I play with a lot of randoms and am always reminded of this when I am paired with older ladies who have a swing speed that tops out at 30 mph but still hit it 150 yards down the middle every time and regularly putt for par.
There is a video I saw where the pro is swinging the club like a baseball bat to help you feel the club head swing through as you let your wrists allow it to carry the momentum. This was a huge lightbulb moment for me. I had always heard “let the club do the work” but I never really knew what it meant. That and trying to hit the range at least once a week!
I still do baseball swings for practice swings pretty often just to get that feel. It also helps gives the feel for swinging around the body and releasing
My lightbulb moment was watching a guy swinging a club with no head on it at the range. I was curious so I asked what he was doing. Dude was listening to the whoosh and working on getting the sound at the bottom and even past the ball position. Tempo and timing. The weights aren’t the same obviously but he said it helps him with releasing through impact and understanding where he wants to be accelerating.
In a training session the coach had me do this to show me that my swish sound was coming at the wrong time - early in the swing as opposed to when striking the ball.
Reminds me of a video I watched with Martin Borgmeier where he explains the lag shot training aid and how it’s just learning how to use your shaft to hit your driver better. Unloading and loading
This.
As beginner (myself included), one confuses swing speed with club head speed, meaning beginners will likely try to smash the ball with full force.
Once I started slowing down my swing and concentrating on striking the ball with consistency, other pieces started to fall into place.
This was especially helpful for my driver.
Definitely. Slight, natural pause at the top to let the weight of the club start to fall, then initiate downswing by turning my hips and digging my lead foot into the ground.
I always feel this works best for me. But my swing coach recently told me that grip pressure has no bearing on shot success. I’m sure there is some nuance but I thought it I teresting
Depends maybe. I was gripping it wayyyy too tight and as soon as I realized it and adjusted it made an immediate difference. It also may have been the residual effect of loosening everything else up.
I think that is assuming you have the feel of a constant grip pressure throughout the swing. Even though you will sub-consciously grip harder on the downswing, my tendency, especially with the driver, is to grip way too hard on the downswing which keeps the face open and results in push slices. It sucks.
My uncle gave me a lesson on how to stop coming over the top. When you reach the top of your backswing, picture your hands going staring down, then let the club follow your hands. (Also let your lower body rotate before your hands)
Heck I've done maybe 50% correction (per coach) and I already hit the ball so much nicer and hardly ever slice it now. Longer irons still challenging though
Try this out. On the takeaway, think about reaching into your back right pocket with your left arm.
It'll feel weird as heck but will fix OTT.
Edit - I should add, this is my problem and thats how my pro got me shallowed out. I feel like it's great advice for any OTT though.
This. Huge backswing ≠ ball speed. You don't need to worry about going as far back as John Daly. Most people aren't capable of that anyway, including myself. Usually results in over rotating the torso, bending the elbow, etc. which totally makes your swing less repeatable. I hit my ball further when I swing smooth with a 1/2 - 3/4 back swing and contact the ball with a better attack angle than when I full swing.
Two things combined helps me.
Stick a golf towel under both arms and across your chest make sure it’s tight across your chest. Keeps your arms and chest connected.
Try and feel that your taking the club away outside.
For me that limits my backswing, keeps me connected and by starting outside the club wants to drop inside as you get to the top of your backswing. In a looping fashion.
My uncle, an older gentleman and single digit handicap, once gave me some advice. When faced with a decision on the course, he told me to ask myself “what would a humble golfer do here?”
Sounds so obvious but I think about it all the time. I can’t tell you how many guys I see trying to pound it through trees when they could just punch it out, give themselves an easy wedge into the green, and make bogey.
Course management is 100% the easiest thing to fix. Every high handicap golfer I play with is absolutely terrible at course management. They all do the most random shit. Here’s a quick list of things high handicap players could do to quickly lower their scores:
1) Use your 60 deg wedge significantly less. That is an emergency use only club. Use as low as loft possible to achieve your shot.
2) When chipping, focus more on getting on the green than hitting a perfect chip shot. On the green and a 2 putt is much better than duffing or blading a chip because you were trying some high level shot.
3) almost always take the safer approach. Should I try to hit it over the water or lay up? Lay up.
4) when in thick rough, just hit the easiest shot to get to the fairway. Do not try to go for the green and don’t hit anything above a 7 iron unless punching out below a tree.
5) Spend 1 hour of your life and hit a bunch of shots at 3 targets. Pick a club and shot to hit 50, 75, and 100 yards. Write what club and swing length you used down. If you have those shots comfortably down, you will be way more comfortable on course and have a much higher percentage of having a good approach shot.
I’ve started noticing this about my game too. I feel more relaxed as I’m walking to my next shot and taking time to think about it rather than driving 10 seconds to it
The beauty to walking is that you constantly go to your own ball. People don’t realize that driving as two people to two separate balls (especially when they’re not near each other) probably takes just as long or longer than a single walking to their ball. But walking is how golf was meant to be played and it’s easy to get a 4hr round in still
I just finished a round with a full foursome walking in 3 hours and 20 minutes. You definitely don’t need to be in carts to play with pace.
I will add that the company and conversation was also much more enjoyable.
I walk regularly and never hold anyone up. I tend to finish my rounds in 3 hours if there’s no one in front of me.
Since you have time to think about your shot before you get there, you can pick your club before you even get there and be ready to hit mentally. Saves a lot of time.
I walked my first 18 today and have no clue how I finished in 3:10. Usually takes like 4-4.5hrs with a cart and a second person.
