Shawn...this video changed my life. I typically average 240-250 carry with an inconsistent strike pattern all while trying to crush the ball. Went to the range today and made a few changes per your suggestions. It resulted with effortless consistent power adding 30+ yards on my carry. Can’t wait to shock my buddies this weekend. Thank you for all you do.
GOLD GOLD GOLD!! I change my stance to open and closed often for different shot pictures and to feel athletic in my swing. I didn't realise it was to keep my base underneath me but that makes complete sense. It's all about getting access to that target!!
Thanks Shawn. Went back to a closed stance for my driver (this week) and I am back to 250+ yard drives again. Makes golf more fun. I did a RU-vid search for "closed stance driver - long arms" since I have super long arms, and loved the videos of your daughter and her very long wing span. Made me feel comfortable, and reassures me that what I am doing is correct.
Hey Joe! See the “great driver nugget” and the “diagonal stance series” on our premium channel and combine this with the “goldie locks series” distance to ball video. 😀👍
Shawn I have been following your videos for over a year. Your target and task oriented approach has helped me a great deal with all my clubs but the Driver is the one I have struggled with the most. I am a lefty. The old me would just aim my driver down the right side of the fairway and hope not to slice it too much or hook it or that I didn't aim too far right in case I hit it straight. On Sunday I did something I never did before. I had a forced carry. The only place I thought I could make the carry was the far left side of the fairway. I picked my target, intermediate point and set up for a slight fade and hit it my target almost on the bulls eye. I stayed with my target to the finish and did not default to the ball as I usually do. I have been playing that course about two or three times over the last four years and never made that carry before. Thanks.
Shawn Throwing the club for me helped me so much!! You really are amazing and I follow some great golf coaches & I think I am going to sign up to your website! You 3 are fantastic!!
This is an excellent video to confirm the essential element of the swing is 'staying focused on your target' even if you alter some variables such as stance. Without keeping that element in mind everything just goes haywire! Mu and Sav show how easy it is to get distracted or loose focus which results in poor quality shots. Another excellent video from the WIG team!!
Thank you Richard, yes indeed! Imagine, at this very moment, someone hit their “big miss” shot and immediately look for the technical issue to never do that again while all along, they never had a flight plan to the direction they WANTED the ball to go. CLARITY about WHAT you want to deliver in that specific direction is what we need, not the HOW to make sure! 😝
5:15 in the video "so you want to throw the club away as far from yourself you as possible without losing your balance and without strain"- Thats poetry,epic philosophy and the best golf tip ever in one sentence!!! I will have it on my headstone=)!
Love watching Mu build his swing. Both kids are such great athletes and students and watching them grow into their golf game is so satisfying and rewarding.
So happy to hear that Gabriel! It is a lot of fun and looks the same way from this end too! Love what we are doing and what we have accomplished so far so thank you for your awesome comment! 😀👍👌❤️
You’re welcome, Shawn. I’ve been a longtime follower of your channel and it’s added hours of viewing entertainment as well as countless help to my golf game on the course. As well as your wisdom that I’ve passed down to both my daughters!
If anyone needs to know whats the diff between Shawn and the other coaches.. its this video right here! Other coaches shows THEMSELVES swinging and they are awesome scratch golfers but Shawn shows his students ie Sav n Mu and we can see the immediate impact of his lessons. Great Great Job Guys 👍👍
Thank you Imam! This is exactly what happens when students come to see me and why they come from all over the world! The results are immediate and the instructions are very clear as to what they need to focus on to get them to their next level! 👍😀👌💪 My online lessons have really gone to the next level with COVID; way better than I expected with some fantastic results!
Great video Shawn ,Sav and Moo I’m learning so much from watching all your videos, now I see as a lefthanded golfer how my alignment and targeting the ball has hurt my drives
Loved this. Exactly the errors that I make when I hit it poorly. The concepts taught have helped my body, enjoyment and ball striking immensely. 62years young- thought I had to give up- 'back' great now.
Another valuable lesson from this vid. I normally have a nice draw with my "natural" driver swing. But then people tell me my stance isn't right and I should align my stance to the target. Of course, then I end up losing the draw! For the longest time, I've used alignment rods to line up my feet when practicing and wonder why I lose the draw and my swing feels unnatural. Your explanation, aiming right of the intermediate point and aligning my feet that way makes total sense now. I think this is going to fix a big variability in my swing. Thanks again!
Great stuff as always Shawn and team Awesome! Still trying to put that pause at the top to ensure i am focused on the target rather than the ball... Cheers!
