As I have to work on knee flex, the part about bending over from hips, when you said “tail bone goes up in the air”, is my aaah moment, which makes my glutes and quads pressure to my arches is automatic.

How much to close the club face ? I have started doing that and i then use the waggle and the blur to see how the club face is before impact. Is that the best way?

So So Good, for someone who could never hit a draw , this is gold!

In a video I heard you mention, that many end up aiming straight and I am one of those. As all my life I struggled with over the top, ball position way forward of center, always hoping to get good contact (target was never even an option for me) my shot would be aiming straight and I went through my share of slices with the long clubs and got great at chipping as I was never on the green. When I came across your videos on how a closed face squares up and tilted behind the ball like a lumber jack, and more recently moved my ball position back not quite center yet as 25 years of muscle memory I have suddenly stopped thinking about getting good contact, it just happens now. At this stage does every shot I hit, do I try and shape it (fade or draw) instead of straight?

Shawn, is there an alternative training aid that I can use other than pulling the bull rope that will help to activate the lower body and right leg to get the body out of the way and make a complete backswing? Or is there one of your training videos focused on the same subject? Thanks

1. Shawn, I am totally lost when I try to hit out of a greenside bunker. I have gone to the sand bunker at my practice facility and have attempted to hit about 100 balls out of the bunker each of the last 2 nights with frustrating results. No 2 shots have the same result, one barely gets out of the bunker and the next shot flies the green 40 yards!! I have tried to follow your lesson with Venky about bunker shots and also closely watched your Greenside Bunkers video. No luck.I have tried to mimic my chip shot swing and a softer version of my full swing, no luck here either. Any suggestions about the typical faults that golfers such as I usually experience?

Do the same as the fade with dandelion stem; picture the sole of the club sawing through the stem of the dandelion which is in the sand below the ball and use momentum to perform this task!

Two things. I’m noting that when Munashe opens his hand after gripping the handle of the bat that the handle runs perpendicular to the hand and closer to the thumb (almost center of the palm) than I’m used to holding my grip, is that right? I was taught to wrap the fingers first and then the palm which if gripped this way and hand opened would have the club running slightly diagonal from the first knuckle of the index finger to the base of the pinky. Also, I too like Munashe have meat hooks and my thumb protrudes slightly out of my v of the right hand when gripping the club in the manner the video has. Is that correct?

Shawn, I understand the Battering Ram drill but don’t understand “Jack Knife” implication in the title of this video? Maybe I just don’t understand what a Jack Knife is ?? Could you explain? Thanks

I’ve been leaning in on heads up putting for the past few weeks and I’m liking it a ton. But, heads up putting is nothing without using the weight and momentum (thank you Shawn). When I try to control the putter i feel like it’s luck if it goes in (i got lucky with a controlled path, face, and speed). When I’m successfull with using the weight…its a beautiful roll…and it went in because it was meant to happen 🙂 I’ve incorporated what you shared about a tone and I love it as I’m experiencing what you explained about freeing my mind, its awesome! I’m using my “tone” for distance control…4 footer…i say to myself, “one” on backswing and “one” on swing through and it does free up my mind so nice…if its a 30 footer i say “one, two” on backswing, and then “one” on follow through…thinking metronome. These improvements for me are significant and I would have never known to incorporate these fundamentals without your help, thanks Shawn!!

shawn , this video is the bomb!!
the 2 step drill is getting my timing down(sequence) .
I’m not very athletic and to do this drill I had to slow everything down to get it to work in sequence. if got in an all fire hurry it was mess but after dozen or so shots has it down man increase c club head speed 5mph and with little strain.
if I did strain speed would drop as well as ball contact
thx,
mark

Hi Shawn, would this concept apply to putting as well?

shawn, to be better at 2 step it looks like forgot to pump to trigger kinetic chain
thx, mark

Shawn, I am 77 years old and losing distance on all my clubs. I watched your video on increasing speed which simply emphasized tossing a club to a farther away target. In my attempt to toss a club farther, I tend to get quick and manipulative with negative impact on my results.Any suggestions?

I notice on all your videos that you and Sav both establish a straight line relationship at address from the clubhead up thru the club shaft , and up thru a straight lead arm and finally up to the lead/left shoulder. Could you explain if this straight line from the clubhead up to the left shoulder is important and why? Thanks