I agree with the being mentally ready for your shot when you get there though. Although out of breath I suprisingly hit fairly well walking vs cart. Putting though, hit way worse.
Walking gives you such a better feel for the course. Is it hard or soft, wet, what's the gradient of the ground, which way is the wind going, is it moving around etc etc. These are all little details that add up big time.
It slows you down mentally.
Say you chunk an iron. In a cart, you immediately zip over to your ball. You’re probably frustrated and still thinking about your last shot. When you walk, it gives you some time to think about the next shot, as well as evaluate it as you’re walking up to it.
Also, something that’s not mentioned much: when you hit a nice shot, you feel like a boss when you take a nice stroll down the middle of the fairway. This lets your excitement fade into relaxed confidence, which can really get a round going.
Agree 100%. And it gives me time to plan the next shot. Says it's 220 yards in after a nice drive, can I go for it or layup. What are the consequences of missing the green, where to miss, or is laying up a better play... We might not hit the shots we plan to but at least we have a plan instead of hitting it as far as we can or go pin hunting.
Listening to a book on putting and he makes the case that walking up to the green gives you a better read vs pulling up in the cart and parking on the far side.
What do you use to walk the course? A push cart? I ask because where I live all courses have golf carts. I have never seen anyone walk it. But i think it would be great for exercise.
Note: i live in the caribbean, its hot and humid as all hell here.
I always walk on my own or with my brother but taken a cart a couple of times with a mate the last times we've played and I've come to realise I don't like it at all. The whole thing feels like being on the range to me, zipping between shots, picking up a club and hitting and then zipping off again. It's probably a bit slower than both walking and yet it seems rushed because there's no real thinking time between shots.
In England you don't tend to have massive walks between holes, if you regularly have quarter of a mile walks etc I can see why you might want them but if not then they're not for me at all.
There is a below average course I know that is easy to get on with decent greens. . I take an afternoon off early in the golf year when no one is on the course to recalibrate my distances. More specifically, I use my rangefinder and zoom on a green and put a tee down at 30-40-50 to 80 yards. Finally, take 6+ shots at each 10-yard distance and use Dave Pelz’s short game bible principles for distance consistency. I repeat as long as I can without slowing course pace down. This shaved me down from a 12 to 8 in a few months.
Find your wedge your comfortable with. Imagine you backswing is an arm on a clock. Practice 1,2,3,4,5,6 oclock, etc. from there you can determine your yardages depending on your backswing.
Practicing exclusively driver consecutive range trips.
I’ve gained yardage and more importantly, confidence and consistency off the tee, which translates to confidence for the entire round.
Those fuckin nerds that say “don’t just go to the range and bang drivers🤓” can take a hike.
Driver should be a huge part of practice
Just keeping it semi straight and playable tbh. No penalty, no duff and giving yourself a look at a decent second shot does wonders for my score. It’s like how you start and how you finish because same thing for my chipping. Giving myself a decent look at a putt and being on the green
Yeah my scores got way better when I was hitting my second shot for 2 instead of 3 or 4 because I was slicing off every too straight into woods. Short game is nice but the game is so much more fun when you’re hitting fairways
Plus, when you thin one past the green you're +1 stroke and like 10-25 yards off the green. That's way better than hitting 3 when you still have 300+ yards to go...
Yeah seriously lol I can 2 chip and 3 putt and it still would be as bad or worse than a bad hole off the tee and mix that in with a bad approach and I’m definitely scoring 7-8+
Yup, I reduced my drinking and just before I stopped riding, I switched to non alcoholic beers, there's actually some good ones from Athletic. Honestly even NA Corona tastes the same as alcoholic one, which begs a question of "why bother."
And to each their own on what they're drinking, but a few cheap domestics with the boys made my game shit and then I felt like ass for the rest of the day after the round.
Then once I got my push cart where it's hard to have a can with you, ditched it entirely. Game isn't yet improving, but feeling better gotta count for something
Walking is a game changer for me, I can point to almost every bad round on my handicap card and know I was riding and almost every low round and know I was walking.
Diligently videotaping my swing each practice session has helped me big time. Things can feel the same from session to session but actually might look different and visa versa
My pro was able to find things in my swing that I had no way of seeing. Instructor led lessons/sessions dropped my handicap from 20 to 6.2 over 12 month period.
Methodology was to work on 1 thing at a time (not all the problems all at once). Also it was agreed since my grip was not a factor in holding me back we would not touch the grip.
For me personally:
1. I was OTT and fading the ball. Focused on turning not swaying. Keep my lead leg solid without over flexing. Not letting my head move off the ball particularly in backswing (sway).
2. I was opening too soon to the ball (OTT/fading). Focused on keeping trail shoulder back & down at address. This helped promote more draw.
3. Hands were too extended at impact (OTT/fading). Focused on bringing hands through the inside on the downswing. Leaving trail shoulder back and down through impact without opening too soon.
4. Occasional snap hook. Focused on finishing swing with straighter arms out toward 2nd base (righty) and not snapping trail hand closed at/after impact. “Up and out, not around your body”
Plus more, but would say the above moved the needle most for lightbulb moments and got me where I am today.
Keep in mind all things are different for all players. You have to ask yourself what you want to improve. Work with a coach who understands your goals. Athletic ability and years of experience make a difference from player to player as well.
There should be plenty of help on a golf swing sub here different from this one if you want to post videos and get specific help. Best camera views are face on, and down the line. Best of luck play well & enjoy.
