Hi Shawn, love the work you’re doing! Your instructions have been the best I’ve ever received! Makes so much sense and so simple. Unlearning all the stuff I’ve picked up over the last 27 years is difficult.

My question. I’ve been taking an easy swing with the driver. Using battering ram, nick the tee, and make it tumble. I have the throwing the club sensation and am focused on the farther and picture. My problem is distance. I’m only getting about 250-260 carry. I have a Titleist 910D2 9.5 driver with a Diamana ki’li 65 mid s-flex shaft.

I appreciate any advice/suggestions you have. Wish I could fly to Canada for a one on one lesson!

Hi Shawn,
Had trouble raising my lead heal during backswing. I hit a few pushes and a lot of pulls. As I have always kept my lead foot down, I couldn’t figure out where the weight went. It got better when I tried to keep the weight in the back swing on the inside of my right foot’s arch and heal. It got dark and could experiment further. Am I on the right track?

Hi Shawn, been doing this drill for a month. Revisited it as somehow the one leg drill didnt work out that’s gonna be another post on another video.
As for this drill I almost want to NOT go back to feet apart. 165 carry head wind with my 7 iron dead center of the green again and again.
Doing it so well! How does it help in the real world /in the golf swing? Can hit my driver to my wedge with feet together , people on the range have started telling me to adopt this as my golf swing!
There isn’t another teacher like you on this planet atleast…. 🙂 Thank you.

Thank you,
with the feet together the first few shots after selecting a target always start left / pulls. Then I default to taking an IP and it just becomes clean and true.
Having a slight problem with my divots, no complaints in the ball striking, but divots are huge may strike oil one of these days. With feet together its brushing the grass , with tilt and feed apart ball first but deep divots! Any video on this.

Great video guys just what I needed, I like the idea of not trying to fix a flight path straight away but trying to find a pattern first.

Hey Shawn, The one legged drill am not sure where I am going wrong. After doing the feet together which was sublime, I switched to this, few good shots with a 6 iron, and then I just shanked , dead right into the range fence. Usually with playing the “clement” swing, i can figure it out but this seems to have gotten away.

Thanks for directing me here Shawn. I needed this.
My lead arm is so stuck to my chest, and I see the distance between yours and the chest. Its all down to the turn which yours is so amazingly flexible and the “heaving”.
Also I notice you end the swing so wonderfully where the feel of what comes next is felt, mine I now realize goes that little bit longer extra which I now know is to compensate for my lack of turn during the bs.

This is one of my favorite videos Shawn (hard to pick, you have so many greats). I like how you emphasize the release going back and through, and it’s great to see you miss left when you use too much effort (this way we can understand why this is happening to us). Two things I’m currently focused on is giving it time before starting down (using gravity or the weight of the club) ….and very importantly for me…consciously releasing going back. It’s so easy to do this with perpetual motion, but when starting from a static position I really have to think about this, and do this with effort (even more effort with driver vs iron). Is this a common issue for folks? Seems like the importance and awareness of this cannot be underestimated.

Hi, been doing this daily due to monsoons here in india my course’s fairways are like rough.
What changed in Sav’s swing from taking out deep divots and then thin to perfect divots. Was it effort that made her take deep divots?

Hi Shawn,
Any particular reason why his trail foot is planted for the shorter pitch shots ?

When playing an actual round of Golf, do you think of the task on every shot, or is it mainly for when one is practicing. I do keep the IP now for every single shot, and I do try and get the feel of what I am trying to do whether hitting right of the IP and am I in position to do that but at this point does one think of the dandelion stem, grass over the right of IP etc?

Hi, Shawn,
Heaving has been a revelation to me.
Am so excited regarding working on my turn. Yesterday went all out trying to feel the levitation/ heaving. 

I realized that when I turn, my arms work on a flat rotation, my hip turn more towards the lower back (that’s the best way to explain it). The Arms wrap around the body as I have this subconscious target that a BS must reach its full potential. (The first 2 photos attached).

Tried to go up and heave my club , I do feel I have gotten up but was worth a try, I ended up rotating more without effort. My hip feels it rotates a little upwards. Only hitting pitching wedges they were carrying 130 yards easily. But as the ground is heavy the divots were deep.

Am I on the right track. Today was the second day, hit 8i , tried to hit draws but ended up push fades. While driving back realized I was so engrossed in the heaving, I forgot the task of throwing the club, tomorrow is another day. The divots are still deep. Early days.
The third picture (was of yesterday pw) looks the same as the two but there is a gap between the lead arm and the chest and the arms is higher in the full backswing. But every shot was high and mighty.

Shawn, This is an excellent video for us control freaks. I think this is where the cutting the stem causes me issues. So focused on “making” sure I clip that stem that everything tightens up. I am wondering if setting up with the correct swing path and then instead of a very narrow focus of swing out to a small point in the distance, would I be better with a wider area to swing out to? Say right third of green versus a leaf on a tree? I have read that wider arcs for putting and also wider arcs for ball flight help take the precision out and free up the swing. Am I on the right track?

That was an incredible video! Keeping the grip in place thru impact is a constant issue for me. All my poor shots have that in common. I then look at “staying in the shot” but if the grip is faulty to begin with, it’s not going to stay intact through impact?

Shawn, love the stick in the ground as a visual aid. Do you think using an additional stick in the ground parallel to the target stick could be of benefit? I feel like my side vision makes it difficult with the intermediate point and I tend to “face” the intermediate point. Essentially aiming too far to the right. (As a right hander)