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“Wayne, I’m excited to get your feedback. I am 34 and played golf at William & Mary. Jeremy Wells told me a lot about you a while back, and I have watched most of your videos on YouTube a couple of times. I run an investment business and have a young family, so I don’t have time for competition. Nevertheless, I play about 30 rounds per year, and I try to practice for an hour a week at least 2-3 weeks per month. I carry a +3 handicap, albeit at a short, easy golf course, the Cavalier in Virginia Beach. I had a very good junior career, winning the VA state junior and played in a US Am as a teenager. That said, I have never struck the ball better than I do today, despite the limited reps. While we have never met, you’ve already improved my ball striking over the last 5-6 years. I’m analytical, thus always monitored my own swing closely. Two main concepts you preach are cornerstones of when I swing my best: Hip depth; and hand path to begin the downswing. I share your admiration of Ben Hogan, and I love the game. It has been very good for me, and my business allows me to play a decent amount of casual golf. Like you, I have a bad back. Two stress fractures in L5 when I was 16, but it doesn’t have a huge impact on any given swing, and it did not hold me back from playing in college. Let me know if I uploaded the YouTube videos correctly. I’ve got a premium V1 subscription, as any serious golfer should. Again, I look forward to your thoughts. Certainly, be brutally honest. I respect and agree with your philosophy on the golf swing, and I have developed my own over the years. It aligns as closely with yours as any instructor I have ever met personally. Thanks!”
As you will see, Scott has a technically excellent swing, and as such there are only a couple of suggestions I make in this video. One is that I prefer the hips to load against the right side of the face on box as opposed to twisting the right hip externally toward the target from P3 to P4. Scott understands hip depth, so he will probably have to feel like the right side of his pelvis is moving a bit diagonally toward the heel, almost like a slight sway, in order not to cut away from the line. The other suggestion is to use the glutes more effectively into and through impact so that the hips don’t cut back after impact. He needs to contract the glutes starting just before P6 and squeeze them together while pushing the waist up and left while staying more in right side bend. That way he can get his belt buckle fully to the furthest left point, which is a trait almost all great ball strikers have.
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