Great video Shawn. I see how this exercise helps to stop the side to side swaying movement that ends up in slice or a hook and I was practicing this on the range. One question – what kind additional technique would help while playing a game when you find yourself swaying? Thanks!!

Hi Shawn, Your teaching method is fantastic. In this video it looks like you have most of your weight on your left leg from beginning to end. Can you please confirm your weight distribution? Thanks Tom

Shawn, this video supports my recent discovery that I needed to be more ‘bolted’ for consistency, My ball striking has more compression and driving distance improved. Then suddenly, in the middle of a tournament, balls started moving left of my target line. Felt and looked slightly pulled with a draw flavor, not
good on a windy day. My divots look good and in front of ball. Iron shots still high but going left of target. I’m a bit lost after playing so well for weeks. Now I’m messing with my right elbow, swing path inward etc. Maybe I’m too tilted at impact ? Thoughts ?

Well you saved another golfer from the frustration of not completing the backswing 😊😊😊😊😊😊
I think this is what happens to me on the course. I will work on this.

I have questions regarding just how closed the face is for the draw and how open the face is for the fade. Could you do a close up of the set up showing the face ‘neutral’ then show the face closed and then slightly open for the fade?

As an aside, I have been playing for nearly 60 years now and am finding your teaching really refreshing. Just wish I hadn’t spent so many years paying for instruction that really didn’t help me substantially. Thanks for your clarity in instruction. I’m really enjoying the simplicity of this approach and have already started seeing improvement in my ball striking and a gain in distance. Thought it was inevitable that moving into my 60s that things would diminish. I’m heartened. Any chance you’ll get down to the Atlanta area this fall or early spring?

Shawn,
Once i set up and take my grip with the face of club 30 degrees closed, Is there any rotation of wrists at all until after impact where wrists roll over naturally? Is the club naturally suppose to be square with face closed at setup without any intervention? I find myself trying to manipulate face during the downswing. Sometimes i even feel like my wrists are a little cupped at the top and i try to bow them to straighten them out. I watched a couple of slow motion videos of your swing and your wrists look neutral to slightly cupped. Maybe its the camera angle. Please explain.

sergio

Shawn, the email you sent out for this new video (2018 RQ Vlog – Part 2) does not work. You get a 404 error. I had to search your site for it.

It sounds crazy but I could watch on-course videos all day. Especially when the weather is not so nice here. Shawn, that was another amazing bunker shot. Your head moved forward on that last putt. Watch the dot on your cap. That is why you pushed it.
Your pace of play is still brisk despite lugging the camera and verbally describing your thought process. I would bet that in real time on your own your whole decision process is done within 2-3 seconds of walking up to a ball. Good stuff.

Been using the lead arm sword feel with predicting contact for the past few months and it is the best task for me since my tendency is to lose width and start the swing with my arms instead of gathering the weight of the instrument. I find it also helps me cement the feel of staying behind the release and I’m currently developing awareness of feel deeper through the ball. This one is so essential and I hope you do a future video on what your students learn from it as you teach it more.

Hi Shawn, can I ask about posture if you have a natural curvature in lower back. Also getting into posture seems OK. Struggle to get in right tilt, seems I can’t get right hand V to right shoulder. Won”t stay there. Any help will be great. Damian

Hey Shawn, that was a great video. I’m one of those that keeps regripping because I feel the V has shifted. This has helped me not do that. Yet to see if it works. Awesome explanation.

I find this putting method is really helping me. I like to always aim too far left and just work my way back until it feels right. I used to use the line on the ball but this speeds up play and feels better for me.

Shawn:
I am a right handed golfer that places my left thumb over the grip to the inside of of the club. When I moved the thumb straight down the shaft, It feels awkward but I noticed the ball 20 yards down the fairway and to the right side of the fairway.
Any suggestions for the awkwardness of the grip and ball on the right side of the rough?

Why hit a cut from tee of the par 5? Why not a draw, since you’re pretty confortable with both shapes?

SC,

This video has helped my find the missing piece in my swing. The super slow mode allows me to closely study your set up and I have compared it to mine. Wow, I was not set up low enough ! You and I are about the same build ( 6’1″)), I have long arms, legs and large hands. It takes some time for those extended parts to complete their task and by setting up too tall, I was really out of sync ! By studying your flexed knees and bent waist at set up, I have made similar adjustment and now feel body parts are all coordinated, total sync at top of back swing. And the results are amazing, way more consistent ball striking, effortless power, no more pulls caused by my torso out racing my arms etc.
Having real fun now, thanks Shawn !