I got it..just think of driving a nail into a board..2x4..AND..the lower edge of the club becomes a weed cutter..Today I hit THE most beautiful high arching iron shots..and my driver came alive. Playing a course I know .using irons 20-30 yards closer. Just beginning..Thanks Shawn..genius.
The best golf tip I’ve ever had, focusing on hitting 2or 3 inches behind the ball, cutting the daisy. It takes way all the swing thoughts than inhibit your golf swing, and the strike is brilliant. You automatically get your body weight forward without thinking., to get a real crisp contact. No matter how good your technique is or isn’t, most amateur golfers always go back to focusing on hitting the ball and not past it. This drill eradicates that. Gary Wheeler England.
Hi Shawn, I struggled with many inconsistent shots trying your system but then I finally realized that on the back swing your hands are between your right shoulder and the base of your neck. As soon as I started doing this I made much more consistent contact!
Hi Shawn everything you are suggesting the right arm and hand does is 100 percent correct. What you left out in this video; and perhaps others; Is actually what the lead hand wrist motion of the club is in actuality doing to what anyone feels or think it is doing. The answer to this is the lead hand can only hinge the club up and down. Which you have demonstrated on your grip placement of the lead hand in past video. Correct? That is all it can do. With this fact it mind one must absolutely cast the club around the body with the lead hand and arm..This is the absolute truth the lead hand plays in its role of the golf swing. The trail hand and arm in swinging the club provides the circular path the club head must follow on the way to the ball while at the same time the lead hand hinges and cast the club head around the body. So if one simply thinks at the top of the swing. Cast with the lead hand and throw with the trail hand the body will respond naturally to all the rest. Thanks for reading. Was I wrong in anything I said?
Wow! this video and the concept really helps. I feel the weight, I visualize what I want to happen, I pause at the end of my backswing, then just release and let the club and gravity do the work. Once I got it down, I was able to consistently hit the ball much better! Thanks!
Omg i found this out the other day. I was like, " i fixed my swing". I was thinking about shoulder and arm positions way too much. Before the round i said to myself, " dont think about the swing, who cares. Just rip through the ball like its not even there" Low and behold i was striping it once again. I love the grass cutting tool analogy, thats exactly what i was trying to picture in my mind when i was ripping through the ball
good morning Coach Sir .. (it's morning here in Malaysia now..😊) i hv been watch u for years n i hv learnt a lot from ur kind youtube videos, tQ for sharing... at times i go digging (deep divot?) into the ground but i could not identify why .. after watching the video above, i guess as per your highlight, it is that i am kinda leaning forward .. especially when using longer clubs. will try to avoid that in the future. again tQ Sir .. stay safe alwayz..
Grass cut, now I get it, almost flat bottoming of leading edge through grass beginning under bottom of ball. Not lifting up but shallow through maybe 4 inches beyond ball then up!
Hey Shawn, this feeling of cutting through really helps, ball strike is pretty consistent, right now I am training in my backyard using a launch monitor. The only thing is, that my smash factor and distance are quite bad, maybe due to alignment issues?
Hi Shawn. I see without a doubt your "magic trail elbow" is the single gear in the body the gets the rest of the gears in your body to automatically respond to the back and forth directional swinging of your club. Can you feel it? I can. At 72; my swing is now done at a blink of an eye; and by taking dead aim to the target has improved 1000 percent. Cheers
i'm going to try that, it sounds ideal for me.. i practice my swing without a ball and it's good, but on the course with the ball my swing is stiffening up. Thanks!
When your practicing without a ball are you practicing your swing? If you are you're not practicing golf. What I mean is that you should always be practicing getting the ball to your intended target.
Tried this today and loved it, took away all the thoughts of positions. And flushed the ball. Thank you. Is this a good way of me teaching my 8 year old???
Thomas Slagle exactly that. The bottom of the driver clips the top of stem. Get a grass whip if you can. Swish away in your yard and feel the momentum.
i cant understand how they manage to hit the small tee placed four inches in front of the ball. because this means that the swing is somehow 'dragging' those four inches, NOT on a circular path which there would be if one would be "just" swinging back to front "out of the way" Alan could you kindly elaborate on the 'bottoming out ' of the swing for those four-five inches- and is there any simple way to manage it
Hi Shawn, maybe you can shed some light into this. I play SL clubs (Sterling). I have ZERO problems hitting my GW to 8i. But for some reason, when it comes to the 7i and the 6i, consistency and quality of contact suffers badly. They are supposed to be SL, so the same PW swing should work for my 6i right? For reasons beyond me, I really cannot get past this hurdle. Any inputs will be much appreciated! Thanks!!
