You nailed it, I never thought about it that I was swinging my hands at the ball. Thank you for this, I'm going to apply this at the range tomorrow for sure!
I think your clarity about the differences between the hand path and the club-head path in the downswing needs further illumination for many students (including myself)
Adam, Thanks for sharing these lesson “tidbits” on YT. Gotta give the student props. Your swing changed notably! Keep working at it. Would love to see a “Porzak Improvement” follow-on video in the future after implementing Adam’s recommendations!
Great video, this is exactly what I'm working on after watching a video of myself at the range. Right hands down to right pocket and holding a headcover under my right armpit really helps
I've spent a lot of time in my golf life trying to bring the butt end of the club to the ball on my downswing. This video demonstrates how wrong I have been. I'm just like the golfer in this video. Bringing my hands down near my body is uncomfortable and weird, but when I do it correctly the contact is WAY better. Great video Adam.
I was hitting a lot of fades, heely shots and shanks. Keeping my hands closer, helped me compress every iron shot and helped a ton with my driver. It's what I've been missing for a while but didn't have time to see an instructor. Thanks!!!
I rarely ever leave a comment but just wanted to give a HUGE thanks to Adam for all the incredible content he continuously puts out! I was battling a swing change and started watching the channel and can honestly say my swing has never looked/felt better. If you look on youtube for golf improvement in my own opinion nobody is better to learn from then Adam.
I am not sure if you guys even read the comments but I wanted to thank you for taking the time to put out these videos that I am sure have helped a lot of golfers out there. I had never been able to hit the the ball so clean and at the same time rotate so freely until I started to implement your swing to my game. I can not thank you enough . I can play now and have fun at the same time. Thank you so much ..
I haven’t connected with any other videos like yours. I don’t know why more people don’t film their students as a way of teaching. It’s tough to copy and relate with an instructor who effortlessly whips out a beautiful swing that has taken years and years of practice and continues to tell you how easy golf is, but to see you work with amateurs and witness them pick it up in real time makes it more real that I can actually fix my pulls and snap hooks. I am absolutely obsessed with golf and just put a sim in my garage. For the first time ever I hit 6 baby draws in a row after watching some of these videos and one of them lipped out of the cup. I’ve got 2 young kids so I have to balance my obsession but I need a coach like you to get to the next level. I’m up in the Inland Empire area in Eastvale but one of these days I’m going to come down there for a lesson with you and it’s going to be magical when you fix my pulls and snap hooks. Please don’t go anywhere Porzak Golf!
Love it. Especially the tall guy tip of hand to right knee! Just saw a video of Finau talking about tall guys needing to stay in posture. It’s all starting to click! Thanks Adam!
I can’t remember the last time I commented on a RU-vid video. Adam - this is just awesome content! I’ve been struggling with this same issue throwing my hands out toward the ball. You put such a great explanation together. Thank you for sharing this content
This is exactly what I have been drilling after a long time of rolling disconnected arms up to a flat back swing and steepening on the way down. The student is so right about the feeling that you’re gonna have to trust your body to move correctly if your hands have previously been out and throwy.
Great video like always. My question is should you feel as if you're pulling the handle down on the downswing? It seems as if it's the only way to keep those hands down and inside.
That very last swing looked the best to me. Very flowy looking with the correct sequence. It looked like a swing you’d see on a scratch golfer. No early extension and his follow through looked effortless
This is purely awesome lesson and drills. Thank you so much for sharing this. Does it apply exactly same to the driver? Meaning could I use the same drill for the driver? Could you also do a video on driver with the handpath please?
I’ve come to realize that when I get my hands out towards the golf ball, it also promotes early extension and for me that leads to a hook. I love this drill as it helps with both!
I think many tall players like myself have this same issue...thank you for a drill!! My sequence is great down the line on the way back but throwing my hands to the ball is the killer.
I've finally started to get my hands more close to my body on the downswing. I was shaking quite a bit and this has helped. I'll also practice holding that angle down as I was coming to parallel more. I'll see if it helps. Thanks.
I started trying to improve my golf swing in 2018 after playing for almost 30 years with an OTT swing. It’s very difficult to undo all that. I’m afraid I caused my instructor at the time a lot of grief. Unfortunately I had learned lots of compensations that produced more or less straight shots but lacking compression. The pandemic interrupted my journey, then I moved to another state. There are many good teachers on RU-vid and I’ve finally arrived at a point where an in to out swing feels more normal but I have a way to go yet.
I am so glad I found your channel! Been watching other YT videos and they just don’t help me. Never hit the ball better with my irons. So I’m wondering if this hand path works with the driver also? Thanks!
I was improving my swing through your videos, to the point that my buddies were commenting on how well I was playing. Then I seemed to have lost the feel. This is exactly what I needed and perfect timing! BTW, anyone know if the driver is the same type of feel?
My downswing thoughts? Keep the left wrist dead... So I don't spoil my carefully constructed knuckles down backswing by getting wristy again on the way back. Drive hands to my right knee in downswing sounds like a plan. I already adopted the Porzak early wrist set in the backswing with great results.
Great stuff. Need help with getting on my left side. When I don’t I pull hook every shot. When I manage to get on my left side with a high finish it’s straight to baby draw.
hmm interesting concept holding that angle on the downswing to the right knee. I am going to give this a shot. Do you guys ever do any vids on below the plane with woods only? ill have to search
I’ve experimented with close in hand path and lower handle through impact on many occasions. Always results in clean contact and excellent dispersion. However for some reason I lose a solid 10y of distance off my irons . Not sure if it’s added loft or slower swing speed causing it.
I’m confused about transition: Holding the lag down to waist high vs releasing the right arm angle. Can’t you do either as long as right hand stays extended so swing path stays shallow?
Did this path drill, and it seems to over draw. How do i get better face control and eliminate the left side. Contact is better but missing greens to the left with this tip?
Unreal. But I’ve just been down the rabbit hole of your pitching and wedge videos. Am I correct in thinking this ‘hold the angle’ thought is for full shots only? It seemed to me for the 80 and in wedge play you were teaching less hinge and more back and through, unless you’re in the rough and then you hinge for a bit more angle of attack.
I'm standing on the edge of the Snake River Canyon with Evil Knievil. He's on his rocket bike and he's going to jump over a mile wide gap. I ask him if he can do it. He gives me a sideways glance and blithely replies "No problem, I've taken lessons from PorzakGolf."
if I'm chunking it while doing this is there an obvious reason why it could be because if I'm not doing this I don't chunk it. and no I'm not steep if anything I would describe my downswing too shallow
If you don’t have lag or the proper sequencing you will hit behind the ball if you don’t raise the hands. That is why you are early extending and have high hands at impact. This is what allows you to actually hit reasonable golf shots. Fixing the hand path is just one piece of the puzzle which is why golf is so hard. Good luck.
