Early in the season I was focusing on this and played great. Was hitting my 9 iron 150 in 40 degree weather and smashing drives effortlessly (and way left at times). Somewhere along the way after hitting too many hooks I reverted back and stopped releasing. Really glad I found these videos. I needed them. Ty.
@@huddybozak8803 I’m very big on swinging with soft arms, wrists and shoulders. The hook comes from two things mainly a close clubface at impact(obviously)and hitting the ball off the toe. With the driver a thing called gear effect can greatly dictate what the ball does. Do you consciously try to close the face or just do it.
Love your videos, but am not successful implementing swing changes. How do I initiate the Downswing ? I am always striking the ball with weight on back foot as a right handed golfer.
You aren’t relaxed or soft enough in your body. Especially your wrists, arms and shoulders. If you were relaxed momentum would pull you forward. Did you watch my philosophy video?
My current swing thought with my driver and irons is feeling the Xander Schauffle wide takeaway and letting my body completely rotate to the top of my swing. From there, I almost feel like I pause for a half a second and then just swing down at the ball I don’t like having a downswing thought. It happens so fast that it’s impossible for me to have a conscious downswing thought.
@@toddheugly I’ve never recorded myself before but I can try next time I go to the range. So for some context, I’ve been following the dan grieve short game method for the past month or so. While my short game has improved tremendously, my irons/driver got much worse. Every shot I hit was a weak push-cut. I think my arms have been pinned to my body too much because of all my chipping with a towel under both arm pits. So in an effort to free up my arms with my longer clubs, I decided to feel my chest and shoulder initiate my takeaway. And I rehearsed the Xander and Rory takeaway move before each shot. By using this feel as well as reminding myself to complete my backswing, my distance and shot shape improved tremendously. One of my bad tendencies is to not complete my backswing, and my transition gets super quick and I spin out. Causing a pretty bad slice/push-cut. So these feels and swing thoughts have been helping me out. Also almost all of my iron practice at the range is a 9 to 3 swing or L to L.
@@brianschultz7320 there are a lot of ways to play and we have completely different philosophies on the swing and short game. Unfortunately the towel under the arms concept has ruined more players than I can count. Sooner or later shanks creep in the full swing and short game. I sincerely hope that doesn’t happen with you. That is years and years of teaching and seeing golfers regress from that concept not just a blind comment. For some reason it affects their body moving into the ball . Distance going up with straight body rotation will not happen that’s why I would love to see your swing and what that feeling is doing to your swing. The arms and wrists with the body acting as a stabilizing force creates the bulk of your speed. It is close to 88% from the studies AMG, Tony Luczack, a local Golf Lab and Mike Bender conducted. When they isolated the arms and wrists as much as possible it was still 70-75% of swing speed. Have you been on a launch monitor to check your previous carry numbers and speed as compared to now? Those numbers would be very cool to know, I love talking the swing with data and metrics involved. What is your handicap?
