Marcus Edblad Golf Review - Week 2 - Golf Test Dummy 

Thanks!

Hi from Sweden. This is the first time I have really come to grips with Marcus swing , and the one tip that solved it for me is when you said leave your weight on the back leg until you have hit the ball. And staying there is possible because he has the ball further back in the stance.Thanks ! Look forward to your videos .

This method is a lot easier on the body too!!! At 47 I can hit 100 - 300 balls a day with very little soreness.

I'm glad that I found your site. I have been practicing Marcus's method during the winter with good results but your video explained the setup a lot better. Thanks!

Enjoy your channel...good balance of humor and technical moments. I live in the states and have been subscribed to Marcus' channel for well over a year. You have his swing dialed. Don't forget to stress that Marcus likes to play with the ball back in his stance. I noticed you've nailed that part as well. If possible I'd love to see you film one of your rounds utilizing his push technique. Keep it up....looking forward to the next video!

Your doing fantastic.Ilike your review and your open mind. Sometimes change is good.

Hi Chad, great to see your channel growing and you're still putting so much heart into it! Keep it up! After your review, I watched the videos of Marcus. Thanks for pointing me to this great channel! I had a lot of fun on the range today!

Amazing that you are doing exactly what I am doing with Marcus Edblad instruction. I opened my stance a lot and found it really helped my hip rotation. Put an alignment stick at your heels with your open stance and you will find you are lined up perfectly with your target. I also look at the inside of the ball which to me is 7:30, then move my eyes to the opposite side of the ball which I think of as 1:30. This helps me swing through the ball instead of at the ball. Great channel!

Thanks for this video. It answered my question about weight shift. Good stuff!

Great video! You actually showed the ball position and that helps me know where to place the ball when I practice swing. What about using this swing for wedge shots? Also, I have subscribed to your channel.

I'm so happy you and Marcus are teaming up on this. I have 3 different simple thoughts to hit a golf ball. They all work. Marcus' swing thoughts however have provided more consistency then the other methods and I hit way more draws.

The eye line part at the end really makes sense.. that's the line you want to take your swing on.. WOW awesone This is also alot like the Eureka swing method.

Congrats Chad amigo on the new sponsors or partners. Glad you making it great.

Loving this Chad! I been focusing on the release, especially with the driver..releasing earlier so I can hit up on it has me crushing drives. I’m sure you will be covering that soon. Also, will you be talking more about 24/7 golf? Thanks brother see you in the next one!

It will be exciting to see where this is going. 😁

Thanks Chad for introducing Marcus E. His method really resonates with me! I’ve hit some of my best ever fairway woods since adopting his ideas. Still a bit patchy and discovering the limits but the change has disrupted my tendency to swing weakly over the top! Thanks again 👏😜🙏

Super interested to try the weight on the trail foot/head behind the ball, looking forward to more videos!

Awesome, gone try it. Love it

Chad - A very good video. You have certainly taken to this swing concept - well done.

Nuts and bolts episode. Excellent dissection of Marcus' method. You can tell that you've really thought this through and experimented. Fantastic work!

Thanks for bringing this method to us Chad. I posted this on his last video where he mentions you are testing his methods. "Hi Marcus. Your method has grabbed my attention (I follow Chad GTD). I'm a 60 yr old, 7 handicapper--I haven't played for 4 weeks due to injury. On Friday I swung right with an early release and pumped it 245 meters (no warm-up). My first 4 drives were the same then I started overthinking it. Today I applied your concept to my irons and I birdied 2/4 short holes. I have tried the Steve Pratt/Mike Austen release before, I'm also an avid Channel Lock enthusiast (playing off the trail leg). I've had a lot of success with both but there was always the odd shot I would (under pressure) push straight right. Today I set up with my specific CL stance and then concentrated on the trail hand push and left wrist scoop....aah--what a pleasure to see a 4-iron take off with a sharp crack like an Exocet missile to the right with a gentle draw. The problem is I flew 3 greens today (our best "miss" on our course is always short) because I'm flushing the irons and added 10 meters to each club. What a nice problem to have. Thank you so much. Do you have a website? I want to follow your Mesquite/long driver odyssey...I think you're going to rip it..."

