I videotaped my swing as you suggested in another video. On my practice swing, My hip turn was good, the shoulder turn was good and the club head was close to my head. On the actual swing with the ball it was SIGNIFICANTLY shorter. Almost like I was worried I’d lose sight of the ball. Never knew that I did that until I got it on video. Got something else to figure out😂
Yes! So important to video the swing. Almost 100% of the time it looks DIFFERENT with the ball vs practice. Why? Because theres a consequence....and your brain goes back to patterns you built. Need to EXAGGERATE the opposite of the issue until it looks how you want on video. Then repeat that often....frequency over duration. 10 minutes per day 6 days per week would be much more effective than 1 hour once per week
Hey Eric, Love your videos. This is a great lesson. I have a tendency to cross over the line at the top of the swing. Though it is done by a ‘waggle’ of my wrist at the top of the swing, as opposed to taking it back too far inside/over rotating shoulders. I can’t find any videos online that address this. Do you have any tips/drills or training aids that might help this? Appreciate you!
How should I think about taking my grip with the “tilt, turn, tilt” guidance? I am tilting, checking (right hand, right knee check) and then taking my grip with my right hand. Feels sort of like that’s changing my grip and I can’t tell if that’s good/bad. Thoughts?
Cant say for sure Neil without seeing...but you SHOULD be able to add tilt and keep the grip the same. If anything it would "strengthen it"...so perhaps it was too weak....
Eric I have a Titleist TSI driver and I have it adjusted for a draw, but the course that I have been playing requires me to shape the ball. Should my driver be set a more neutral setting if I need to shape the ball with a adjustable driver?
Hey Kevin Unless you are regularly shooting under par I WOULD NOT shape it off the tee Own one curve We have lots of videos on this on our site too long to go through all the details here as to WHY
As someone who tends to hook my driver (too in to out), would feeling like getting that left shoulder more up and left neutralize my club path on the downswing?
One of my biggest problems is hitting it left...straight left...with keeping the trail shoulder back and underneath do you think, with a neutral grip that would produce a draw
That sounds like it would help I would need to see your swing on video first. 1. Ball position may be too far forward 2. Shoulder may be too open at setup 3. Backswing could lack torso turn and depth 4. Downswing could be too far out and over the top Could be a few other things as well Consider www.cogornogolf.com you can send in your videos there and we can work together!
Hey John! From the DTL view, the trail shoulder would be more or less right on the toe line at impact. This will vary a little bit of course player to player👍
Hi Eric. Thanks for the video. I also struggle with driver particularly heel shots which gives me a left to right flight and not very far. Any thoughts? Rgrds
Hey Juan! No immediate thoughts. Could be several things...I would need to see your swing on video. Consider joining www.cogornogolf.com you can send in your swings there for us to see!
Question, I’ve been working on a lot of stuff with your videos, I do have an issue with wider stance though, when I try to incorporate it, I have a hard time getting off my back foot which what I feel makes me swing more with my upper body, like your bad on this video? Really love your videos and recommend to all my friends eventually I’m going to join your site, once I get in a better financial state! But help or video on the back foot would be awesome! Thank you
Appreciate it! Perhaps the answer for you is to NOT have a wider stance. That can be OK. Would love to have you on the team---will help my ability to answer A LOT when I can see your swing on video!
I noticed in both Tiger & JT’s swings that their hips have great rotation, but their shoulders are not as open, which would keep the club face from being open at contact, if I’m not mistaken. Am I correct, Eric?
Hey Dave! You are correct in that they have a bunch of hip (pelvis) rotation Also correct that their shoulders are more square...but much more tilted While their shoulders appear "square ish " their ribcage is open a bunch. The shoulders look more square bc of left shoulder retraction. In reality their torso is open. How that effects club face is a longer discussion thats not so black/white.
Hey Brad! For sure.... If you are talking backswing here are some: th-cam.com/video/d1YMt63QiuE/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/ZbPr0FjLEn8/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/fifX8ApwiBk/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/6quQa2Wr0bY/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for watching! At P6 (shaft last parallel) with an iron, your hands should be about in front of your trail thigh with the butt of the club CLOSE to the ball line. Same concept with the driver but the butt of the club is further away from the ball line simply because the ball position is up farther in the stance. Iron ball position = lead eye to lead ear Driver ball position = under the lead armpit Hope this helps!
How can you throw the club with that thing these tutorials are driving me nuts. Use the hands , don’t use your hands Come on Eric lets have some consistency with your tips. I’ve just gone back to you, now you promote this gimmick. Is the ad a good earner. Please stay with the good lessons.
