I have all Hybrids in my bag, just bought them as I resumed golfing after a long hiatus. I am 70 and have found your videos to be very enlightening. Am I correct in noting that ball placement in the different use of Hybrids is a critical part in making contact. I find myself lifting up at contact, any drills or videos I should watch to correct that?
Always focus on the sole of the hybrids and how it skips or deflects firmly with the ground as you throw them towards your targets;
See the “Planing wood” video or the “golf is as easy as peeling carrots shawn clement” on youtube and focus of whipping the grass clippings to the target; never focus on ball to club face; always on sole of club along the ground and how it thump deflects along it;
Shawn
Great work Shawn – physics in motion, and based on the somatotype of the student, rather than some arbitrary ‘best position’. Could it be any simpler. As always – thank you.
Regards Rob
Another great lesson Shawn! Definitive golf instruction at its best. I had a bit of a rough day yesterday with my chipping practice on some wet grass – until I remembered to open my club face up by 10 degrees or so… dohhh (Homer Simpson sound effect)😖
Thanks again.
Regards rob
When you throw farm hammer or make long chip body is fully moving away and arm triangle stays same. Also in fullswing body move is same but offcource arms are loading and unloading. My question is how can you use same body action and still use different arm actions to get long chip or fullswing?
Hi shawn, I still think that colin has a tendency to lean too much on to his left especially on the upswing, in doing so, attacking the ball instead of releasing through the ball. Would he do better if he adopted your head turn and tilt?.. maybe he’ll get that feeling of going through and going through more shallow? Just an observation shawn!
keep up the good work shawn.
On the topic of the lovely anatomical snuff boxes, is it a wrong move if I consciously hinge my wrists early in the takeaway instead of letting the club weight hinge them at the top? I have been having issues feeling the wrist hinge with a wide takeaway specifically with my driver and woods, and to some degree with my irons.
When I hinge them consciously, I still feel a pretty wide takeaway and feel like I can whip through the tip of the tee and go to my target, but when I try to go as wide as possible along the ground before the club lifts upwards, I tend to top the ball or severely hit it off extreme toe and get an extreme slice. I am trying to work that expansiveness into my swing so I can get that extra carry with my drives but it seems like I have too much tension in my grip and forearms that might be preventing the hinge of my wrists naturally… What are your thoughts about an early wrist set? I remember you making a video on this topic but I can’t seem to find it. Thanks as always!
Turns out my grip was the short circuit. After conducting the fantastic grip acid test, I realized I had slipped up on the grip and allowed the handle to slightly get diagonal through my palm of my lead hand. I just thought of “clamping” my hand onto the grip and once I straightened out my grip, I started feeling the beautiful hinge again! I love Wisdom in Golf! 😀 Thank you for all you do Shawn!
See this is what confuses me. In this video you are swinging the arms in an across the body swing but in other videos you swing the arms up and down. Which is it? My take is you don’t stand and let your arm fall to the side. That is not the way the arms move. You place your arms in front of you and let them fall. This is the way they should move or am I wrong? Confusing video.
Sometimes you need to watch a video a couple times to get the gist; the ones on youtube this one coordinates with is the same title; see part 2 as well from above view!
Shawn
This is really sinking in now Shawn. Here’s by dilemma…left versus right side. If I focus on whipping the club through with my left side…it’s a slashing of the sword feeling. But if I focus on the right side, I feel a very powerful baseball swing. Which is it that you feel?
Woohoo, yessir! You are getting there!
This is a great question!
When performing a task, your conscious mind will get some fleeting moments of feel during the action; sometimes the sword, sometimes the baseball swing;
THEY ARE BOTH AWESOME TASKS! Some situations may call for the sword feel and some others the baseball feel; have fun with both for sure.
Johnny Miller used to use visuals of other great players around him to deliver certain shots; Lee Trevino for low fades and Jack Nicklaus for high ones; the image translates into feel and feel through the task.
Enjoy!
When you are keeping your centre of gravity between the arches of your feet should you be focusing on keeping the sternal notch (centre of swing ) in front of the ball so you get compression then divot after the ball ? Or mainly just focus on keeping your centre of gravity between the arches of your feet ?
You are using the ground to keep you centered so that you can stay on the task of cutting through the dandelion stem or compress through the door frame with ease and nice velocity.
All for the task!😀👍
I prefer the “predict contact” videos on premium; also see “downhill shots” and “uphill shots” as well as the “wood planing video”. Find a task that will do the job without thinking and over trying;
Shawn
Just looking for a clarification on the release of the throw . When you throw clubs indoors it’s at specific targets that are around waist to chest high. (This is usually where I feel the release in the throwing the club and my golf swing )When you went out doors to throw the club the first one was at that height but when you went to throw father the release seemed much higher . In the golf swing when using the task of creating more Clubhead speed(throwing club farther ) will the release feel higher ?
I agree! Throwing the club HIGH made all the difference. My issue is casting / losing lag / going at the ball. These swing flaws let me throw clubs waist high just fine. But when I throw the club HIGH, my contact, speed and lag feels much better. This video explains it in great detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RzBIPstPg8. Thanks Shawn!
My shot making has improved since I started concentrating on throwing the club to my target.
The way I express it is “the golf swing is a throwing motion”.
Just for clarification..if I use a strong left hand grip with 2 or 3 knuckles, should I still close the face at address…or is this something I have to experiment with to find what works for me to throw it to the target.
My other issue is I can use your method to fade a driver or iron easily. However, I just can’t seem to get the draw going even though I close the face and play a little back.
Hi Elio! The key is to stay all the way through the tip of the tee into a nice full release towards the direction you want to start the ball and then SEE HOW THE BALL FLIES; then make an adjustment after you see 3 shots with the same pattern!
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