Great to see you so excited ! Marcus is a great teacher. Is this a breakthrough swing for you ?

I played Royal County Down on Thursday with 3 members I hit 12/14 fairways and was the longest drive of our foursome on 5 of the holes I was never ever the longest amongst any four ball until I discovered Marcus I rarely play golf these days but I do hit balls almost every day his method has me hitting it further at 62 than I did 30 years when I first started :)

I believe this Marcus method has over 90 percent of John Hensby’s Channel Lock in it. The only difference is JH taught: 1. To first aim your club head squarely to your ball directly at your intended target and to have your ball more center or closer to your trail foot. 2. Just before you swing the weight of your club over your trail shoulder you should close your lead shoulder to block your target. 3, Swing the weight of the head of the club inward over your trail shoulder and then with your trail hand swing the weight of your club outward extending your trail arm as you allowing your body to unwind automatically. For me Channel Lock works perfectly around the green. And takes about 1&1/3 second Otherwise I simply pull the weight of my club over my trail shoulder then pull the weight of my club under my trail elbow to over my lead shoulder. That’s it! This produces a nice fade for me and is all done in 1&1/3 second. If I need to draw my ball Marcus and or Channel Lock system works great for me as well. Cheers 😃👍⛳️🥂

Love this mate, doing a great job

I LOVE that when you dissect a swing, you DO reset your own brain to zero, experience the swing as Marcus suggests, and explain it in a VERY clear way. Not everyone can abandon years of 'methodology' while giving a different swing philosophy a chance to be heard, understood, and succeed. Excellent video.

8:40, that idea is similar to other great coaches that talk about swinging to the 4:30 line, has helped me tremendously😊

This swing method is great for "experienced" golfers. Feels strange but it works! No holding angles or as much worry about positions. Frees up your swing and let's you focus on the target. Found you can take off some of the draw spin if you need to by starting with a slightly open club face. So much easier on the body with this swing. I too had great success with Mike Austin method and feel this is similar but much easier to hit a draw!

I went back and watched some of the Swing Surgeons old videos. Heavy right, hands start downswing, head behind ball, toe up...a lot of the same swing thoughts as Marcus. Guy was ahead of his time!

Ok Chad...believe this or not, but I started keeping my eyes behind the ball (like you demonstrated) about 2 months ago and you're right...it works! Haven't tried the rest of the Edblad method yet, but it seems pretty similar to what I've done naturally for decades. It seems to help me to keep the trail foot weight on the inside of the foot or on the center. If the weight goes to the outside of the foot, results are not good or consistent. By the way, I like the new backdrop.

Too much thinking about the body for me . Trying to stay external as you mention in other vids . Thanks for your enthusiasm .

Brilliant!! 👍

Marcus sent me here, been watching his videos for a while now. Subscribed!

Just got back from the driving range after hitting a couple hundred balls. I moved the ball back about one inch. For my driver in the middle of my stance and for all other clubs one inch back. The open stance and ball position allows me to swing more in to out. My miss which is a pull draw is gone. Which means I will hit most fairways and greens next week. I will not change anything else especially weight or pivot. My swing is just to repeatable and accurate to change at this point. Thanks Chad and Marcus you guys are stud muffins

This is one of my favourite videos. Having watched many of Marcus's videos recently I am trying to implement his instruction. This video helped clarify many things. 1) weight on back foot. 2) slightly open the stance (this is massive) 3) swing out to right and toe up. I have had some excellent results so far. Ball not travelling as far as I would have hoped, but the shape is certainly getting better. I am usually an over the top swinger and this has helped me tremendously. Let me know if you have any other tips on Marcus' swing.

