Hey Sam! Sorry I missed this one!
I am back with my overlapping grip; stay with that! 👍👍

Hey Steve! This is what the vast majority of golfers think; and this is why I constantly see my students gain that magic 30 yards more with each club because if the ball is your target, you are LOST!! You want to collect the ball from where it lies and release it to the direction you want it to go. Watch my favourite series called “throwing series” and then see “predict contact” and the “goldie locks series” and film yourself throwing the club to a specific target and watch how glorious your swing’s lag looks when you do! Then see “lead hand release”, “trail hand release”, “release fine tuning” and “snap release polish videos.
enjoy!

Hi Shawn – thanks as always for the super fast response!

OK, woah…..!

Hold Up!!

Are you suggesting that a golf shot is just like a hockey shot, where you’re not really hitting the ball at all, but rather catching it on the club face and flinging it?!?

I’ve heard you say ‘collect the ball and release it to the target’ a million times in your videos, but I honestly didn’t think you meant that literally.

If so, I don’t really understand how that happens. It would seem that as you’re cutting through the dandelion stem, and making contact with and compressing the ball, that the ball is just going to ricochet immediately off the club face. Right? Isn’t that what ‘hitting down on the ball’ means? And letting the club face do the work?

My recent practice, and indeed, my ‘revelation’ about the release (which I thought was supposed to be happening at impact, not well afterwards) may be all wrong. Although I’m definitely hitting much better, more consistent shots than ever before.

The reason I was returning to the release videos was because my distances seemed pretty pedestrian, and I wanted to troubleshoot why I wasn’t getting better results distance-wise.

I have this feeling that you’re about to blow my mind here….

The ball stays on the face as it compresses, nice flat spot bigger than a quarter; then rides on the club face for an inch and then Releases from the face; it is absolutely a collect and release action!

Ok, wow.

I’m heading to the range to try this today.

I’m concerned that the timing on this seems almost impossible to achieve, and the faster the club speed, even harder to do.

I have been working on what I thought I was supposed to do with the ‘release’ at impact, and that was hard enough to do consistently timing-wise. Any advice on how to approach timing the release after the ball has been collected? Is there a recommendation on which club to use to begin to master this?

Thanks, Shawn!

Steve; get out of conscious mind stuff; YOU SIMPLY CANNOT CONTROL THE SWING THAT WAY. See “throwing the club” and the “throwing series” and realize that the brain will know when to LET GO when you focus on throwing the club TOWARDS A SPECIFIC TARGET. So when you throw the club and you don’t let go, the weight of the club will RELEASE YOU at that time. NOT YOUR JOB!!😎

Well, no 30 yard gain. Maybe a 3-yard gain, sometimes?

I’m revisiting the body turn issue, so maybe I’m trying too many new things at once.

Each swing feels so rushed now with the full body turn both ways. I don’t feel like I got a single good ‘release’ in like 45 mins of trying with various clubs.

These steps backwards are frustrating!

Steve, you should be checking in every couple weeks; not same day! 😝😝😝
give it some time to digest and sink in; did you get to throw some clubs already?

Hey Shawn – yes, I bought some cheap used clubs, and of course my first few throws went waaaaaay left… Like Mu said “How is this happening?”

I think I’ve now got the feeling of how to actually throw correctly.

I watched more video of my current ‘swing’ and it’s clear to me that I’m a classic early extender. What is your recommendation for how to eliminate this awful habit? FYI, on my perpetual motion swings, it appears that I’m not goat humping as much as when I’m actually hitting a ball.

I think my issue is my legs (specifically my right leg?) are not getting the ground in any sort of a squatting motion. I’ve been struggling with getting a good body turn / rotation on my backswing due to my osteoarthritis in my left knee, but if I focus on ‘widening’ things on my backswing, I think I’m getting adequate rotation (or as much as I can physically do). But as before, when I begin the downswing to throw the club, if I stay back and have my right leg go get the ground, I have a hard time not hitting the ground behind the ball.

I’m sure I’m doing something simple incorrectly.

Haha, sorry for overdosing on wisdom in golf! I just wanna get to where I know what I’m doing and can play!

No, the indoor range I visited here in MN wasn’t a place where that can happen…

Did I read somewhere that premium members can send you videos?

Eagle members can send me one per month and if Par members want a swing analysis, they get 30% off, so make sure you are logged in and then see the “lessons” tab

Yes, sometimes we give youtube a little tease!👍😀

Great question! Let me find out!

Hello, did you ever find out if we could do this? It would be a great feature!

Thanks!

We have had several updates since then; there should be at least a favourites page…

Sean, I cannot locate your pro shop to make a purchase. Please help! Thanks.

This is where the club throwing comes in big time; you want to practice throwing clubs in the direction of the target through an intermediate point; then when you throw in that direction through the IP and don’t let go, the weight of the club will release you at the right time and place for the flight plan you chose. See “the goldie locks series” for the prediction of where to place the ball so it’s in the way of this action.

Correct! See the “hammer drill” video! 👍👌

The key is to stay with a task that will do that for you; see “turbo charge lead hand release” and “turbo charge trail hand release” videos and feel that you are throwing with leg engagement. See also “kinetic chain facilitation series”
keep on it Doug! 👍😀

I would see “kinetic chain facilitation series” and “2 tee drill perpetual motion” videos

NO!!!!!!! This is the worst thing ever taught in golf!! Set yourself up to simply cut grass along the slope in balance. PERIOD.

Brilliant! Keep at it! 👍😀

Hey Neil! Best feel for staying centred is “feet together drill” and “feet together back to feet apart” as well as “weight shift with Savy” and the “walking drill”; then see “kinetic chain facilitation series” and #6 is my favourite there!

Hi Anthony! Sorry I missed this one and the answer is no issues; the videos that keeps everything on track to combine with this are the “match backswing to ball direction” and “lead hand release in the backswing”

Hey Brian! Did you notice the drone view with the iron? Amazing how it takes the grass from centre of stance and then cuts forward into the trees? We are built this way. So if the ball position is forward of centre, you will have to lunge forward for it! Please see “goldie locks series” and “predict contact” videos as well as the “unstoppable momentum” and the latest “path blur low point” video.

C’est différent pour tout le monde; svp voir “the goldie locks series” et “predict contact” et ensuite “draw fine tuning” et “Fade fine tuning”
bonne Pratique!