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“Hi Wayne, good to speak again. Firstly, good job on that kid with the split hand drill…massive improvement and I bet as a bonus he sees his bunker play and short pitches work better! Yeah I’ve been working on the same ideas you sent me a year ago. There was about 10 or so various ideas all tied/related together mostly and it has improved my pull left shots heaps. I still “fight” left all the time though and almost never hit right unless I absolutely cannot go left (o.b. or hazard left) and that shot is always weak. Usually the more I try to come from the inside I tend to lean back with the spine and hit it fat.
The good things though are
1.Im standing a bit closer to the ball and more erect than before
2. I’ve got rid of the hover (30yrs thanks to Jack!)
3.I feel that the shaft hinges upwards steeper on the backswing than before.
4. I try better to get the forearm more downwards in the downswing and not pointing so far out.
However, I still don’t think I maintain the angle long enough and I stall and dump and flip over the right hand through impact and catch a lot of shots heavy. I need your opinion on all that :)
My follow-thru looks a bit wobbly but I need a left hip replacement early next year which is booked.
Anyway, see what your expert eye and understanding can come up with. I practice most days with my son Ti Fox (8yr old see pic attached) and like you we are always trying to improve :)I have a solid month and a half coming up with Legends Pro-Ams almost every day (my hip will be destroyed by the end :( “
Chris first sent his swing in last year, so you can check out the website archives to see the video I sent back to him. In this vid, I focus almost exclusively on Chris’ transition, which I feel fails to maintain width. The more I watched his swing the more strongly I felt that improving this one aspect would be a huge benefit. When Chris allows his arms to bend and his hands move towards his head when the left arm should be being pulled by the pivot he loses his radius and his right arm cannot unbend and gets jammed behind his right side. He has plenty of width as he gets to the top, and if he can learn to keep his hands feeling like they continue to move away as the pivot catches the left arm and starts the arms moving forward his right arm will be less bent to begin with and he will be able to drive the upper arm in front of his right side and unbend it at the same time, which will make his approach less high and allow his hands to get move forward.
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