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This is another installment in my continuing work with young Ben Silverman. Ben missed qualifying for the Web.com last year at 2nd Stage Q-School on the final 9 holes, but has been playing excellent golf since, racking up a number of wins on the Minor League tour and some high finishes on the NGA Tour. He has shown the ability to shoot low scores, having won 2 events with rounds of 63, and his scoring average this year is well down into the 60’s. He is doing all this while working on his swing, and we have a very good idea of where we are heading with it. One thing Ben likes is that he has a pretty good idea what we are going to be working on, as over time it has become evident which things are the most stubborn in his swing. He likes the fact that we have clear picture of what we would eventually like his swing look like and there is a confidence that as it gets closer he will only strike it better.
Here we address some of the same issues we have gone over in the past. I have enough experience with this that I can come up with new ways to approach the same issues, which keeps the work fresh but consistent. There is nothing worse for a player than to have his instructor all over the place with new theories and different things to work on. Three things we have always wanted to see are better use of the ground in transition to engage the muscles in the lower back and produce more lateral movement, less bowing of the left wrist and dropping of the hands in transition, and a more arcing, less chasing release with the right wrist maintaining more bend through impact and the hands disappearing more to the left. The goal is to build a swing that will release freely and aggressively under pressure, and as you will see we are gaining on it slowly but surely.
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