Really good Chad, Marcus teaches easy to apply practice habits that a lot of average golfers don’t take the time for, hope we see you on the course with his teaching, gonna take me some time going from right hand submissive to right hand releasing for speed

Glad to see your back testing swing methods again. Quick question are you still using Garmin R10? If so not that you have used for quite awhile...... Is it pretty accurate for carry yards to what you hit on the course?

Been working on this (Edblad) for a few weeks within rounds. Works great for my driver. Can't seem to find the right ball position for irons. Good explanation/breakdown on this vid.

backdrop looks so good!!

I'm 71 and I only heard one person say hit with right or trailer hand. I always hit with the right hand and staying behind the ball just seem the natural thing to do. I never told anyone to do this because everyone taught the opposite so I just keep quiet. It's nice to know someone else thinks similar to me, thank you.

It has similarities to Channel Lock swing. Marcus has a lot of videos on YT to view. I have been using his swing with driver for a few months. I didn't happen instantly ,but when I got it, the distance gain was worth it. I am 10 days out from right hip total replacement, so for the next few months once I get back to playing, I will probably revert to JV swing with weight on my good hip. In contrast a senior player with a left hip/ knee issue, might benefit from this swing or channel lock method ( trail side) weighted. For example, my wife tried the JV swing method/ stack& tilt , but it aggravated he left knee ski injury. Thanks for your enquiring mind Chad. I have really enjoyed following your journey, taking up some ideas and discarding some that were not a good fit with what worked for me.

Hi Chad, Clearly, the protocol mechanical geometry principles of the "Channel Lock" swing are endemic in this swing derivation of the Channel Lock swing. What was surprising to me was the fact of you not relating to in any intrinsic detail relative to what I believe is the absolute geometric lynch pin of the swing principal application.. that being the 'trail foot ball position at address/impact'. In order for the weight to remain in the trail vertical body axis coming into.. and at impact .. it is body structure position imperative that the ball is positioned off the trail foot at impact in order for the club path to tack itself in to out at impact with the degree of transversing angularity across the target line at impact necessary to start the ball away from the target line .. and manifest the push draw ball flight.. every time. In order to achieve the degree of in to out/across the target line at impact.. the shoulder girdle must be in a state of closure at impact.. that can never be guaranteed with a forward of body center ball positioning at address/impact.. the ball must be positioned off the trail foot to ensure the shoulder girdle will always be closed at impact.. hence I think that part of the swing foundational structural application is really the 'Atomic Particle' of the swing structure. I know you were clearly doing an 'introduction' explanation of the swing principle and obviously will be doing follow-up videos with more in-depth structural information about the swing .. which I have no doubt the trail foot ball positioning aspect will be a big part of your swing project analysis. I must congratulate you on your new video presentation visuals .. the quality of audio and the picture definition is great.. an indoor setting always helps with sound and visual control consistency doesn't it.. and as always your verbal presentation is clear and concise in explanation..keep up the journey of investigation and learning of all things Golf Swing.. as you and I know only too well .. the Golf Swing will always be a journey of exploration that will have no final destination...which I personally think is the real lure of the journey. cheers JH

Chad appreciate this review as I recently been working on Edblad swing. Through short experience this far am hitting the irons pretty good but struggle with Driver ? Any tips you found helped get more friendly with his Driver method ?

Hey Chad ... would it be fair to say that your ball position favors your right foot vs. the center of your stance? Could be the camera angle. Maybe a chalk line showing the target direction vs. stance and ball position would be helpful to some of us. Thanks for reviewing this technique ... I'm excited to give it my best. =)

Nice added insight very helpful On the downswing does the trail hand dominate and at what point ( before,at, or past impact) does it pass the lead hand ?

His concept is very similar to Steve johnstons eureka golf swing . Feet open..shoulders square..then swing right. Amazing results as well.

Great video!! Now you got me interested in trying. Have your tried it with the driver yet? Also, you still using the M2 or did you switch drivers? I’m currently using the 2016 M2 but looking to make switch with out breaking the bank.

