Great video Shawn, I am working with my driver every day!

This is awesome stuff. Reaffirming my feels and where I place my eyes for solid contact. It’s like you read my mind coming out with this update around the time I realized that putting the ball in my rear view does wonders for me.

Shawn, Great Video! Your best all time drill is the Elephant walk! I have actually incorporated it into my waggle. I do a slight forward press while planting the L heel, and then I plant the R heel to start my backswing (Elephant Walk). That gets me, I think, perfectly into your dynamic set up as I start the backswing with the fluid motion of doing the Elephant walk in my real swing. For me, the Elephant walk is at the heart of you Kinetic Chain series. Thanks for the good stuff !!!!

Hi Shawn, Paul here from down in Australia. I’ve been loving this driver series and echo the comments of the folks below. It is full of gems. For me, your discussion in this video about keeping the effort level down to 2 out 10 is really resonating with me. I think too much strain might be a big part of what is holding my golf back at the moment, particularly with driver – too much effort, sabotaging the machine and interfering with the kinetic chain. I’d like to dive a bit deeper into that area and learn how to keep the strain out of my swing. Can you recommend any particular videos that could help?

Shawn I went into my account and the name under it is Bobby Foster. I do not know who that is or how it got changed. I need it corrected so that I can update to my new email address.
Neal

I definitely had that “Ah ha” moment with distance to ball you discussed in this video yesterday. I realized when throwing at the target I am much closer to the ball than I’m normally accustomed. It was actually kinda cool. I never thought I was reaching for the ball until I just let the throw happen. Do you tend to see an even balance of students who prefer presenting a closed club face at address with a perceived visual neutral grip, or a strong grip with square face? I think that will be the next thing I experiment with at my next session as I believe one will give me less tension at setup.

shawn, great session. I am 74 and go at about 90 mph driver. I am having aching groin muscles for months now. Can you or Moo suggest any exercises to improve groin muscle soreness?

Love your method,

Percy Freeman

Shawn…this video and the one you posted recently on club face and grip relationship re youtube….finally made things clicked after a long period of struggle…….thanks for all you do

Keep coming back to the grip videos. Seems like this can be the number one thing to derail all my hard work. If I’m not diligent with my trail hand, it discombobulates everything. I’ll keep practicing with a club in my spare time until it becomes natural.

Shawn – Are you focused with your eyes on the grass between the club and bottom of the ball? Or in front of the ball? Thank you!

Merci Shawn pour ces vidéos sur le flou du passage de la tête du driver et sur la focalisation du regard en avant de la balle, cela change tout pour moi…
Continuez à nous faire partager votre passion et votre vision du golf.

Shawn
What do you use in place of that Touqoiuse Champagne Tee in front of the golf ball when you are playing in competition ?
I assume it is illegal to put anything in front of the golf ball when playing a match.
What do you look at if there is no Tee in front of the golf ball?
Thanks and This eyes in front of the golf ball series is really good!!!
Larry Greer

Hi Shawn,

I’ve been task-hunting for a while now and have never found one in particular that seems to work long term. I have a bad problem of sub-consciously defaulting to the ball. I recently had some good success with the spinning the tees task and parking my eyes a half inch above the ball where the toe of the club would pass and envisioning the toe of my club spinning a wheel (like a globe) as my club passes. This really helped engage my kinetic chain but I found it was hard to stay target focused for some reason. After watching this video I tried parking my eyes in front of the ball and sending the clippings to target and that seemed to really help me hit the ball first with a nice downward angle of attack and a much more consistent strike with my irons. I applied it to chips and my driver and I think I may have a winner. The last piece seemed to fall in place for me as I was hitting balls on the range and a thought just popped into my head and the realization came that when I get a good strike and full release to the target that it feels like my “trigger” finger (I’m right handed) leads the way. So I am now parking my eyes in front of the ball and focusing on sending the clippings to the target with the irons and wedges and sending the white electrical tape blur to the right of the IP on my driver while really feeling the pressure on my trigger finger in the backswing as I load the club and then “throwing my trigger finger” through to a full release to the target. Just thinking this one task has resulted in the same good kinetic chain engagement, much better lag and a very snappy/powerful anchored release. My left hand seems to yield much easier for a quicker release (I must have been fighting against myself for some reason) and I’m really feeling like I’m getting deeply through compressing the ball. For me that feeling of compressing through my trigger finger (knifing the grip) to target while parking my eyes in front of the ball has finally brought everything together. I’m going to keep honing this task but wanted to share because there may be someone out there like me that may benefit from “throwing the trigger finger through” to the direction you want to start the ball. This realization hit me while hitting my driver and made an instant difference. I applied it to my irons and wedges and it works extremely well there too. After one range session, today I hit 71% of fairways and 8 greens in regulation using this task. A huge improvement as I’d been in a mid-season slump after my gamer driver head cracked and I’ve been using a different driver that I haven’t hit that much.

Another thing that recently clicked with me is that I’ve heard of archers who don’t focus just with their eyes on the bullseye but they feel the connection to the target through their heart and let the eyes and brain complete the solution subconsciously. Basically they just become a witness to the perfect solution the brain is capable of coming up with taking in all the external factors (wind, ground, stance, body awareness etc) to hit the bullseye. I thought that sounded kooky but decided to try it with my putting. I just imagine feeling my heart tied to the hole (my heart’s desire is to make the putt) like creating an invisible pathway connection from the heart to the hole providing a highway for the ball to travel. I read the putt and get a starting IP and then let the brain and eyes figure the solution (I look at the back of the hole when I putt) and just focus on that heart-hole connection I’ve created and putt into my hearts connection if that makes sense. Sounds totally weird but man it sure works more often than not. I’ve holed some long putts using his method. I then started doing the same with all my other shots. I think this is exactly what you are explaining with “swinging into the picture” but I could never conceive that fully until I brought the putting/chipping/swinging with the heart tied to the target feeling into it. Once again I share this because maybe that sequence will gel with someone like me who may struggle with other tasks or pictures and needs a different perspective.

Anyway, thanks again for such awesome content. All the best,

Dave Pike

Shawn do you recommend heavier shafts to increase arm club weight?

Hi Shawn. Are you actually thinking in the swing “back to target” in any way? I find that if I don’t think it I won’t actually turn much. I’ll think of the grass clipping task and get in a hurry to execute the task. I’ve noticed a huge difference in distance accuracy if I do have this “back to target” thought. Is this wrong?