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I started playing golf competitively in grade 10, and by grade 12 I chose to play golf over hockey. I have been the number one on my school team since I was a sophomore. I had a pretty good season last season recording a scoring average of 75.6. It continued into the summer I played in some good events, and posted some decent scores however it is rare that I post very low numbers. At the end of the summer I went to see a new coach to produce some lower numbers, I saw him once and then couldn’t get back to see him before the end of the summer and got caught in between two swings. I ended up getting the club very underneath on behind me coming back. So lately I have been working on keeping the club in front of me coming back.
As you will see in the video Matt has done a nice job with his backswing, but really should be focusing more on his transition and forward swing. I don’t mind Matt’s somewhat laid off position at the top, but it is imperative for him not to then drop his hands straight down but rather to move the grip back out toward the ball or even above it. I do a side by side with Daniel Berger, who has a much stronger grip but has a very similar backswing to Matt and gets the shaft laid off at the top. Berger then moves his hands well out in the first 6 inches of transition before he begins to supinate the left forearm, which then begins to make the hands descend and pulls the shaft from its overly flat position and steepens it onto the correct approach plane and around to the left through impact. Matt will feel like he is “coming over the top” when he tries this, but if the shaft leans back the right amount he should find that he is no longer “stuck”. The overall idea is for Matt to feel like he is going to throw the club sidearm from the top, which is not possible with the hands dropping straight down. His left arm needs to feel pulled around by his pivot instead of pulling itself down his chest, a move that is even more important given his laid off top of the swing position. He could try to plane the club more perfectly in his backswing, but I think it will be much more beneficial to learn to change his hand path starting down instead of repositioning the shaft.
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