Hi Shawn, the transition is best shown on your YouTube video `Best Downswing Weight shift`. Any chance of reviewing this video for the premium channel.
Regards, les
I am interested in this Center of Gravity, or the sternal notch. I was watching on Youtube one of your videos about spiral tilt and taking a divot. I am having problems taking a divot, but your videos helped me understand, I think and I am trying to verify with you.
If the sternal notch represents where your low point in the swing is, then aligning it just in front of the golf ball, this will allow you to drop the arms in the downswing (swinging freely) to hit the golf ball first, then the soil and allow you to take the divot consistently. Is that correct?
Then, when you want to hit a draw, you position the ball just back of center, your notch is now behind the ball and won’t this cause you to not take a divot? Help, I am confused!
Draw will still have sternal notch in front of ball; always want the low point of swing in front of ball on the target side for all golf balls off the grass; only with Driver would you have it on the way up!
Not trying to make more work for you Matt, but it would be great if you could include a little more detailed description of the videos intended key items, and when Shawn refers to a previous video for reference, a hot link to that video to view in advance. Thank you in advance and now get back to pounding balls at your intended target😊
I am having trouble drawing the ball. Instead, I tend to hit the ball right – sometimes 10 to 20 degrees. After setup, I slightly rotate to get my head behind the ball – irons. So I am hitting in the direction that my shoulders are aligned. Not at all sure what I am doing wrong. Should My back swing be away from my – more in line with my feet.
See 2 very important videos on youtube called “dominant lead hand shawn clement” and “how to use your lead side shawn clement”. It will explain a lot!
Shawn
I really enjoy doing the first of these two drills and feel like it has helped me immensely at finding the center of the club face. However, squeezing the ball through the door frame tends to lead me astray. I think the door frame analogy accidentally makes me focus on the ball and I end up somehow moving a bit closer to the ball in the process of trying to squeeze it through (wedge shanks…yikes!). Is this common when attempting to do this drill and what are your thoughts on how I can avoid the tendency to shank with the wedges? Thanks and all the best! – Chris
Hi Chris! Dang, I must have missed this from the junk email box! So sorry you had to go through that! Wedge shanks are quite common; if your swing is too flat or arms are too behind you, it will not bode well for the shorter clubs. This is why single length clubs is getting more popular. You want to practice the “ball below feet” video to get the extreme version and do a lot of PMD swing cutting grass and letting the arms rise more in the backswing with the shorter clubs. They should feel more vertical. Shawn
Hello Shawn,
Awesome content. About fine tuning the arm motion. If the flight path is draw or fade, does the arm path and plane get flatter or steeper, respectively, or is it always the same? Or is the ball position and the degree of the turning in of the golf club take care of working these two flight paths?
Garth from Green Bay,
Go Pack Go!
I would not look at it that way at all as the human brain is terrible at body part positioning; however, with proper references, it can tell you if it can accomplish the task from where it is!
See “how to match the backswing to the shot shawn clement”
Keith from Bend Or here…. I recall from a previous session that you discuss ‘reverse’ lag in the back swing. I recently found this sensation and it has helped so much with syncing. My guess is lagging the clubhead in the take-away sets my wrists/ hands a little sooner as opposed to wrists cocking last in the BS.
Thoughts ?
Hey Keith!
Like in the perpetual motion drill, the release into the backswing will make it feel as if your wrists set early; the key is to LET THEM set whereever they want to and make the biggest yet most strain free backswing that matches the direction you want the ball to start on; Shawn
Great video. Since in the golf swing the right arm collapses and the left arm stays relatively straight, Isn’t the left arm (Right hand golfer) the arm falling with gravity? In other words, does the left arm pull the right arm?
No, I would not look at it that way; they both fall past the body as the body glides out of the way; always think about them as one solid piece; THE ARM-CLUB UNIT.
just wanna to say a big THANKS for all you do, been watching your vids and practicing all summer. played in a tourney this past weekend and shot 78-74 with 6 birdies over the weekend. birdied 18 sunday , 510yd par 5 with water in front and right , driver 3 hybrid to win the calcutta. you have transformed my game dude!!!
Shawn I could really use some advice. I play to a 10 handicap and have a physical limitation holding me back from getting as good as id like. My right leg is a few inches taller than my left and it causes me to setup with a high right hip. Have you worked with any students like this or do you have any setup advice that might help? I played professional pool when i was younger so i know the hand eye coordination is there.
Do you have any advice besides switching to playing to left handed
Firstly, You have special shoes that compensate right?
Second;, how is your walking drill? See the walking drill video in premium and tell me how you do with it; it is the ultimate equalizer;
Also, the one leg drill would be just as easy because you would take the right leg right out! I smoke my shots on one leg, just a blast!
By tracking you mean keeping on plane? I found this video a while back that seems to have been helping and would like your opinion of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FH5r5_tROU
Hi Neal, no, we don’t go about it that way; many pieces missing in that theory! 😝🤔
If you can whip through the grass in both directions as in our perpetual motion drill, then you are on plane with that particular club in that particular instance! There is a huge part missing in his approach as to the body turn vs the swinging of the arms; see an oldie but goodie of mine here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrramwPElBo And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_AkPHF1spY
Hi Shawn, so I am confused with the grip – I use the logo to help me put my left hand on the club. If I wanted to continue to use the logo for my setup, would I need to adjust the grip to I put my hands on the club correctly with shutting down the face of the club?
Hi Sean! Just noticed your post! Sorry for the delay!
You can keep the same grip on the club or the same hold; because the grips are round, you can turn the club more open or closed depending on how much curvature you want to have on the ball and how high or low you wanted to hit it; same grip formation but different club face angle depending on the shot!
Shawn, I have a question regarding the notion of cutting grass with the leading edge and cutting the dandelion stem with the club as we swing to the target. Question is regarding taking a divot….if we simply ‘cut the grass’ are we going to be too ‘shallow’ to take a divot? can you clarify?
Put a ball against a door frame; get into a nice position to compress the ball through the door frame without hitting the floor first; you will see that at impact, your ball is being struck before the stem is getting cut and you will see also that the low point is UNDER THE DOOR FRAME. So yes, divot is there and strike is first.
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