Eager to see this on the course my friend. I played 9 yesterday and went home. I have officially deconstructed my swing at this point. Normally this is when I give up and move on to something else and then wonder a year from now why I am not better. Gonna try to ride this out ( though I said the same thing with One Plane). Something about this one has me intrigued, hope it isn't the accents.

Hey Chad ,Hope Your Well . I Found Marcus an Couple of Months ago and as an Player that has Had 6 knee Surgeries on My Left Knee , Total replacement and 2 revisions ,Still not right Am right Handed this Swing is just Phenomenal for Me ,Just 1 Surgery on right Knee and 65 years Old am just Smoking the Ball and can Draw on command even Hook , Though if I swing too hard get Low Snap Hook , But Brother Marcus is Amazing and Quick to Answer also an Laid Back Gentleman as Are You!

Does this change the ball position?

Hi Chad - Would you mind answering a quick question? I have watched all of your videos on Marcus Edblad and have been down a rabbit hole with his and your channel over the past 4 months. My misses are constantly the push out to the right and its not drawing back to the left. (sounds like you had a similar issue that you highlighted in a video). Is that because my grip needs to be stronger or am I not releasing early enough, which is what you realized? Do you use a slightly strong grip when you hit the draw with this method? I am just trying to figure out the push draw and how to get more of the draw then the push without overcooking it and causing a pull hook so trying to see if its just a grip issue or if my timing of the release needs more practice. Thank you for your help!

Yeah this method is so much simpler and natural than the lag, angels method - lock and load throwing motion in to out. Had to unlearn a lot in changing my swing..

I’m doing this at the moment, gained length and better scores still in the early stages. It suits me as my left knee is screwed.

Interesting! I use part of the Jim Veneto method, this looks totally opposite of his method. I will give it a try if it works to or me I will stay with it as rotation is an issue, as I have foot drop on my right foot. Iam left handed so its my front foot. I like the Jim Veneto method so this will have to work well for me from the start.

I really don't know what swing method I use. It must not be the prettiest because it goes in streaks where total strangers at the range will come up to me and try to correct my swing. Or they say, don't know how you do it but your straight with good distance. I have olny 2 swing thoughts. Compress the ball with forward shaft lean. Keep the face and swing path square to the target through the impact zone.

It worked great right off the bat. I a 61 years old . 6’3 -215 lbs. I have never hit as far or accurate. My question is I understand stand the swing path to the right, but at address is the club face alittle right as well? I have been doing that and the ball seems to go straight most of the time or a little draw. Should I have club face square to target or a little right ? Thanks

Chad, a couple of observations. By promoting the weight on your trail leg you are more likely to have a consistent low point in your swing. This is kind of the opposite of stack and tilt where they keep the weight forward.

How did you figure out to load the weight on the trail side? I've watched so many of his videos and he didn't mention this once. Looking forward to this series as much as I am with a new Lord of The Rings. Riveting content!!!!

