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Nick is an aspiring club professional working in New Hampshire in the summer who comes down to Florida to see me about once a year, which is not optimum but certainly better than not coming at all. He, like a lot of the good players you see on the website, has a fluid and athletic swing with technique problems that keep him from hitting the ball with consistent contact and direction. Right away in the first swings we filmed I noted that he had the clubface really shut going back, which jams his left shoulder up and hinders his upper left arm from driving in front of his chest on the downswing, which in turn does not allow his hands to move past the ball and forward lean the club enough at impact. In addition, he backs well away from his starting position by the time he gets to impact, which causes his left arm to straighten early and flip out away from his body through the impact area. We do some segmented swings starting with the toe of the club more up at shaft parallel in the takeaway, and then some hands on work as I place a shaft behind his neck to keep his head out over the ball in the downswing. In the 6 hours we worked I tried to bounce back and forth between the backswing, the transition, and the impact area as we had issues in every section, then kept trying to combine the ideas and feelings into workable motions. Changing a pattern like Nick’s is quite difficult, but he left with a better understanding of how his swing was functioning and what he had to do to put multiple new feelings into play.
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