If you've followed along with our lesson, you'll know that Keenan was struggling with his alignment and was over rotating, which was causing his third slight issue of firing his back leg too soon before making impact.
Having wide knees with outward pressure is the key to making a 3/4, limited turn swing. It's important to stay put until you contact the ball, so you can get the perfect extension and release through impact in order to hit it solid and straight.
I got him back to using a staple of the PPGS...wide knees, outward pressure. And because he's left handed, we got him back to being pre-loaded heavy LEFT. We worked our way through the bag, and Keenan is really hitting the ball with consistency and power again. Stayed tuned for part 4, as we really start to dial it in before Keenan heads off for tournament competition.
Keep it vertical!
The Surge
Comments
Early Releasing
Thanks for this excellent golf lesson miniseries Surge. I'm sure that all Surgites will get something out of it. In an effort to draw the ball consistently I've probably been straying a bit to a slightly flatter swing plane. Another thing that has been working well to encourage a draw is driving with the right leg after shifting weight to the left foot to trigger the downswing and holding the chest back a bit during the downswing. As you discussed today this is something that when overdone and poorly timed can give me the occasional wild left pull hook ,with the driver.
During my last round, after hitting a couple of nasty pulled drives on the front nine, I decided to focus on hitting nothing but fades with the driver. All I had to do was focus more on the "UP" part of the finish of the backswing that I've been using to hit a draw. This was much easier for me to time and produced a very consistent fade that took the left side out of play. The drives were plenty long enough and all in the fairway for the back nine.
Wide knees
Wide knees has helped me a lot recently. To maintain wide knees, I can't go up and down, I can't tilt right or left or sway, but I can turn just enough to get my left arm over the toe line. It feels a little funny to have this bow-legged stance, but it sure works.
playing golf after open heart surgery
I have had open heart surgery June 29 2015. Doctor says I can resume
playing golf after labor day. Right now I am chipping and putting.Any tips
on the full swing would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Pondeli
Saving my brother
So, Surge, I think I may have converted my oldest brother today. He was in town on a very short trip and we went over to the driving range before he had to fly home. We split a bucket of balls, but he was complaining about back issues and his ball striking was going to hell after about 20 balls. I told him a bit more about your swing (I've mentioned it to him before and sent him links to the site, but I don't think he really believed me then) and had him try the PPGS setup with the wide knees and outward pressure. His first swing he said it felt like he was riding a horse, and I told him that was perfect. "Ride a skinny horse." He hit a dozen more balls with various clubs with no more back issues and extremely consistent contact. He left with one of my copies of the handy reference booklet and I've emailed him a link to the site again so he can come check out the videos. (Maybe he'll see this note.)
Have you seen David Leadbetter "new" A swing
Surge, I saw a video of David Leadbetter's new A swing. If you haven't you should take a look. Some strong similarities to Peak Performance. He refers to the biomechanics he & his staff studied in devising his A swing. He either came up with the same thoughts you did with respect to the biomechanics or he saw your video training for Peak Performance - just sayin....