Lesson #1

May 12th 2021

In our first lesson, we identified that your takeaway and your position at the top of your back swing was causing a number of timing “compensations” throughout the downswing which was leading to a lot of pulled shots and just overall inconsistent strikes. We decided it would be best to try and rebuild your back swing in a more neutral and controlled manner. In the video and pictures above you can see the severe under to over loop your current back swing creates which results in a swing direction moving a lot to the left through the hitting zone. When the swing direction is that far left you will only get pull shots and slice shots depending on the face position.

Here’s the drill we worked on to get the takeaway feeling more neutral. The old takeaway you were rolling your arms to the right too much (think both hands on steering wheel and turning hard to the right) where in the new takeaway you want to exaggerate a new feel by turning the forearms the opposite way, to the left, so that the reality is actually somewhere between the 2. In addition to that feeling you want to practice getting the shaft of the club in like with your toes by the time it reaches parallel to the ground with the club face matching your spine angle as shown in the picture above. You also had a tendency to aim your body, aka feet/hips/shoulders way to the right so work on keeping your alignment in check by using a club or stick to help you line up parallel to it.

You made a couple small swings with a ball after working the new takeaway feels and even tho the results weren’t great the motion was a whole lot closer to that ideal neutral plane line. The reason the results weren’t great right away is because the downswing plane hasn’t had nearly enough time to adapt and change relative to the backswing plane. Refer to the video below to see Tiger in slow motion and look for these similarities between his swing and what we’re currently working towards.