I put this into play and over the last 4 weeks one day a week practicing on a GC2 quad. My driver numbers are the best they have ever been Averages from todays session Ball Speed 153.9 Launch 14.6 Spin 1996 Carry 275.3 Total 303. best drive Ball Speed 164.5 Launch 13.3, Carry 292.3, Total 310.2 I am a 13 index as of the end of last season and been playing for 5 years. Thank you!!!!!!!
Mu's first couple shots really reminded me of shots I struggle with. Of course my swing speed is much slower haha, but now I know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.
Another great lesson, coach. Sav and Mu are brave souls trying to hit it long and straight on camera. If Mu, emulated your pause and load position at the top of the swing it may allow a better kinematic sequence through the ball to the target... he has come a long was since you have been working with him! Well done!!
Thanks Jason! Here is the cool part of it: Because there are no restrictions with Mu’s technique; no nip and tucking, no placing, no being careful, he is developing to his full potential and in about 2 years, will be shooting solidly in the low 70’s and leaving a bushel load on the table with the potential to go very low. CRAZY FUN!!
Jason Velez Thanks for noticing that and watching the videos. I was practicing the hogan stance this afternoon, and I just figured out the pause in the backswing. Safe to say my slices will be a thing of the past very soon 😄 - Mu
@@wisdominmovement you are obviously a solid athlete that has picked up the game quickly. In watching the videos, your progress has been impressive. Keep up the great work! It is awesome to watch your journey!!
OMG! I was thinking about that! I'm right-handed but my backhand is way better than my forehand. When I was younger I was able to switch hit whenever I played Baseball. I need to try switching to left-hand clubs!
Don’t have anyone there yet; I have a good guy in Dallas and another in Palm Springs if you ever make it to those areas...I had fun doing a couple of videos in Albuquerque when I was there for my son’s BMX racing a couple years ago though! Playing at that altitude IS FUN!
Awesome channel, just started watching! Curious, it appears that she has a much stronger grip than he does. Is this something you adapt their swing to, to achieve the desired end result? She obviously has excellent results! I have a strong grip and feel most comfortable this way, but have always been instructed to try and fix it more neutral.
Hogan used an extremely weak left and right hand to help it fade, it was a soft 5 yard fade. Bobby locke was at a par 3 in Vermont with a reporter , he hit as usual a hook into the green as he ha an extremely closed stance with an inside takeaway and closed the face through the ball, he learned golf by reading a bobby jones book. He had a inside attack on the ball more so than jones. The hole was usually played with a fade as there were tall pines guarding the green. The reporter asked him if he could hit a fade, locke replied "let me show you how it's done ". He then stroked 3 immaculate fades from a 45 degree stance. Marvelous how the ball can be worked. Thank you for your great work shawn.
I must say the stance hogan called for opened up for the shoter clubs. The feet for a wedge was open to open up the hips because the swing was much shorter so he surmised the hips needed a head start.
Hi guys, thanks for all the great videos. is that strong grip that Sav has work on all the clubs? that setup at address is so unconventional, I'm afraid If I tried that I would break a hip, lol.
Savanna seems to have a setup with her tilt, arm positions and addrss very much like Moe Norman and/or the "single plane swing" Is that right or I just imagining it?
@@golflessons Very cool! I’m trying to emulate the swing in front of my iPad (on a tripod) reviewing each swing independently and am trying to apply the guidance you give Sav and Mo. I’m hoping over the winter, with numerous trips to the driving range, I can develop a swing with consistent impact, accuracy and distance. Thanks for the videos.
This is something I have been very aware of and I lower the levels to 40% for the music and will bring it down to 20% for the next. Thanks for the feedback!
Shawn, when you setup at 20:30 in this video, to start your drive right off your intermediate point, what does the driver’s look like in relation to the flag? Slightly right or square to the flag?
I used this set up trying to draw my driver on a dogleg left (I’m right handed) but, my ball flight was in a line with my feet. But, it was the longest carry I have ever hit! I just want to figure out how to make make that go in the fairway!
@@JohnBlakeJr hey John! There is a bit more to that; on our premium channel, the vidros you woul want to watch are the “great driver nugget” which has the other camera angle and elaborates on this plus the “diagonal series” for draws and fades-THEN, see “ARC-BLUR UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM SERIES to really feel How to crush it AND IN THE DIRECTION YOU WANT TO CRUSH IT IN. This past 2 seasons, we have had some freaking awesome updates and aha moments on our channel.
