Golfers are obsessed with shallowing the club… but what if I told you it’s making your swing worse?
In this episode of the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast, Mike Granato & Shaun Webb sit down with Wills Murray, AMG’s newest certified instructor based in Monterey, CA, to unpack one of the most misunderstood concepts in modern golf instruction — shallowing the golf club.
The problem? Most golfers are already too shallow. And the more they work on “getting shallow,” the more they overcook their swing, cause massive blocks, hooks, drop-kicks… and wreck their ball striking.
This episode gets into:
– Why shallowing is NOT always the fix
– How Gears 3D data is exposing common myths
– The trail arm mistake that’s ruining your consistency
– What you can actually learn from pros like Rory and Adam Scott
– Why so many golfers get worse the more they practice
If you’re struggling with inconsistent ball striking, slices, blocks, or feeling like your swing gets worse the more you “work on it”… this is the video you NEED to watch.
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Video Chapters:
00:00 – Intro: Wills Murray Joins the Podcast
00:18 – Golf Trends on the West Coast
00:45 – The Shallowing Obsession (and Problems)
01:34 – Breaking Down the “Elbow Plane”
02:15 – Hooks, Blocks & Over-Shallowing
02:47 – Monterey Lab Announcement (Feb 9–11)
03:25 – What Amateur Golfers Are Getting Wrong
05:14 – Pandemic Golf Myths & YouTube Misconceptions
06:30 – Golf Coaching: Concepts vs Execution
07:48 – Why Gears is a Game-Changer for Swing Analysis
09:39 – Over-Rotation and Swing Mechanics
10:56 – How Tour Players Keep It Simple
12:00 – Rotation, Consistency, and Trail Arm Flexion
13:37 – Fixing Arm Lift Misconceptions
14:46 – Towel Drill, Swing Myths, and Real Movement
15:43 – When to See a Coach (and Why Concepts Matter)
17:38 – About the Monterey Golf Lab Facility
18:34 – Using Fitness to Improve Golf Mechanics
19:11 – Supporting Coaches Through Gears Consults
20:02 – Final Thoughts from Wills Murray
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Every time I head to the course a bike clips me in the ribs with the handle bars. Hurts so bad! It's such a vicious cycle….
how Hogan do it? so Hogan not a champ? Jones? Shclee? its not called Shallowing..proper term is Flat..prove me wrong Punks why u Draw and not Straight? club makes the current player today no talent needed just get a forgiving club.. remember i do it level with tour with one eye closed.. you use two!!!
this dude sounds like the godfather
I went to Monterey and did a Gears session with Wills and it was fantastic! Phenomenal info and tips that are based on data and actual reasons and not what I thought was holding me back. It was like going to a doctor for an x-ray versus relying on what you can find online and self-diagnose.
Regarding coaching and have a coach to moderate you, my coach told me I needed to work on rotation, get my belt buckle to face the wall behind me and rotate through so the belt buckle was looking at the target. A month later he said I was over rotating, I said this is what you told me to do. He said that’s what you needed to exaggerate until you got it going. I am giving you permission to not do that anymore.
Well, Mike, there’s widespread panic on the lesson tee. Gears is confirming it’s worse than we thought. People are abandoning their clubs and going to play pickleball instead.