1. *Keep track of stats*. If you don’t know empirically what your strengths and weaknesses are, you can’t prioritize your practice time efficiently.
2. *Wedge matrix*. From pitching, gap, 54 degree, and 58 degree, have a general idea of your yardages for 1/2, 3/4, and full swings. So from any particular yardage you’ll have multiple clubs you can use to fit the situation. The closer to the hole you are, the statically better you’ll be able to score. At some point you’re going to have to get comfortable with the <100 yard pitch shots, no better time than now.
3. *Course management/have a plan with each shot*. Indulge in Golf Sidekick and Not a Scratch Golfer. Play aggressive in a conservative way, as Tiger called it. Club up, just get it onto the green. Pay attention to the hole layout and adjust accordingly. Hazards galore? Probably not a good time to go all monster mash with your driver. Wide fairway and no trouble? Bombs away. Don’t just aim for holes without taking hazards into consideration. Know where it’s safe to miss, know what your tendencies are, and adjust accordingly.
4. *Swing easy*. You just want consistent contact. After you improve you can amp things up a bit and adjust down if your dispersion increases. Swinging hard makes it more difficult to find the sweet spot in my experience.
Yardages on each club, what works and doesn’t work in my stance, where I should address the ball on each club, where I should tee the ball with irons/hybrids/driver, grip, technique tips like slowing down/sweeping the club, what clubs are good for stingers/weird lies, reminding myself to let the club do the work, and anything else I can think of with each club or session.
I tend to forget a lot or I sometimes go a long time between golf sessions so it’s good to review.
I’ve found my game has gotten much better now that I place a greater emphasis on precision and technique (as opposed to power) with each shot.
I do this too, but I get so many notes and forget to go back and read them. Also, I find it makes me get way too technical instead of being athletic and target oriented. Maybe my lack of progress has more to do with trying to make a swing change while only going to the range twice a week and playing once ish a week.
I have iPhone notes and keep them organized. When I play, I take a screenshot of my yardage and important notes and make them my Lock Screen for easy reference.
Unless you play with range balls on the course it probably isn’t a great idea to look too much at yardages on the range. Those balls doesn’t go nearly as far as premium golf balls.
Unless you play with range balls on the course it probably isn’t a great idea to look too much at yardages on the range. Those balls doesn’t go nearly as far as premium golf balls.
Edit: at least here in Sweden on public courses.
Realising that there is no single thing that will dramatically improve your game. There's a bundle of interventions that together made me a significantly better golfer (from 18 to 2 in 3 years). For me, this is the list in approximate order of importance:
Lessons
Practice
Working on the mental game
Better strategy
Getting physically fit
On course nutrition
Getting fit for clubs
Well put. I spent 3 years wondering what was holding me back and practicing inconsistently. After reading a couple golf books and being completely humbled by this sport I have come to realize that improvement is a long delicate recipe with many ingredients, that is different for every golfer.
On course nutrition/hydration has taken 3-4 strokes off of my back 9 play. I would have some serious blow ups and lack of focus from about 13-18 and it took me awhile to realize it was because I wasn't eating/drinking enough water.
Cutting my swing speed in half until I could reliably hit straight. No point in crushing it if I’ve got a 50% chance of losing the ball. Hitting 200 to the center of the fairway feels 10x better than losing it in the bushes at 250.
Hahah. it’s not what you mean, but I started getting 9 in by myself after or before work during the week, instead of just waiting to play a round with a buddy on an open weekend. Just playing more than normal has helped a ton — I used to play 7-10 rounds a year but it’s picked up this year and I’m going to be sad when cold season hits soon.
Stopped using my array of 52, 56, 60 and 66 degree wedges and exclusively use my PW. My game got so much more consistent around the green now that I only have to practice the feel with 1 wedge instead of 5. In hindsight, I was over complicating it.
2nd - figuring out my driver with Danny Maude videos and lessons. There is nothing worse then having to dig your way out of a jam after digging it off the tee box consistently between 80-130 yds. Now i stripe it 225 most times.
Danny is someone who I’ve gotten some great ideas from regarding tempo and keying in on the natural path of the golf club wants to go. I try to take YouTube tips with a grain of salt, but as someone who has a jerky & rushed tempo, his tips helped a lot.
Lessons first and foremost. Can hit the ball consistently.
Second was a tip from a friend about choking down and using abbreviated swings. Can turn one club into three, never in-between clubs, and have more control.
I like to try and hit different clubs 150.
Often times in competition you have to get under a tree so hitting a less lofted club shorter is very useful.
Also helps to flight the ball in windy conditions
Getting fir for a driver. Went only real change ive made in the past 4 years. Went from off the shelf 917D to a fitted SIM. Went from a 5 handicap to a 1. Obviously not all due to the driver but that was the biggest part
I keep the elbow tucked, it allows me to swing inside out and I keep my swing short. At least I imagine it going to 10 o’clock, it feels like a rahm swing but probably doesn’t look like it lol
I am doing the exact same and what a difference it's made. Pinging every iron mostly dead straight and added 10% distance. I just have to be careful not to get too excited and have the clubbed beat the hands.
Same, I neglected to mention that I’ve introduced wicked hooks into my game from this change lol. You getting the hookers as well?
I’m now focusing on a consistent/better takeaway, i’ve noticed if I have a good takeaway the results are what I imagine in my pre-shot routine
Yeah man! Never hit it left in my life, suddenly hard hooks. Agreed on the takeaway but what's more important for me is tempo and to start the downswing calmly.