You're well on the way to becoming the most interesting golf guy on youtube after that pants promo :-) Kidding aside, I've found that the modern stretch integration in pants is definitely a major plus especially as I've gotten far better at stretching them in general (even without doing much). The swing is looking very good in many respects and you are really slinging the shaft which is one of the main sources of power in the golf swing. It should be possible to easily hit a draw with a swing like Marcus' when hitting off the back foot without your adaptations if you are hitting the ball back in your stance because the club will naturally come from the inside. The reason it's somewhat harder for you and you need the adaptations is because your arm action is different than his (as I mentioned last week) and his is proper. The fact that your trail elbow is travelling so far to the rear of your body and your club is crossing the line a fair bit back there. so the shaft is way out of aligment with your shoulder turn. This is why you need to make adaptations to push the club from inside to outside and this is also what delays getting the trail elbow into your trail side. The ideal leverage swinging from the inside with any given club (but especially a longer club) is going to happen when the trail elbow is immediately starting down into the trail side from the same direction as the arms are swinging. This is why your changes of weight back and head turned to the trail side are necessary (or more so), because that helps you swing from the inside with your disadvantaged arm position and as I said last week it will be harder to use these adaptations with longer clubs because in effect what you are doing is introducing something that allows you to wait in order for the club get in position to be swinging from the inside which the weight back and head position change helps. You will notice that he keeps the arms more in front of his chest, folds the trail arm quickly and gets the club moving up quickly. All of this is keeping the club in synch with the motion of his chest. This means that his arms can naturally swing down from the inside and in synch with motion of his center of chest. The sign that this has happened at the top is that his club is across the line but the shaft is MUCH more in Iine with his shoulders at the top than is yours. The more out of line the club is with your shoulders at the top, the more you will have to wait for the club to get behind your turn, or lose your spine angle, hip depth etc., and especially as the club gets longer. This means power loss with longer clubs particularly and probably with very short ones as well. Study how he is getting the club shaft in line with his shoulder movement during the takeaway and keeping that alignment at the top. It's actually a very tight motion of the trail arm and elbows while he is producing a very large shoulder turn so that the arm motion almost seems short if you examine the path of the elbows. A tight cocking of the wrists combined with this tight elbow motion and a big turn is probably the most effecient possible mechanism for producing power in the golf swing. Many people lose a lot of power through even slight inaccuracies in their arm and wrist motion because the ulitmate power source in the golf swing is being able to accelerate the clubhead immediately from the top with a tight rotational center. As we all know, sometimes less is more and this is definitely often true with the arms and wrists in the golf swing. If you can improve that, you really will have arrived at a very fine swing motion which will work equally well throughout the bag. Shared with the best of intentions. Cheers.

Thanks for the video. I can tell with those karate kicks you're pretty athletic 😜. Would you recommend being able to control low point or impact before trying these methods

could you show ball position by inches from back foot

I LIKE IT!

Hi, Chad, Your new setup looks like channel lock, it works for my short irons but for woods always problem.

Im off 5 and using Edblads swing for my irons Feel and real are different...your rhand release will shift weight naturally to the left heel as you would if throwing a stone. ie Body is reacting here...not the trigger for the swing. Think Fred couples smooth and loose wrists as you takeaway and release and you will get effortless feel. Wait for the swing...feel the clubhead fall..dont hit. Dont be afraid to swing in to out a lot ...and feel rhand has face closed back and through' especially as you drop the club and let it release from hip height...toss the stonw on water!!

Awesome as always! Have you finally found your swing?

this is almost a little Venetos-y but with the ball further back in your stance and using the back foot rather than the front. really interesting.

PLHR. Pre loaded heavy right.... Old school vertical swing thought from Trehan.

RU-vid is at it again, subscribed to your channel as always, bell on for full notification and yet I have to find out about your new content via a different channel. That's terrible.

This violates Jim Venetos setup method, weight over 60/40 over left foot. I'll try, it's logical. Thank you for your devotion.

This is very very similar to the Eureka golf swing...he has a RU-vid channel..focusses on the open stance and in to out swing path 👍

Trying to fix what I’ve been doing wrong for decades can be difficult for this 55 year old. Cool that you can incorporate different swing styles and techniques without missing a beat.

draw target line and swing path please

Do you use the ten finger grips?

Start from Zero....fabulous advice.

How do I order the 5 pocket stretch pants?

I owe you an apology , when I wrote you the last time about your comments on Jim venetos golf swing, I truly believe it is a golf swing for the non athletic person who wants to play golf and have fun . However for the small percentage of people who want to become a true single digit handicap your video’s really do bring s sense of value to the true golfer who can achieve a real low handicap with hundreds if not thousands of hours of practice, I was a 4 real handicap before 2 back surgeries found venetos and it actually brought me back to golf , now after one year I am transitioning back to my old swing and your videos have really helped me along I am going to subscribe to your channel and support you along with venetos. And Marcus Edblad knows the golf swing that’s how I used to swing the club I am finally able to get back to it. Keep up the good work again my apologies. Guy Ghini.

