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Hi Wayne- sending you face on and down the line of a 46-degree wedge, hopefully incorporating some of the concepts you introduced me to when I sent my swing to you last year. Feel as though I may have gotten too outside on takeaway and flat at the top as a result of really bowing my right wrist at top to try to create a flatter plane and shallower path on transition. That only seems to have exaggerated my signature move which is a steeping move on transition. So now I am thinking steeper shoulder plane, more inside on the takeaway, flattish but not bowed right wrist at top, steeper at top but not crossed, giving me the feeling of room to shallow club out on way down. Still definitely fighting a flip, hips feel way to slow and inactive, and fighting other things as well including what I have always believed to be my biggest problem which is sequence, shoulders and arms are totally out of sync, maybe shoulders too fast arms too slow. I have been sending videos daily to and relying heavily on the club champ at Winged Foot, he’s definitely been helpful, think you may know him, makes me call him champ now, though. Fuad.
Fuad has made some nice improvements with his swing since last year, but one thing he highlights in his email, his sequence problem, is still there and is what I focus on most in the video. The first thing I want him to do is to speed up his backswing, which struggles to get moving right from the takeaway. Using the metronome has always proven to be the best help for this issue, and I encourage Fuad to watch and study my video on tempo and the proper use of the metronome. Along with speeding up the entire swing I want Fuad to really focus on using his pivot more effectively, which in his case means he needs more stretch in the backswing while his head stays somewhat centered and out over the ball. There are many possible words to describe the feeling I’m getting at here (I use a video of Dustin Johnson’s driver swing to highlight what I mean), such as “reach, stretch, extend, wind, coil” and probably a few more that suggest feeling more muscular activity and “X-Factor” going back, x-factor being the difference between the amount the pelvis rotates versus the amount the upper trunk rotates in the backswing and in transition. Fuad’s sequence is off because he does not adequately create enough tension in the muscles of the upper trunk (lats, obliques, abdominals, spinal) to cause a delay in the shoulders when the pelvis initiates the forward swing.
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