As a natural leftie who golf right handed, I always thought of this as a deficit. I guess I can't use that as an excuse for my lousy golf anymore, LOL!
I read the 5 fundamentals at least a dozen times. I could rewrite the book from memory including pictures. Some say Moe carried the book around in his bag . If you compare Savys and Mu's address to your address do you feel they might be reaching out and standing to far from the ball. I'm probably wrong especially when you look at the swings of Bryson Dechambeau and Moe Norman. Yep second thoughts I'm definitely wrong. There is a very noticeable difference. It is very easy to default to the ball . I am certainly guilty of this at times. I picture a levitated soccer ball and the task is to bury the club head into it. Waste height and at my intermediate point "Mu". Excellent drives Savy very impressive. They have me quarantined for a week and it dumped snow on us. Guess I will work on my physical fitness and putting. As always great video. Thank yinz
Exactly! Notice they both have what they need to get through the ball? This is what we continue to strive for; collect from where the ball lies, and release to the direction you want the ball to start with a nice bucket of momentum! 👍😀👌💪
One thing to ALWAYS take into account about the HOGAN swing is he designed it to work after the ACCIDENT(auto) for HIM. And it worked for him to his maximum. I have even heard and read, if you get to handle one of his Golf Museum Clubs with his grips on it OLD clubs, the people who have done so say it was like handling a piece of Rhubar, which is the bar put in concrete, real rough and scratchy but to HOGAN that was his THING. It is just worth considering that HOGAN did some things that maybe do not work for Healthy regular Players. That accident and comeback was one of the greatest in the History of Sports, he was never expected to ever Play especially to the professional level, after that accident. This comment is not meant as any criticism, but it is worth mentioning. Shawn is a GREAT teacher. I would like to know what kind of SCORES, Savannah is shooting these days??, It would be great to see her on the LPGA, esp. being a LEFTY.
Thank you for the great comment! Yes, and because he legs were battered, the average person, especially older than 65 years old, would benefit greatly from the extra range of motion generated from it. And Savy finished the season at a 1.8 index. 😀👍
@@golflessons How ironic I turn 66 on Monday. LOL. I had to look up the index handicap, when I did play we never used that, near as I can tell that means she scores 1.8 to 3.2 birdies per round, she usually plays in the 70's which is really SUPER, but is that Professional level yet? Me I used to usually shoot rounds no matter where I played more or less 78 to 82, so I used to tell people I was a 10 handicapper. I wonder how Savy, and Mo would do hitting my old driver, a late 80's, Hogan series 56 metal small head driver or better yet my old Persimmon driver, and give em the old no.1 ball in golf, the old black box gold letter-balatas. I have let younger players hit that driver at the range and they always say, wow you had to hit that one real precise to get a fairly straightish ball flight. Yup is usually my comment. I remember when callaway 1st came out with the Big Birtha driver. I use to love to push a persimmon beyond that back in the day, that was FUN. LOL.
I just Love this girl sav i have a 10 yo daugther not into golf atm . Sav looks like a very good girl so petite with his father there...hits it so good... i love her
The key here is that we are always getting ready to deliver an action THROUGH the ball and OUT TOWARDS THE TARGET. See “throwing the club shawn clement”
This is a great teaching video but with your method, single plane and stack & tilt methods, no wonder golfers are confused. When I watch Sav down the line her set up looks like single plane.
Single plane cannot exist anatomically; we are not built that way! Just watch footage of Moe Norman hitting shots towards the camera! Down the line swinging away from the camera, it “looks like” single plane; but it’s a visual trick of the tilted brace set up!
@@golflessons I watch you (or Sav really lol) and Todd Graves, because I have a strong grip and swing similar to her so it's the real help. But it's a beautiful thing to watch Todd hit the golf ball too, so consistent while looking effortless.
284 yards - well It would be better to hit it 265 yards 9 out 10 drivers. These drives in the video´s missed left/right is really not easy to play golf with if you don´t know where you misses are. Yes - you can hit couple of long ones, but then long driving would be better, where you can afford big misses :)
@@golflessons Yes - I know you are giving info about this a lot in your video´s. If you hit a bad shot it is because you try to hit the ball, focus on something wrong, etc. But still, good players should know their misses, where in this video looks more that just hit it as long I can, which will give some bad shots
@@rikkelsen this answer just tells me you are still stuck in “I am defective” land. Keep watching our stuff Peter, you will get to a better place soon enough! 😀👍
Looks like Moo On the backswing moves his head way to much . I know that he head does move in swing but looks like he is almost moving his head and looking behind him. Just an observation.