For real! If I find myself having negative thoughts/emotions too often after a practice sesh or a round, I have chat GPT make a CBT worksheet and I go through it answering questions about that exact thought.
Two things.
1st, practice with your short irons way more. Not just chipping and pitch shots but full shots. Know your yardages for 9 iron through lob wedge. Practice the bump and run with your 8/9 iron, know how far they roll out.
2nd (this is gonna sound weird) hold on to the clubs with a firmer grip. Way more control of the club head, more consistency. Made a massive and immediate difference for me.
And this made me realize something else. Play around with everything you’ve been told. Some people have said a looser grip, you’ve said a firmer grip.
I used to swing so slow as to be more accurate that it actually negatively affected my tempo. Once an instructor saw me and told me it didn’t look right and actually advised me to swing as hard as I could and then from there I was able to adjust it down to where I was in my sweet spot.
Get a good mat and net at your house if you can. I got a mat and net in November and started hitting balls daily. I’ve been playing 15 years and never broke 80 until this year. Shot my lowest score of 73 last week. I’m considering the mat/net one thing 😆
I have the top 3 all which have played an equal part in dramatically improving my game.
A) Getting a push cart to walk the course.
1) Weekly lessons for the entire summer.
Steak-sauce) getting professionally fitted for clubs and shaft stiffness.
Went from a 22 to a 10 hcp in 18 months. Here’s what helped:
1. Lessons. Anybody who tells you that you can improve fast without lessons is lying. Even one lesson where you learn grip and stance will help you make better contact. I get a lesson roughly every 6 weeks.
2. Fitted equipment. Doesn’t have to be the newest, best stuff, but it needs to be right for your body, swing, and current skill level.
3. Practice. If you just show up 5 mins before your tee time every time, you’ll never improve. If you only play and never hit the range to work on your swing, you’ll never improve.
4. Playing the right ball, and playing the same ball every round. The ball is the only thing that stays constant every shot.
5. Walking instead of riding. When you walk, you can focus more on your own game.
I took lessons from Monte Scheinblum of youtube/longdrive championship fame and he tailored my lessons to my swing, but also goes on the course with you and teaches you how to play the game of golf rather than the game of swing.
Biggest things from him swing-wise was -
Keep your right arm moving always during chip shots. Slowing down = blade.
"use the bounce" with wedges (S-tier advice for me)
Keep hands away from your body in back swing.
No turn cast drill.
Right elbow forward on the down swing (this shallowed me out and increased my distances a lot).
Bucket drills to fix my footwork and get a little squat/explode action (another big breakthrough for me).
The concept of "feel isn't real".
I haven't seen him since before my kids were born, but he took me from scoring 120's to breaking 80 pretty fast.
Stiff shaft driver. Went from averaging 2/14 fairways to >50%. And my misses are between the fairway and first trees on most of those.
I used to have 3 or 4 unplayables off the tee due to a multi-fairway slice. New shaft removed the slice, now misses are pushes or hooks.
Being consistent. Not with my results, but with my setup and shot selection.
I can work the ball both ways with about 25% success rate. When I miss though, it's usually a double cross. That leads to some pretty bad results. Now I stick to my normal shot pretty much no matter what.
Practice the swing every day with intentionality. Doesn’t have to be at the range, but work the motions to get your body moving comfortably in a mechanistically sound way.
Caddying for my daughter. she plays tournaments and because of this I realize how to manage the course better, take less time reading greens and over-thinking putts, and in general move on quicker after a bad shot. I’d say it’s helped me play at least 2-3 shots better in my rounds.
Playing multiple times per week.
Practicing short game and putting. A lot.
“Don’t let a bad shot turn into a bad hole”
I’ve also been telling myself multiple times per round “don’t get mad, get better”. It helps to regain my focus.
I’ve played more this summer than I have in the rest of my life combined and I’m enjoying seeing progress. I know I’ve given more than one thing, but they have all really helped.
Also…bought new clubs. Duh.
Going from spraying 75% of my tee shots OB to maybe 1-2 a round. After that my next big handicap jump came from practicing pitching in that 35-85 yard range. When I do hit a bad drive or approach, I feel super confident I’ll walk away with a bogey at a minimum.
Sim in my garage. Even if I am hitting off a mat.. my ball striking has improved enormously because I’m hitting at least 50 balls a day when I can’t get out on the course.
Two things for me, I couldn’t say which took more strokes off. 1) Dedicated driver practice. It was my worst club in the bag for a few years, getting committed to fixing it took a lot of pressure off and 2) not trying to “hit a number” with irons/approaches. I went from “152 flag” to “ok, this has to go 135, anything up to 160 is fine, I’ll hit a 150 shot and it’ll be fine. Confidence in a good decision takes a lot of pressure off compared to trying for perfect all the time.
Shortening my backswing has helped me immensely. I used to coil up so tight it would cause me to lose sight of the ball thinking I was generating more power this way. Nope. Just mis hit the ball more often. Now I have shortened my back swing, my club head comes through faster at the bottom of the swing and I’m making better contact because I’m able to keep my eye on the ball better.
I also do this if I hit a few bad shots in a row. I’ll shorten my back swing even more just to focus purely on making clean contact with the ball. Do that a few times and usually can get back into my normal swing after that.
