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Wayne,
Here are the latest swing videos of Conner. He is scheduled for two tournaments starting in the first part of October in Nevada. The shoulder seems to be holding up good. He had some issue with mobility right after getting back at it, as expected. Currently working on the foot work again. He thinks he should sequence the hips different and that the hips clear a little early. Still trying to get a trigger that creates good rhythm and timing. Fights the sit back motion that you saw in earlier videos. Sometimes I think he gets too caught up on how he wants the swing to look. There are certain personal traits that will stay with him.
I do think that his attack angle could shallow up a bit and that might take a little stress off the left shoulder. We had the trackman out the other day and he was swinging the driver at 122MPH at .7 down and the irons were 5 to 6 down. His divots are fairly deep. Historically he has had his ball position a little farther forward in his stance to help swallow it out. Maybe you could give him a drill to swallow up the divots a bit. He has been scoring pretty well lately but the ball striking is not where it was before the injury. One other detail. His glove has been wearing on the bottom right side of the glove. This is something that was not a problem before the injury.
Thanks, Bob (Kumpula, Connor’s dad)
In this video lesson, I compare Connor’s swing with those of a year ago, before he injured his shoulder and couldn’t practice or play for an extended period. He has a wonderful swing (he has won a major college event and the Oregon State Amateur) but there is still room for improvement, especially in these recent swings, where his approach to impact has gotten somewhat steeper than in the past. I feel that the major difference is in the takeaway: whereas Connor had previously taken the club back very close to right on his shaft plane with the toe of the club moving almost to toe up, he is now extending his hands, arms and the club more away from him with the face much more closed. It appears that this has led to a much steeper approach with his left arm well out in front his body at P5 and the shaft heading toward impact more out on his left arm than just above the right forearm as it was last year. The last thing Connor wants to do after going through his shoulder problems is to get steep with the club and start taking big divots, so I think that by getting the left arm more across the chest in the backswing it will also stay more across on the forward swing and produce a shallower angle of attack and a more on plane approach to impact.
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