Great lesson, I could tell his backswing was longer when he hit the ball than it was during his smooth practice swing. I tend to do the same thing and never thought about grip pressure keeping me from over-doing my backswing
Grip Pressure was too tight enough and the club move tend to get loose at the top of the backswing. I have worked on the left hand only swing feeling the natural hinge at the top and finish
Dragging the club back as you mentioned in the “Initial move” was a great tip. Really set the swing in the right motion, and made it very fluid; effortless.
I’ve been hitting the driver well but the height is just far to high if I want to play a fade. I’m hitting everything solid slightly on the way up to an even level of attack, but the thing is going into the stratosphere. I want to hit it lower without hitting down on it sharply.
I’ve got 8.5 degrees of loft and an xstiff 70g shaft. I can’t get the loft any lower. Would I just need a heavier shaft with lower loft to bring the flight down?
How do you hit your fairway woods? Do like my latest set up for accurate drives; and tee the ball about a half inch high, and then focus on the sole of the club staying along the ground into the backswing and then well past the ball through impact; eyes on the grass between club and ball because you will no longer see the tee anymore; just like hitting a driver off the deck on a perfect lie!
Shawn
Shawn seems like your wrist at the top is a bit cupped, isnt it better to have a flat wrist at the top of most swings especially with the longer clubs?
Hi Raymond! Sorry I did not see this!
My wrist is not cupped (I call that collapsed) and those who flatten or bow like Dustin and Brooks have a weaker grip that needs face closure somehow; and they did this as young juniors before they got formal instruction. If you hit a baseball with a bat with a bowed wrist, you would break your wrist. So what we do here at wisdom in golf is much more anatomically sound.
Hey Shawn – i’m looking for a video where you talk about the distance your hands are from your thighs increases as the clubs are longer (so closer for wedges, furthest away at address for driver). I *know* i’ve seen it – but i can’t seem to find it here or on YouTube. Any suggestions? Would be awesome for keyword search to be able to find key video concepts.
I have to agree with dctheobald on his comment about how the left knee has to feel like its kicked in. It was a critical feel to having the proper brace and took me some time to become aware of. I was having an issue of defaulting to the ball due to some disconnect from my brace and posture and realized how my left knee wasn’t moving in properly. Once I adopted the feel of the kicked in knee, my posture and braced tilt was much better and I felt like it was key to stopping the disconnection from my shot.
As soon as I came to this kicked in knee feel realization, Hogan’s 5 fundamentals came to mind, how he says to start with the knees in since we need to use the inner muscles of our legs – this seems to really apply to the braced tilt and also the posture! Pushing the knees together forces the posture required to get the suction cup feet feel as well so it seems like a good posture acid test to me.
BTW I would say that the Hammer Drill video on Premium WIG is a braced tilt video that is far better than any of the free youtube vids!
Great vid, but for some reason I tend to cup my left wrist or collapse at impact, is there a drill to get my left wrist slightly bowed to get more compression on the ball? I am gripping club just as you showed.
Hi Bill! Sorry I missed this one!
It all starts with the right focus on the task that will deliver this for you; my favourite is the “squeezing the ball through the doorframe”
See the first couple of videos in the “off season training” and the first 2 in the “consistency training” that are just coming out!
TXG charges $100 for a one hour fitting. That would cover either a driver fitting or an iron set fitting. Shawn and I have been to a lot of fitting facilities over the years and we were both very impressed.
Great that we can see this fitting ???? Interesting stuff ???? What if Matt starts hitting later more that medium draw, that he was talking and spin get even more lower?
Absolutely, generally speaking a draw will always have less backspin than a fade. I actually found it easier to hit the ball straighter/with a slight draw with the Srixon iron that Ian recommended, so I’m sure that was a factor in reducing the spin numbers in addition to the different clubhead and shaft.
Really enjoying my Premium membership. thank you for all that you do. My question is that on your back swing. It looks like you go back slow and deliberate, and regardless of how far you want to hit the ball, the back swing is way short of the parallel. Am I interpreting correctly that the real speed comes from using the ground and throwing the club and is not too much dependent on the length of the backswing. I can’t wait to go on the range and try what I have learned so far. Thanks again. Regards, Mo Zareh
Right on Mo! Exactly right!
Not only do you have a backswing that “appears” to be shorter because of the tilt required to deliver to the target vs delivering towards the ball, you get to use the ground and engage the MAGIC KINETIC CHAIN which loads the ground and catapults the arm club unit through the impact zone and DEEP into the target when you focus on throwing the club; and the bonus is that the brain will never overdo or underdo the backswing when you throw without thinking!
In part one when you are talking about shutting the club face or open it, do you recommend regripping once you shut or slightly open the face? I have noticed my draw stays pretty straight and realize I am gripping then shutting the face without regripping. I tried what you are talking about in a mirror and it only works when I regrip.
After you regrip, do you rotate your wrists and address the ball with a square clubface or do you address the ball with the clubface aimed to the left? Thanks!
Hi Harley;
Sorry for the delay; lost my Ipad and had to get another this weekend; long story!
If she is showing you positions to hit, run! We are completely NOT MADE TO KNOW WHERE OUR BODY PARTS ARE. WE ARE TASK BASED MACHINES!
If you look at my “throwing the club” video on the regular channel on youtube, which is the “club speed” video on premium and you go find a nice SAFE PLACE TO DO THIS, you will see that your weight shift and body rotation will come all by itself like MAGIC!! Without thinking!!
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