This video is related to my range instructional video yesterday. https://youtu.be/CgsJn4swlNA
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Let me know your questions you have for the next time I go to the range to help answer them! I will wait until its 125 degrees to get the full heat stroke effect LOL!
Thanks Tony this makes a lot of sense
Tony, is there any reason I should not immediately eliminate all forward press? It seems like an easy thing to do given all that it fixes. P.S. Please keep your answer family friendly, Mr. Handsy.
Maybe it’s just me but at around 10:30 I really noticed how your trail foot looks at impact. Looks pretty good on the right and pretty lame on the left. Just my $.02
Excellent. It did seem to me that you were more upright with the change; hands were a bit closer at address; noticed the trail elbow in one more hugging the body on downswing compared to the other also. All that heat; me thinks you need your cricket bucket hat and sleeves at a minimum – maybe some loudmouth also to make a fashion statement!!!. Maybe you could do a tour of Tony's cave at work; pro shop; WITB; the golf facilities there also; practice area.
Setup options / considerations. Aside from driver ball position – generally static inside front heel; some promote moving it toward the trail side as the club gets longer, as apposed to gradually widening your stance instead of or in addition to. I tend to have it forward of centre and try to have weight centre on feet – ball of foot of just behind for balance. I try to push down with feet and squeeze them outward to keep stable and prevent me swaying.
Don't have anything to ask, just want to thank you for the videos. I've learned more about my golf swing in these 3 months I've been watching the channel than I have in the last 30 years of hacking at the grass.
Great video Tony, I play the ball more back in my stance with closed shoulders looking gor the inside out swing for my draw and more than not turn into blocks.my hands are quite as quick as yours. I also tend to hit low ball flight
I'm OK with your setup and backswing in either swing Tony… it's that release… low and left, that I feel is what causes you struggles. All your pre impact motion, from address to impact. is a draw swing motion… but from impact..releasing low and left is all low fade motion. I'd like to see you releasing down your initial target line, and let the hands finish higher , which keeps you on plane, and the plane is parallel to your target line. That info I sent you… just look at the release and finish stuff.. and copy that… and you will be golden.. guaranteed. 😉 Did you ever play hockey? I am going to wager no. Watch how hockey players take hard slap shots.. and how they release the shot in the direction they want the puck to go… and how they control the height of the shot. If you have minimal time to grind on all your body motions… the 100s of things going on…. Just simplify it down to the intention of using the tool correctly/efficiently, and allow your athletic ability do it's thing. Just swing.. especially on the release side for you… such that, whenever the shaft is level to the ground, it is parallel to your target line. That's it. Your parallels pre impact are all a little right, for a draw… and post impact level/parallels point left, and they conflict. Grab a 4 or 5 iron… left hand only… and with just a half to 3/4 swing… hit some balls… try releasing the club left and low … and then hit some releasing the club parallel down the target line, and let the hands go high, and see what the club and ball tell you. 😉
Wow that is Hot! I'm usually trying to keep dry and feeling in my hands lol you've got fast hands but clearly educated one's too! Would love your thoughts on staying connected through the swing – hands and body and good tempo, which I suppose kinda go hand in hand. Obviously everyone has their own. I usually loose mine, especially with the driver if i rush from the top, or that's my feeling but I suspect it's also a connection issue.
Excellent video. Made so much sense. Appreciate you trying to educate us in looking for the right things in our swing, rather than just mindlessly searching for the next feel. Thanks again 🙂
Strokin' it with Tony
Let me bend your ear for a minute about lag and shallow etc.
I heard that someone like rory is producing something crazy like over 500 lbs of force on the shaft and club. There is absolutely no way that you can "hold" that and get the club square.
Just wondering what you think on the subject, i think casting, over the top body stalling out is from not trying to throw it. And an incorrect grip pressure point on the trail hand.
If you dont throw i think the body has to stall out for the hands to catch up.
Throwing my trail shoulder in a different direction has also cured over the top instead of tighten up and fight it im throwing it out.
Just thinking of a video where tiger was helping a random guy hit his driver better and he keeps telling him you have to release it release it faster and earlier.
I play my worst golf trying to be smooth around the course.
Game came back to me yesterday. Played 9 shot a 35 and i was throwing it hard in a loose manor. Especially off the tee.
Tony’s heatstroke series sounds great! Except for the heat stroke part.
I don’t even know how to align my shoulders during aiming Tony. What is closed vs open and how to line up to the desired target.
I wonder if Barney purple and mellow yellow can help with that somehow during a heatstroke demonstration?