I’m unlearning holding the club like a bird. To unlearn this, I found throwing the club helpful, and watching this video, + The Grip video, a bunch of times throughout my journey. Slight improvements/adjustments every time.
Shawn, premium member here and as a testament to your instruction I’m down to a 7.5 hcp from a 15 from 2 years ago ….when I started watching your videos…so thanks a bunch for your method of teaching (Goldie locks, task focus and weight of arm-club unit!) it REALLY WORKS!
My question is how do you get the feeling of low effort, like a 2/10….but give yourself the task of increasing the speed to 7, 8, or 9 out of ten? When I try to increase speed my strain goes up 👎🏻.. and the results usually a pull or a hook. Where is the speed coming from …or what is the feeling/focus …when you keep the effort the same?
I think if I can figure that out I’ll have less mis-hits and get down to a 5 or less handicap! 👍🏻😁🏌️♂️
Hey James! I think you are the perfect candidate for a video analysis; this is where I would ask you to send me a face on and a down the line of a 7 iron and a Driver; send to my personal email at [email protected] and I will point you in the right direction. No slow motion, just regular speed please.
Hi Shawn, I’ve watched your videos for a few years and finally decided to join the premium section. I’m so glad that I did. So many good drills and I especially like the pre-setting of the head and keeping it there until the right shoulder collects it. I tend to allow my head to move forward (in an effort to shift my weight forward) and hit pull hooks. I now know that I don’t physically have to “shift” my weight forward.
I also love the success you have had with Savannah and find her so inspiring.
Hello! First comment so go easy on me! I have been working on this series for a few weeks now and I seem to be making progress with the short irons (8,9,PW) but the longer clubs (3H, 3W) are much more difficult when it comes to consistency. I have managed to move the ball back to middle with shorter clubs and now can goldilocks the draw all the way up to 2000 Left sidespin on my Skytrak (where do you like to see this number and how many degrees right do you typically like to start it for yourself or would recommend to us?). I seem to have a tendency to lose the release w longer clubs and hit that awful block fade to the right more often than I would like. Any suggestions? Feet together w the 3W? Any thoughts would be welcome but I see progress on my distance and consistency of contact w shorter clubs and want to keep making progress! Or, from this video, should I work on a fade starting it left a little and work my way towards a draw with longer clubs? Thank you!
Hi Bret! Ok, great questions; for spin rates, the wedges and short irons can go quite high for DRAW side spin, my 7 iron is 5 to 8 degrees right and 700 to 1000 side spin left; then with woods it’s much less to inside 200 to 400 side spin in either direction; fade or draw.
Longer clubs are naturally harder because of length and loft but no worries, they will eventually fall in line. Distance to ball is a big one there; so see “the goldie locks series” and get really good at all 4! Have sessions at home of just setting up to get ready to deliver your task to target and feel if the set up would allow you to stay with it and let momentum ride it all the way to the finish!
Shawn , as I let the arms fall from the ‘na na na ‘ moment sometimes I feel the club touch me on the back .. where I’m trying to soften things on the way down I think I’m collapsing ? Is it arm tone? I have plenty of hip turn
That would be my guess too David; you want to feel that the ACU is falling wide to deliver grass clippings into the direction you want to start the ball and into the finish. If your arms don’t have enough tone in the structure, they won’t make it out here.
4 months in and completely lost it, started as an 8 handicap. after 2 weeks of following this was gaining massive distantce… hitting driver in meters (250-270) (I am 65) (9 iron was my 165 club) Was straighter and longer. Then doubt crept in as i hit more misses, and lost the feel of this. Tried drills but cant find it. I am now a 13 handicap, hitting low left to left snap hooks constantly, barely hitting 9 iron 130 yards (have lost 3 clubs in length) I have gone back to to many of the videos and just gets worse, I hit so steep. I am seriously at the point of walking away from golf now for weeks to forget everything.
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Your theories are great, but walking through this premium site is very difficult and I am at such a loss.
right now I hate golf
thought about doing the 1 lesson, but one swing video wont say a thing about the massive confusion in my hear and swing
No way you are quitting on my watch and absolutely I will find what the short circuit is and I already have a good idea of what it is! So important for you to know that you are not defective and that you cannot do anything wrong. Please send me a 7 iron clip face on and down the line and I will get you on track and focus you in the right areas of this website. You just can’t replace the 1-1 sometimes and this is one of those times. I expect to see these soon!
hey Shawn, i’ve been really trying to throw club more towards the target and i’m hitting some the straightest shots I’ve ever hit but probably like 25% of the time I am hitting a bad shank or hard push. I feel like maybe it’s related to my backswing as I’ve been trying to make it more upright to help get more leverage in my toss toward the target but not sure. Any help would be apprecicated!
