Very helpful. My question is what are you throwing to the target? Is it the club head, the handle of the club, the club like a javelin? It looks to me like you are throwing the club longitudinally toward the target and this might explain the great compression you get. I occasionally get it too, but often do not.

I know that I should be throwing clubs around to experiment, but I live in a city and room to safely throw clubs around at high speed is problematical and perhaps criminal and in any case surpasses my ability to risk being a violator of society.

Hi Shawn, hope all is well. Count me in for the Swing Index App! I’m having a technical issue downloading it, but will keep you posted if I need your help. Thanks again for all you do! -Kevin

Aha moment! Since working on these swing techniques I’ve hit an occasional shank. However, I think I finally grasped how to set the machine with distance to the ball and that varies with length of club and gravitational pull. Can’t wait to implement this. I have a feeling I’ll discover more of this in the Goldilocks series.

I found that I had to slightly hover the club to really feel the weight of the AC unit with the half swing chip. it worked really well for Gap/PW/9/8 etc. However as I repeated the feet together/feet apart and I worked up toward my 5 iron, it became much less consistent. lots of fats and thins. Would that because the club is longer?

A little of both but more so with the feet apart and the attention on target seems to work better for shorter irons as well. For some reason it is more difficult for me to keep attention on the target & direction of the throw with the longer clubs as well.

Shawn I hit my Driver about 240 yards. All I did except a good set up, Posture and grip was, A Slow Back Swing and Release + Feel the Club Head Swing Towards the Target. I talked to you about a week ago and took your advice and joined this Premium Channel. I am 74 and that is one of the best shots in 12 years. Thanks so much for your advice. Please reply.

Please provide English version of your answer to question about whether your feet are open at address for chipping and, if so, to what extent. Thanks.

Hello Shawn,

I just started learning your techniques and I seem to make very good contact with the feet together drill. I say seem because I spent 5 hours hitting into a net this afternoon. My reference is the pattern on the club face and feel through the hands. However, when I take a normal stance I begin spraying again. Do you have any thoughts on transitioning from feet together into a normal stance. I started the feet together drill with a 6lb sledgehammer 😁

Thanks,

Josh

Just wanted to say i am insanely jealous . Nice work

Hey Shawn, I love this video! It’s an eye opener for me when you mentioned that you aim a little to the left of the (left) bunker and you swing for the middle of the fairway. It does give you maximum forgiveness off the tee even if you don’t hit it perfectly. I actually have the same method. My “aim line” is 12 o’clock but I swing towards 1 o’clock. Does this make sense?

Hi Shawn, have you come across the ‘rule of 12’? It is similar (not exactly the same) as your ‘carry 1/3, roll 2/3’ approach. The rule of twelve works better though for carry length of about four steps (your first market there is 6 steps) – while your system works better for pins that are much farther.

One question though when you pitch/chip like this – do your hands feel ‘soft’ during the swing?

Shawn,

Another little golden nugget in here when it comes to grip pressure. The only way I can feel like I am whipping to target is to have all the grip pressure in the three fingers of the lead hand. The right hand is just along for the ride and to support the club, especially the thumb and index. Sort of like I am going to throw the club but I have just enough pressure that it doesn’t leave my hands. If I start getting too much pressure in my dominant hand it quickly goes from “throw” to “hit” leading to pulls left and flares right.

It appears that you have less head tilt on knees together chip than with your regular swing stance, where 20 degree head tilt is so obvious. Is that what’s really happening or is it just the camera angle? I also seem to remember your saying in a chipping video that it was important to keep head looking straight ahead to prevent altering the low point of the swing. Do I have that right and is it connected to the perceived head tilt difference?

I have been using the Claw Grip on the Putter for a long time. What do you think of that type of Grip. Please respond. Thanks.

Hi Shawn, first off all thanks for your instruction. I’am a big fan off how you are giving out the message!

When you are adressing the ball with your driver it looks like you are “delofting” the club? I.e if you should put the club on the ground you would have som space between the back of the driver and the ground?

Thanks again