Hi Shawn, In your ball position video you are demonstrating an open stance for both a fade and draw. In many of your other videos you align your feet straight at the target for a draw. Can you please clarify the proper stance for a draw? Many thanks!
For right hander; Fade you aim left of target and swing left of target
Draw you aim at target and swing right of target
Each has their respective ball positions…
Thanks for the clarication. I have been following your technique for my last 3 rounds and my contact has really improved. I am much more confident over the ball. I will keep watching!
Tom
Hi Shawn, I’m working on a strong grip along with the videos and am wanting to make sure I get it right. I have my left hand to where about 3 knuckles show. I put my right hand along the left thumb on the lifeline. I use an overlapping grip, and I am finding that the second row of knuckles of the two right hand fingers on the grip line up with the second knuckle on the pointer finger of my left hand. Is that a good spot. Part of me is tempted to line up my knuckles like in baseball but that feels like a weaker grip.
It sounds about right! The key is to be able to get a nice hinge on both wrists without any movement or prying loose of the hands and when you deliver the action to the target, it feels solidly compressed and flies the way you want It to; Shawn
Hi Shawn, for distance control, I practice the length of my stroke arc on the side before taking the position on the ball. This works better for me than deciding on the arc length at the very end. Is that what you recommend as well? Thanks
I absolutely love these! Seeing you talk your way through each shot is a great teaching moment. You have helped me in the last 3 months more than anyone in the last 3 years!
Great demonstration. I find myself in a similar situation often. I normally use a 6 iron to keep to ball below the branches. My question is: since the ball needs to be back in the stance a little, how do you hit a fade? Especially when you close the club face a little. I have trouble hitting a fade anyway, so I am very interested in your response. Thanks.
Hey Gavin! It always comes down to path and clubface; if the face is open to the path, you get the fade; the rest is to make sure you are aimed left enough to start the ball left of the trouble; choosing the height first with the flight plan will really help you set up properly and then it is about matching the backswing path to the direction you want to start the ball amd make the predictions based on that; so see “predict contact” video on premium
Thanks for the explanation. I really liked the flight plan video and that with the adjusted club face should really help. Unfortunately it is getting cold here in Minnesota so we might be done for the season.
Shawn have you ever had a student visualize cutting through the grass on the front side of the ball? I was having trouble as I was consistently hitting the big green ball before the small white one even though I was focusing on cutting the grass, peeling the carrot or squeezing through the door frame just behind the ball. For some reason shifting my focus on sending a peel of grass from just in front of the ball took the ball out of the back of my mind while thinking throwing the club to the target. By focusing on the sliver of grass in front of the ball it made me achieve flush contact much more consistently. Any thoughts on why that might be?
Also, have you ever had somebody achieve a better result with lag and release by thinking throw the hands at the target? This picture seemed to help me get the result easier for some reason. I was beginning to think I was defective until I modified my focus just a bit on the tasks. Just wondering if you find others that don’t get it right away and maybe have to modify the tasks to meet their individual mental picture. I sure enjoy watching your work. Many thanks for putting it on the shelf so folks like me can reach it!
Dave P
Hi Dave! Yes and yes!!
The thing is, when looking at the sliver behind the ball is simply a place to park the eyes; if you paek them in front of the ball or on the side and even some do fine with eyes on the ball; the key is to see what you are describing; the sliver of grass from the ball forward; like in the “golf is as easy as peeling carrots shawn clement” video on the regular channel; see where I place that strip…it is exactly where you describe it to be.
Now, what I am focused on, is the prediction that if I throw my club (you can throw your hands too! :)) in the direction I want the ball to start, is that carrot peel going to get thrown there too? Yes? Then you are now staying with the task of throwing the hands that way.
