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Here we have another great example of player showing marked improvement in all aspects of the swing while retaining the same annoying patterns that weaken his impact. Most of the students I teach are able to improve their technique over time, but that improvement is incremental. In other words, the problem areas are still the same and the specific movements that we are trying to change still need changing, but all the problems are less than they were before. Another thing that is common is to come upon one particular movement that seems particularly incorrigible, defying all attempts to get rid of it.
Brandon’s swing has gotten progressively better in every aspect, but the right arm pattern that exhibits an early “pinching” and then has the forearm “tipping to horizontal” is still evident, although much less than before. As I said, the goal is to weed these things out over time, and as Brandon has been playing quite a while and is a good player his swing patterns are going to be hard to change. Here I think that if he could keep his right arm bending a bit further into the backswing he could reverse his tendency to leave his upper arm up and behind him and start to tip it more vertically so that the upper arm could get more in front of the chest, the elbow could straighten to enable a more on plane approach, and the club could lean back more effectively against the right hand leading to more lag and a more forward leaning club at impact. If you go back and watch Brandon’s previous lessons I think you will agree that in this case we are “getting there”.
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