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Mike is a big guy at 6’3” and 230 lbs., and he is as solid as a rock with a muscular chest and large upper arms. For a person built like Mike who is not already an excellent player to have a decently correct swing that meets the ball with the hands forward on iron shots simply cannot have a long backswing that doesn’t get to that length without multiple errors, such as what you see here, wildly overactive legs in the backswing along with bent arms and a ton of right shoulder pull back. Feeling the legs stay “in the hip box” in the backswing is going to feel highly restricted, while extending the arms back without over bending them makes it feel impossible to get the left arm much past parallel to the ground, which in turn feels almost powerless for someone who has never truly compressed an iron shot. In the video I go quickly through the first swings of the day in Mike’s 6 lessons to see what progress he makes each time with his leg movement in the backswing. As you will see, this is not easy: even as he is focused on bracing the right leg and limiting the overall movement of the left, we still see the same problem, although the good news is that we see it slowly improving. By the last lesson he is doing a much better job staying in the box; however, now the issue is going to be moving out of the box in the forward swing in order to transfer enough pressure to the left foot to be in good position to deliver a descending blow to his shots off the ground. The last swing you will see came after a discussion about sidearm throwing, and how he can make his more compact move feel powerful with an athletic sequence that feels natural.
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