Hey Frank! Yes, make sure you see “predict contact” and the “goldie locks series” with the “distance to ball video at the forefront. Once you have predicted that the ball is “in the way” of your throw, and that your grip and club face relation is closed enough, then you will be able to STAY WITH THE THROW in the direction of the intermediate point into the flight plan. See also “blur of club” and “arc blur unstoppable momentum series”
Hi Shawn,
When I turn in my backswing and allow the momentum of the club to go to the top of the backswing my arms go very far. In fact at least once during every golf season I strain the rhomboid muscle and lat muscle in my left side and have to take time off from golf. I’m not sure if I am subconsciously trying to make a huge backswing in order to try and hit it far. I would like to play injury free but not sure how to stop over-stretching these muscles on my left side.
DEFINITELY STOP DOING THAT! Your perception of the backswing is definitely off:
1-feel like you are using 1/10 effort to get 7/10 velocity towards the target on the way out
2-peak speed is way past the ball to the target-feel like if this was your full time job, you can whip the grass clippings out there and do this all day and get up the next day and do it again.
3-keep your attention on the target side of the ball and use 2 extra clubs to send grass clippings with momentum; if you overdo the backswing, you will not be able to use the weight of the ACU to perform the task.
4-See “arc blur unstoppable momentum series” and “perpetual motion drill series”
let me know how you do!
Thanks Shawn for recommending some of those videos. I also watched a bunch of other ones and I don’t remember which one it was but it was one where you said that the arms should be “in front of my body” in the backswing. I was swinging the club more around my body and really stretching out my left lat muscle. It has made a huge difference! I don’t feel any strain in my backswing.
I also like that you recommend allowing the hips and legs to turn into the backswing. I was actually told in previous lessons by another instructor to “keep my knees facing forward” through my backswing to keep a “stable base”. I would try swinging making my legs feel like tree trunks (not moving). This always felt wrong to me but I kept trying to do this thinking it was the right way. It feels to natural to allow my whole body to turn.
I’m so happy to have joined this premium channel and look forward to playing injury free.
Hi Shawn.
I just watched the diagonal stance series before coming to this video. I love the idea and after a few practice swings I felt that it helped me release the club better and more comfortably. I will try to implement it this weekend.
However, in this video it seems that for the 9-iron you advocate a slightly open stance whereas in the diagonal series, to hit a draw with any clubs, you advocate a diagonal stance in relation to the target. Should I apply the diagonal stance for all clubs or should the stance change depending on the clubs used as mentioned on this video?
Thanks
Great question!
For those older students with limited mobility, the diagonal stance on all shots is a great option! If you don’t have any issues with mobility, you get to choose! They are both great!!😀👍
When you do these exercises to release the club are you using your legs to release the club by just straightening them (kicking them against the ground) and not just turning your hips? Before I used to just concentrate more on the hips but now I use my legs more to kick the ground and this seems to have increased my speed. I have the swing caddy set to 110 and can now here the click a lot more since I started thinking more of kicking the ground. Just wondering if I am going in the right direction.
This is kind of what I am talking about – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZBRHvN5NWY&list=PLZAQ_JjLyrc9gbPWcztKFVOIifOEbmZXX&index=17
Hey Neal! Sorry but that Zen Golf guy does not get it at all! You can see how he has no idea about the human kinetic chain and how it engages with tasks and not through freaking body part positioning.
You are close to feeling it; so I want you to review or Start with the “throw the club” video and then see “lead hand release” and “trail hand release” AND THEN SEE “turbo charge lead hand release” and “turbo charge trail hand release” and the “snap release polish” then do it with the “feet together drill” and feel how the legs turbo charge the snap of the release and finally see “feet together back to feet apart”
The final product will be “kinetic chain facilitation series” (#6 is my favourite and will yield huge dividends when mastered.
There is the sequence of events you need at the order you need to see and experience!
Ok thanks. Kintetic chain #6 is a chipping video. Is that the right one? Also in one of your videos the mention to watch one part in slow motion but you can’t watch any videos on this site in slow motion the option is not there.
It’s the one where we are using an iron and sending divots while walking into the trees; could be # 4 my mistake! Some have stop action but mot all when it comes to slow motion; we have a slow motion series where I do most tasks and most shots from 4 different angles in slow motion called the slow motion series.
Is there any chance that you could embed the playback speed control into your videos so we can play them back at slow speed if we need to? https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012275447-Playback-speed-controls
Big chance! We pay Vimeo a lot of money so if this is now possible on their players (I have been looking for this for a long time) I will get right to it! Thank you so much for sending this Neal! Thank you for having our backs!! 🫶🫶🫶
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!
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