Worked my tail feathers off to find this one! 😀👍

Tried that with my hybrids. Slightly diagonal stance, just enough to feel right. BINGO. It feel way more natural. I can now really close the face and freely release right. H4 flushed 180 plus meters! That’s my 170 club!
Thank you sooo much!!!

Right on man! The fun factor just went up as well!! 😀👍

I posted the above comment (my session was expired).

You are welcome Mark! Great work! Shawn

You bet!
This is a common bread and butter set up for many tour pros; Bubba Watson loves this way as well as Freddy Couples!

You get the idea and it could be less for many people; you will see a few guys on tour doing fades that way like Matt Kuchar and Graeme McDowell; Shawn

Hi Philip!
I am now going to go with the flow; Hogan still used the diagonal stance when hitting fades with driver;
It’s like the one leg drill when hitting a fade; but for me, the penny dropped as I continued down the path of this:
1-picture
2-set up matches
3-feel of the delivery
4-observation
And in my observations, there was something about the draw with the driver that just did not feel right. So I stayed with the fades as my go to shot and hit the driver draw when it felt like I needed to use it or felt like it was going well.
It’s going to be a different season now for sure!! because I FEEL that this was the missing piece and then the conscious mind saw the logic and sealed the deal. Such a sweet challenge this game; what a thrill!
Shawn

Ok, good; don’t worry about the club face at all;
When you whip the club through the grass, you see where it cuts right? You know where the club passes and see the direction of the blur.
So when the ball is there; whip throw it in the direction you want the ball to go and see how it flies; THEN adjust the face to the flight if need be.
Shawn

Thank you for the quick reply. So it all comes down to placing the ball to fit your own swing as no 2 human machines are the same. If it feels right to you then the ball trajectory should meet the picture.

What we would need to establish is if you have the same ability to whip the club with a bowed wrist at the top like Dustin or Graeme or Brooks. If doing this PREVENTS YOU from whipping the club, like it does with so many of my students, then we need to address that and get you to hinge. As you get better with that way of loading, and consequently get better whipping actions with it , you will not need to worry about it and it will come naturally when you focus on whipping to the target.

It will evolve!
Shawn

Glad to see you address this Shawn. I would like to see more video/discussion on it. The bowed wrist versus hinged wrist is something you touched on in one of your vids but i think it deserves more. I have recently been working on throwing/flinging/whipping the club using both methods and it’s very interesting. One gives me more speed, while the other gives me more accuracy. And then there’s the issue of how well each works in harmony with the right hand. Which is another layer to it.

Oh, this one is awesome! Glad you liked it!
Let us know how you do!
Shawn

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!

Good; keep plugging;
The fade could Still be the best option for the driver, have you tried it?
Shawn

Thanks I will have an awesome day!

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

Right on Joe!
When you are here, you are family! 😀👍

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! 😝😀👍

Hi Philip!
Yes, you are spot on with all your details in this post; go get’em!😀👍🇨🇦

See “blur of the club” and “part 4 of the consistency series” and “part 6 of the consistency series”
Shawn

Hi Sameer! Very timely question!
Go to my latest video we just uploaded last week called Important driver set up nugget!
Enjoy!
Shawn

Shawn,

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 !

Regards,
-Sameer

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Right on Tristan; very well articulated feel and focus strategy you now have!
Enjoy the new fruits of your discovery! 😀👍

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.

You know you have saved many of us from going through the rabbit holes again and again. I can’t think you enough 🙏🏼