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John decided to come to Florida to see me in person after seeing his last video lesson from a month or so ago. He has worked hard on changing his swing but there are too many issues to concentrate on, and the pattern that has been ingrained is a particularly difficult one to alter. Our first issue is John’s takeaway, which triggers with a tightening of both arms and a pull back of the upper body. We want to quiet his first move by keeping his elbows soft and utilizing the upper trunk to move the arms back instead of rotating the left arm outward and pinching the right elbow in. Changing a trigger is a tough deal and requires a lot of focus and concentration, and that is only the beginning of what John needs to do to get his swing to be where he would like it to be. John also tends to slide his hips a bit to the right going back, another item to try to fix up. We work with stop and goes to practice hitting with the backswing changes, also raising the grip up at address to make it easier for him to swing the hands and arms more deeply across his chest getting to P3. You can see in the last drills that John is getting the idea of right arm position at the top, but even then, he demonstrates the tendency to pull the right shoulder back to increase his turn as he gets to P4. I prove the importance of right arm motion in a swing where I crouch behind John and stop his right arm while giving it a gentle push forward in transition. This swing looks amazingly different, but as golf is not a team sport he is going to have to be able to do this on his own. The hope is always that by getting the concepts correct, and then getting the positioning and feel for the motion that he will be able to practice more effectively and eventually see some real positive change.
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