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The old dandelion stem. One of the roots of the Wisdom in Golf tree. All those years of mowing them, if I’d only realized their impending impact on my better golf swing. Great vid Shawn. Love how we always go back and touch on the core principles and put a fresh “spin” on it.
It is so clear in the body language when a student is living in the rask and when they are not; and in the exchanges with my students when I ask them: “what was the last thing going through your mind before you swung?”
then we get deeper into “yes, I was there but could not stay with it” until this. And then the importance of this hit me when everyone went their next level with it! 😀👍
This is the importance of this channel! We all get to go next level and beyond through these experiences! No algorithms to dictate what we do either! 💪👌
First let me say thanks. My understanding of my swing have improved so much over the past couple of years. All aspects of my game have improved. However, like you said in this video, sometimes when I see that ball in front of me, especially with my driver, my instinct is to swing hard at the ball – my timing goes bad, and I don’t finish my task, especially with my final transition of weight to my left foot. The ball usually slices badly, or I top it, or even sometimes I duck hook it. My wrist hinge releases prematurely, and who knows where it is going to go. What can I do to get a routine where I can just perform the task and finish sticking it?
What are your top 2 favourite tasks?
Probably peeling divots and grass cutting. When practicing these without a ball, my swing works flawlessly. I like the feet together drill also as it is very difficult to heft my arms. But when I put a ball on the tee, the urge to swing hard often takes over; I don’t get my backswing all the way back before I start down; too fast on the down swing, and then the club is past the ball before my hands are through, or my weight is forward. I keep working on this and some days are better than others, but I seem to have those one or two holes where the daemon comes out.
Ok, now we are getting somewhere; on those shots you miss on the golf course, go back to one in your mind, did you have a flight plan that allowed you to release your tee tip into a direction that was safe? Or were you releasing towards trouble hoping the ball would come back? If yes you had the wrong option off the tee box. And if that was not the case, what was the distraction that prevented you from delivering your action task with ease into the direction of the flight plan? Did your set up feel comfortable?
It’s almost like I panic and feel I need to swing harder and faster. My arm muscles engage, and I often look up. Good formula for a disaster. Right. I know it’s mental, but just can’t seem to break this old habit.
You think you are looking up but you are not; you are simply falling off your task; and what I would do is perform your task softly with pitch shots and chip shots and then full soft swings with short irons and then ramp up the velocity towards the target when you have it nailed on the short ones. Going to do a nice series on this because you are far from being alone!
Thanks. I will work on that. I will say that my chip and pitching has improved 100%.
Thanks for your great efforts all of the time! You have helped me more than you will ever know! I really appreciate you! God help us all!
You bet Jeff! Thank you for your acknowledgement! 😀👍👌
I love the idea of sticking the finish… I think it is an area to work on for me right now. lately I seem to finish too far over the left edge of my lead foot holding on to balance for dear life. Sometimes I feel like I’m falling a bit to my left heel when I finish as a righty. I somehow have escaped that inside bracing of my lead foot. If I back off and finish nice and firm into the lead side, I loose a lot of distance/speed because I’m not able to get pressure to the lead side, there is something a kin to a reverse pivot feel happening. Would the shortstop side arm throw feeling from the top of my backswing help this out?
Yes, the throwing of the club in the direction you want to start the ball and when you don’t let go of the club, the force releases the arm anatomy and you go into the finish. See “target confirmation series” and see which task combined with sticking the finish is best for you. For me it is the spinning task into the finish; just amazing how my game is going to the next level as we speak!
Very good, can’t wait until the snow goes to try it out… Also wanted to let you know that for some reason over the last several weeks I haven’t been getting your notices sent to my e-mail box of the next training video, I have to come to the website and check out the latest list to see what’s new if any. Thanks again Hope this can be fixed..
Hey Mike!
Don’t worry! Every Wednesday we put out a video and we had told everyone that we would send emails to communicate every other week or so as we don’t want to overload everyone’s email boxes!