At the range off a mat I can hit the ball pure and straight. Get out in the course I go into reverse pivot and hook. Any chance of some fault cure drills?
Whoa! We are going old school! 😝😀
Question: what was your focus when you snapped hooked the last shot?
Here is the video you need to see:
It was a video that we put out on the regular channel from the premium channel to see if people were ready…they weren’t!
This is such an important comment that you left because it really shows the deep brainwash that the golf teaching industry has imprinted on us will keep us in the dark for a very long time.
Here is the focus sequence that is going into my book, it will help solidify the video that I just left for you:
1-pick an “end target” or a place you want to have the ball end up
2-pick a flight plan that fits your ability to get the ball there; please INCLUDE THE HEIGHT OF THE SHOT or peak trajectory before it falls back down towards the end target.
3-find an intermediate point that will set you up into that picture-so that when you let the weight of the club release you to the target, you can predict that the ball position, the distance to the ball, the posture, and the grip-club face relationship will fit the flight when you let the club track itself into the direction you want to start the ball.
Predictions video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQF5GjxzFs
4-set up done? Prediction of shot done? It is now OUT of YOUR CONTROL, just give control to gravity and let the weight of the ACU release itself in the direction you want to start the ball. Look for the feel of that low effort and nice whipping velocity that unleashes that ball into that flight with freedom and abandon!
5-DID YOU LET IT? DID you stay with the feel of that release to that direction? Or did you get distracted by “making sure” of a position or something else making noise around you?
If you stayed with it: how was the direction? how was the contact? How was the balance? How was the strain level?
If you did not stay with it, something short circuited you and you were trying to do something else; what was that you were trying? What were your concerns?
6-The most important stat in golf is how many times (there are average 36 full swings on the golf course) were you able to stay with your shot all the way to the finish? Can You CONFIRM WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT YOU felt the release of the club in the direction you wanted to start the ball?
This is a BIG TIME MOMENT that will have you stop chasing your tail and thinking that there is something wrong with you; YOU ARE NOT DEFECTIVE! YOU ARE ALREADY PINNOCHIO WITHOUT THE STRINGS! 😎😀👍
Happy Holidays and New Year to you and yours!
Shawn
Nice video. I enjoyed the strategy and walking through the thought process on all the phases of play. Something to practice over the winter sessions. Merry Xmas by the way. Best to you and your family for 2019. J.
Thank you Jeremy! Lots of fun over here at Royal Quebec!
Holes 6, 8, 12, and this one, 15 are built like this where you can’t go pas the pin if the pin is cut up front; it is basically a lost stroke…
Looking forward to showing you guys much more next season!
Foolish pride keeps one from laying up on a par 3 (or any other hole for that matter). I have laid up both intentionally and unintentionally. On a treacherous hole it usually worked out pretty good. Play to what you can control. Great advice.
You went out of your way to showcase Goldilocks (GL) again. I would expect that experience plays a major role in learning the ‘feel’. When the weather clears, I was thinking of practicing the GL method by actually ‘confirming’ the three predictions. e.g “This should land 10 feet short in the heavy rough”, then actually hit a ball to confirm that. Then do the same for the long shot. Then of course, the real shot. Would that work? Would the process of confirmation sharpen the learning or muddle what we naturally have?
This strategy has occurred to me at times but I’ve never been of a mind to try this. I may just go find me an Executive course with a bunch of par 3’s and fire at the pins on the first 9 then lay up the 2nd 9 and see if there is an impact on my score. Great video and Merry Christmas to you and the family. TT
Fun way to practice the short game for sure, and imagine the pressure lifted from expectations of hittingnthe green too! All good all around strategy! Shawn
Shawn,
I always felt that I had a sound grip, but I would grip with my left hand under the club (I am a left handed golfer). Over the past couple weeks the first knuckle on the left ring finger became very sore. I started to review your grip video’s. I found Grip it Like Cameron Champ. You make a comment about how both hands should hinge together. The next time I hit balls, while addressing the ball I focused on settling up and making sure that I always feel that my hands can hinge up and down together, so no gripping under the club with my left hand. The first thing I noticed was there was not pain in my ring finger when I hit a ball. But I also felt very lined up, and ready to swing, and I started to hit the ball solid with much more compression. I never will over look my grip again!
Awesome Scott! What a perfect comment and the way I envision our students seeing and then feeling and then applying to their actions; just fantastic and my hat’s off to you for your breakthrough!
Shawn
I noticed that you have a very high finish. I seem to play better when my finishes is more around.
When I finish high the club feels out of balance. But when I finish around the club feels lighter and more balanced . And I have more control of it, it seems. What are your thoughts on that.
Thanks Chip
Also what does subscribe for comment mean?
Hey Chip!
My left handed finish is a bit more around my back as well;
Bubba is a forehanded player, Sergio is backhanded (lead hand domininant)
That is why my right handed swing is more up and helicopter finish, and my left handed swing more around; you are good to stay with yours! 😀👍
Shawn— I have been struggling on the back 9 of an all-par 3 course. But, I love what you teach because when I execute, its wonderous. I don’t ask you alot of questions but I have Three key questions—
1. Does the tucked right elbow feel at address “stay there” and the torso transports the arm and club untit to the top? If so, I tend to lose the arms hanging from the shoulder socket feel which is so important.
2. Please direct me to a video where you really go into detail about WHEN to bend the right arm and hinge the wrists in the backswing. This is my most difficult part under pressure in a round! I need help when and how to do this things.
