Hi Shawn,
This may be a “Golden Nugget” for me – Thanks!
I watched the video the first time and tried it the other day at the driving range and course with little success. I immediately knew that I had missed something – and I had. I watched the video a few more times and picked up that from a traditional square stance you appear to move your lead foot about 1/2 shoe closer to the ball or target line and slightly flared. At the same time – moving your rear foot 1/2 shoe away from the ball or target line and slightly flared. Please confirm this observation to “fine tune” a clarity confirmation to cement my confidence to imbed this new stance into my game.
What a difference! I previously experienced issues with a “conventional square stance” with higher velocity swings – I felt out of balance and slightly out of control. With this nugget, I feel more in control, balanced and free to swing away. It’s also helped me with my Hybrids as well – gaining distance and accuracy with all of my longer clubs.
It help me achieve one of my better rounds today:
SCORECARD: GIR% 61, FIR% 86 / ROUND MILESTONES: DB Free, 3-Putt Free, 70’s Round
Yes, that is the way to do it;
It always starts with the flight plan and the the intermediate point to guide your set up into that flight plan and while you are “getting ready to deliver your task into that flight plan” AND NOT getting ready to hit the ball, you feel where the platform needs to be to ALLOW you to stay with your task.
You just experienced your way of staying with it! Congrats!
Shawn
Hey Shawn,
Thanks for the driver nugget tried the new alignment it worked for a moment and I always seem to slip back into old habits. So much that I have to work with my 3 wood off the tee for 220 to 250 my driver is always the adventure as you noticed when I was with you at DeBell lol thanks so much for everything!
Thanks for the stance confirmation; I am now fully confident that I got it, and will imbed this nugget into my game. As you know I’ve been following your WIG techniques for a number or years and it has improved every aspect of my game, helped me to lower my scores and handicap, and to have more fun.
This slightly closed stance certainly helps my mind’s eye to see the flight plan directly over my intermediate point more comfortably with my rehearsal swings. As you mentioned in the video, I find it an easier and more effective method to draw my tee shots with this stance.
It’s a great feeling to watch a properly executed ball in flight that matches the flight plan that we form in our mind. It literally makes me smile and sometimes even laugh out loud. I sometimes say… Thanks Shawn!
As always, Thanks for what you do…
Jack Moore
After sending in my 1st video you identified my transition as my problem and already it is paying dividends. I rewatched all of the videos you advised,especially best downswing weight shift, which may be your “Rosetta Stone”. I finally felt what it feels like to sling the club towards the target without my manipulating it. I also revisited this series. In the takeaway are you advocating the old school handle 1st takeaway or just as a drill. It does seem to help my extension. Thank you for your expert response.
yet Youtube is full of guys who think they are swing gurus who are trying to sell the planted lead foot-restricted hip model as though that is more powerful. It’s sheer lunacy
Crazy huh?? I knew this over 30 years ago when Leadbetter and McLean were fear mongering everyone into nip and tucking the swing because of PERCEIVED margin of error; which is the biggest brainwash of all: we are all defective and need to be fixed…makes me want to vomit every time I hear that saying…
But I can be thankful to Leadbetter for sending me on my 30 year quest for getting all of us the right information! 😝😀👍
sincerely, I say thankfully we have a few instructors with integrity like you who want to do the right thing to help golfers.
In Golf My Way, Jack Nicklaus said:
“I understand that there is a theory in golf today that the hips shouldn’t turn on the backswing. The idea seems to be that the less you turn your hips, while still turning your shoulders, the more leverage you’ll generate. It’s hogwash, and here’s why….” He doesn’t mention the anatomical reasons (the spine is designed NOT to twist), but he does hit the mark anyway. The fact so many golfers are injuring themselves swinging a relatively light weight golf club, yet you don’t see MLB players getting hurt swinging a bat, is elementary to anyone with eyes to see. Caveat emptor with the Modern/X swing stuff.
Loving the video and getting to see the results as the ball hits the green , gear work guys . My question pertains to ball position. When you say the ball a hair forward of centre in my mind I’m thinking the same as an iron when I’m playing a fade that the back of the ball just touches the centre line of toe stance , is this correct? Also same with the draw pitch back of centre ? If I was to setup up a doorframe would that help with ball position? Also do you have to get the head behind the doorframe like the irons ? Thanks so much ,so excited for golf this summer on the west coast of Canada . Gonna be my best summer of golf because of your teachings so thanks !
Nice video.
I am looking for the same sensation for the downswing.
I cannot find a feel for a powerful linar action in a rotary way – hope you know what a mean. From my side vision the target is linear left.
My brain wants to fire to the target my swaying lateral left…
I have a question on ball placement for driver. Since the usual recommendation is to keep the ball forward (opposite the left instep), wouldn’t this lead to the driver moving in an out-to-in direction on impact–hence leading to a fade/slice?
Thanks a lot for that video. This really makes sense and answers a question I’ve been having for a long time. Let me get on the rage and try this out !
