Hey Shawn love this video. An issue I’m having is in my downswing my arms always want to fall out and around my body instead of down and infront. Am i not planting and clearing fast enough? Not sure what i’m doing wrong so any tips would be great!
Hey Frank! You bet! See the “Henryk Stenson Drill add on” video; super video! Also see the “2 tee drill perpetual motion drill series” and “contact mile markers” and “battering ram drill” just to name a few; let me know how you do!
Hi Shawn, first of all thank you for all the Tips. It changed my thinking of Golf totally. I learned it in the late 80s and 90s. I wished I would have known all that at that time.
My question is as follows. For me, I found out that a neutral grip works even better than a strong grip. I totally get your concept and I am using a strong grip for years now, surfing from Stack Tilt to Mike Austin and than to you.
Out of curiosity I tried a neutral to weaker grip and I have the feeling that I can swing more relaxed and can let my snuff boxes run through easier. I have a snappier feeling. I even hit my drives farer and straighter
What would you say?
Greetings from Munich, Germany
Thilo
PS: I am left handed
Hi Thilo! The key is that you are happy with the distance and direction of your shots and you are able to deliver through the ball; so perhaps your grip perception is stronger than you think! Many players are fine with a more neutral grip and can get nicely through the ball; there are no set rules in stone here, just deliveries to target that are easy to perform. So congratulations on finding your recipe! Shawn
You bet!
1-you need to see and reconfirm the “alignment reload” video first
2-blur of club video to know what the club is doing down there on practice swings
3-arc blur unstoppable momentum series
4-draw fine tuning
enjoy!
Ah!!! In alignment reload I see that the ball is aligned a bit to the right side of the alignment marker. If my observation is correct, I need to pick an alignment mark that is to the left of the ball for a draw. Is this correct?
Hey Shawn, been working on stronger grip and better release since your awesome swing analysis! Watching videos like crazy and hitting 100 balls a day.
I jumped from 70s to mid 80s in club speed with my 6i. I even saw 108 pop up once. The downside is nearly all of my balls have an insane hook.
My feels – my trail hand almost feels underneath the club, leaning much more to the right, thinking primarily about the release after the ball, but also feeling a release in my backswing.
I’ve tried modifying my grip to open it almost to square, but I think once I do my lean at address, I’m adjusting the club face to square. I’ve also tried putting the ball more forward in my stance, but none of these seem to be straightening out my ball flight.
Any ideas? Playing Pinehurst for the first time this weekend so trying to get into reasonable shape, haha!
Hey Jon! See “fade fine tuning” and grip part 2 please! Some of my students do very well with the same grip as Matt Fitzpatrick; weak right and strong left; it all depends on your own anatomy and how the shoulders come forward on your body. So do some goldie locks with your grip’s strength; on each individual hand like in the goldie locks series-grip club relationship” video
Hey Shawn! Great information in this video. But you are correct, that one would eventually want to veer away from this as a permanent position (maybe not?). Would it be fair to say this is something to engrain a feel, or dare I say it, a “body position”, for those who may still be in the swaying camp? Seems to border Stack+Tilt and that brought me down a dark, deep rabbit hole a couple years ago. LoL.
Lastly, I just joined your entry membership, is there a starting point and a particular sequence to your videos? It just seems to be pick and choose.
Hey Mark! Yes, I know what you mean! My content is very elaborate and complete and far from the body part hornet’s nests but I still have to bridge the gap that was created by the golf teaching industry; no fault of theirs as we all do our best. (I think 😝)
so it would be great for you to either write right here what your tendencies are and I will point you to a nice list of videos that will pertain to that and get you evolving in the right direction; no rush as this is really the last place you will need to be as we all evolve towards great golf together! Glad to see a couple video clips as well; just email me at [email protected] and add what you have been doing and why. Looking forward to your response! Shawn
Hey Shawn!!
A sticking point with me, and I just had a lesson with my coach yesterday (2/24), is that I’m still stuck on my back foot too long. When I practice my swing, no ball, my intended task is to be mostly up and off my back foot at impact, on the toe. While I “feel” this does happens the camera shows NONE of it occurs. Feel versus Real. 😛
Seth (Seth Dichard, Hudson NH), my coach, gave me a step drill to perform and also suggested seeking out your help and/or videos you may have to assist with this?
I’m integrating the throwing of the club, which is terrific… I need some help moving forward more than I presently am. I’ll get some swing video to you as soon as I can obtain them from Seth.
All the best!
