Ah yes, the more you work on something, the faster something else breaks. Today, I fixed some of the leg movements, but I have promoted another inside swing. Since then, I have done better, but only the next lesson will show truly how much I’ve improved. Does this happen to anyone else? When you are on the path to improvement, everything goes off the charts and you suddenly can’t...
It seems like forever since I made a post, I am sorry I have been busy, but mainly frustrated. I’ll explain more in the next couple of post.
Enjoy the video.
Title: 6/8 – Golf Winter Coaching – Back Swing
Description: 2010 02 27 My sixth golf lesson @ Etobicoke Golf Town.
Today, the pieces of the puzzle were put together as I finally understand that the stuff I was learning before was to get myself doing a one piece takeaway. In the past, I noticed I used my arms mainly to take back the club, but by keeping the arms triangularly intact, taking back the club now feels steady and easier to be on plane. However, I do find myself still straightening my right...
Whenever I play golf (outside or simulators) and I see people driving 300+ yards but their swing still looks effortless and smooth, I wonder how they do it. I know it requires a club head speed, but a lot of this power is not in the arms, but in the back, the waist/stomach, and most importantly the legs. I can try to swing as hard as I can at the ball using my arms and be completely off target...
I finally got bringing back the club nicely, but then I go to screw up other things. Today, I revisited being on plane but I have also learned a few things about the right arm when bringing the club up to position 4 (top of the backswing). First I want to talk about my breakthrough, and it all came to me when I was shadow-golfing. Shadow golfing? It’s something I do when I’m...
At one of the InnerGolf members night events I was approached by AlfaGolfer and Mark which runs the GTA Amateur Tour (see: ). They gave me a quick 10 minute run down of the tour, why they are doing it, and what’s it in for me. I know in couple of my previous replies that I will start playing in more tournaments this year, well, this was an opportunity to show people that I am a man of my...
Doug asked me to Youtube & observe Ben Hogan at Augusta. He mentioned that I should not copy his swing, but focus on observing his leg transition. I am guessing this is a hint of where some raw power of a swing comes in. I’m embedded the video here, or you can go directly to this YouTube link: Doug said, “Jeremy: Please observe his right leg from 3:36 – 3:46 and from 5:33...
I never realized that I sway horizontally back so much. Well, at least I didn’t feel it. It’s interesting to see as I try Youtubing some pro golf highlights and they don’t sway. It is going to take some getting used to, but Doug forced me to exaggerate the right leg in order to understand and get a sense of my own swing without the sway. This makes sense as you want very...
