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Shawn, do you have a release feel while you are performing your tasks and if so, what or perhaps better yet, “where” is it? Do you feel the snap/release just after the ball, 3-4 feet after the ball or even farther after the ball?
Do you feel more of your left side pulling through and up to the finish, or your right side throwing under and through to the finish? Or perhaps both simultaneously?
Thanks
Mark
Hey Mark! The release is about 3 feet past the ball; into the direction you want the ball to start; and the feel now for me as it evolved is through both sides; I get a flavour for lead side on some depending on height and shot shape, and some others from trail side. But those are just flavours and not things to focus on as the main focus is task into the finish.
Thanks Shawn – I tried this out at a range session because I really wanted to feel the weight of the club and start using that weight properly. I did this with the intention of using it as a pre-round warmup. Was definitely low on the strain gauge but velocity suffered. Started out with my 50 deg. chips then pitches then 3/4 then full. However, the lower strain/feel the weight translated to shorter distance. typically I get 115-125yds carry. I was getting closer to 90/95. I then focused on throwing with the legs. Made them engage more and had to turn the pelvis more to engage them and now it was up to 100/105 range. I pushed on and hit the rest of my clubs like in the video. I consistently lost yards. When I kept my focus on the target and throwing with the legs, it got better but I am losing like 20-30% of my distance. I can confirm I was much less ‘tired’ then my usual practice session so that is good however I never really feel that snap you talk about. Somewhere I’m losing velocity and I can’t get past lower strain means lower velocity…..Thoughts/Suggestions? Tom
This is great feedback Tom, awesome! Now let’s say you applied this to the 2 ball drill and had 2 golf balls in the way; would you not need to “tone up” the anatomy to compress through those? What about if you practiced through thick rough and then came back to flyer lie on the first cut? Understand what I mean? Sure it would be more “effort” but you could still perform it “easily”; Make sense?
I will give that a try and report back after next range session…probably after the masters! Thank you.
I gave the rough/first cut analogy a try on a small bucket (about 30 balls) I must have been doing something wrong as I ended up pulling a number of shots left. I still worked my way through the bag but tried something different on the last few. I did a practice swing where on the downswing I took a step toward the target to throw the driver in that direction, kind of like the catapult drill but without hitting a ball. I kept that feeling of stepping toward the target as I hit the driver and I felt like I released way better. Ball had a tiny draw ( my typical shot with driver is a fade) but it felt like it took off so I did it 3 more times. Two of them took off and the 3rd I hit too low on the face. End of bucket and I had to leave. So my question is would that catapult drill work as a substitute for the first cut/thick rough idea to give that toned up feel? I want to try that feel on the rest of my clubs but will have to wait so I thought I’d also check to get your thoughts. Thank you. Tom
Sounds like you got your kinetic chain to engage there Tom! See #6 in the “kinetic chain facilitation series” as this sounds like what I am doing in that video! Also the “off season training series” (#7-8 or 9) where we do the walking drill and pretend to throw clubs at every step through with the lead leg!
Can’t wait to try that…. what was strange to me was that the move to ‘getting the ground’ happened way earlier than I’d ever felt or realized. Good stuff…