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This is great Shawn. I had messed around with an open stance, but really found myself struggling to get my hips and shoulders square with my foot line slightly open. I thought I had corrected it but noticed my last 2-3 weeks or so I could not hit a draw to save my life, and would occasionally hook the driver.
Put some alignment rods down today (hello fundamentals) and my feet hips and ankles were an easy 15 degrees left of target. I was dumping the trail shoulder to try to manipulate the inside path. With irons it resulted in a block, w driver with the ball further forward I’d hook it.
Dropped my trail foot back the same amount that my lead foot was open and tidy draws re-appeared. I’ll be exploring this for sure. It sort of preset my backswing turn as well, and it felt like a much shorter path to a complete backswing.
A lot of golfers in this camp!! Well worth your time!
I felt a freedom of backswing I hadn’t felt in a while! It also allowed for that release into the backswing we discussed on the pod, letting the levitation happen instead of having to sort of place it because my ACU ran out of room with the open stance and would crash into my pec
It also made your trigger move click more easily for me as well, with the additional space I’m able to really use the ground to heave that club into the hinge, which levitates it up. I can then really tune into that weight as it starts to fall. And something about starting from the ground up going back makes it so intuitive to start with the group up on the way through as well.
Off to a good start this year, cap has gone up slightly with some really good fall rounds coming off (standard for us northerners lol) but I looked apples to apples my 1st 15 rounds LY vs TY and I am 2.5 shots better so far!
Shawn, please add a longer visual (longer alignment rod?)of your target, from the target out into the course, and an alignment rod showing alignment stance as it relates to downrange final ball position. It’s hard to see from our vantage point. Maybe a couple slow mow overhead views? And snapshots of your ball position for fade, draw, nuetral that we can compare on one visual. It’s hard to see when watching live shots, or place a ball representing all three at the same time? I am sure I have seen parts of this on several different videos, but to see it all at once, like a cheat sheet. Appreciate all your feedback. I understand this is no small production task. Thanks
Hi David! Thank you for the feedback! As many of you are visual learners, this is important. We will look at setting this up in the simulator in the next series!
I have noticed your hands do not cross between the shoulder and upper bicep but above or right over the shoulder, ( when viewing from behind ) but other times like when you talk about tucking the trail a against your pec
it does? Should my hands get deeper behind the shoulder as opposed to straight back and wide? How can you tell if you are taking the club too far back? I am trying to limit my back swing for more consistency
Hi David! Good lord, sorry for taking so long as I had placed this in my priority file as it is important to answer! PLEASE SEE THE 2 PENDULUM SERIES!
Deep arms behind the shoulders is not conducive to proper HUMAN MOVEMENT PATTERNS!!
Shawn,
Hi Shawn, for a fade should the trail leg be ahead of the lead leg, as the swing should be left of the intermediate point. Or should the trail leg be behind regardless of the draw or fade.
Regards
What we do is align the flow of momentum to the left of the target and keep it there during the swing; the ball position and club face relationship allow for the ball to start in that direction and curve back to the target. This can be done with or without the diagonal stance which would make the alignment of the feet look square for a fade and slightly closed for a draw.