Mark
Hey Mark! Ok, there is stuck on the back foot because you are trying to lift or hit the ball as your target instead of delivering a task to the target. And then there is having the right foot down as an anchor for the head staying back as you stay with the direction you want to start the ball’s flight on like John Rahm and Tony Finau and Cameron Young and many other players. Have you seen how long John Rahm’s right foot stays down well past impact? This was also the late great Moe Norman’s signature move. The video for this is called “bolted and centred”
Now if you are in the first camp, which is when you look down you see a ball and you are trying to hit the ball or trying to move body parts into positions, then you want to see “top 3 tasks”, “slow motion task”, “task update”, “task 2.0” and one of my favourite series is “kinetic chain engagement facilitation series” which is a 2.0 version of the “walking drill” and don’t forget the “throw the club” and the “throwing series” which is a right of passage for any golfer and if you have a nice safe netted area to practice this, you will be amazed at how awesome your swing looks on video when you perform this drill well.
Quick question on the Swing Caddy. Let’s say you can click it at 100mph. Should that then be your feel for all full swings irons and driver? Or do you need to adjust based on the club you are using?
The purpose of the swing caddy is to feel that use of the G-forces in the swing and how the legs eventually start pushing off the ground to deliver more pull to the arm-club unit away from the shoulder sockets and towards the direction you want to start the ball; it has been and is still a great ally in achieving a certain feel in the swing that is anti-manipulation and anti strain from the arms because you need to have some good ground reaction forces to get it to click. See “turbo charge the lead hand and trail hand release” videos as well as the “pumping up the swing” and “pumping up the volume” videos.
hey Shawn have a question about feel vs real. When it comes to the takeaway I try to feel that i can take it away to hammer through to my target but when I video tape my swing I’m snatching it inside and around. What is feels like im doing is very different from what I’m actually doing. How can i get those two to match?
Hey Frank! See first and foremost “blur of club” and the “arc blur unstoppable momentum series” and see also “how to match backswing to ball direction”
Leading up to driver, it seemed like you were moving the ball towards the target a bit to hit a fade. With driver on the higher tee, you have moved the ball towards the target a lot and it looks like you hit a draw over the trees and towards the green. Does the very closed stance cancel the very far forward ball position? I make good contact and get good distance but struggle to achieve a predictable ball flight. I can’t seem to find a sweet spot in my setup. I use alignment rods to focus on target, swing path and club face path. I fight a hook off the tee. I aim slightly right now and have stopped the hook mostly. My ball is now a straight push right, a nice draw on the fairway sometimes, a straight shot on the fairway sometimes and an occasional hook. Improvement for sure but still not good enough for the tight courses we play. I have been a member quite a while and have benefited from your methods. Just not quite dialed in yet.
good stuff! I can feel you are getting closer and this is where goldie locks comes into play and is based on the “make the tee summersault over the intermediate point” with a momentum based lasso. This will be the crowning glory on the driver in a few short weeks of premium with the series we just started last week; You can get a nice taste of it with “snap release polish” video, then the “already always momentum sending the grass clippings pitch” video from this week and the “throwing series” driver video as well as the diagonal stance series driver fade and draw” videos.
When calmly doing a PMD drill with the driver with full “out of the way-out of the way” in BOTH DIRECTIONS, feel where the tee needs to be to get collected and released over the IP. Then practice just sending tee tips that way without the ball and get that accuracy down to where the tip is always clipping the centre of the bottom of the club face on the first groove. Then when you have done that a couple dozen times, place the ball on that tee and REALIZE it cannot prevent you from performing that task and that it will just slow the release down a millisecond or 2. Then feel that your PMD is going calmly, and that the shape of the arc is moving nicely through the tee tip making it tumble that way and allow that to happen and then see how you do! Enjoy!!🫶👍😀
Thank you so much for the fine tuning suggestions. I am so pleased with the improvements your methods have enabled me to experience. Just need a little more polish to help navigate our tight layouts.
You bet! And I forgot one that I use on tight courses; “driver for accuracy” which is a slightly different set up but one that will yield very quick and lasting results!
Read “driver for accuracy” early this morning before my weekly round of golf. Amazing difference in accuracy off the tee today. I will continue to work on these adjustments and certainly will read the other lessons you have suggested. My Wisdom In Golf membership has helped me to be able to enjoy the game. Thank you for being available to ensure we are getting the maximum benefits from your lessons.
Right on! This is why I get up in the morning! To get you to play this game to your fullest potential and spread the word! This game is too precious to squander!
When you preset the club should the shaft be pointing to the right of intermediate point for draw and to the left for fade? I practiced this yesterday with shaft pointing right of intermediate point, along the path i want club fade to travel with great results this will be my new favorite along with football drill
New member of the channel. Ive been following you for about 4 month now in yourube. Ive noticed substantial improvement to my game. Need help with consistency with my draw especially with the driver.
Ball flight setup is a draw. stance. Clubhead Sometimes 45 degrees closed but when over hooking reduce to 25 degrees. My usual ball flight is a Pull or Pull Fade or Pull slice. Its hits fairways but not exactly the ball flight I want.
