Online Lesson: Brandon Moore PGA- Working on Lateral Hip Drive and Sidearm Throwing Motion

“Wayne – looking forward to your guidance here.  When I’m hitting it good it’s really good, but I have times where it gets off and my misses are maddening as the contact is very weak and the ball is almost knuckleball-ish.  Very weak with no compressed feeling or spin.  Generally, my misses are straight, and I feel like I have good face awareness, but the contact drives me crazy.”

In the video we will see that Brandon has wrist and right arm problems getting from P3 to P4 as well as little or no lateral drive with his hips, issues which add up to a weak approach with the irons and a good reason to be missing out on compressing the ball with his irons.  I would guess that his driver is better as a sweeping type of release is more suited for a ball that is teed up, but I would thing that the adjustments I am suggesting would help his driver as well.  Brandon has the common problem of retracting his right shoulder blade as he gets to the top an keeping it stretched back as he starts his forward swing.  If the right upper arm cannot move itself forward just after the left arm is pulled by the pivot movement that starts from the hips there can be no real sidearm throwing action, and the club, instead of leaning back against the right hand and flattening a bit instead steepens while the right arm gets trapped behind the right side of the trunk. What makes the problem worse is that Brandon has little or no net lateral movement with the pelvis, which leaves his lower right side stuck passively on the ground at impact.  I would like to see Brandon do a bunch of practice trying to achieve more lateral movement to go along with his nice rotation, and I would also like to see some stop and go drills that isolate the movement from P3 to P4 to P5 so that he can increase his wrist cock as he keeps his upper right arm more in front of him.

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