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Adam is a friend from way back in the early 1980’s when I was playing the Space Coast mini-tour and Adam was working at his first job in the golf business at Errol Estates in Apopka, Florida where I would go to practice. Adam’s career would take him to Long Island for a time, then to work in Florida with David Leadbetter and on to Naples where he has been a successful teacher at a private club as well as helping found the Scratch Golf Academy, which has over 500,000 subscribers. Adam has an elevated level of swing knowledge and has spent tons of time looking at his own swing, but sometimes everyone needs a different eye to produce a different way to think about things. Adam recently sent me a few of his swings, looking to get ideas on how he could achieve better ball compression. I can’t emphasize enough how important it is for instructors to continue to work on their own technique and to try to find time to enter competitions, which is tough considering the opportunity cost of missing time on the teaching range.
Adam, as you would expect, has a technically sound swing, and the suggestions I make are not major changes. I would like to see him concentrate on backswing width by being mindful of the right shoulder area pulling back behind him, then using that better position to encourage the hands and arms to move less downward and more outward toward the ball in transition so the right arm can maintain width early in the downswing and then get more forward by P6. I also would like for him to try purposefully bending the left wrist into flexion as he approaches impact.
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