I really like how you articulate to use the feel of “rehinge” as the attachment point. I got this same idea when I saw Tiger’s pre-shot routine in the Master where he would swing his iron back and forth (without touching the ground) to feel where the release point (= rehinge) should be in order to hit a particular shot shape, cut/draw/high/low. Like you said, this gives me the deepest reference when it comes to “staying with my target”. Such routine would help me rehearse the feel and the sensation, and then I just need to execute it with the same feel of release. I saw you did a similar video on Tiger’s pre-shot routine and that was awesome as well!
I’m so ecstatic after seeing this video because you help me confirm my understanding. You are the best!
Thanks, Shawn. You know a former junior golf coach of my daughter once told me that I’m not supposed to flick my wrist because I would lose accuracy. That coach advocates people to use big body muscles to initiate the swing. I was a bit confused because if I couldn’t use my wrist to feel the weight of the club head then my movements would become very robotic. When my movement is not dynamic, I couldn’t relate my swing to anything. Do we really have two schools of thoughts out there: one type of swing is more driven by the body, another one is more driven by arms? I also heard from another coach saying that people use more arms for the short irons/short game (relatively speaking), and use more body big muscles for the longer clubs. Is this true?
This is what happens to an industry when they don’t understand what is at the base of HOW A HUMAN MACHINE PERFORMS TASKS.
They are all pontificating theories that are based on ASSUMPTIONS as to how the body works; and they are all reacting to golfers performing the wrong action BECAUSE THOSE GOLFERS ARE FOCUSED ON THE WRONG THINGS TO START WITH.
You are already Pinocchio WITHOUT THE STRINGS. YOUR CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) and SELF PRESERVING SYSTEM, function at a whopping 40 million bits of information per second. THE CONSCIOUS MIND, you know, the one that says “place the elbow here” works at 40 bits per second.
SO, WHEN YOU THINK USE BIG MUSCLES, YOU ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE A MACHINE THAT NEEDS 40 MILLION BITS OF INFO PER SECOND TO SURVIVE WITH 40 BITS PER SECOND.
Now let’s say you need to throw a spear to catch a fish with that system; YOU WOULD DIE OF STARVATION.
Getting clearer now? And the worst part is that those teachers like Leadbetter use condescending words to make you fearful of missing out on their secrets; REST EASY TRISTAN, YOU ARE MISSING A THING!!
LOL, tell it like it is. And while Faldo made Leadbetter famous, under him Nick was one of the shortest hitters in PGA history even though he is a big man. No real leverage.
Hi Shawn
Alway enjoy your videos and your concise, on target explanations. In viewing the putting-stroke and distance video, it appears you do not advocate a forward press of the putter, as that changes the angles and stroke momentum line. What if a person has difficulty initiating the putting stroke? How would you advise to rectify this problem.
The deep key here os this:
We are using the weight of the arm-putter unit to roll the ball in the direction you want to start it;
I used to forward press like Crenshaw when I was a junior player and was able to switch so easily once I felt how to use this weight.
See the “best golfers are lumberjacks shawn clement” and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QVj6cejjBA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq7K3N7qCWs on youtube; very important to be in a state of weight use and not manipulation of the arms and putter; and a forward press with the hands definitely puts you in a manipulative state. Some can handle it and putt well regardless, but I have had some pretty solid success teaching the putting this way!
Really enjoying my new membership! I have been so un-focused in my 15 years of playing golf; the blur drills and focusing on the task have made huge positive impact so far. Question about letting hips turn on the backswing; I have played for years resisting; how important is letting hips turn and should this be a conscious effort? The few times I tried this today I felt loose and out of control but the ball was flying really well.
Out of control means you are giving control to gravity and letting the body move the way it was supposed to.
You are Pinocchio without the string!😀👍 Already a genius of gravity!!
Please see the following videos on this in Premium:
Arm swing vs body turn
Feet together drill-PRIMO!
Mile Markers for balance
Battering ram-PRIMO!
Balance and center of gravity
Walking drill
Garage door drill
Anti-Manipulation-PRIMO!
Enjoy!!
One more question; I realize how tight and manipulating I have been for 15 years. Is it ok to feel like when the club gets to the top of the backswing that it is hinging fully almost like john Daly and then throw the club? I find that this almost forces me to relax a bit. Anyway. It feels out of control for now but as you say this is about letting gravity do more of the work.
Shawn, I struggle and am off balance with my driver at the end of my swing, , if I alter my stance, and move the back foot back slightly this should make my swing more stable?
Always alter your stance in relation to the support you will need when you swing or whip the club in the direction you want the ball to start; also see the kinetic chain series on premium; because if you are trying to be careful and hit the ball with the driver, you short circuit the kinetic chain and a loss of balance os imminent.
Shawn
I thought I was throwing the club well. It was going down range and on target. I was happy started hitting the 7 iron 150 yards on target. Then I started practicing with an Orange Whip (actually the cheaper yellow version). I thought why not try throwing the ball end of that at the target. What a difference in release through where the ball would be. I took that feeling to the range and added 15-20 yards to the 7 iron. So I think I may have it. You are sort of whipping the club out to the target not just lobbing it at the target.
1. I prefer the feeling of lead hand releasing like an overhanded topspin shot in ping pong. Is this an accurate feeling of releasing towards my target for a fade?
2. With regards to grip and face angle. Am I to take my grip with the clubface slightly closed for fade and more closed for draw AND then get behind the ball at address with the perception of the face looking at my target?
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