Salvatore San juan without seeing where it is and how you strike.. you just have to test. The low point is just after the ball. There is a recent video on the channel about striking irons with a tee peg in ground after the ball. That prob will help
Good advice as usual; however, did you know that striking through the ball is the same movement and speed of the right hand and wrist as it strikes down on a match? Female golf instructor Christina Ricci; I believe; is the first to come out with this similarity on You Tube. It works for me and I thought I would share it with you. (Right Handed golfers)
Rather than slicing through, one should imagine that they are trying to smash the ball into the ground, with the face of the club. Due to the shape of the club they will end up making pure contact with great compression. You cannot top the ball with the face of the club, it is virtually impossible. Toping of the ball is nothing else but extremely thin shot, where the bottom (not face) of the club hits the ball. That is how professionals hit the ball.
I get what he's saying but your just replacing one thought with another. If you ask the best players what they were thinking about during their swing they will pause and come up with something to tell you because they want to please the interviewer but in reality they weren't thinking about anything. They have an intention and they try to accomplish it. Not by a swing thought about what the face is doing or what angle something is but by FEEL. It cannot be a swing thought because you cannot consciously think about a swing that is only one second in duration and make changes during that time frame. People do think about their swing as they start but once you get to the top you are locked in and it better be locked in to where you want the ball to end up and not how you're going to make it get there.
I wonder if thats what the pros were doing with having a upside down tee or cigarette in their mouth while hitting balls. Maybe put the tee in the mouth right on the grass between the ball, so you know your head is in the right spot
Are you serious? I am getting a strong tension in the right part of the neck after each practice session (have picked up golf again after a couple of years on break (played off 10,8)) but try to practice almost on a daily basis these days for the part 2 - 3 months. Might be a combination of too much practice and deferred restitution, but I'm sure it's tension I am building up (didn't use to get this tension prior to the break).
Mil Sneler it's braced and more in keeping with the objective. Like skimming a stone or throwing, or chopping an axe or swinging a hammer into a side nail
I thought that sounded odd too. But I guess it drives home the point of swinging low to the target. His swing is very stack and tilt like which I am mostly doing with my irons.
I got it..just think of driving a nail into a board..2x4..AND..the lower edge of the club becomes a weed cutter..Today I hit THE most beautiful high arching iron shots..and my driver came alive. Playing a course I know
.using irons 20-30 yards closer. Just beginning..Thanks Shawn..genius.
The best golf tip I’ve ever had, focusing on hitting 2or 3 inches behind the ball, cutting the daisy. It takes way all the swing thoughts than inhibit your golf swing, and the strike is brilliant. You automatically get your body weight forward without thinking., to get a real crisp contact. No matter how good your technique is or isn’t, most amateur golfers always go back to focusing on hitting the ball and not past it. This drill eradicates that.
Gary Wheeler
England.
Absolutely. Glad you know it well!
A gem to preserve for any golfer. Thank you Shawn. Your example of holding rifle was very enlightening.
More than welcome
Golf instruction is like a target ... always around the center ..of the swing singularity ! Mr Clement is a good entertainer
Great visual with cutting the stem and where to focus the eyes. Thanks much!!!
Hi Shawn, I struggled with many inconsistent shots trying your system but then I finally realized that on the back swing your hands are between your right shoulder and the base of your neck. As soon as I started doing this I made much more consistent contact!
Hi Shawn everything you are suggesting the right arm and hand does is 100 percent correct. What you left out in this video; and perhaps others; Is actually what the lead hand wrist motion of the club is in actuality doing to what anyone feels or think it is doing. The answer to this is the lead hand can only hinge the club up and down. Which you have demonstrated on your grip placement of the lead hand in past video. Correct? That is all it can do. With this fact it mind one must absolutely cast the club around the body with the lead hand and arm..This is the absolute truth the lead hand plays in its role of the golf swing. The trail hand and arm in swinging the club provides the circular path the club head must follow on the way to the ball while at the same time the lead hand hinges and cast the club head around the body. So if one simply thinks at the top of the swing. Cast with the lead hand and throw with the trail hand the body will respond naturally to all the rest. Thanks for reading. Was I wrong in anything I said?
