Using this technique, would I also be thinking of throwing the club more like a mid-long iron, i.e. football throw, versus the javelin throw normally used with driver?
Thanks for your reply Shawn, I love your kinetic chain approach to the golf swing, you’ve helped me improve my swing quite a bit in the two years that I’ve been watching your videos. Generally, I’ve always had more reliable drives teeing the ball lower and tend to use that method unless I have a significant following wind. Teeing the ball up, foo often I block it out right with it fading even farther right. I think maybe I over swing. lose focus, layoff with my hands…something bad. I’m just an aging, senior, bogey golfer struggling to hit drives longer than 230 yards anymore. But I still love trying. Thanks.
Did you see the “use the weight of kettle bell through door” video? Please do this with either a kettle bell or a 4 pound hammer and use perpetual motion to apply it. You will feel an incredible sensation of centring where you cannot get in front or sway off of it and you can apply this feel to all shots including the hitting up on the driver. INCLUDE THE “STICKING THE FINISH” in this so your brain can find it’s way to keep the body in balance throughout so you don’t blow out of it early!👍
When I match the takeaway to the club path direction I feel like the clubface stays pointing at the ball and the line past the intermediate point. At the top of the backswing it still “feels” like the clubface is still pointing at the ball so I can cut grass past the intermediate. Sound correct? Just for understanding this allows the club face to stay perpendicular to the swing arc?
With a strong grip it does feel like that yes! You could compare it to the “hammer drill” where you physically take a hammer and position yourself to drive into a door frame. A really solid ball striker by the name of Ryan Fox from New Zealand who is on the verge of winning on the DP World tour does exactly this as well as Brendan Steel, Paul Azinger and many more and of course Savy. This will feel less rotational through the ball. My anatomy needs and has more rotation which will feel different and looks and feels more like the “lead hand release” and “trail hand release” videos. Keep me posted to your progress!
Hey shawn i struggle with alignment. My coach pointed out that my body is too open and thats why i duck hook long irons and woods (my path is waaay too in to out), but to me the “feel” is i’m swinging over the intermediate point, towards the target line. Do you have any alignment drills/ exercises so i can get the feel of throwing to the target with my body correctly aligned at setup? Should i set an alignment rod over my feet?
If your path is too in to out, you are not supporting the downswing properly and you simply want to practice your fades with the “fade fine tuning” video
Per your swing analysis, I’ve been looking at and working on posture today. I was still struggling to keep my head behind the ball/behind the hit. I searched for “head position” and came upon this. What I realized is that for years…and I mean YEARS…I’ve been tilting my head 20* to the right w/o the 20* turn. So, essentially, at setup, I was taking my right ear toward my right shoulder. In this position, the backswing caused my head to move back on top of the ball almost immediately. Been working on some rehearsal takeaways this evening with this 20/20 position, and it does help keep me behind the ball, however, the muscles in my eyes are really strained now. Like, they are fighting to keep my eyes from doing what they’ve naturally been allowed to do for years now. I hope I can retrain myself. I am going to post a picture here of my new posture/setup ASAP to hopefully get some brief feeback.
Right on Phil! When you see it from the “hammer through the doorframe’s perspective it will relax the eyes because they are still trying to go AT THE BALL. Set up to a doorframe with a hammer and see how NATURAL the gaze becomes as you are now on the proper task!
When you deliver your awesome whip along the ground and into the direction you want to start the ball, what is your flight? Too much right? Then close. Too much hook? Then open A BIT. Make sure you feel that the action and speed of the whip is peaking well past the ball before you open it though.
Hi shawn, when im in my stance i feel like i’m to low and bending forward to much but i can honestly say i hit threw the ball great sometimes. does this mean im standing up to quick threw the swing motion??
Because of ball position with draw is back of centre and this moves the ball out to the right naturally. For fade we are forward of centre and that changes the direction of flight slightly.
Hey Shawn, discovered your YouTube channel and now am a member on premium. Great stuff so far! Can’t wait to continue. I can finally hit draws which is amazing to me. Quick question, if draw is back of center and fade is forward. Can you play the ball dead center and hit a straight ball? Thanks for turning my game around.
Hey Josh! Awesome! Choose a side, say fade, and hit a straight fade or a straight draw. Launch monitors will always show a side spin or spin axis to a side; straight balls are 1 in a thousand…
Thanks for all the amazing content. I’m a hyper-ball focused player with a steep angle of attack (and corresponding propensity to hit down at the ball). Is there any merit to imagining my task as cutting and sending the dandelion, or even a small row of dandelions in front of the ball to the target? This problem for me is severe that I’ve exploded about 4 driver heads over the last year from skying shots (the alternative is hooked skidder to left field).
Have a look at the latest “driver for accuracy” and the “spinning series driver”; use the ground as a training aid to get the sole of club to shallow out as you skip it along the ground instead of focusing on ball to face.
Shawn on your driver swings it appears your heads start off ahead of the golf ball, coaches suggest the hands be kept in the center or slightly behind. I also notice the pro’s hands are ahead in driver swing. What’s the correct position?
Hi Shawn, hope all is well. Any thoughts regarding ball position and lie angle? Without a doubt, your swing has me getting closer to the ball than what I was accustomed to, and without a doubt this is superior to what I was doing. But when I’m closer I’m seeing toe down by like 6 degrees. I’m playing Ping 1 degree up…I’d think that this delta is too huge to get them bent…is there something that I’m doing incorrectly to create this huge angle of toe down?
Haha, DON’T WORRY!! I see this all the time and we are realizing that you don’t want the sole to be flat through impact! I have a 4 handicap student here at the club who is one of the best ball strikers and his lie is 6 down too; he had gone to TXG in Toronto to get a fit and they bumped his lie up 4 degrees and he could not hit anything after that so he went back to originals with the new clubs and all is well! Mine need to be toe up a bit through impact. And Mu went from way low to toe up in a year as his swing is evolving so wait and let the swing evolve some more! All good! 😀👍
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