In a nutshell, a “Chicken Wing” is one of your elbows bending outwards, behind you. This can happen in either backswing or downswing. It disrupts many things. In my opinion, you could partially blame some form of the Chicken Wing, for almost every miss hit. It is that prevalent. Almost no golfers (Pros alike) use …
I ask my students to use their shoulders to control the backswing. This means the shoulders will move the arms and club to the top of the backswing. My students ask me, where should my arms go? up what plane? to the inside? I tell them the “Path of least resistance.” I know that sounds …
I think setup is one of the main reason golfers struggle with fairway woods off the ground. Here is an easy fix! The lowest point of the golf swing arc is directly below your front shoulder. So, now that you know that, we do not want to drive the golf ball down into the ground, …
One of the worst golf tips, or even accepted as a “Fundamental” in the golf swing, is to actively shift your weight to the back foot on the takeaway. Ouch!! this creates so many variables, I won’t even start. Here is all you have to do get rid of that problem and you will immediately …
You hear me talk about an athletic setup. This position is like any other athlete who is ready (quarterback, guard in basketball, wrestler) balanced, centered with lower body ready. The easiest way to check to see if you are setup athletically is, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO EASILY HOVER THE CLUB SLIGHTLY OFF THE GROUND …
The weight at setup is CRITICAL. The misconception of having the weight on the balls of your feet is a compensation to correct another problem. The correct weight distribution is just like a quarter back or any other athlete… “ATHLETIC”. What I mean by this is STRAIGHT DOWN as if you were guarding someone in …
First, I questioned “Traditional Golf Instruction” with my own game. I would improve one aspect of my swing and it would affect another part (trade-offs). This is when I realized there are way too many working parts (levers) with how the golf swing is being taught. The odds of timing all these parts was very high …