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John has made great strides with his swing over the years we have been working together (mostly online) but now that he has acquired a place in Florida, we have had a couple of in person lessons in which I have been able to get John to feel things that not hard to mention and explain online but are not easy to feel without some hands on, face to face work. Here we find John’s head backing well away from its original position as he arrives at impact, and to get him to feel what it’s like to stay out over the ball I manually press a shaft against the back of his neck and push forward to force him to hit a few without backing up. Not surprisingly, he hit most of these shots fat, but immediately felt the difference and the difficulty in doing so. We also saw that John’s hands were not quite up to the ball at P6, and that he could improve the way he compresses the ball with his irons if we could give his transition more time to add a second stretch to the muscles of his upper left side by easing up on the pace of his backswing. It’s an old trick to put something behind the clubhead at address to give some resistance to the takeaway to slow it down, and in this case, I used the short shaft I usually use between the feet to keep the hips deep in the forward swing to give John something to push away as he starts his swing. The difference was noticeable, and John felt right away that the change in backswing pace did what we wanted and got him to feel that the change of direction at the top had more time to allow the lower body to lead and to give the upper that secondary stretch that you see so evidently in players like Xander Schauffle and Dustin Johnson.