Thanks for your feedback, David! I think if you watch this it will help clear up some things. OF COURSE you need to throw.....but what % throw at the right time? Less then 10% perhaps. 90% throw too early. So its not as though they dont throw it need to happen LATER....which requires exaggeration. "Using the hands" or "not" is not black and white. The micro matters. What the player needs to FEEL depends on what they are currently doing. If you listen thoroughly to the videos you should hear/see this Thank for the support! Please watch these: th-cam.com/video/Nwz6Yrr9SrI/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/bnNsbWgUjFw/w-d-xo.html
"Throw the drunk off". Imagine a drunk guy to your right puts his arm around your left shoulder and you "throw' his arm off by quickly turning your left shoulder behind you.
Eric, you sure have a great grasp on the details of the golf swing as well as an excellent communicator.
Thanks for the support and kind words, Peter! Appreciate you watching!
This video is tremendous. My driving has improved dramatically by applying the tips you suggest! Thanks much and keep up the good work.
Glad to hear this! Our pleasure!
I videotaped my swing as you suggested in another video. On my practice swing, My hip turn was good, the shoulder turn was good and the club head was close to my head. On the actual swing with the ball it was SIGNIFICANTLY shorter. Almost like I was worried I’d lose sight of the ball. Never knew that I did that until I got it on video. Got something else to figure out😂
Yes! So important to video the swing. Almost 100% of the time it looks DIFFERENT with the ball vs practice.
Why?
Because theres a consequence....and your brain goes back to patterns you built.
Need to EXAGGERATE the opposite of the issue until it looks how you want on video.
Then repeat that often....frequency over duration. 10 minutes per day 6 days per week would be much more effective than 1 hour once per week
Best teacher on youtube!! These tips straightened me out today and gave me valuable tools to asses my swing.
Thanks Stan! Glad this one helped!
Hey Eric,
Love your videos. This is a great lesson.
I have a tendency to cross over the line at the top of the swing. Though it is done by a ‘waggle’ of my wrist at the top of the swing, as opposed to taking it back too far inside/over rotating shoulders. I can’t find any videos online that address this. Do you have any tips/drills or training aids that might help this?
Appreciate you!
Thanks Benjamin!!
I think this one will help a lot👊
th-cam.com/video/blRvE5t5GL0/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Another video of yours that i put in practice and got immediate results. Thank u so much.
Love to hear this!
How should I think about taking my grip with the “tilt, turn, tilt” guidance? I am tilting, checking (right hand, right knee check) and then taking my grip with my right hand. Feels sort of like that’s changing my grip and I can’t tell if that’s good/bad. Thoughts?
Cant say for sure Neil without seeing...but you SHOULD be able to add tilt and keep the grip the same. If anything it would "strengthen it"...so perhaps it was too weak....
Eric I have a Titleist TSI driver and I have it adjusted for a draw, but the course that I have been playing requires me to shape the ball. Should my driver be set a more neutral setting if I need to shape the ball with a adjustable driver?
Hey Kevin
Unless you are regularly shooting under par I WOULD NOT shape it off the tee
Own one curve
We have lots of videos on this on our site too long to go through all the details here as to WHY
Hi Eric.
Great lesson as always.
Just had to tell you that I bought The Hanger as I wasn't squaring the club face,
Awesome!
Many thanks.
James.
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Love it, James! Let me know if you have any questions with it----I absolutely love it!!
Just started struggling with driver, going to put this into practice, thanks
Hope it serves your game well!
Absolutely best help videos around. You could not simplify it any better.
Appreciate that, Robert!
Best golf instruction on TH-cam. I’m striking the ball so much better and my scores are coming down. Thanks for another great video!
As someone who tends to hook my driver (too in to out), would feeling like getting that left shoulder more up and left neutralize my club path on the downswing?
Yes! And feels hands working more UP AND LEFT past impact
Arms lower and more around you in follow through
Eric, can you offer any drills to help golfers get better at aiming the club - make center of driver hit the ball.
Hey Dale!
You may enjoy checking out these videos!
th-cam.com/video/FpLz31nhJ_s/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/DWB0Y-mjsl8/w-d-xo.html
One of my biggest problems is hitting it left...straight left...with keeping the trail shoulder back and underneath do you think, with a neutral grip that would produce a draw
That sounds like it would help
I would need to see your swing on video first.
1. Ball position may be too far forward
2. Shoulder may be too open at setup
3. Backswing could lack torso turn and depth
4. Downswing could be too far out and over the top
Could be a few other things as well
Consider www.cogornogolf.com you can send in your videos there and we can work together!
Great video Eric..tons of great stuff to work on..just need to work on lag..a little more thanks for the help
Thanks, Edward!!
Great video, I can't wait to try it !
Thanks Ernesto! Hope this one helps your game!
Is the right shoulder behind the toe line at impact?
Hey John! From the DTL view, the trail shoulder would be more or less right on the toe line at impact. This will vary a little bit of course player to player👍
Can't wait for the next course vlog! 💪
Thanks June!
