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Jordan stopped by when he was in the DC area to watch the ACC basketball championship (we don’t always get these posted right away as you can see- this was 2 months ago), and spent a total of 3 hours on two different days. He is a good player and wants to compete at a high level as an amateur, and as you can see he is a strong, athletic swinger of the club. His goal in coming for help was to learn about his swing and to see if he could improve his overall ball striking, especially with the irons under pressure. In Jordan’s initial swings I noted posture that was balanced toward the heels, then a trigger move that shut the face going back and affected the right arm motion all through the swing. The end result was an impact that was forward leaning but unable to sustain as his body movement took him well out of his hip box, with too much lateral movement and not enough rotation, a common result of starting in the heels and moving toward the ball during the swing. Also, partly due to the shut clubface and partly just a common tendency, Jordan overturns his right upper side getting to the top, lifting and pulling the upper arm back behind him as he heads into transition. After improving the posture (a key element not to be discounted) we focused on stop and go swings and punch shots, working on starting the swing without twisting the face closed while setting the wrists more neutral instead of the left wrist being bowed. We encouraged a bit of right loading and a deeper set of the right side of the pelvis, and then tried to feel the body open up through the hitting area instead of sliding forward, something made much easier by starting with his balance more toward the balls of his feet at address and working back into the right and then the left heel. He was thus able to stay more in the box with his hips and as you will see produce a far better release action.
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