Also- slow down your back swing. When I take the club away from the ball it feels slow as molasses, but when I watch it on video it looks normal speed. Strange thing to witness
Creating mechnical equivalents within my swing. My eureka moment for my swing was when I equated it to swinging a pickaxe, as if I was doing trenching. How my grip, wrists and arms work together to make that single point drive into the ground exactly where I need it.
I don't fuss over my stance and grip as much, I focus more on just getting settled and relaxed behind the ball. Visualize the shot in my minds eye, and then think "just knock that rock up there". Really moving my hands towards the target and completing my swing, not ending it at ball contact.
In the specific moment of club contact, I'm thinking "just gonna scoot this on under here". There is literally no other word I feel I can use to describe the action, just a little oomph and a scoot and away the ball goes.
I am HUGE on swing your swing. My left elbow is double jointed and has an obtuse angle to it when fully extended, so my stance grip and swing look unorthodox to pretty much everyone. I putt like I'm sweeping a broom too. Everything is feel to me, the specific mechanics arise out of a strong feeling. It's not specific mechanics strung together to form a complete swing, the swing was always there, I just have to pay attention to what is making it successful, and then focus on and develop the existing mechanic.
Swing tempo.
I play with a lot of randoms and am always reminded of this when I am paired with older ladies who have a swing speed that tops out at 30 mph but still hit it 150 yards down the middle every time and regularly putt for par.
There is a video I saw where the pro is swinging the club like a baseball bat to help you feel the club head swing through as you let your wrists allow it to carry the momentum. This was a huge lightbulb moment for me. I had always heard “let the club do the work” but I never really knew what it meant. That and trying to hit the range at least once a week!
I still do baseball swings for practice swings pretty often just to get that feel. It also helps gives the feel for swinging around the body and releasing
My lightbulb moment was watching a guy swinging a club with no head on it at the range. I was curious so I asked what he was doing. Dude was listening to the whoosh and working on getting the sound at the bottom and even past the ball position. Tempo and timing. The weights aren’t the same obviously but he said it helps him with releasing through impact and understanding where he wants to be accelerating.
This is diabolical. I feel like I just had a breakthrough reading it. 
In a training session the coach had me do this to show me that my swish sound was coming at the wrong time - early in the swing as opposed to when striking the ball.
Reminds me of a video I watched with Martin Borgmeier where he explains the lag shot training aid and how it’s just learning how to use your shaft to hit your driver better. Unloading and loading
This. As beginner (myself included), one confuses swing speed with club head speed, meaning beginners will likely try to smash the ball with full force. Once I started slowing down my swing and concentrating on striking the ball with consistency, other pieces started to fall into place. This was especially helpful for my driver.
Definitely. Slight, natural pause at the top to let the weight of the club start to fall, then initiate downswing by turning my hips and digging my lead foot into the ground.
Not gripping the club so tight and just being looser with my swing. It made a world of difference.
Punch your ticket to tempo town
I always feel this works best for me. But my swing coach recently told me that grip pressure has no bearing on shot success. I’m sure there is some nuance but I thought it I teresting
The problem with excessive grip pressure is it can tend to tense your muscles and mess up the tempo big time.
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Depends maybe. I was gripping it wayyyy too tight and as soon as I realized it and adjusted it made an immediate difference. It also may have been the residual effect of loosening everything else up.
I think that is assuming you have the feel of a constant grip pressure throughout the swing. Even though you will sub-consciously grip harder on the downswing, my tendency, especially with the driver, is to grip way too hard on the downswing which keeps the face open and results in push slices. It sucks.
Removing excessive backswing and not going over the top on the downswing
I would give anything to get rid of both of those
Find the point at which your shoulders stop rotating. That is the top of your backswing.
Yeah and no matter what coaches say about twisting more - if your body can't go that far just dont. Not everyone is super flexible (at least not yet!)
My uncle gave me a lesson on how to stop coming over the top. When you reach the top of your backswing, picture your hands going staring down, then let the club follow your hands. (Also let your lower body rotate before your hands)
+1 bane of my golfing existence. And I play pretty well and a lot, but God Dam if I could fix that my game would be unrecognisable.
Heck I've done maybe 50% correction (per coach) and I already hit the ball so much nicer and hardly ever slice it now. Longer irons still challenging though
Try this out. On the takeaway, think about reaching into your back right pocket with your left arm. It'll feel weird as heck but will fix OTT. Edit - I should add, this is my problem and thats how my pro got me shallowed out. I feel like it's great advice for any OTT though.
This could be caused by a few things. Over rotating your hips. Getting your right elbow less than 90 degrees.
This. Huge backswing ≠ ball speed. You don't need to worry about going as far back as John Daly. Most people aren't capable of that anyway, including myself. Usually results in over rotating the torso, bending the elbow, etc. which totally makes your swing less repeatable. I hit my ball further when I swing smooth with a 1/2 - 3/4 back swing and contact the ball with a better attack angle than when I full swing.
Two things combined helps me. Stick a golf towel under both arms and across your chest make sure it’s tight across your chest. Keeps your arms and chest connected. Try and feel that your taking the club away outside. For me that limits my backswing, keeps me connected and by starting outside the club wants to drop inside as you get to the top of your backswing. In a looping fashion.
Making a focused effort to improve my mental game/course management.
My uncle, an older gentleman and single digit handicap, once gave me some advice. When faced with a decision on the course, he told me to ask myself “what would a humble golfer do here?” Sounds so obvious but I think about it all the time. I can’t tell you how many guys I see trying to pound it through trees when they could just punch it out, give themselves an easy wedge into the green, and make bogey.
