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I love this drill. Especially when my swing sequence is out of whack. However, I start the step as.soon as my back swing starts. This is a great drill when you have “lost your swing”.
My favourite is #6 when we are walking and sending divots into the trees!
Hello Shawn. would videos talk discuss how the pelvis moves in backswing or the right hip moves so there is no sway?
Yes! See the videos by date and watch “weight shift with Savy” then “feet together drill” “feet together back to feet apart” “head and hip swivel” “ “head position and turn” “tilt mile markers” “tilt awareness-direction-practice” “garage door drill” “takeaway” “rope drill”and “walking drill”
This is a critical focus for me at the moment. I seem to have the grip, posture, gathering, and collecting while gripping the ground piece working (for the most part). However, getting the glutes and quads engaged through the swing seems to want to pull my head and upper body forward a bit too much resulting in a pull to the left. Any ideas or drills to work on this? By the way….. great insights and love the kinetic chain videos. This really fixed a lot of parts in my game. Thanks.
Man, looks like I mossed this one; very sorry! The videos you want to see for this are the “feet together back to feet apart” and “pumping up the swing”
Hi Shawn, right handed golfer here. Is it fair to say that I should be stepping in the direction I want to start the ball and keeping my body aligned there? Example, for a draw the feel is I step towards the right of the intermediate point and release there without opening up my body.
No, you want the “unstoppable momentum” to move in the direction you want to start the ball; the step happens naturally and please please do not think about what to do with the hips!!
See “throwing the club” on premium. When you have a direction to throw the club, the brain gets to work and finds the ground with the weight shift to the lead side (no thinking) it then uses the ground to remove the body out of the way at just the right amount (again without thinking) and then knows when to let go of the club to deliver in the direction you want to send it to ultimately find it’s end target. To think about planting that way and holding on with body to not turn is SABOTAGE on an epic scale! 😝😀
Shawn, thanks for the clarification. I was headed down a dark road haha! Shifted gears towards thinking of my club head as the jai alai basket. All I think now is where I’m slinging that ball after I collect it in the “basket”. World of difference and don’t have to think anything of shift, step, hips, etc…Thanks much!
Enter the singing choir! 🤛💪💥🎶😀
Played In first tournament since going to this method. Any help with the transition. I really struggled with the kinetic action on the downswing. Never really got into a rhythm where my lower body was initiating the downswing. Lots of good shots hit, but very inconsistent. Any suggestions welcomed. Thanks
Here is the full focus sequence; practice this for every shot on the range and get good with it!
1-pick an “end target” or a place you want to have the ball end up
2-pick a flight plan that fits your ability to get the ball there; please INCLUDE THE HEIGHT OF THE SHOT or peak trajectory before it falls back down towards the end target. Be clear about the option-if not, goldie-locks the options.
3-find an intermediate point that will set you up into that picture from behind-MASSIVELY IMPORTANT TO TRUST ONCE YOU PICK FOR YOU TO LINE UP AND TO DELIVER THE ACTION.
4-PREDICT CONTACT AND DIRECTION BEFORE YOU LET THE SWING GO.
so that when you let your action release itself to the target, you can predict that the ball position, the distance to the ball, the posture, and the grip-club face relationship will fit the flight when you let the swing track itself into the direction you want to start the ball.
Predictions video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQF5GjxzFs
5-EXECUTION
set up done? Prediction of shot done? It is now OUT of YOUR CONTROL, just give control to gravity and let the weight of the ARMS AND CLUB OR WEIGHT OF SWING release itself in the direction you want to START the ball (ON THE SIDE OF THE
INTERMEDIATE POINT YOU CHOSE). Look for the feel of that low effort and nice whipping velocity that unleashes that ball into that flight with freedom and trust. Abandon control to the task.
6- DID YOU LET IT?
DID you stay with the feel of that release to that direction? Or did you get distracted by “making sure” of a position or something else making noise or commotion around you? How do you know for a fact that you stayed with it?
If you stayed with it:How was the strain level mentally and physically?
Was it hard or easy?
If you did not stay with it, something short circuited you and you were trying to do something else; what was that you were trying? What were your concerns?
7-The most important stat in golf THAT TRUMPS ALL STATS is how many times (there are average 36 full swings on the golf course) were you able to stay with your shot all the way to the finish? Can You CONFIRM WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT YOU felt the release of the club in the direction you wanted to start the ball?
IF YOU CANNOT CONFIRM THAT YOU STAYED WITH THE SHOT, YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME TRYING TO FIX YOUR SWING THAT IS NOT BROKEN;
You simply did not stay with the plan.
Just wanted to update. Took above advice and practiced hard. Played in four ball tourney this past weekend. I did follow my plan for over half my shots. Those turned out as “predicted”. Just have to keep working on letting go of control. One question I have in regards to working the ball. Had some pretty sharp doglegs this weekend. When needing more cut or draw do you recommend opening and closing face more or using more angle with path? Thanks for the great instruction. I’m excited about golf. Love to compete and golf gives us that opportunity as we age. Thanks again!!
Very good! You are on your way!
More curve will need to have more club face opening or closing; keep matching it to the flight plan and use the prediction process to confirm before you engage the task into the direction you want to start the ball.
Shawn