On the range at Coppinwood Golf Club, Mark Zecchino and Adam Scully take a deep dive into Scottie Scheffler’s golf swing — one of the most repeatable and effective swings on the PGA TOUR.
Discover what makes Scheffler’s move so brilliant yet simple, and learn how golfers of all levels can apply his techniques to improve consistency, rhythm, and ball-striking.
🏌️♂️ What you’ll see in this video:
✅ Key fundamentals of Scottie Scheffler’s swing
🔁 Why his swing is easy to repeat under pressure
📈 How amateurs can take lessons from his technique
💡 Insights from one of the best practice facilities in Canada
Whether you’re chasing lower scores or just love studying the best players in the world, this breakdown will give you fresh perspective on how to play better golf.
📍 Filmed at Coppinwood Golf Club, one of Canada’s top practice facilities.
👉 Watch now and start applying Scottie’s secrets to your own game!
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Welcome back inside Golf Talk Canada. We are here at Coppenwood Mark, one of the best practice facilities the country has to offer. Currently going through a renovation, but this practice facility is awesome. Now, a couple weeks ago on radio, we got into quite the conversation about Scotty Sheffler. Now, we’ve talked about Scotty Sheffler for the last couple years, the brilliance, the historic run he’s been on, but there are a couple things that you noticed other than the footwork that can help any golfer watching this video. Let’s get into it. So what happens skulls is you if I have time on my hands that can be a real problem right because fair so I said why is this guy so much better than everybody else like statistically speaking the numbers are off the charts right from a ball striking category he’s the only guy we’ve seen since Tiger Woodson can go out and win a PGA Tour event without his agame because his ball striking is so superior so I started picking away picking away at it and there’s a lot we could get into here we could do an hour two hours obviously we’re not going to do that I found four real key elements that I really wanted to talk about because for one, not a lot of people are doing them in the modern game. And that’s key modern game. People have, you know, gone down all these different avenues in recent years that we can talk a little bit about that he’s not doing and and and and what I really love about Scotty and you and I talk about this all the time, he owns it, right? The answers are on the in the dirt. It’s his golf swing. So, uh there’s four key elements. Let’s start with the first one. And there used to be a wonderful golf coach, you know, Jim Flick. He worked with Jack and Jim Flick always used to talk about the hands and the golf swing and how the hands relate to the golf swing. And in the modern game, we never hear people talk about the hands anymore. We talk about these large movements and all these moving parts, but the hands are the only thing that connect you really to the face of that golf club. And face control is key. Like, if you can’t control the face, you’re going to have a super wide dispersion. And at your speed, kind of sounds like me. at at swinging it at 180 mph ball speed. That that’s a scary proposition. So, the first thing Scotty does better than anybody else, he has the best face control of any player in the modern game. He keeps it neutral to his target line longer than anybody. And what do I mean by that? I like to call the target line the train tracks. He keeps this face on the train track longer and more square than anybody else. There is no if you fight inside rotation like I do where the club comes this way and then you’ve got to quickly close it. This is wonderful. He you’ll see drills like this where they’ll put a golf back ball here and push it down the line right to keep it square to the line. So Scotty the first thing he does really well keeps it on the train tracks longer than anybody else. And then when and I like to call this hitting zone the train station. Oh, well, if that’s the train tracks, this is the train station, right? So, he keeps it in the train station. So, neutral into the impact zone and exiting the impact zone. Neutral, neutral, neutral is the key for Scott. Okay, we’ll get out. We’ll get into the exit momentarily, but with that face square, neutral to his path, to his target line, when he takes it up to the top, there’s something else you’ll notice with Scotty. How often have you seen this from the modern day player? Pretty much every player you see. Okay, look at Scotty Shuffler. You can go to YouTube. You can go to PG2 social media handle and right now you find pictures of Scotty Shuffler. You can find him in super slow motion. Scotty Shuffler’s like that. And why is he like that? Because he hasn’t manipulated the face. Any rotation in this face is being controlled by his