Good stuff! You just opened the door to the target!

so far the changes are still working. Also I decided to literally adopt what you say and do in your videos; e.g. I say to myself “out of the way; out of the way” on my swing. This helps me get my hips turned , lol. Also it gives a good un-rushed tempo. My driver distance is creeping up.

One other thing; your visual of the ‘battering ram’ seems to work very well with the irons. I’m not confident enough with it yet to use on a course but its something to work on.

Good; you are on the right track! Keep doing what you are doing.
Shawn

How is the club supposed to release YOU when you let it go?? SECURE GRIP, period.
There is so much g-force in the swing; use the perpetual motion swing and cut grass back and through without stopping and monitor what you need to do to let the club release you without letting go; you are thinking way too much about this…

Hi Shawn. I am struggling with a couple of issues re grip and release;
1. I know I am whipping it very well with the irons and okay with the driver but I find it impossible to keep the club handle from moving around in my hands;
2. if I hold the club tightly to try to prevent it from moving around I cannot feel the clubhead
3. when I whip the club, esp. the driver, it feels like it wants get away from me, this is pretty frightening and i’m sure it gives my body counter-productive feedback.
4. Am I supposed to be thinking about grip pressure in only certain fingers? If so, please describe in detail.
5. I wonder how you or Matt would describe your grip pressure when you are whipping the driver at max freedom and speed.

Good stuff!
See you later on this week! 😀👍

Right on Morten! So glad you are having a blast with your golf;
Have a great day! Shawn

So glad you are enjoying it JJ!!

Hey Philip!
Sometimes it is the club itself and you need to adjust to it OR GO SHOPPING for a new wedge! 😝
Here is what you do: get your distance to ball then when you advance into it, only get as far as on the toe or the outer half of the wedge; feel like you would be cutting through the stem of the dandelion with the tip of the blade. See what happens!
The late great George Knudsen played this way and he was a marvel of ball striking!

Hey Shawn I found it , I was compressing the ball in to the bottom of the doorframe with the leading edge . I know we here at wisdom in golf don’t focus on body parts but it would keep the weight on the back leg while throwing the club . I really had to picture compressing the ball into and through the doorframe out to the target . Felt a good squat on the front leg to compress it.🙌

Yeah man!😀😀👍👍

Hey Paul! This is a job for the doorframe!
Set up a ball against the doorframe and for fade, a hair forward of center, you will already feel behind it and all you need to do if feel ready to squeeze against it with the weight of the arms and club.
Draw, when you play the ball back of center, and you stay square with the doorframe, you will feel something is missing; there is the feel of a reach back to squeeze into the doorframe. So keeping feet where they are, you pre-turn the rib-cage and pelvis from the knees up until you feel that you can apply some nice pressure into the doorframe; except the direction of the pressure will feel about 10 degrees right as if the nail you were driving in there was pointing 10 degrees right instead of straight in.

Shawn,
Thank you for the reply. Im a visual learner do you have a video on door frame or this setup? I can’t create a picture without seeing it. Really hoping you can help.

Thanks Paul! 😊

No Shawn, thank YOU! 😀

See this one: perfect!

Shawn,
Thanks this did it! Going to work on it today at the range. I must say I’ve been playing this great game for YEARS and NEVER come experienced such a straight forward way of learning golf as the way YOU teach. Really love your approach and style of teaching…bravo!👏👏👏

Yes! Great videos to go with this are “goldielocks series” which are the big 4 predictions to confirm before you pull the trigger on your task; your favourite task of either throwing the club or cutting through the stem.
When you trust and abandon yourself to the task, you will ALWAYS FIND YOUR SWING. There will always be a nice weight shift and body clearing when throwing a club over the intermediate point towards the target.
We are made and wired for this as humans! 😀👍

The club should not look open after that no; the acid test is this: when you deliver the task in the direction you want to start the ball, how is the ball flying?
High right and Close the face
Low left and nice hook? Close face less.

The fine line we dance on that one is that the alignment can really be thrown off;

Make sure you have a full flight plan; then a nice intermediate point to help you set up properly into the flight plan; then you want to deliver the action slightly to the right of the intermediate point with the knowledge that the club face is closed enough to draw back to the end target.

You can do this with a square stance and ball back of center or a diagonal stance with ball center.

Actually, the video was under WRX Working the Ball with a Diagonal Stance with your student Chris.

Hey Joe! You know what the beauty of this way of going about things is? YOU CAN GO CROSS-HAND!

Does not matter how the hands go on the grip WHEN THERE IS NO HINGE IN THE WRISTS and we are using the weight of the ACU around a single pendulum point to make the shots.

Your brain is used to seeing the ball and hitting at the ball and has very deep connections to the “hit impulse” with the right hand; so going cross handed for a while will remove this connection and eventually, you will be able to come back; If you want.

There is no advantage either way to putting or chipping with either grip; the advantage is which one works! 😝😀👍

Right on Sam! That makes sense what you are saying; it gets you to unwind nicely inside the lead leg to anchor that release!

Shawn

Do the walking drill and see how it speaks to you and come back with what you find!😀👍

I keep hearing “plant/fall”. If I “toss” the club, it leads to manipulation at times, or my classic over-swing. This drill also helps me feel the ground with my feet. I’m 6’-5’, and often struggle to feel the ground during my swing. Side note, I broke 80 this weekend for first time this year!

Another very complementary video to this is the “walking drill” video; timing in the swing will be revealed in spades in this one!
Shawn

Very good! That works!!

This video really helped me with the transition weight inside my front foot. I had so wonderful shots today. Still lots to improve but I really like this site. Thanks Shawn my game is heading the positive way. I must say also that throwing clubs was a great eye opener for me.

Throwing clubs is fantastic!!😀👍