Hi shawn, confused about hand position at address, after the setup the hands should be forward, slightly forward, just hanging towards ball or hanging just behind as in club head slightly ahead of the hands?

Hi shawn,
I have always had the tendency to take the club back inside during takeaway. I just tend to rotate my forearms early.
Have done so many drill, what helped was either an early hinge or feeling of rotating my lead forearms counter clock wise during takeaway.
With the swing I have learnt from you, somehow takeaway does not feel like a hinderance anymore,
But on pitching an early hinge
or
the feeling of taking the club back straight back from the driver to a wedge being in the position (tilt etc.) with diagonal stance, I feel is more consistent or am I missing something?

Hi Shawn,
How important is the pause at the top before transition towards down swing?
I tried it few years ago seeing Matsuyama pausing but with me standing the traditional way, would send the ball left with my over the top or out to in swing.
I tried pausing now with the “Clement” swing, some excellent results but as its new not consistent. Is it worth pursuing the pause, as one learns from experience that you repeat it enough times you will get better at it.
Thanks

hi shawn,
do we decide the distances say 40 yards vs 60 yards, feel and practice or is there a method taking the club to 9 o clock for 40y and maybe 10 o clock for 60y?

Shawn can we use the diagonal setup for pitching too? Or is slightly open stance preferable?

hi Shawn, been asking too many questions, but its the excitement of an effortless change in my game. Having said “effortless”, is there a video in which you talk about what is it you mean by effortless. We all want to hit a driver miles but what is the difference in hitting it far with effort vs effortlessly, for example many times in videos you mentioned : effort 3 on 10, What would a 7 on 10 in effort look like, will it go further?

Hi Shawn,
Crazy discovery about equipment I experienced recently.

I swing my driver between 100 and 105 mph, had stiff shafts the UST helium and an Evenflow on my 917d2 and ping 410.

All my life I have hit slices to about 235- 240 yard carry. A retired army officer asked me to try an Inesis Driver 12 degrees with a recoil es 440 f1 ( ladies shaft) which wasn’t suiting him.

I had just discovered the Swing you teach, the target oriented swing using the tilt, combined with the Intermediate Point and finally the diagonal stance. 

With the new swing I was hitting my drivers pretty straight with my fair share of pulls ( my effort on a driver is like a 8 on 10) to around 255 carry.

I was shocked how well I hit the 12 degree with the ladies shaft. Infact I borrowed it for 3 days. Not a single pull, straight or a slight fade to 255 -260 yard carry.

Had a long conversation with a fitter on the phone on how I can do no wrong with this driver. Last week at one of the top course which even Els and Tiger said had rather unforgiving tight fairways at the Delhi golf Club, I hit 6 out of the 7 fairways in the 9 I played. 

Have bought 2 of these and sold my 917 and the ping 410 I had.

Still trying to figure out what happened, 47 gms shaft, the 12 degree head , the weak shaft, no idea. Trying to get hold of another shaft and put a 9 degree head in it to see what happens, will I gain some distance?

First time in my 25 years of playing I am discovering a fact that with your swing and this driver I will hit long and I will be in play.

Hi Shawn,
In this video you mention that the more you improve on the release, the less you have to close the face and less strong your grip needs to be. This inherently makes sense and I have been having a sneaking suspicion that I gravely need to work on my release. What I have noticed is that I will notice more of the release when I reduce my effort which tends to be a bit more enthusiastic in the follow through where I do notice a bit of strain in most of my shots unless I deliberately decrease effort.

However, in your awareness video, I remember you mentioning that when one of your students became aware of the turn in his feet and tried to manipulate it, he continued to have the problem because he wasn’t focused on the task. My question is, is this the same situation with the release? If I try to focus more on my release to be more aware of it, would I lose focus on the target? Do you have a video that can help me understand this a little bit better for the release? Thanks!

hey Shawn, I ve got a problem with feet together on my clubs above 8 iron, everything 8 and below seems to be fine. any ideas?
thx , mark

HI Shawn,
Thanks for all your teaching.

How to do find your Intermediate point when you are on the course ( with no tee) ?

How far ahead of the ball should the IP be?

Where is the end of the video (hitting out of the divot)?

Hey Neal! Sorry about that! Hey we are human; we are very intent on making sure the message gets through and things sometimes get lost; see the “specialty shots” video for now and we will get around to the Moe Norman hitting fairway woods out of divots soon!

Shawn,

Where is your bent right elbow on your chest exactly when it starts to straighten? Seems like it is almost in the middle of your chest. Is that possible?

Gary

Love this! I’ve always liked Dave Stockton‘s unconscious putting method which keeps the mind “out there” on the line instead of trying to be careful with mechanical movements. This is very similar.

When I’m playing, I pretend I’m messing around on the practice green . . . get a decent idea of the speed and line, keep my eyes on that line, walk up and immediately send the ball into the hole. No practice stroke over the ball. The more carefree I am the better the results.

This was an amazing experience. Eyes on the tee in front / on the IP just before the execution of the shot has turned out to be bang on.

1. Tried keeping the tee 8 inches front of the ball.
2. Tried keeping the tee 4 inches in front of the ball.

Before this with the “Shawn” setup keeping my eyes on the tee head (which one cant see really) I was hitting straight or a fade.

With this method I hit almost every fairway. Tee which was further forward (8 inches) did not give me consistency as I got a few pushes , a hook and very high Trajectory.

With the Tee /IP closer, I did miss and my miss was a hook. I hit 4 hooks out of the 20 balls I hit. Trying to figure out why, One of them I know I tried to hit with all my might, the others – in the setup although aligned to the ball – ip – target, the feeling was I was aiming way too Right. That would result in this hook. The remaining went so straight and long with all of them lying near each other, have never been able to do that before ever.

The hook does worry me, as keeping the eyes on the tee at least eliminated the left side for me.