turn and his body. He still makes a full turn. He’s just not manipulating the hands. So Scotty will get it on the train track on the train track to the sky and up and up to here. Is that why you see so much separation from his head to his club? So much so because it’s never here. Very rarely. You might see it get there on some of the longer clubs, 3-wood driver, etc. But I’ve got a seven iron here. I got my P7707 iron. Yeah. And with a seven iron, you’re going to see a lot of this pointing to the sky. Now this is the magic move for Scotty. Now, this is something I wouldn’t recommend to most average golfers because most of our audience is fighting a cut, fighting a slice, maybe coming over the top, but from Scotty’s standpoint, he gets it here. And all the modern day teachings are this, right? How long have you I got to shallow it out. How how often do you hear I got to shallow it out? Um, we Neman’s a perfect example. Sergio. Sergio. It goes from here and it gets lays off or even too into the squatting. Mhm. Okay. Scotty, not so much. Scotty to the top. And instead of this monster layoff into the Scott, this this underneath the plane Scotty’s hands 80% of the time because he hit so many cuts, they work a little this way. They work a little which which in modern golf we would call over the top. Yeah. which we would warn people never get over the top, but if you want to hit kit cuts and fades as often as you want and swing as hard as you want, this creates so much width and so much freedom. And the fact that he is not manipulating, rotating the face, he knows he’s going to deliver it square. This is so much freedom for Scott. It allows him to swing as hard as he wants. And if he wants to hit a little draw, you’ll see this more with driver and longer clubs again as well. Obviously, the shorter, more upright clubs, not as much. You’ll see you’ll see a slight little loop. So if this here is a ribbon at the top, you if you want to hit draw, he would ribbon it inside. Yeah. And cut, you would ribbon it outside. But it’s that simple. And then it gets delivered back into the train station and stays on the track now and starts where he was square right back into that neutral. And keep in mind he has not because he has not loaded. Yeah. And created all these extra angles. There’s no timing for him that oh when do I release it? Where’s the lag? It’s it’s not it’s in a way it’s like a larger version of how Steve Stricker would swing like a gap wedge or a pitching w because you watch him and like that’s like Steve Stricker’s like that. This is like a an oversized version uh version excuse me of that. Um, finally, we want to talk about his his uh footwork. All right. So, I’m not trying to suggest everybody out there go out there and, you know, give me a little Danny Tero 1983 dance. Okay. A little Macarena. Okay. That’s not what I’m saying. But, you know what the footwork is allowing him to do? All I hear now from the modern day teacher is this piston move. Minu Lee, for example. Right. Right. And you want to feel this hip, your lead hip, drive into the wall on the way down. Yeah, I’m not s suggesting for a second that your body doesn’t need to turn and your lower half doesn’t need to work cohesively with everything. I’m not suggesting that. What I am suggesting is the modern game. A lot of teachers have gone down this well where they they they like to tell their students or they give the impression that there’s no lateral movement in the golf swing. There’s not a feeling of the weight moving to your back and moving to your front. There’s lateral movement all over the place. And the number one player in the world and the one that is leading in all the ball striking categories has more lateral movement than anybody else on the planet. It’s crazy. So think about that. We’re teaching people not to move laterally. Yet the best ball striker on the planet moves more lateral than anybody else. And that footwork allows him because it’s so free off the ground. It allows him to in a way slide onto his front right front side. I call it right being a lefty. Yeah. So, anybody watching this video in America, I apologize for anyone watching this in America. Lefty sliding to his right. Let’s use front and back instead. So, he slides to his front and that movement to the right. That lateral movement allows him to stop the rotation and keep it on the train track longer. Now, we should say stay tuned to an upcoming episode of Golf Talk Canada where we will try the shuffler slide. Okay. In action. You’re going to try this? I’m going to try to try. That was the royal weave. All right. All right. We’ll switch roles for that. I like that. Yeah. Okay. Final piece of this puzzle is the exit. Okay. Even though you’ve already made contact, even though the ball’s gone, it’s left its target. We’re, you know, we’re doing, you know, we’ve kind