Neutral grip, flat left wrist at top, open stance? Great stuff.

At some point I’d love the see you try Paul Wilson’s “Body Swing”.

The outro comments was probably the best summarization of a mission statement for GTD.

Interesting

It would be nice if you went more in detail in regards to ball position. You can not be like Jimenez or Marcus until you grow a ponytail and buy a mens golfbag. Myrtle beach here I come . Oyea !

I am still struggling finding any additional distance. I see you have found it with your irons. Can you shoot me a note about where you feel this distance is coming from. I am missing something, I am hitting it solid but the ball isn't going any further than normal.

To me this method is like Jim Venetos on steroids. It effortlessly adds power to Jim’s inside to out and down swing and path. I keep feeling like this casting/release early in the downswing is going to cause fat shots, but just the opposite the club hits the ground very shallow for perfect contact. It seems like this swing is a natural evolution to where I was going on my own the whole time. Love it.

Chad- you say by opening up your stance, it promotes a draw. I thought an open stance promoted a fade?

Very interesting but no explanation about the ball position ?

Similar to Jim Venetos, looks great 👍

I don't know, Chad...This approach seems similar in many ways to J.H.'s 'channellock swing': Staying back on the trail side, his 'five-o-clock nose' head position, swinging to 'left field' etc. And opening your stance has the practical effect of moving the ball back towards your trail foot, another aspect of J.H.'s methodology. Am I reading too much into this?

Seems similar to the eureka swing. Open stance. Swing to the outside.

how far back in your stance are you putting the ball ?

There has gotta be something to planting weight off your trail leg and pushing from behind the ball. Marcus consistently hits driver 300+ yards

Isn't this very similar to Tom Lehman's swing where he started open but always hit a draw?

The tilting of your eye line to the right is probably the major reason this is working.

Chad Can I ask you again because you are there …CL? You did try many swing systems but you never tried Channel Lock and low and behold your swing CL I think I remember you took a peak at Channel Lock but I guess it didn’t make sense JH put Channel Lock together years ago for all to use and improve their golfing experience There’s 5 protocols to CL and your using most of them if not all Your camera shots showed you playing the ball off your back foot in some way and when your eyes sees your inside path that’s your channel and the weight on the trail side …yep CL again I’m not sure you’ll agree with me but that’s ok I guys a big Swede is more impressive then a short Aussie The time you could have saved if you’d had checked out more from the little guy from down under Looking forward to seeing more of your great discovery 👍

I tried and tried, the result always the same, hitting fat .As far as I am concern keeping the weight on the trail foot means hitting fat all the time because in this way the bottom of the arc is much behind the ball.Sorry but it does not work for me

what Mr Kipling said!!

It takes a special kind of talent and skill to imitate so many different swing methods and still hit a 6 iron 200 yards down the middle. I doubt there are many "dummies" that could pull that off...by the way, us older people always love the stretch pants.

I have been following Marcus for years. His method is effortless on the body.

Nice job, not really sold on the leaving your weigh on my right side, just for me, that doesn’t work I took lessons, and the dude made work on that and a reverse pivot was created not a good feeling, again that is just me. I switched to Marcus method about 2 months ago, it actually works but yes there is a but, the right arm gets tired, then the brain knows the right elbow is suppose to go up, and it stars creating a whole bunch of bad shots, good thing I have kept my old swing the conventional one. At the end of the day, this is just a simpler take mr. Jim flick and mr. bob toski swing for a life time, the arms are the engine, I like Marcus Simple’s way, I will keep at it, heck I play Dunedin donal Ross course from the back tees and shit a 78, so it does works it just feels weird, especially intentionally swinging out, my brain self corrects at lot, but it works. Just keep the fundamentals, and keep your old swing that you have work on with the teaching pro, this is just what works for Marcus, it might don’t work for you.

He mentioned you on his video.

your ball position looks like it is in line with your trail heel.