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“Wayne, excited to hear from you. Really enjoy your videos. I have always hit it pretty high and have focused on bringing down the flight to something more reasonable. I put in some swing work over the winter and the video links include what feels like a stock shot to me. Performed speed work last year and things got too long and over-rotated so drilled the Tommy Fleetwood knockdown drill a lot with irons. Have a coach that had previously focused on eliminating club face rotation, especially on backswing. Resisting the shaft rotating in backswing with my right-hand created plane problems and just didn’t feel good in general. My body would rotate too much, and the club would suck under the plane with a closed face. Was tough to do with the longer clubs. The practice swing you see me doing helps me plane the club with my left better and allows a more natural club face rotation on the way back to achieve a better spot at the top. Issues I’m having now are mainly with driver (which is reverse of older tendencies, irons were poor, and driver was solid). Hitting bigger pushes and hooks because the club is shallowing late, and my body is crowding the ball with some early extension. Interested to get your thoughts! Thank you!”
I could immediately see what Gabriel was talking about in his email as his right arm got way behind him in the downswing. At first I thought the main issue was setting up too close to the ball, but after further review I saw that the combination of a sitting type trigger motion which flattened his shoulder turn and got his right arm behind him early and a lack of structure at the top led to the right arm looking fully stuck by P6. I still would like to see him stand slightly further away from the ball with a bit more pelvis and spine tilt at address, but the key improvement would be to quiet the takeaway motion so that the shoulder could turn more on the spine angle. I always like a more toe up face position at P2, and he could accomplish that with more forearm rotation in the backswing (think “handshake” position with both hands). The next huge factor is his lack of width at the top, which is obvious when I put him side by side with Ludvig Aberg, who is built along the same lines as Gabriel. He needs to feel “extensor action,” which means the right arm should be trying to straighten as the wrists cock and the hands approach the top, giving them the feel of moving away from the head instead of behind.
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