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Scott drove down to Maryland all the way from Boston at the suggestion of Nick Antonelli, a professional that I gave a couple of lessons to in Florida last spring. As you will see in the video of Scott’s initial swings he set up with his hands extremely low and his spine angle severely bent over, then took the club back with his hands working away from him, and completed the reverse-loop pattern by dropping his hands and arms straight down behind him, hitting the ball with a radically in-to-out path. It was apparent to me right away that we had to change the initial set-up position so that he could break the pattern early by taking the arms, hands and club back more toward his body, after which he could try to get the hands to work more out toward the ball in transition. Scott already had the important element of squeezing his left elbow inward in transition, so I figured that if I could get him to stop dropping his hands straight down and focus at the same time on keeping his hips deeper and his head out over the ball that we could really make a big improvement in a short period of time. Luckily we had two hours of time for two days in a row, and we were able to make some big progress toward changing his club path and getting his pivot to create more space for his arms in the impact area as opposed to the “hump” movement of his left leg pushing out to the left of the target. As you will see in the video it was not easy to make the changes but in the end Scott really did nicely with the stop-and-go drills, and was getting the overall picture of how to change his pattern. This is the email he sent after I sent him his video:
I received my video you did for me last night! Awesome stuff! Things are really feeling a ton better since I came to see you. I just need to keep getting reps on what we worked on and talked about. Can’t wait to get back down there!
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