Lesson #2

Hey Scott! Here’s your swing before the start of our 2nd lesson. You said you were hitting the ball much better already which is awesome! The theme of this lesson was the pivot and how to move your body in a manner that will allow you to hit the ground more consistently and in the same spot.

These videos were working towards moving your shoulders and hips back and through with minimal lateral weight shift. The idea is to anchor our body’s center of mass to a certain location in the stance and then rotate the hips and shoulders back and through while maintaining the anchor point.

Here’s the end result as a slow motion swing. Most of your practice should be slow motion so that the changes can really show up and last. Full speed overrides any new movements we may be trying to accomplish.

Here’s another swing from before the lesson from what we call the down-the-line view. Just want you to have these videos for a reference of the before and after swings.

In this video we added a squatting action to start the down swing in order to clear the hips and create room for the hands to swing through. So a nice blend of turning shoulders/hips back and then squatting and swinging down. Once the club reaches the delivery position you beginning pushing off the ground to straighten the lead leg and clear the hips.

This is a great drill to condition your body for all your weight to finish on the lead side. This helps a lot with short game too! Encourages a steeper angle of attack into the ball so you get a better chance at ball first contact and it moves your body’s center of mass ahead of the ball.

Probably the first draw ball flight I’ve seen you hit! You can hear the better contact as well. Very good job!