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As you know from our recent online lesson Mark is a highly accomplished club professional from New York who is no longer working in the pro shop but rather has decided to move down to Florida to see if he can play himself out onto the Champions Tour. Mark came down to Boca this week and we had a chance to spend face to face time together, which for a player of Marks’s caliber is essential as his patterns have developed over many years and lots of competition, and there is a big difference between hearing information and being able to feel it. As you will see in this video we were not successful in eliminating Mark’s trigger movement (that he hates), but he understands the need to get rid of it in order to make a better start to the swing. I always say that patterns need to be changed from the beginning, but I didn’t want to spend all of our time just working on that one thing. The major feelings that were different that Mark came away with was the bent and somewhat firm arms at address, the width of the initial movement of the backswing and the improved coil of the upper body in the backswing, and then the use of the arms in transition, specifically the squeeze of the left arm into the chest and the purposeful attempt to drive the upper right arm more in front of his chest. As you will see his last swing produced a flatter shaft position earlier in the forward swing and along with that a more forward hand position in the approach to impact. The increased width of the backswing combined with better sequence in transition will allow his left arm to stay stretched out in the downswing, and when that feeling combines with squeezing both arms into the chest (or towards each other if you will) we can foresee an approach with the right forearm looking more at the ball at shaft parallel in the downswing as opposed to being bent well above it. It is not hard to see that when Mark improves the beginning of his swing he will be able to coil his upper body more effectively, which will make the correct sequencing much easier to accomplish.
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