Wow! this video and the concept really helps. I feel the weight, I visualize what I want to happen, I pause at the end of my backswing, then just release and let the club and gravity do the work. Once I got it down, I was able to consistently hit the ball much better! Thanks!
Gem of a video. The perfect medicine for generations of golfers that misunderstood Hogan’s advice on ball position.
Best golf lessons I have ever had so well explained and simplified....thanks
Omg i found this out the other day. I was like, " i fixed my swing". I was thinking about shoulder and arm positions way too much. Before the round i said to myself, " dont think about the swing, who cares. Just rip through the ball like its not even there" Low and behold i was striping it once again. I love the grass cutting tool analogy, thats exactly what i was trying to picture in my mind when i was ripping through the ball
Get yourself to hOme Depot and get one. th-cam.com/video/AbiL1PIsvdk/w-d-xo.html
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Great Stuff! I hate the mind trap of thinking about swing mechanics, but this is much more productive.
That's the idea!
I am hitting more greens in regulation thanks to your teaching. Thank you!
Thank You for all your awesome advice and videos, sir!
Rick Williams check out crap golf academy 😂th-cam.com/video/Ed9VPFJaPJU/w-d-xo.html
What kills me is not how much further I hit the ball , but the “towering” height I get now. Huge , thanks Sean!
good morning Coach Sir .. (it's morning here in Malaysia now..😊)
i hv been watch u for years n i hv learnt a lot from ur kind youtube videos, tQ for sharing...
at times i go digging (deep divot?) into the ground but i could not identify why .. after watching the video above, i guess as per your highlight, it is that i am kinda leaning forward .. especially when using longer clubs.
will try to avoid that in the future.
again tQ Sir .. stay safe alwayz..
Grass cut, now I get it, almost flat bottoming of leading edge through grass beginning under bottom of ball. Not lifting up but shallow through maybe 4 inches beyond ball then up!
Hey Shawn, this feeling of cutting through really helps, ball strike is pretty consistent, right now I am training in my backyard using a launch monitor. The only thing is, that my smash factor and distance are quite bad, maybe due to alignment issues?
What a nice stroke you have,I must try this as I have been topping a lot of balls,which is very embarrassing.Ty
Hi Shawn. I see without a doubt your "magic trail elbow" is the single gear in the body the gets the rest of the gears in your body to automatically respond to the back and forth directional swinging of your club. Can you feel it? I can. At 72; my swing is now done at a blink of an eye; and by taking dead aim to the target has improved 1000 percent. Cheers
Great advice mate. Best I ve seen in some time
Great video Shawn
folks... there is soooooo much here. This guy is talking about what he feels before he hits... this is the key-
i'm going to try that, it sounds ideal for me.. i practice my swing without a ball and it's good, but on the course with the ball my swing is stiffening up. Thanks!
When your practicing without a ball are you practicing your swing? If you are you're not practicing golf. What I mean is that you should always be practicing getting the ball to your intended target.
Tried this today and loved it, took away all the thoughts of positions. And flushed the ball. Thank you. Is this a good way of me teaching my 8 year old???
Fantastic!
Nice video
👍⛳️
Posture, ball position, and head position are definitely "behind the ball" This encourages a right elbow below the left for an inside to through path.
That is one of the best golf visuals I've ever heard of. If you do it with a driver do you just visualize the dandelion as the tee?
I mean the stem
Thomas Slagle exactly that. The bottom of the driver clips the top of stem. Get a grass whip if you can. Swish away in your yard and feel the momentum.
Thomas Slagle check out crap golf academy 😂 th-cam.com/video/Ed9VPFJaPJU/w-d-xo.html
Alan bubblejet, only 23 subscribers? Best golf instructor on you tube 😂😂
Can u explain trail foot or ankle role significance in downswing? When does it lift over?
Great video!!!!! Thank you very much
Good visual thanks
This is a great video,
This has worked amazing for me but my driver is still terribly inconsistent, any ideas!?
