One of my new favorite videos from you. Wow. The visuals here answer a lot of tiny questions that have been in the back of my mind, hindering me from focusing on task. Now that I can quickly swat these questions away, I feel like I can really unlock the powers that I’ve learned in all your other videos. Thank you, Shawn!

shawn , i ve had a problem with push slicing my driver all my life. but through ur teaching have got it down to ,a gentle fade,but now i m trying to do a set up for a draw but can t seem to get anything but a straight shot ive tried playing ball back in middle of stance plus closing the club face way up but to no avail.once in while a will get a duck hook but nothing in the way of a normal shot. Suggestions????

Sean, when we had our excellent lesson with you in May – up from Boston area – you mentioned you have an associate teaching your method near Hartford? By the way, improved my distance with your help and steady mid 6 HC – looking to improve my driver further.

Hey Shawn, I’ve been told by many that my putting stroke on the way back is too quick and my stroke through is too slow (and slower than my backswing). My intention currently is to heave the putter back and then let it fall. Once I give it a heave back to get it in motion, I add zero energy on the way down and through. My distance control, and my “feel for distance” is quite poor right now. Any suggestions?

Hey Shawn, it looked like your right foot was slightly back in relation to the alignment rod. Is that a “closed stance”. I do the same thing since following your videos. Or are you aligning yourself to the right edge of your intermediate point? Thanks!

Good stuff! This happens to me a few times a round. Just can’t get convinced about the intermediate point. When this happens, I think I’m lined up too far right (as a lefty) and start aligning too far left. Then pull my shot, lol.

What is your opinion on jumbo grips as it relates to these principals?

Hey Shawn great video. I can’t see the ball flight on these out door videos. I know Bryson Dechambeau carries around some device on his out door videos that shows the ball flight. That would be invaluable to your instruction. Thx

shawn , i ve had a problem with push slicing my driver all my life. but through ur teaching have got it down to ,a gentle fade,but now i m trying to do a set up for a draw but can t seem to get anything but a straight shot ive tried playing ball back in middle of stance plus closing the club face way up but to no avail.once in while a will get a duck hook but nothing in the way of a normal shot. Suggestions????

I’ve recently joined and you’re videos are awesome the only thing is, I would get so much more out of them if I could see the ball flight after impact. Is there any chance you’re videos will have a ball tracers?

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