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Jason’s second lesson finds him still struggling with the high approach, and Jason reports in that his divots are steep and left and the contact glancing. He describes the hit as a “swipe”, and is frustrated that while improving his hand path he still has not been able to shallow the approach to impact. I think you will find this lesson interesting as I talk about maintaining width in the downswing, and the effect that narrowing too soon in transition has on the eventual routing of the arms and hands into impact. I put Jason side by side with Adam Scott, and it is evident how Scott uses the forward and leftward movement of his lower body to engage the lower back muscles and pull the left arm into the downswing. This sequence lengthens the muscles on the left side of the body and keeps the left arm stretched out straight while keeping the hands away from the head in the first moments of the forward swing. The right arm is also affected as it will maintain the angle it produced by pushing outward as the wrists cock, what we have called “extensor action”, a Golfing Machine term that I have combined with the cocking of the wrists to produce width approaching the top of the swing. As the legs drive from right to left and the sequence “catches” the lower back, upper back, shoulders, arms and hands in that order the right arm will not attach itself to the side immediately, but will only completely close the space between the upper arm and the right side in front of the chest when the left arm is about 45 degrees down in the forward swing. This is not an easy feeling to get from a video lesson, and I have encouraged Jason to make the trip to Maryland again to see me in person.
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