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I’ve been working with Zach for some time and we thought we were getting some good progression with his swing, but as he got closer to the time he was going to get back to competing he began to regress a bit and return to some of his old habits. Zach is tremendously strong and flexible and produces a lot of power for a smallish frame. His main problem is control, and we have concentrated on getting the shaft not to cross at the top in order to simplify his downswing and improve his approach to impact. He produces a stellar line of compression well past the ball, a hallmark of great ball strikers, but he comes in high with his left wrist already well bowed and has great difficulty squaring the face with consistency.
Here I put the new “Takeaway-stop: finish and hit” drill on him, with an emphasis on rotating the hands and wrists immediately after the stop so as to get the club pointing left at the top. The drill also encourages a quicker “catch” of the backswing with the lower body starting forward from under the right foot, and as you can see the combination produces a nice look in Zach’s swing, a look that thankfully transfers right over to the full swing. When we saw that even the driver swing looked way better after practicing this for a while we knew we were really onto something that one day we might call the “breakthrough”.