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So I played Super Bowl Sunday and shot 74 and was feeling pretty good about my swing. I have been watching you latest videos w/ Savy and have been practicing heaving the club in the backswing. I watched my swing at a Golftec today( no lessons there, just use for video) and was shocked how much less my turn was in the backswing than I thought. I re-watched the backswing series with Dr. Moody and best downswing weight shift to re-educate myself. I practice PMD and throwing clubs quite a bit.Doubt is creeping in. I know you say that I am not defective, but , it sure looked like it today
If you are are to whip the club Through in the direction you want to start the ball with EASE AND VELOCITY, you are all good! Then you just need to continue honing that skill and ALLOW IT TO EVOLVE! Video is not the be all and end all and I am willing to bet that in one month, when you go back. You will have a more polished action if you stick to this plan! 👍😀
Great video! I used this in my practice today and my release got deeper and my effort went down. Hitting ball slightly tin but my distance increased and my strain was low.
Right on John! Amazing how nice the feel of that fully loaded release is; this is now my favourite for getting a student to feel that full pronated natural let go! 😀👍
Hi Shawn
I am really loving all the ideas about how to swing the club. First time out this season, I really focused on sending my irons to target through an intermediate point, I didn’t duff one and they sort of went where they were supposed to – thank you so much.
I am still struggling to not hit at the ball with my driver. Any particular tips?
Also do you have any plans to come over to England and hold a golf clinic or two?
Keep up the great content
Phil B.
Awesome Phil!
See the “throwing series” with the hammer throw with driver; like a lawn mower, when the blades of grass get cut, the mower keeps making circles. So you are making a complete circle and the tip of tee gets clipped mid way into the circle. See also the “target confirmation series”
Shawn
Hey, this video was timed well in response to my question on the Eagle account. You are a magician. The snap release is another version of the sword slash and for that matter, the football throw, skipping a stone….etc. Different tasks to accomplish the same thing. In this video you clearly showed the elbow and wrist release action after the vertical position of the ball. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe mastering that simple maneuver allows you to compress the ball even at lower speeds/momentum. Something you and all professionals do extremely well. At times, I could compress the ball pretty good at full speed, but ask for a 3/4 shot… CLUNK! I am going to work this drill next indoor session.
Savvy’s distances are incredible. Some of it must come from her extension away from the body. Not the clubhead, but her hands. Tremendous width. To be young and flexible!
Great stuff Jon, very solid comment and looking forward to your feedback in the coming days! Shawn
Finally got to hit some shots indoors and may have figured out what has been short-circuiting my kinetic chain. Of course it was something that I did not expect. By chance, I remembered your video with Matt telling him to try and hit his irons half their full distance. I had nothing to lose so I gave it a shot. BINGO! The drill forces a ‘lazy’ transition at the top giving the legs and trunk enough time to engage into the shot. When I go bad, I get ‘grabby’ at the top and it is off to the races, as the body tries to catch up to the hands. The result is almost always a shot that stings (and stinks). I would guess that the transition metric is different for everybody. (e.g. John Rahm vs Hideki Matsuyama) I just don’t have the lightning reflexes so I lean toward a ‘Hideki’ type transition. In fact, his glacial transition is the swing thought I chose. It seemed to work pretty good. Hopefully, I am on the right track.
For once, I would like to hit the Spring season running and get the game sharp. How can I book a lesson up there?
Right on John; for many athletic players, this is a biggie! Our indoor season goes till end of April, then I am doing a Charlotte-Dallas trip at the last week of April-into first week of May; should have the details buttoned down this week;
We are booking starting the week of May 11 to be safe. Shawn
Hi Shawn:
Not directly related to the content of this video, but Savy appears, at address, to line up mostly with the club open to various degrees, with a strong grip, and yet she is able to hit draws and slices. I can see if the grip is strong enough then dynamically it can return to a square or closed position at impact. Do I have that right and if so is she simply controlling whether the club is open/square/closed at impact by varying the strength of her grip?
But as I recall, you suggest keeping the grip more neutral and starting with the club square or slightly closed for fades and more closed for draws (with the attendant changes in ball position and alignment for each).
Do I have this right, and if so are both approaches viable, and if so, is it just a matter of which feels most comfortable.
Thanks!
Hey Rick!
Of course you do! Once the grip-club relationship is installed, you can address with face open-closed-square…it does not matter! She actually invented a new set-up within our parameters the little genius!
It is all about when she releases in the direction she wants to start the ball, does the ball start on the intended line and does it curve the way she wants it to. That is it!