Can this training aid be used with the driver?
100%
Great video, saved it in library
Thanks!
Hi Eric. Thanks for the video. I also struggle with driver particularly heel shots which gives me a left to right flight and not very far. Any thoughts?
Rgrds
Hey Juan!
No immediate thoughts.
Could be several things...I would need to see your swing on video.
Consider joining www.cogornogolf.com you can send in your swings there for us to see!
Is it the same feels for irons?
Less of each!
Question, I’ve been working on a lot of stuff with your videos, I do have an issue with wider stance though, when I try to incorporate it, I have a hard time getting off my back foot which what I feel makes me swing more with my upper body, like your bad on this video? Really love your videos and recommend to all my friends eventually I’m going to join your site, once I get in a better financial state! But help or video on the back foot would be awesome! Thank you
Appreciate it!
Perhaps the answer for you is to NOT have a wider stance. That can be OK.
Would love to have you on the team---will help my ability to answer A LOT when I can see your swing on video!
@@CogornoGolf I agree working toward that for sure!
Excellent coaching
Appreciate it!
I noticed in both Tiger & JT’s swings that their hips have great rotation, but their shoulders are not as open, which would keep the club face from being open at contact, if I’m not mistaken.
Am I correct, Eric?
Hey Dave!
You are correct in that they have a bunch of hip (pelvis) rotation
Also correct that their shoulders are more square...but much more tilted
While their shoulders appear "square ish " their ribcage is open a bunch. The shoulders look more square bc of left shoulder retraction.
In reality their torso is open.
How that effects club face is a longer discussion thats not so black/white.
One of the best I’ve seen!
Thank you!!
What do I do if I don’t have the flexibility to turn past the ball with the butt end of the club?
Just max out as far as YOU can, that's the most important part!👍
As for thought mechanism: I like the trail shoulder back; then "digging into" the spot of impact.
Just saying
Yep!
Great explanation Eric tx!
Thanks, John!
Eric, can you make a video talking about a hand path that is too vertical and disconnected from the chest?
Hey Brad!
For sure....
If you are talking backswing here are some:
th-cam.com/video/d1YMt63QiuE/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/ZbPr0FjLEn8/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/fifX8ApwiBk/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/6quQa2Wr0bY/w-d-xo.html
@@CogornoGolf Thanks! Trying to figure out fixes and causes of too vertical of a hand path. Disconnected from chest.
Those fixes and causes lie within the videos I linked
@@CogornoGolf Thanks! These helped immensely.
Very helpful. Thank you.
You got it!
Always spot on. Golf is a work in process. Thanks big man!
100%
Does it work for lefties?
Yes!
@CogornoGolf thank you. It's worth a try.
Should the butt of the club be level with the ball just as you would do with the irons just before impact? Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
At P6 (shaft last parallel) with an iron, your hands should be about in front of your trail thigh with the butt of the club CLOSE to the ball line. Same concept with the driver but the butt of the club is further away from the ball line simply because the ball position is up farther in the stance.
Iron ball position = lead eye to lead ear
Driver ball position = under the lead armpit
Hope this helps!
Solid Video !
Thanks!
Sound advice !!!
Thanks!
I swear Eric always knows what I struggled with in my last round and puts out a video about it the next day. Stop stalking me bro!
Lol
I got ya covered, Steve :)
Me too, especially since every aspect of my game needs help.
Not enough grunting on your driver swing.
😉😎
gotta work on that :)
video starts at like 3 min, these inbuilt cogorno ads are getting longer by the week
He’s gotta pay the bills my guy.
Thanks for watching!!
How can you throw the club with that thing these tutorials are driving me nuts. Use the hands , don’t use your hands Come on Eric lets have some consistency with your tips. I’ve just gone back to you, now you promote this gimmick. Is the ad a good earner. Please stay with the good lessons.
Thanks for your feedback, David!
I think if you watch this it will help clear up some things.
OF COURSE you need to throw.....but what % throw at the right time?
Less then 10% perhaps.
90% throw too early.
So its not as though they dont throw it need to happen LATER....which requires exaggeration.
"Using the hands" or "not" is not black and white. The micro matters. What the player needs to FEEL depends on what they are currently doing.
If you listen thoroughly to the videos you should hear/see this
Thank for the support!
Please watch these:
th-cam.com/video/Nwz6Yrr9SrI/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/bnNsbWgUjFw/w-d-xo.html
"Throw the drunk off". Imagine a drunk guy to your right puts his arm around your left shoulder and you "throw' his arm off by quickly turning your left shoulder behind you.
Love it...sounds like a Brian Manzella ism! I remember him saying something like toss someone off your shoulder....good visual!
This is just stupid.
Thanks for your feedback, Ian!