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Playing For Money: Matt Shubley- Old Habits are Hard to Break

By Wayne D | Videos , Videos: Playing For Money

I’ve been working with Matt since he was in college in 2017, and he has come along nicely, earning status on the Canadian Tour (he is from Canada), although finishing 71st on the money list this past year wasn’t good enough to avoid Canadian Q-School. As you will see in the video Matt’s swing can vary from month to month, and his tendency is to revert to the things we work on the most, namely leaning left in the takeaway and crossing the line at the top, issues which eventually lead to his getting the club behind him on the…

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Playing for Money: Matt Shubley- Trying not to Cross the Line at the Top

By Wayne | Videos , Videos: Playing For Money

Matt has been wrestling with this backswing issue from the 1st time I saw him some years ago.  If we didn’t think that it contributed to his inconsistent ball striking, we wouldn’t bother trying to change it.  Matt goes back and forth between getting the club stuck behind his hands at P6 and sometimes approaching from out to in.  In this case he is hitting too many weak cuts and is still concerned about the way the club arrives at the top and changes direction into the downswing.  Many of my students have issues with over-straightening the right leg in…

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Playing for Money: Matt Shubley-Needing Earlier Left Forearm Supination in the Downswing

By Wayne | Videos: Playing For Money

As usual Matt’s swing looks quite good (he is a very good player), especially since he hasn’t been able to get out and practice due to the virus, but his tendency to get the club behind his hands at P6 is still one of his main issues. Over time we have added lateral movement to transition and the forward swing and have almost eliminated his crossing the line at the top. With the club on plane and the shaft flattening in transition, Matt has to now focus on rolling the left arm down the chest by supinating the forearm earlier…

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Playing for Money: Matt Shubley- Looking for Reasons for the Ball Not Falling Right After Starting Left

By Wayne | Videos: Playing For Money

Hey Wayne, Hope all is well, after a little bit of time off between tournaments I’m starting to gear up to get back into competition. Swing feels just a little off, I’ve started to have my stock ball fight move left to right rather than right to left and found it significantly better However, right now I can’t seem to get it to fall right. The ball starts a little left and either keeps falling left or stays there. If you can take a look at these videos when you get a chance and let me know if you see…

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Playing for Money: Matt Shubley 3- Right Arm Issues Causing Stuck Approach

By Wayne | Videos: Playing For Money

I’ve been working with Matt for just over a year now and after graduating from college he has turned professional with his eye on next year’s Web.Com Q-School. Matt won his first event as a pro but has struggled a bit since with a 2 way miss. He has incorporated more lateral left movement into his iron game (he had little or none when we started) and improved his impact alignments significantly, but he always slips back into a pattern he has had long before I met him where he overturns his right arm and shoulder in the backswing and then drops his hands and arms straight down or even behind him in transition, which almost guarantees a “stuck” approach position with the clubhead heading toward impact from well behind his hands, leading to an overly in to out attack that precludes any sort of left to right shot and requires more face rotation through impact than we would like. My suggestions here are pretty standard for the issues: try to keep the upper right arm more in front of the chest in the backswing by encouraging more external rotation of the right shoulder along with more forearm rotation, then concentrating on moving the hands out toward the ball (or even above it) while leaning the shaft back on the right index finger in order to keep the shaft approaching from above the right forearm from P5 to P6. Matt has been successful at fixing this before, and the fact that the problem continues to reemerge goes to show how stubborn such patterns are.

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Lesson of the Week: Matt Shubley – Turning Behind the Ball and Adding Lateral Hip Drive

By Wayne | Videos: Lesson of the Week

Matt plays for the golf team at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, and came to see me looking to improve his ball striking heading into the 2018 Spring tournament season. He finished T-4 in his first two events, so it appears that what we worked on had a positive effect on his game. We started with some short wedges, and the two things that stood out right away was his odd head movement in the backswing and his lack of any lateral pelvic movement in the forward swing.

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Getting Unstuck – Online Student: Matt Shubley

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

I started playing golf competitively in grade 10, and by grade 12 I chose to play golf over hockey. I have been the number one on my school team since I was a sophomore. I had a pretty good season last season recording a scoring average of 75.6. It continued into the summer I played in some good events, and posted some decent scores however it is rare that I post very low numbers. At the end of the summer I went to see a new coach to produce some lower numbers, I saw him once and then couldn’t get back to see him before the end of the summer and got caught in between two swings. I ended up getting the club very underneath on behind me coming back. So lately I have been working on keeping the club in front of me coming back.

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