet frustrating adventure. Keep up the great work. This is a great system and I am confident that I will see more improvements throughout the rest of the year.

Best,
Paul

What a beautiful practice area and teaching area.

HI Shawn! I’ve been having some good success with dead arms. One thing that has come up is I’m starting to push shots. And usually I’m super happy with the swing. Thoughts?

Also, when on the tee box, would you pick a spot that is level, or pick a spot with an intermediate point – what would be your priority? ****Super commenter

Hi Shawn longtime follower on youtube, recent member of your premium channel. I had this issue last summer as well. It seems that I get to certain point when I play a lot of rounds. Slowly shanks start to sneak in. My Last round a few days I could get some solid hits but everything was going shooting off to right with the Irons and wedges. Woods and Driver were ok overall. Can you direct me to which videos to focus on. I rewatched videos on posture and grip to see if something was off. Thanks again.

Shawn,

Can you explain if there is a method to determine if you need a face balanced putter vs toe hanging or in-between? Does it really matter if you’re using perpetual motion to feel the putter swing? Thanks kindly.

Hi Shawn,

Had my best round yet going back to wisdom in golf basics – flight plan, IP, target focused task, observe result. Flight plan where things have broken down in past is the confidence to actually be able to execute a flight plan vs make it as straight as possible. This will take some time and effort to continue down this path.

On thing I did was set up relaxed and square to IP. Then adjust a bit for flight plan. Otherwise I seem to exaggerate the setups too much leading to that confidence issue that this will be a good result. But you do need to be willing to make some mistakes for the process to unfold. Since the mistakes happen anyway this shouldn’t be a problem 🙂 but easier said than done.

Thanks Shawn for the progress so far

Jeremy

Bonjour Shawn, cette vidéo est réellement trés importante et j’espère qu’elle aura été vue par tous vos élèves.
En ce qui me concerne, grâce à vos conseils, j’éprouve de plus en de plaisir à jouer et m’entraîner, mon jeu s’en est trouvé complétement transformé.
Votre enseignement est d’une exceptionnelle qualité. Merci.

Hi Shawn and thanks for another awesome video but now I’m confused 😀 Probably because I have misunderstood. When hitting a draw respectively fade you still aim the feet to the target? Is it ball position, the swing direction and maybe also a more closed or open club face that changes?

Hi Shawn, thanks for the lesson! I wanted to understand how much I should squat? I feel I need to get quite low to feel my glutes and quads engage, but that makes the club really flat and my 7 iron is resting on the heel instead of the sole on setup. I also feel better engagement with the kinetic chain when I squat at address instead of squatting down in the backswing – wanted to hear your thoughts on this as my instructor is trying to get me more upright with my knees and lean more with the spine to be over the ball – I feel quite weak this way and the swing becomes arms only.

Hi Shawn. I’ve been a part of your premium channel for a couple of months now and have made some strides. Not perfect, but improving nonetheless. I revisited this video because I am trying to get to a point of hitting a draw on command (chronic slicer). The problem I am running into is that my miss is a wild pull/pull hook. Part of me feels that I am either not getting enough turn in my backswing or my tempo is too quick to transition into the downswing. I am starting to wonder if my brain is getting in the way of letting me push my shots to the right when hitting a draw. I think this because there are some par 3s at my home course with OB or tree trouble to the right. Do you suppose my fear of hitting into trouble may be causing this? With it as bright as it’s been I have a hard time seeing the blur over the ball, so I check the divot with my practice swing and all is good, until I hit the ball.