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Here is a good Q&A for this section:
I’m hitting a lot of good shots with the new grip, but I’m also still hitting many bad shots. The bad shots are usually big fades, mostly with longer clubs and three wood. Sometimes I feel like when I’m squatting down, I’m not shifting my weight to my left side, or I’m not releasing the club head properly. I’m also topping several balls.

Any advise?

Thanks

Michael

Hey Michael! 
Yes, 2 things that you need to function in a reliable golf swing:
-a nice full release backed by momentum that was easy to acquire
-a strong enough grip (which you have)

So between shots on the golf course, do some sword drills (lead hand release and trail hand release) and really feel the abandon and the turbo charge from the legs in them (turbo charge lead hand and trail hand release) 

Then predict that the ball position, the distance to ball, the posture with good initial squat will allow you to stay with that full release in the direction you want ro start the ball.

Let me know! 

Shawn

This is fantastic! Is there a way to do this on a mat? I’m indoors for the next few months.

Hey Shawn, I appreciate the mind set of easy swing, low effort, but what if you actually want to hit your normal distance minus 20 yards? I thought you were actually doing to try to hit the center of the bunker to start.

Hey Shawn,

I’m enjoying practicing this drill as well as several others.

The swing feels powerful. I’ll get to a simulator soon and see if my feels are real.

Yours,

Phil

This was good! Thanks Shawn

Shawn, first off Merry Christmas! Living in a northern state, do you or could you do a few videos on weight or positional trading that a person could do in their house or garage to get ready for the upcoming season 4 months from now?

Thank you!

So in my posture I have a problem with swaying back in the swing which is causing me to chunk a lot of shots.

Shawn, I’m a pretty new member and just wanted to say that your instruction series has made all the difference to correct years of misguided golf fundamentals that kept me from really improving 🙂 Merry Christmas and looking forward to better golf next year!

Thanks for showing the way!

Hi Shawn, can you explain your foot tap weight shift / rhythm move to start your swing please ? I know you used to kick the knee in and I see a video where you explained the change once but can’t remember where it is .
Thanks
Dave

The fade and draw are easy to understand now by just moving around the center of the driver head from a neutral stance/position. I saw the driver head blur go to right for the draw and left for the fade positioning. Cant get these confused any more with this basic process of positioning.

First many blessings to you and the family this Christmas. So what happens when you back off and the distance actually backs off. For instance, taking 40 yards off my 5 iron. It should go 130. I made sure I used a full turn and most of the time (70%) was on task, see the blur of the club. I consistently hit it 140-150. Sometimes I’d hit 160/165. The only thing I can say for certain is it was much much more straight. I even had someone on the range complement me on how smooth and easy my swing was!….but I did not get any real feeling of compression out of it. I’ve done this now a couple times. Any ideas on where my kinetic chain went?

Joined recently Absolutely love your wonderful teaching. My question: how do you elevate your swing so at the top, you are basically pointed at the target. You even slow your swing down almost to a halt before the release. How do you do that? My nemesis is a very flat swing and whatever I do, I can’t seem to get the club to the top in upright fashion. {I will be sending you a video soon.} I am tall 6’3″ and it feels like I am not using my height and reach to fullest advantage.

Hey Shawn! I understand the concepts in this video and some of your others regarding how you want to feel that the backswing position you’re in at different points of the takeaway should always “feel” like you are able to throw the club in the direction of the target from those positions, especially at the top.

However, your video on your regular YouTube channel, “Free Wheeling Vertical Backswing to Shallow” seems contradictory to me, when you show how no matter how steep you bring the backswing, if you are focused on throwing your club, it should naturally shallow out.

I find for myself, I tend to takeaway too vertical and so my downswing, even when throwing the club, will be super steep (sometimes 65-70 degree swing planes for a 7-iron, and I’m only 5’6″) and probably causing my seemingly random misses.

Can you help clear up how a “free wheeling” vertical takeaway coincides with the idea of how the takeaway positions should always feel like you can throw towards your target, since to me a vertical takeaway doesn’t feel that way?

Hope that made sense!!!

Just wanted to make sure I am understanding this correctly at 8:52 in video you show the “hinge” and in addition to hinge on the wrist snuff boxes there is a bit of counterclockwise rotation as well in arms? I tried searching hinge and went with Arm motion Fine Tuning which I suspect verify’s what I am thinking, along with keeping right bicep free to to move below left pec. Hope i am correct because it really make me feel my arms are more connected to one another. Thanks