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! 😀👍
Hi Shawn, I seem to have better results with my hands slightly behind or middle of my stance and ball forward on my driver, however I noticed your hands are at the ball and clubhead center of your stance. I also saw of a video buy a guy called Mr.Shortgame who suggested hands should be middle of stance or slightly behind? What’s your thought on this as it doesn’t seem the face has to be closed.
Hi Clarence! When you deliver the action task in the direction you want to start the ball, if the club head gets there before the ball, then it will be a disaster; so the key here is to facilitate the kinetic chain engagement. When you manipulate the club during the swing, the brain tries to shut down the body to facilitate the task of manipulating, cancelling the weight shift and hips clearing…not the desired result. So what we want to do is use the weight of the arms and club to perform the task of sending tee tips to target with driver. You want to stay far away from any kind of placing or steering or strenuous acts with the club or body parts. And as far as the grip and club face is concerned, because it cannot be the face only, the key here is when you deliver your action task to the direction you want to start the ball, is the ball flying in the air the way you want it to? So see “fade fine tuning” and “draw fine tuning” as well as “predict contact” and the “goldilocks series” videos.
Hey Shawn! Been working alot on my game and feeling im striking the ball alot better, but just cant seem to get rid of my outside/in swing path. Not sure where to turn or what drills would best help me fix this! Thanks!
Hey Gerald! Ok, you are striking it better but what is the flight doing? Are you starting it on the line you want and is it curving the way you want it to? Are the divots deep or shallow? Is the flight of the ball too low or too high? Give me an example with a 7 iron; what does a successful 7 iron shot look like to you?
Typical shot with a 7 iron is usually pretty high and sweeps from left to right. There tends to be a lot of side spin. Divots show that im coming over the top on it. Thanks for the help!
Ok, that helps! First thing you need to do is learn how to HOOK THE SNOT out of the ball by closing the face of the club past 45 degrees. Set up with a ball on a low tee with the 7 iron. You will look down on the club and ball and feel very strange. Eyes will be on the sliver of grass between the leading edge of the club and the ball. Imagine teeth on the club’s leading edge ready to saw through the tee from toe to heel and the task is going to be to whip through this sawing action in the direction over the intermediate point right there in front of the ball no more than a foot away. You want to be able to hook 5 to 10 shots way left and see the ball curve to the left as well; these will be pull hooks. THEN, the brain can PREDICT that when you close the face that much, there WILL BE a curve to the left. NOW CAN SWING TO THE RIGHT OF THE INTERMEDIATE POINT AND KNOW THAT THE BALL WILL COME BACK ON TARGET-OTT GONE!!😀👍
See “working the ball” and “draw fine tuning” as well as “how to match backswing to ball direction” and really polish the “release” by searching the word “release” in the search box and see all of them as this will allow you to do this without the extremely closed face.
Hey Shawn, when would be the proper timing for lead heel to lift? I assume it would be different with each club? My timing feel off and I sometimes forget to lift my heel when I’m playing::
Hi Nate!! Ok, first, you can’t be thinking about that. 😝
second, get really good at the “walking drill” and the 6th video in “kinetic chain facilitation series” where I am walking and sending grass divots into the trees; when you do this well, simply observe how your survival machine does it and how it needs to pick up the foot to take the step forward but also use the ground to deliver the divot after it plants. Then do “perpetual motion drill series” which is a stationary walk to blend this into your swing! Tada!
Can you try to explain to me why I’m seeing more distance and control with the fade. I have a natural draw and just got tire of hitting one or two hooks per round. I lost a couple of tournaments last year because of this hook that shows up. I really committed to learning the fade this year and now I rarely try to hit a draw anymore. I hit a draw when the shot calls for it. On most tee shots I just aim left and fade back into the middle. What is don’t understand is the distance. I played Duran in Viera Florida today and this is actually the course I attended your clinic years ago. I have played here many times because my in laws live right down the street. I live in Atlanta now so I don’t get to play as much. Today I hit a fade on almost all my drives because most of the holes here mover left to right. What surprised me was the distance I was getting compared to the draw from I normally play. I don’t get it, what would cause a fade to go further? Is it because my draw was a result of a closed setup and bad alignment? I just feel like I can control the fade so much more. It either just holds its line or fades a tiny bit. It never goes left like a hook. I shot an 80 today and had 33 putts. I just couldn’t make any birdies. I feel like this was my best ball striking round ever. I picked my spot and then sent my momentum just left of it each time. So much fun today. I’m never trying to hit it straight again. I was really struggling before I subscribed to the premium channel again. Came in second in my first tournament after going back to your methods. Thanks again.
Way to go Scott! When you play the ball a tad more forward for the fade, you get a bit kore club speed and because of the new ball design, there is no difference in distance between fade and draw anymore for the same speed. Most good players have a couple more MPH with fade plus it just fits the human eye better as you see the target more comfortably and make a more confident pass. Congrats on the solid play!!
This is a great video Shawn! I strungle to get the face shut when hitting up on driver…i have not been focused on my target and this video reminded me of that…but with the target being higher so I can swing up on it…is getting the face shut a common challenge?
Correct! The more up you swing, the more closed the grip and club face needs to be and also depends of the club you have; some need to close less than irons and many need to close more. Sounds like you need the latter! 😀👍
Also keep polishing your full release in the direction you want to start the ball with full abandon and ease. If you have not done so yet, please see all the “release” videos!
also, I did a video on youtube for this called “most overlooked detail with driver”
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