Oh yeah; there is some extra squeeze going on now!😀👍💪

Hey Dave! Please see “predict contact” and the “goldie locks” series;
More in depth for finer fine tuning is “pre-motor cortex goldie locks”

Right on! Yes, it will be all 3 and it will be without thinking but with awareness like you are having right here;

You stay the course with what you have and allow things to evolve some more; well done!

Before you jump to conclusions; See “lead hand release” and “trail hand release” then “arm motion fine tuning” and “release fine tuning”
Then we can talk!😀👍

Football drill series!!😀👍

Huh? Something wrong Doug?
Shawn

I just have the hardest time slowing everything down and letting gravity and the kinetic chain do it’s thing. I find myself always reverting back to swinging the “rag doll”.

Every once in awhile I can get in the “zone” and everything flows nicely but seems like I always revert back to the old arm swing.

I wish the body had a reboot button!

p.s. I find when I can get the kinetic chain started and getting my weight to the front side my ball striking is vastly improved. Most of the time my arms out race the weight shift.

A beautiful remedy for that is the “walking drill”
See that video on premium and practice that till the cows come home;
It is impossible to walk when you are stick handling the club;
Shawn

I could never doubt your wisdom, but I find that the walking drill helps at the time because I’m so preoccupied with managing all the moving parts, but doesn’t translate quite as well to the course (or, more likely, I haven’t done enough of it!!).

But before every swing, I told myself “Imagine you have to do this all day; use the weight of axe” and it helped me hit some of the best iron shots I’ve ever hit. I think when you’ve played other sports where muscling the ball is less obviously derailing, it’s a hard habit to break.

Hi Doug
Shawn will have better advice than me, but one stage that has helped me is starting from the top of the backswing. Then just doing a tiny up move and hitting the ball. It only works (and helps make sure) if your backswing gets to a properly supported position.
Then, the next stage, is to do a full swing imagining that you’re a lumberjack who has to swing at trees all day (that came straight from Shawn); you have to feel the weight of the axe to use that weight rather than arm the swing. But the first part gives you the feeling – you have to use more kinetic chain because the upswing of the backswing isn’t there.
I hope my experience helps you. This helped me shoot six under my handicap on a course I’d never played before, earlier this week.

Thanks Phil!

Nice chime in Phil! Thank you!

Thank you for the very kind words Ian!
Some drivers are more draw biased and you won’t need to close as much; some drivers you will need to close more and some about the same.
The key here is when you let the club release in the direction you want to start the ball, how is the ball flying?
Shawn

Hi Shawn, I am really inconsistent with driver , some weeks great others not so good . I recently went to my 5 wood as I was either hitting the 5 wood the same difference or driver was 10 yards further not much in it , however accuracy was much better . I can only use the driver if the ball is just forward of centre, however I do hit it very high.

Ball flight is usually slight fade or straight.

Do have any videos I could watch that might help with consistency with the driver , bad shot is hook and usually results in 2-3 lost balls a round , thanks graham

Hi Graham!
Have you ever been fit for the driver?

Yes, ball position will need to change; but not the way that you mention; it will need to move back a smidge; also, when you switch the feet to diagonal, you want to do it with both, not just the back one;

Bottom line is when you feel that the swing will and can stay to the right of the intermediate point, that you feel the tee is at the right place to be clipped slightly on the way up and that the ball can stay in the direction you want it to start;

Shawn

Yes, very good!
You want to be able to swing-whip-swat at 7mor 8 out of 10 for speed; BUT, you want to use only 3-4 out of 10 for effort!!
So yes on speed and compression; NO ON THE EFFORT.

Hi Shawn, I have been following the videos and they have been excellent, win my first medal and have finished 3rd a couple times as well, however I am really struggling with wedges from 100 yards . I keep pulling the shots or hitting them fat or hitting the ball really high and losing 20 yards in the shots

Hi Grahm!
Check the distance to ball with the wedges; they are the shortest clubs in the bag and often I see golfers too far from the ball with the wedges!

No need for the head to come up when the intermediate point I am releasing over is in my immediate peripheral vision right there in front of the ball within 12 inches or less! You want to use the intermediate point to line up AND DELIVER THE ACTION!

Oh so that is how you keep the water from spilling out of your ear!! Finally I got my answer. thx

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Correct! One swing cuts through a stem (saw through the stem from heel to toe) and the same swing and set up sprays sand onto the green where you want the ball to land. Very consistent set up!

Is flipping the wrists on sand shots considered a manipulation? Making the ball the target isn’t just what people do on full swings. It’s even easier to do it on putting and chipping.

Well, what is the focus? Are you trying to lift the ball out of the bunker or are you spraying sand FORWARD towards the green with the sole of the club?

It needs to be spraying sand but sometimes my mind loses focus. I start thinking about mechanics and club placement.

You either have to chunk like in my video on youtube called “sand shot with no sand shawn clement” (yes, I have a video for that too!!😝😎) or a modified long chip swing with the club square from the centre of the stance, which would normally get you a fat chip.

Depends of you are playing a nice strong draw or playing a fade! Fade will be a bit more square since you are already behind the ball since the ball is forward of centre.

Hey Kevin, thank you!
Draw: aim at the end target, play the ball back of centre, CLOSE THE FACE.
see the first video in the Consistency series to see how much to close. Then see “football drill series” for giving yourself enough space to NOT SHANK.

This comment was supposed to be on a different vieo…I have no idea why this tied to this video. It’s supposed to be WIG 1.0 video 3

No worries!

I don’t know what just happened, but my focus sucks! this comment is on the correct video…ugh…trying to work and learn (not a great “setup”) 😉