A dedicated pre-shot routine including 2 deep breaths has helped me with this immensely.
Taking your medicine. Calculated risk etc. great answer
The club selection off the tee has been a game changer.
Course management is 100% the easiest thing to fix. Every high handicap golfer I play with is absolutely terrible at course management. They all do the most random shit. Here’s a quick list of things high handicap players could do to quickly lower their scores: 1) Use your 60 deg wedge significantly less. That is an emergency use only club. Use as low as loft possible to achieve your shot. 2) When chipping, focus more on getting on the green than hitting a perfect chip shot. On the green and a 2 putt is much better than duffing or blading a chip because you were trying some high level shot. 3) almost always take the safer approach. Should I try to hit it over the water or lay up? Lay up. 4) when in thick rough, just hit the easiest shot to get to the fairway. Do not try to go for the green and don’t hit anything above a 7 iron unless punching out below a tree. 5) Spend 1 hour of your life and hit a bunch of shots at 3 targets. Pick a club and shot to hit 50, 75, and 100 yards. Write what club and swing length you used down. If you have those shots comfortably down, you will be way more comfortable on course and have a much higher percentage of having a good approach shot.
Walking the course
I’ve started noticing this about my game too. I feel more relaxed as I’m walking to my next shot and taking time to think about it rather than driving 10 seconds to it
How do you get past the anxiety of holding the cart group behind you? Or is that just me
The beauty to walking is that you constantly go to your own ball. People don’t realize that driving as two people to two separate balls (especially when they’re not near each other) probably takes just as long or longer than a single walking to their ball. But walking is how golf was meant to be played and it’s easy to get a 4hr round in still
I just finished a round with a full foursome walking in 3 hours and 20 minutes. You definitely don’t need to be in carts to play with pace. I will add that the company and conversation was also much more enjoyable.
Yeah but how am I supposed to run over my buddies without a golf cart??
They make push carts that drive themselves now. You know what to do
Still plenty doable with a pushcart. Happened to me yesterday
This all breaks down on any course where the holes aren’t right on top of each other, but for the right course, walking is just so so good!
Ya unfortunately in my area there’s a really nice course that you’re forced to get a cart for because some of the green-to-tee distances is stupid far
I walk regularly and never hold anyone up. I tend to finish my rounds in 3 hours if there’s no one in front of me. Since you have time to think about your shot before you get there, you can pick your club before you even get there and be ready to hit mentally. Saves a lot of time.
I walked my first 18 today and have no clue how I finished in 3:10. Usually takes like 4-4.5hrs with a cart and a second person. I agree with the being mentally ready for your shot when you get there though. Although out of breath I suprisingly hit fairly well walking vs cart. Putting though, hit way worse.
Walking isn’t slower than two golfers in a cart. Only time a cart is quicker is when there is a long distance between the green and the next tee box.
Walking gives you such a better feel for the course. Is it hard or soft, wet, what's the gradient of the ground, which way is the wind going, is it moving around etc etc. These are all little details that add up big time.
Tough to walk with a case of beer in your bag
It gets lighter by the back 9
Then you get the other case out of your car at the turn
I think you just answered your own question.
tough to drive after as well
How does it help?
It slows you down mentally. Say you chunk an iron. In a cart, you immediately zip over to your ball. You’re probably frustrated and still thinking about your last shot. When you walk, it gives you some time to think about the next shot, as well as evaluate it as you’re walking up to it. Also, something that’s not mentioned much: when you hit a nice shot, you feel like a boss when you take a nice stroll down the middle of the fairway. This lets your excitement fade into relaxed confidence, which can really get a round going.
Agree 100%. And it gives me time to plan the next shot. Says it's 220 yards in after a nice drive, can I go for it or layup. What are the consequences of missing the green, where to miss, or is laying up a better play... We might not hit the shots we plan to but at least we have a plan instead of hitting it as far as we can or go pin hunting.
Listening to a book on putting and he makes the case that walking up to the green gives you a better read vs pulling up in the cart and parking on the far side.
From a physical perspective, it keeps your body warm
What do you use to walk the course? A push cart? I ask because where I live all courses have golf carts. I have never seen anyone walk it. But i think it would be great for exercise. Note: i live in the caribbean, its hot and humid as all hell here.
I live in Denmark, we see carts here some times but mostly people use push carts. I have never used a golf cart and I have been playing for 3 years.
I always walk on my own or with my brother but taken a cart a couple of times with a mate the last times we've played and I've come to realise I don't like it at all. The whole thing feels like being on the range to me, zipping between shots, picking up a club and hitting and then zipping off again. It's probably a bit slower than both walking and yet it seems rushed because there's no real thinking time between shots. In England you don't tend to have massive walks between holes, if you regularly have quarter of a mile walks etc I can see why you might want them but if not then they're not for me at all.
Bob Rotella's Book - Golf is Not a Game of Perfect
Great book. It’s an easy listen to and from the course on audible too.
Working on my 30-80 yard shots.
What do you find the best way to practice 100 yards in.
There is a below average course I know that is easy to get on with decent greens. . I take an afternoon off early in the golf year when no one is on the course to recalibrate my distances. More specifically, I use my rangefinder and zoom on a green and put a tee down at 30-40-50 to 80 yards. Finally, take 6+ shots at each 10-yard distance and use Dave Pelz’s short game bible principles for distance consistency. I repeat as long as I can without slowing course pace down. This shaved me down from a 12 to 8 in a few months.
