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Richard is one of my oldest friends in golf, and we have been working together for almost 40 years. He has always struggled with keeping his posture and hip depth during the swing, and the amount of time he has spent working on it and the results you see here tell you how difficult it is to change something that has produced decent results over time. Richard is 76 now and can shoot his age, but his goal has always been to swing correctly and strike the ball with authority. He has always been an early extender but was able to create speed and something approaching consistency by swing hard with his arms while he was jumping up out of his posture. What has caused the most problems are his tendency to steepen the shaft from P4 to P5 and being a big Hogan fan, he has tried to get the feeling of the sidearm throwing motion that Hogan pictures in The Five Lessons. Here we see how Richard’s trigger to start the swing sits his weight back toward his heels and pulls his upper body back, flattening his shoulder turn and making it unlikely that he will have his right arm and shoulder positioned to move the upper arm down and forward with supination and external rotation as a low sidearm throwing motion would require. It also levels his pelvis, not a good thing for someone prone to driving his right leg toward the ball in the downswing. In the video I do some hands-on work to get Richard to feel the tilt of his upper body and pelvis stay intact at the start of the swing so that he can have a possibility to maintain or increase it in the downswing. A big problem is Richard’s feeling that when this is done correctly there is no speed to be had, as he is used to flinging his arms at the ball as he stands up into impact.
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