Hi Shawn,
I can also attest to what Dave experienced in his post above. I recently started to park my eyes in front of the ball this season and I find it so much easier to stay with my task of cutting grass. It really gets my focus off the ball and I have just been getting flush, in the screws contact with irons. My misses are also a lot better (a little bit of thin contact when distracted by the ball vs god awful chunk). I haven’t tried different eye placement with hybrids, woods and driver, yet but for irons, this has been money for me! Just another amazing discovery thanks to target focus! One step further down the rabbit hole for me! 🙂 God I love this game!
Great video once again, Shawn, especially as I continue to learn what bolted and centered feels like with the driver. I tend to end up in these spots off the tee in the meantime lol!
Oh man, I had the greatest breakthrough in feel with every club and especially the driver 2 weeks ago; I was able to combine the heavy snap into the height and flight I am releasing into with “poised ease” if you will; kind of the best wa.y to describe it but bottom line, the brain made more connections…second bottom line:
STAY THE COURSE EVERYONE!!!!
I know we need to use pull for downswing, but I need to clarify the power source comes from lead hand or dominant hand? If dominant hand, it starts from hand or elbow?
It is the lead leg planting that engages the kinetic chain and this is what pulls everything though!
See the kinetic chain series on premium; amazing series!
I thought i was strong using my right hand and thinking about the skipping stone accross water drill but thinking about using the right hand would probably break the kinetic chain
Hey Shawn, this may sound weird, but on iron shots I hit the ball 1st but my divots are like 2inches deep just passed the ball? I feel like I’m heaving the club in the backswing, getting the ground with my legs, then throwing to the mind picture! No distance loss but the greenskeeper can’t be happy!
Hey Randy!
Start thinking about the height you want to hit your shots on; I just did 2 videos; one on the regular channel and then the follow up for short game on premium;
See “best lesson I ever got from Moe Norman shawn clement”
Hi Shawn, I was doing a dumbbell workout today when I thought let me try to get a feel for throwing a sandbag. I was using a 20 lb dumbbell with one hand on each side. After a few tries I ended up going into perpetual motion, letting my body get out of the way as each arm swung through. Using the dumbbell I felt myself naturally squat, I can’t wait to go out tomorrow and simulate that while swinging a club!
Hello 👋
Before you I always play the same swing
Not a nightmare but « banal »
Now with the task the strategy the picture of the golf ball in the air …a tremendous pleasure…not always a success…but always a dream
Thank you 😊 Shawn for that
Jean-Jacques
Trevino lined up way left and has to push the ball to the target; much better than lining up way right and pulling across the body to go to the target;
So he lines up left and then plays the ball position in a way that would fit the flight of the target; Couples play the same way;
From Brian Parks on Elevated Green
Go to commentFrom [email protected] on Brandel Chamblee - Anatomy of Greatness Book
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Brandel Chamblee - Anatomy of Greatness Book
Go to commentFrom [email protected] on Brandel Chamblee - Anatomy of Greatness Book
Go to commentFrom [email protected] on The Grip - Part 2
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on The Grip - Part 2
Go to commentFrom Asad Ali on Putting - Stroke & Distance Control
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Putting - Stroke & Distance Control
Go to commentFrom [email protected] on On-Course Strategy – Par 4
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on On-Course Strategy – Par 4
Go to commentFrom Neal Ward on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom [email protected] on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom [email protected] on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom [email protected] on Top 3 Tasks
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Top 3 Tasks
Go to commentFrom Dario D'Andrea on Top 3 Tasks
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Top 3 Tasks
Go to commentFrom Rob Sillito on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom Sam DeDominicis on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom Sam DeDominicis on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Punch Out
Go to commentFrom Raymond Kuo on Kinetic Chain - Part 1
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Kinetic Chain - Part 1
Go to commentFrom Colin Watt on Kinetic Chain - Part 1
Go to commentFrom William Crowe on Predict Contact
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Predict Contact
Go to commentFrom [email protected] on Battering Ram
Go to commentFrom jean jacques LUGAND on Working the Ball Strategies
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on Working the Ball Strategies
Go to commentFrom [email protected] on MySwing 3D Motion Capture
Go to commentFrom Shawn Clement on MySwing 3D Motion Capture
Go to comment