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Thought id share a story from a range session last night
Was asked by a fellow member at my club to have a look at his swing. He's a young guy, flexible and hits the ball OK at times but he's inconsistent. Now im by no means a teacher but I changed 1 thing for him last night and it was like a revelation so i thought I would share it and get y'all comments
First off setup. He was tilting away from the ball so that his right shoulder was way lower than the left. His elbows were also pointing at each other rather than to the hips (a la Hogan) so we changed that too. From here he had a very hands led takeaway and a lift of the arms to the top. This whole procedure got his right shoulder dropping down bringing the club really flat initally followed by this lift which meant he straightened his right knee and lost all his coil
So I had him setup with level shoulders and told him the importance of a simple shoulder led coil stressing how VITAL it is for the shoulders to turn level (id never really thought about this myself for a long time until I saw this guy last night) Obviously inn reality, the trail shoulder might be a bit lower, because the trail hand sits lower on the club, but I had him really work hard to ingrain a feeling of level (which felt weird to him)
Now all I had him do was a level turn of the shoulders to coil into his braced right knee and get his left shoulder behind the ball. No hand movement, no arm movement. No lifting, no concsiois wrist hinging. His backswing immediately looked a world better, triangle maintained until waist height, right elbow and wrists hinging naturally, and even better (as he said himself) it felt far far easier to keep the flex in his right knee and thus his spine angle since as this was a LEVEL turn and not a shoulder dip or arm lift he wasnt moving hios body up or down. He said himeself he now felt the coil into his right side and we could see by simply placing a club across his shoulders how the level turn had been maintained
From this new top of swing position all he had to do was kick his right knee in a bit and then then turn/swing hard with his hips and chest (following the feeling that the grip end stayed pointing at the belly button through impact)
Well booom ! Once he had the concept down he was drilling 4 irons 200+ yards. Magical stuff. Needless to say he offered to buy me a few cold ones which I gleefully accepted!
Im not planning to move into teaching anytime soon but I thought for those people who dont know how to coil properly this would be a good tale
Appreciate any thoughts on a level shoulder turn and its importance from the resident experts (Ian, Greg etc) .. esp in case the lad shoots 150 in the next medal and comes looking for me
Was asked by a fellow member at my club to have a look at his swing. He's a young guy, flexible and hits the ball OK at times but he's inconsistent. Now im by no means a teacher but I changed 1 thing for him last night and it was like a revelation so i thought I would share it and get y'all comments
First off setup. He was tilting away from the ball so that his right shoulder was way lower than the left. His elbows were also pointing at each other rather than to the hips (a la Hogan) so we changed that too. From here he had a very hands led takeaway and a lift of the arms to the top. This whole procedure got his right shoulder dropping down bringing the club really flat initally followed by this lift which meant he straightened his right knee and lost all his coil
So I had him setup with level shoulders and told him the importance of a simple shoulder led coil stressing how VITAL it is for the shoulders to turn level (id never really thought about this myself for a long time until I saw this guy last night) Obviously inn reality, the trail shoulder might be a bit lower, because the trail hand sits lower on the club, but I had him really work hard to ingrain a feeling of level (which felt weird to him)
Now all I had him do was a level turn of the shoulders to coil into his braced right knee and get his left shoulder behind the ball. No hand movement, no arm movement. No lifting, no concsiois wrist hinging. His backswing immediately looked a world better, triangle maintained until waist height, right elbow and wrists hinging naturally, and even better (as he said himself) it felt far far easier to keep the flex in his right knee and thus his spine angle since as this was a LEVEL turn and not a shoulder dip or arm lift he wasnt moving hios body up or down. He said himeself he now felt the coil into his right side and we could see by simply placing a club across his shoulders how the level turn had been maintained
From this new top of swing position all he had to do was kick his right knee in a bit and then then turn/swing hard with his hips and chest (following the feeling that the grip end stayed pointing at the belly button through impact)
Well booom ! Once he had the concept down he was drilling 4 irons 200+ yards. Magical stuff. Needless to say he offered to buy me a few cold ones which I gleefully accepted!
Im not planning to move into teaching anytime soon but I thought for those people who dont know how to coil properly this would be a good tale
Appreciate any thoughts on a level shoulder turn and its importance from the resident experts (Ian, Greg etc) .. esp in case the lad shoots 150 in the next medal and comes looking for me
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