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Like you said Dustin Johnson is using very strong grip. He is also lifting his right heel at impact and many other tour players are doing that. You are more flat footed and and right heel stays on the ground. Is this anatomical thing or are they just using more body rotation? Can you experiment this somehow?
If you look at the heel of Tony Finau, he keeps it on the ground way past impact; keeping his feet solidly on the ground which keeps him more centered; because Dustin has a much more closed face, he must turn much more and leave his anchor earlier; I just re-tweeted a swing from Finau Yesterday actually! 😀👍
Interesting that you can do it bothways. When i try more centered swing my right heel stays on the ground but im not finishing anymore… well more practice needed 😌
This is what Savannah is working on right now; makes a huge difference in her ball striking and initial ball flight direction!
I just watched Savannah 3D analysis. Cool stuff! I keep on working also 👍
Hi Shawn. No matter how hard I ‘m gripping down on the club (my lead hand goes numb from the effort), I still feel the club rubbing on my lead hand pad. Also, when performing that one hand swing acid test with my lead hand, my thumb briefly looses contact with the club at release. When swinging two handed, I always feel my trail hand just prying the club out of my lead hand at release. Could it be an indication that I need a bigger grip?
How is your grass cutting in both directions?
Shawn
Thx for the reply. I think I’ve finally found the issue. I went back to grass cutting after reading your reply and my grass cutting is good. It’s when there is a ball in the way that there is an issue. I think My brain don’t thrust that the club face will square up in time. So my trail hand takes over and tries to guide it while my lead hand tries to cut grass. Problem is, my brain just doesn’t want to let go and see what happens; thus it will never learn to trust it. I do you get out of that loop?
Would you recommend that I take a weaker grip with my trail hand? So having my life line more on top of my thumb then on the side of it?
Do some cutting through tees and then through golf balls on the tees; feel that you are performing the same through the balls and that you are simply letting the arc-ball on a string- cut through the tees and that it does not switch to hitting golf balls; if it does, use whiffle balls and then golf balls;
Shawn
Bingo…..as long as the ball is the primary target for the brain the blackout occurs and the swing trust is lost. Even practicing on the Randy etc maybe 50% to 75% momentum with arm club unit but on the course I found less than 10% of swings stayed in focus as the dominant right hand took over with the head tilting and dropping and then …..you know what!
Hey Shawn around 1:40 mark you describe how the index fingers of each hand apply pressure to the grip in opposing directions. Have I understood you correctly? Could you kindly expand upon this in more detail
Also, you talk about the how pads of the trail hand fingers wrap around the grip. Is this true for the lead hand as well?
TIA
Gordon
Hi Gordon, no not each index finger at all! If you listen again, you will hear me say fingers against the index and the left hand agains the index (only the right index)
See the full grip video on this to clear that up; this one is like a little revew to emphasize Donna’s grip size she should have.
Shawn do you find trail hand dominant players release the strong grip easier (quicker) or later in the swing??
Great question; in my case, yes, however, only after I changed from interlocking grip to overlapping grip as a junior; and in my experience, if the backhander or lead hand dominant person is not behind the ball enough, it makes it much harder to release…
Thank you for sharing!
Peter C
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