Sometime i try to fix it with my backswing. When i follow right of the intermediate point its still pulls to left If i take backwing farther in it draws sometimes but i loose consistency and more prone to snap hook and fat shots.
Hope you can give me advice and some videos to correct this.
Hi Christian! I love this comment and it is a good description of your existing situation. Thank you for taking the time to send this in!
One of the most important things to master in the swing is the release of the arm anatomy which is exactly like a baseball swing, a sword slash, a tennis serve, a hockey wrists shot etc…so please see “lead hand release”, “trail hand release”, “release fine tuning” and “snap release polish” and the very next video on “momentum already there pitch part 2”
Then you go to “lead hand release in the backswing” and “trail hand release in the backswing” as well as “how to match backswing to ball direction”
Then we predict what is in the way of this release with the “Goldie locks series”, “predict contact”, “blur of club” and “arc blur unstoppable momentum series and “target confirmation series”
Once the release is nice and oily, you will probably need to back off the grip a bit! Then it’s use existing momentum to deliver your task in the direction you want ro start the ball through the arc-blur and let the momentum of the club head release your anatomy in that direction.
Hi Shawn, you mention in the beginning of this video the Pre Motor Cortex series. However, I have tried going thru your videos by section and have not been able to find it? Would you be able to provide a link at all?
Hi Shawn
This video/series was what I needed. I was on the verge of giving up on this swing because I kept hitting a extremely low pull hook or completely blocked it to the right.
Previously I seemed to have this notion that I must not use the hands to release. So I used to have a neutral grip, bowed wrist and turned my body to square up the face. Although I had some success with this swing, because I am a weekend golfer, I had some consistency issues, especially when my body felt stiff. Having said that, this notion definitely prevented me from properly executing the swing that you preach. I seemed to have so much tension in the wrist which led to me dragging the handle across the body (i.e. chicken wing) causing a massive slice. Another issue I had from my previous golf notion was that when I wanted to send it further, I seemed to bow the wrist just before starting the down swing, causing a pull/hook.
Fortunately I watched this series last Sunday morning, before going to play in the afternoon. I was able to relax and slow down the swing and properly clear the body so that the arms could naturally release (with a little help from the hands/wrists). I was so surprised that on my first attempt I bombed my drive on the fairway with less effort. I was able to replicate the swing (although on a few occasions, the previous notion sometimes messed with the task at hand) throughout the round.
However, I have a question. Although I am hitting the ball about the same distance, if not a little bit longer, with less effort, I want to hit it further. I get that we need to use 1-2 effort out of 10 but how can I add more speed, hence distance, without over exerting/straining the swing motion?
I know it’s a long comment but I was excited about this new swing that I wanted to share my experience.
Right on! Very good! You are getting closer! See the “lead hand release” then “trail hand release” and then “release fine tuning” and “snap release polish” THEN TO TURBO CHARGE THIS, see “turbo charge lead hand release” and “turbo charge trail hand release”
In the latest series, you will see a nice driver video for fine tuning and then in the series we are posting right now, you will want to start tuned for more polishing action to really dial it in! 👍👌💪😀
So after working through bolted and centered and other videos per your recommendation during a swing analysis I came to a conclusion that I would like some input on. At rest or walking, I have been accustomed to having the weight on the outside portion of my feet. This carried over into my golf setup. When I consciously suction my arches in my stance, there is some slight tension in my legs which I tried to avoid in order to be completely relaxed. This also prevents me from rolling my trail foot in backswing and seems to aid in proper weight transfer. Does this sound correct? I’m not sure I’ve seen this specific fault touched up on in any of your other videos. If so could you direct me to what faults having the weight on the outsides of your feet would cause in the golf swing.
Hi Jason! What I would like to see you do, is perform the task of walking and sending divots or grass clippings in the direction you want to start the ball; just like in the “kinetic chain facilitation series” and film that when you think you have it down and send me 4 or 5 steps to my email face on. I am willing to bet that everything you will be doing will be awesome! 😀👍
Hey Shawn!
Love this one and I just watched everything I could locate regarding the grass whip, yesterday (yes, I am buying one!). I began practicing this indoors using a wedge and my strike pad. I’m beginning to see a pattern where I am now striking the pad in about the same location forwards and backwards while ALSO noticing the blur. Very powerful to engrain direction. I also am emulating your swing as much as possible, using my legs more and also getting more proficient at snapping the club “out there”. The term “snapping the club” seems to strike a chord with me because, though I may never snap the club AT the ball (in my mind) but I do sometimes throw the club towards the ball rather than “out there”. Terrific stuff!
[MarkG_603].
Right on Mark! You are learning a skill exactly the way you are supposed to and will own it and be able to apply it in all kinds of circumstances on the course going forward and sharpen that skill. Fun is an understatement! 😀👍
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