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This is Jon’s 2nd online lesson (plus a follow-up) and if you go back and watch his previous lessons on the site you will see some real progress. However, sometimes there needs to be more significant changes in order to get the improvement we are looking for. In Jon’s email he notes:
“Need more consistent contact/low point and eliminate left miss. Would like higher hands if possible but when I try it feels like I’m really swinging left and coming out-to-in.”
The cause of Jon’s low point control problems is his approach angle, which is double shallow, meaning that the club comes toward impact from behind his hands at P6 while also coming in wide, his hands not getting up to the ball at P6. Since a wide approach is necessarily shallow, and an in -to -out approach is also shallow, Jon would need to have his hands higher at P6 to steepen the attack angle. However, Jon has his hands close to his body in the impact area, normally a good thing but in this case another shallowing effect. Obviously, we need to get the club coming less from behind him and his hands more forward with the clubhead up in the air longer for the low hands to be a benefit. I see the issue here in more global terms, and I would like to see Jon slow the pace of the backswing and calm down the trigger, especially the lifting, which would allow him to make his general swing shape more upright with the right arm higher and more space under the right armpit while the left shoulder would feel lower and more down and into the chest as opposed to rolled up the chest. Getting the club more vertical at P3 and less laid off at the top would encourage him to flatten the club in transition instead of steepening it and combined with the other backswing changes would help get his right arm more width at P4 and from there to P5. With the hands more forward and the shaft more on plane, his angle of attack would be steep enough to produce more forward lean and better low point control.
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