Probably ball position too far back and too steep. Also, if you hover before the strike you need to line it up out of toe when it’s on the ground
Hi Shawn, i have a question? At adress, are you watching that space between club and ball with just your left eye? thxs
Also please tell how much extension of the arms needs to be done after impact?
i cant understand how they manage to hit the small tee placed four inches in front of the ball. because this means that the swing is somehow 'dragging' those four inches, NOT on a circular path which there would be if one would be "just" swinging back to front "out of the way"
Alan could you kindly elaborate on the 'bottoming out ' of the swing for those four-five inches- and is there any simple way to manage it
What if a right handed golfer is not left eye dominant? Will it affect the golfer if he tilts his head back the way you do?
It's still going to help the release through
Hi Shawn, maybe you can shed some light into this.
I play SL clubs (Sterling).
I have ZERO problems hitting my GW to 8i. But for some reason, when it comes to the 7i and the 6i, consistency and quality of contact suffers badly. They are supposed to be SL, so the same PW swing should work for my 6i right?
For reasons beyond me, I really cannot get past this hurdle.
Any inputs will be much appreciated! Thanks!!
I would check your ball position and spine tilt. It depends if you are still striking down and through
@@TheArtofSimpleGolf maybe move the ball forward a bit yes?
Salvatore San juan without seeing where it is and how you strike.. you just have to test. The low point is just after the ball. There is a recent video on the channel about striking irons with a tee peg in ground after the ball. That prob will help
Do you shift your legs forward in downswing first before you drop the club?
Find myself overturning my hips on the backswing. Making me lose sight of the ball. Any advice.
Tilt your head at address and don;t over do it.
Do u come from inside in downswing? Can you show in slow motion please?
Good advice as usual; however, did you know that striking through the ball is the same movement and speed of the right hand and wrist as it strikes down on a match? Female golf instructor Christina Ricci; I believe; is the first to come out with this similarity on You Tube. It works for me and I thought I would share it with you. (Right Handed golfers)
Harvey Penick would be proud!
Rather than slicing through, one should imagine that they are trying to smash the ball into the ground, with the face of the club. Due to the shape of the club they will end up making pure contact with great compression. You cannot top the ball with the face of the club, it is virtually impossible. Toping of the ball is nothing else but extremely thin shot, where the bottom (not face) of the club hits the ball. That is how professionals hit the ball.
Is that stack n tilt swing you are using?
He said, “landing like a butterfly with sore feet.” 😂😂😩
:)
Does he turn his hips back more than the conventional pro? Seems to me he does.
Mike Schick yes and yes! It's how we need to move in golf to be powerful and safe on the body
External Focus vs Internal focus.
I get what he's saying but your just replacing one thought with another. If you ask the best players what they were thinking about during their swing they will pause and come up with something to tell you because they want to please the interviewer but in reality they weren't thinking about anything. They have an intention and they try to accomplish it. Not by a swing thought about what the face is doing or what angle something is but by FEEL. It cannot be a swing thought because you cannot consciously think about a swing that is only one second in duration and make changes during that time frame. People do think about their swing as they start but once you get to the top you are locked in and it better be locked in to where you want the ball to end up and not how you're going to make it get there.
Is this video on loan from Shawn Clement?
From way back yes. We did a few videos together too
@@TheArtofSimpleGolf Oh ya? I would be interested in viewing those as I have watched both of your channels.
I wonder if thats what the pros were doing with having a upside down tee or cigarette in their mouth while hitting balls. Maybe put the tee in the mouth right on the grass between the ball, so you know your head is in the right spot
Keeps the jaw neck shoulder muscles relaxed. Don't bite down on the tee.
Are you serious? I am getting a strong tension in the right part of the neck after each practice session (have picked up golf again after a couple of years on break (played off 10,8)) but try to practice almost on a daily basis these days for the part 2 - 3 months. Might be a combination of too much practice and deferred restitution, but I'm sure it's tension I am building up (didn't use to get this tension prior to the break).
Why is this video on your channel?
Did some stuff with shawn a while back
What?
Weird head position.
Mil Sneler it's braced and more in keeping with the objective. Like skimming a stone or throwing, or chopping an axe or swinging a hammer into a side nail
Dandelion stem? Are you joking bro?
I thought that sounded odd too. But I guess it drives home the point of swinging low to the target. His swing is very stack and tilt like which I am mostly doing with my irons.