3. Coming down, from the ground up, does the tucked right arm get transported by the torso again so you get through the cut? If so, it does NOT feel wide. So, what is feel of the arm-club unit with the tucked right elbow….what keeps the structure? Do you just “leave it there at the top and start down, doing nothing wiith arms?” Or is there an independent feel of the arms-club where its Not being transported or slung by the torso.
On the down swing, my culprit is want to manipuate or control the club with my left arm, which produces bad results and destorys the second pendum from happening.
We don’t talk about tucked right arm; we simply talk about room for the right elbow IN FRONT OF THE BODY; then we use the weight of the arm-club unit to cut through the stem of the dandelion in the direction you want to start the ball; don’t think about where the elbow is in the downswing, stick to the task!
See “football drill” video in premium; and watch the “off season training” series and “consistency series”
Shawn
Heave”, “hinge” and “levitate”.” Left pec starts the mini heave. You heave it into a hinge and the hinge levitates it up. Feel the perpetual motion drill. Be patient in the back swing, esp. for the driver because it takes what seems like a long time for the levitation to take place. Be patient for it. The weight of the club sets you (your wrists at the top). Shawn, unlike Jeremey you bend your right arm to 90, when does this happen with the min-heave? These videos helped answer my 3 questions to you on the Fine Tuning video.
Ok, good stuff! You will find answers to pretty much all questions eventually! 😝👍😀
PMD drill is key to feeling when gravity folds and unfolds the arm unit;
See “toss vs place shawn clement” on the regular channel on youtube where I review the PMD again; let the right arm fold whereever it wants to in the backswing; no placing and no holding on…
Hi Shawn. Really love the way you teach. One question. On fullswing i look at the grass behind the ball and the dandelion stem comes right out of the middle of the ball. Same with these short chips? Thx
Yes, you bet! The reason this is effective is that you see the leading edge ready to cut through the stem in the middle of the ball; then you let the weight of the arms and club fall through that cut in the direction of the intermediate point.
Hi Shawn
I have rebuilt my swing and really all,phases of my game, over the last 5-6 months with your videos, and after some pretty painful days, weeks, and months, on the range and and the course, have finally reached a point where I have a swing and a game that I am comfortable with and can build on. I write to you today not about me, but about my son.
He’s 12 years old, has been playing with me since he was 5-6, and over the last 18 months has been playing pretty seriously and is getting some game. He’s 5’4” weighs about 110. Hits a 7 iron about 125-130, and hits his driver about 170-180. He has a really solid swing, and his short game and scoring is coming around.
He has been playing Jr. clubs until this Holiday, where I bought him a set of Cobra King Jr Transition Clubs, all graphite, and he has been struggling. My thought being that this would be a good 1-2 year bridge set.
On the range yesterday, we got some unsolicited advice from a guy who was there with his 3 daughters – none of whom I was impressed with – telling us he should be playing with full size clubs and stiffer shafts. My son, loyal as he is, after trying a club the guy put in his hands, proceeded to pick up his own new clubs and stripe 3-4 pure 8 irons. But the experience has raised enough doubt for me
I would really appreciate your thoughts on club/shaft selection for him
Much appreciated, keep up the great work you are doing
Happy New Year
Tim Ouellette
Good that you wrote because it is more than that! It could easily be the club heads themselves that don’t jive with him; so the best is to go by process of elimination and go to a store with hitting areas and have him try different heads from different companies in the player’s category with slight caviity for enough forgiveness but nice playability for creative play. Light steel shafts are the order of the day as graphite at this level is very short on selection.
Once you get the right club head, then get a regular men’s flex as you will be having them a bit shorter; but not too short so he can grown into them a bit too;
The club head makes all the difference as he will be hitting one or 2 of the models WAY better than the others;
Let me know how you guys do!
Shawn
I watched these videos today and had to get out on the course to try it out…it really did make it so easy to swing into the picture. It was so cold…but played 5 holes even par…nice birdie putt on last hole from about 15ft, so figured it was a good time to stop.
Only bogey on a par three, trying to hit the high fade and it dropped a little left (the wrong way). Overall, really excited to play more but looks like cold weather is here for a bit.
Love this series; adopted this permanently in my swing and feel so much more structure in the swing; great stuff Russ! Nothing like waiting in anticipation for some weather to go out and play; love it!
Hi Shawn
Thanks very much for getting back to me, much appreciated. The reason we went with the Cobra King Jrs, is that he played the Cobra Li’ll Kids, and then the Jrs, which he really liked to look and feel of – he got his first hole in one 4 weeks ago – 9 iron, 110 yard Par 3, with them. The heads of the juniors and the new transition clubs are the exact same cavity back design, with a weight disc the size of a quarter/half dollar behind the sweet spot being the only difference. However, the 7 iron is 2.5” longer. The driver, 3 wood he has not really had a problem with, though they are 3 inches longer, but he has always been more confident with those clubs
The issue with the irons has really been contact both ball position and distance- hard tops, thins, some shanks, or now settled into some really deep divots, which is really starting to shorten a “majestic” follow through, and really lower the trajectory of his irons
We have been working on some drills I picked up from you and have used successfully, but have been at the same time wanting to make sure he was not fighting the wrong equipment
Any further thoughts?
Thanks again Shawn
Are you doing some distance to ball drills (goldie locks) and cutting through 2 tees?
Also some centering drills like one leg and feet together?
See the off season training series in premium, and work your way through those; see which ones stick and resonate with him and see if he can connect it to the shots he hits on range or on course;
Thanks Shawn
Had never paid much arrention to Goldilocks, but will do, as well as one leg, feet together and 2 tees
Will report back
Much appreciated
All the best for a great New Year
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