Online Lesson Follow-up: Robert Palazuelos

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Rob has done a nice job improving his takeaway, which before had seen his hands pushing well down at the start, thus shutting the clubface, and leading to an across the line position at the top. Here we see Rob still somewhat across at the top but definitely improved. I would like Rob to extend more in the backswing with his right arm gaining more space away from his body, then work on keeping the club more on plane (pointing to the left) by increasing his forearm rotation from P3 to P4 (he is already better up to P3) and by feeling his upper right arm staying more in front of him. This would help him change his downswing pattern which now is steep early and flattens late to one where he could have the shaft flatten in transition and then steepen later in the downswing. I’d also like him to work on keeping his right hip deeper in transition by trying to use the inner muscles of the right leg to twist the leg more back and to the left as opposed to driving it outward and around.

Click here for Rob’s first lesson if you haven’t seen it yet.