of committed to everything. Yeah. You’ve got to feel it to the finish. Totally. Right. You got to stick the finish. You got to feel it to the finish. And this is for all our Canadian uh, you know, fans of Golf Talk Canada that, everybody loves to go down the wormhole. Mo Norman. Bob, the minute I started talking about this, Bob instantly stood stood up, Mo Norman, in weeks. He got like heard that down the line and he went, “Mo, if you watch Mo, Mo was down this line longer than anybody in history.” Yeah. Square that target. And he was so down that line through impact to his finish that his hands were up here. Now, Scotty doesn’t get all the way there. But his finish is high, though. It’s high. And it’s it’s high. And it’s I like to think of this. My trail arm is a paintbrush. If I paint it on the way down, I get down on top of it. So, forget early extension and I paint that train track as long as I can. And then when you paint it as long as you can, there’s there’s a million photos of Scotty Sheoffller’s finish like that. And then, of course, he’s fully extend. And now from here, it’s going to turn, right? Right. So, it’s almost like throwing a ball underhand. That’s it. That’s a great image and a great feeling. It’s like throwing that ball underhanded. And think about it. If you were gonna throw a ball underhanded down that train track, would you do this to throw it? Would you would you like load your wrist? No, you would. You would do that. You take it here and that’s all you do, right? Simple. So, let me see if I can actually do one for you in slow-mo here. Love it. Okay. So, it’s that and down that line as long as possible. Yep. I’ve been working on this now for about three weeks now. I will also say that you sent me a text saying that you have discovered the secret to golf and you just hit that shot. We’re coming off a day where Mark went bogey free at Hamilton Golf and Country Club 66. Yes. And I mean that looked pretty solid there. It looked simple. Caught. Yeah. So the simplicity of it standing here talking for 10 minutes and not hitting a ball and you know I didn’t get all the way down to the bottom 50 years old the back. So it’s it was you know a little picky but as far as ball flight that that was a two yard fade directly at my target like it was it never even your misses are are are better if if I if I once I loosen up here let’s see if I can get down to the ball. The key here is watch watch the lack of load and and watch how long we stay on the path here. Yeah. Solid again. Okay. That’s on exactly I mean those two golf balls are 10 ft apart. Yeah. 175 yards 180 yards out. I mean the proof’s been in the pudding for me. Yeah. I’m not going to work on his footwork. I’m not athletic or talented enough to even consider that. That’s what you think. Uh, you know, I what what I take from this and I I think what a lot of people in our audience can take from this, watch the rotation of your club face. If you can quiet the rotation of your club face, you’re going to be a better ball striker. Don’t be afraid to have some lateral movement. If you get on the outside of your feet, you’re now swaying. Don’t get on the outside of your feet. Don’t get outside your box. Don’t get outside the train station. Stay in the train station. And you, the club face is really controlled in here with your chest. If you’re turning and you haven’t manipulate manipulated your hands, then that club should be be able to be delivered right back as you turn and go through. Kind of like that. Stuck it in. It’s kind of like it’s in your sternum, I guess. Right. So, I’ve been doing a bunch of drills. Yeah. Where I take a club in my left hand and choke down on it and just hit balls down the line this way, right? Like this to get that feeling. I’ve been doing drills where I get to the top and I go, “Okay, cut.” And I manipulate hands this way to feel cut, draw. Manipulate hands this way to feel draw. These are all things we can do. We’re never going to be Scotty Sheffller. No. But if you can stay more quiet with the hands and keep this club on the track longer through the impact zone, I guarantee you, you’re going to hit it better more often. Do you want to try one? You’ve never done this. I’ve never done it. Okay. So, we’re gonna we’re gonna start by saying that uh I was gonna go stand in your position and totally forgot that right you’re right at it. Now, I’m also using the P7TW blade here. Yes. The first time with that, which is the same one Scotty has. Okay. Which is the same iron that Scotty uses. So, Okay. Okay. So, let’s just talk about some sensations before you pull the trigger. Yeah. So, because because you know my game, I’m a very handsy player, right? So, what I want not as handsy as I’ve been in the past, right? So, that’s your train track. My P770 is your train track. Okay. So, what we’re going to do, yeah, we’re going to keep it. See how you’re trying to open that face? Always. We’re going to keep this face square to that train track longer. The club’s going to feel like it’s a little outside your hands from there. That’s enough. Wow. With a nine iron. That’s enough. Right back. And then I turn. Keep down through. Through through. You feeling that? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Totally different sensation. Totally different sensation. So, it’s there. That’s enough. That’s enough. Now, would you recommend I start just swinging like that or hitting balls? I like the right-handed drill to start. Watch the ro. There you go. So, I want It’s going to feel skully. Here’s a sensation. The first time you do this, it’s going to feel like the club’s moving outside on the way back. It’s not. It’s down the line. And eventually, you’re going to turn and you’re going to get onto your natural arc. Odds are you’ve been rotating too much to the inside to begin with. Always. So, do me a favor and you can do stuff like this. I’ll do this. I’ll take a tea piece of dirt. Yeah. And just get the get There you go. So, give me your takeaway over that. Good. See, that’s good. And now deliver it right down that line. And here’s the thing I love about this. We’ve lost focus in the golf world of where the target is. Yeah. Like, we never talk about the target. If that club is moving at your target with a square face, it’s got to go straight. Why wouldn’t it be going at your target more often? We talk about closing the door and sw and and you’ll see Justin Rose swinging this way. Alex Noran, you mentioned well their pre-shot routines. It’s this right and they’re looking for sensations and I get what they’re trying to do. Maybe they’re fighting a miss of some kind. I get that. I’m not saying they’re doing it wrong. Who am I to say they’re doing it wrong? What I’m saying is this is what the best player in the world’s doing, right? The best player in the world. Why not do it? Best player in the world is not doing that. best player in the world is keeping it on the track longer than anybody else. And that includes towards his target at the end. Longer than anybody else. Okay. So, let’s say our target there’s a we’re going over there. That’s sort of that uh towards that checkered flag. Checker flag. Okay. And see what we got. Takeaway was really good. That’s Ray at that flag. And you’re right on target. How did that feel? It just felt simple. It felt like I was taking it outside. It does feel outside, but because you know my swing, I I’m I’m one of these. I sort of take it I take it out and then back and your hands want to immediately and load and and don’t get me wrong, you’re you’re not going to hit it as far until you’re so confident that you’re going to hit it great. So, here’s the thing, and I guess really Scully, it’s the final piece of the puzzle in this entire experiment, right? Final piece of the puzzle in this entire entire experiment is this. out of the gates, you’re likely not going to hit it as far. You’re going to be a half a club shorter with the irons and maybe even 10 yards shorter with the driver because you’re not you’re losing that that anchor, that leverage that you get with the full of the hands, this and that. It comes back immediately, though. It comes back when you get confident with this move that you know the club head’s being delivered perfect or in the right spot. So, what ends up happening is you end up being able to swing harder at it because you know the club face is in the right spot. If I told you at the start of a round, Stully, you’re going to be hit this in in the middle of the face and on your target line all day, you’re going to swing like a maniac. It’s only when you’re swinging bad, you get tentative, you try to steer it, you try to do these things, right? So, what I noticed with driver was my distance came back in about the second week, third week of doing this. I’m about three weeks into it. So, it’s only recently. Yesterday we played at Hamilton and my distance was back. Right. So, what I noticed, GS, is that I’ve gotten so confident with this move. I gotten so aggressive with my trail arm of slapping this way. Yeah. That I have gotten so aggressive with that side of my body, which used to be a weak side of my body. You and I have done some stack work. And you get to know where your weaknesses are, that this side of my body has gone from being a weakness to a strength. because I actually want to just again if I take that paintbrush and paint that strip, if I feel or know that I’m on that strip, I will paint it aggressively, not tentatively. Wow, that’s a lot. That’s a lot. But those are some tricks to the trade that hey, if it works for the world, number one, Scotty Sheffler, it can certainly I would say this. I will say this. 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