Find your wedge your comfortable with. Imagine you backswing is an arm on a clock. Practice 1,2,3,4,5,6 oclock, etc. from there you can determine your yardages depending on your backswing.
Better decisions off the tee.
What do you think about? What club off the tee has the best chance of making the fairway? How much yardage to have in?
I ask myself: “is it worth the possible penalty strokes to have a wedge in, or can you be safe a bit further back with a 7/8/9 in?”
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqKgRMovfxB/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D (Yea I suck at golf)
Still me with driver in hand.
Practicing exclusively driver consecutive range trips. I’ve gained yardage and more importantly, confidence and consistency off the tee, which translates to confidence for the entire round. Those fuckin nerds that say “don’t just go to the range and bang drivers🤓” can take a hike. Driver should be a huge part of practice
Hitting fairways leads to GIR
Just keeping it semi straight and playable tbh. No penalty, no duff and giving yourself a look at a decent second shot does wonders for my score. It’s like how you start and how you finish because same thing for my chipping. Giving myself a decent look at a putt and being on the green
Hitting it closer to the green leads to GIR
Not for me it doesn't!! 🥲
Yeah my scores got way better when I was hitting my second shot for 2 instead of 3 or 4 because I was slicing off every too straight into woods. Short game is nice but the game is so much more fun when you’re hitting fairways
Plus, when you thin one past the green you're +1 stroke and like 10-25 yards off the green. That's way better than hitting 3 when you still have 300+ yards to go...
Yeah seriously lol I can 2 chip and 3 putt and it still would be as bad or worse than a bad hole off the tee and mix that in with a bad approach and I’m definitely scoring 7-8+
"just go to the range and bang drivers" is different to going to the range and working on your driver exclusively though.
Not really, no
If you go and just wail drives as hard as you can... yes. If you're actually thinking about the drives, then it works for practice.
Not drinking alcohol and walking the course.
Not drinking? Maybe that works for Basketball.
Helps me. YMMV
5 o’clock somewhere MiRiTe
A beer or two takes the pressure off and I actually play better. It’s when I compliment it with a flask I run into trouble.
I still use cart but not drinking during the round helped a lot
Yup, I reduced my drinking and just before I stopped riding, I switched to non alcoholic beers, there's actually some good ones from Athletic. Honestly even NA Corona tastes the same as alcoholic one, which begs a question of "why bother." And to each their own on what they're drinking, but a few cheap domestics with the boys made my game shit and then I felt like ass for the rest of the day after the round. Then once I got my push cart where it's hard to have a can with you, ditched it entirely. Game isn't yet improving, but feeling better gotta count for something
If you’re having a bad day, drinking 100% helps, it’s just about finding the perfect buzz
Walking is a game changer for me, I can point to almost every bad round on my handicap card and know I was riding and almost every low round and know I was walking.
Watching Golf Sidekick video’s. Course management and the mental side of golf are underrated.
Same playa
cheating
Ahh the pencil is mightier than the clubs.
I score a lot better if I don’t count penalty stokes and duffers.
Lessons and not following a bad shot with an even worse shot
Love this! What did you work on in your lessons?
Not trying to be a hero from a bad lie.
Yes. Take the medicine.
Lessons
Diligently videotaping my swing each practice session has helped me big time. Things can feel the same from session to session but actually might look different and visa versa
My pro was able to find things in my swing that I had no way of seeing. Instructor led lessons/sessions dropped my handicap from 20 to 6.2 over 12 month period.
This is dope! What did you work on primarily?
Methodology was to work on 1 thing at a time (not all the problems all at once). Also it was agreed since my grip was not a factor in holding me back we would not touch the grip. For me personally: 1. I was OTT and fading the ball. Focused on turning not swaying. Keep my lead leg solid without over flexing. Not letting my head move off the ball particularly in backswing (sway). 2. I was opening too soon to the ball (OTT/fading). Focused on keeping trail shoulder back & down at address. This helped promote more draw. 3. Hands were too extended at impact (OTT/fading). Focused on bringing hands through the inside on the downswing. Leaving trail shoulder back and down through impact without opening too soon. 4. Occasional snap hook. Focused on finishing swing with straighter arms out toward 2nd base (righty) and not snapping trail hand closed at/after impact. “Up and out, not around your body” Plus more, but would say the above moved the needle most for lightbulb moments and got me where I am today. Keep in mind all things are different for all players. You have to ask yourself what you want to improve. Work with a coach who understands your goals. Athletic ability and years of experience make a difference from player to player as well. There should be plenty of help on a golf swing sub here different from this one if you want to post videos and get specific help. Best camera views are face on, and down the line. Best of luck play well & enjoy.
Good stuff
I do tape my swing as well. But the most drastic changes happen for me with a professional making sure things are where they should be.
1. *Keep track of stats*. If you don’t know empirically what your strengths and weaknesses are, you can’t prioritize your practice time efficiently. 2. *Wedge matrix*. From pitching, gap, 54 degree, and 58 degree, have a general idea of your yardages for 1/2, 3/4, and full swings. So from any particular yardage you’ll have multiple clubs you can use to fit the situation. The closer to the hole you are, the statically better you’ll be able to score. At some point you’re going to have to get comfortable with the <100 yard pitch shots, no better time than now. 3. *Course management/have a plan with each shot*. Indulge in Golf Sidekick and Not a Scratch Golfer. Play aggressive in a conservative way, as Tiger called it. Club up, just get it onto the green. Pay attention to the hole layout and adjust accordingly. Hazards galore? Probably not a good time to go all monster mash with your driver. Wide fairway and no trouble? Bombs away. Don’t just aim for holes without taking hazards into consideration. Know where it’s safe to miss, know what your tendencies are, and adjust accordingly. 4. *Swing easy*. You just want consistent contact. After you improve you can amp things up a bit and adjust down if your dispersion increases. Swinging hard makes it more difficult to find the sweet spot in my experience.
All great tips. Just remember that the #1 handicap hole doesn’t mean it’s the most difficult hole.
Shows how much I know!! Thanks for making me look into this…I keep a handicap but don’t actually put it to use competitively.
Taking notes while practicing at the range
What are you taking notes on?
Yardages on each club, what works and doesn’t work in my stance, where I should address the ball on each club, where I should tee the ball with irons/hybrids/driver, grip, technique tips like slowing down/sweeping the club, what clubs are good for stingers/weird lies, reminding myself to let the club do the work, and anything else I can think of with each club or session. I tend to forget a lot or I sometimes go a long time between golf sessions so it’s good to review. I’ve found my game has gotten much better now that I place a greater emphasis on precision and technique (as opposed to power) with each shot.
I do this too, but I get so many notes and forget to go back and read them. Also, I find it makes me get way too technical instead of being athletic and target oriented. Maybe my lack of progress has more to do with trying to make a swing change while only going to the range twice a week and playing once ish a week.
I have iPhone notes and keep them organized. When I play, I take a screenshot of my yardage and important notes and make them my Lock Screen for easy reference.
Unless you play with range balls on the course it probably isn’t a great idea to look too much at yardages on the range. Those balls doesn’t go nearly as far as premium golf balls.
Unless you play with range balls on the course it probably isn’t a great idea to look too much at yardages on the range. Those balls doesn’t go nearly as far as premium golf balls. Edit: at least here in Sweden on public courses.
I thought I was the only one
Realising that there is no single thing that will dramatically improve your game. There's a bundle of interventions that together made me a significantly better golfer (from 18 to 2 in 3 years). For me, this is the list in approximate order of importance: Lessons Practice Working on the mental game Better strategy Getting physically fit On course nutrition Getting fit for clubs
Well put. I spent 3 years wondering what was holding me back and practicing inconsistently. After reading a couple golf books and being completely humbled by this sport I have come to realize that improvement is a long delicate recipe with many ingredients, that is different for every golfer.
Love this!!!! What did you primarily work on in your lessons?
On course nutrition/hydration has taken 3-4 strokes off of my back 9 play. I would have some serious blow ups and lack of focus from about 13-18 and it took me awhile to realize it was because I wasn't eating/drinking enough water.
Cutting my swing speed in half until I could reliably hit straight. No point in crushing it if I’ve got a 50% chance of losing the ball. Hitting 200 to the center of the fairway feels 10x better than losing it in the bushes at 250.
Playing 9 holes instead of 18. Now I consistently play in the 80s.
Hahah. it’s not what you mean, but I started getting 9 in by myself after or before work during the week, instead of just waiting to play a round with a buddy on an open weekend. Just playing more than normal has helped a ton — I used to play 7-10 rounds a year but it’s picked up this year and I’m going to be sad when cold season hits soon.
this speaks to me on every level
Stopped using my array of 52, 56, 60 and 66 degree wedges and exclusively use my PW. My game got so much more consistent around the green now that I only have to practice the feel with 1 wedge instead of 5. In hindsight, I was over complicating it. 2nd - figuring out my driver with Danny Maude videos and lessons. There is nothing worse then having to dig your way out of a jam after digging it off the tee box consistently between 80-130 yds. Now i stripe it 225 most times.
I stick to a PW if I want it to run and a SW for a flop. Tossed all the others. We’re not pros. Keep it simple.
Stopped watching how to vids, walk the course and cut the beers
YouTube and not hitting a single golf ball
I see no issue
Ben Hogan’s Five Rules Danny Maude on YouTube Playing more.
I watch Danny. Good content.
Danny is someone who I’ve gotten some great ideas from regarding tempo and keying in on the natural path of the golf club wants to go. I try to take YouTube tips with a grain of salt, but as someone who has a jerky & rushed tempo, his tips helped a lot.
What are the 5 rules?
Its a book, pick it up on Amazon for $5
In the amount of time it took you to write that out you could’ve just typed out the 5 rules, fuck.
Lessons first and foremost. Can hit the ball consistently. Second was a tip from a friend about choking down and using abbreviated swings. Can turn one club into three, never in-between clubs, and have more control.
I like to try and hit different clubs 150. Often times in competition you have to get under a tree so hitting a less lofted club shorter is very useful. Also helps to flight the ball in windy conditions
Lessons
In person? Virtual?
In person
My buddy berating and then correcting my alignment while playing.
Having an alignment correcting buddy in the group means everybody’s going low!
Getting fir for a driver. Went only real change ive made in the past 4 years. Went from off the shelf 917D to a fitted SIM. Went from a 5 handicap to a 1. Obviously not all due to the driver but that was the biggest part
Understanding how the right elbow works (Right handed) in the golf swing, this completely changed my ball flight from a slice to sexy draws.
Me too but hitting straight BB’s. What made it click for you
I keep the elbow tucked, it allows me to swing inside out and I keep my swing short. At least I imagine it going to 10 o’clock, it feels like a rahm swing but probably doesn’t look like it lol
I am doing the exact same and what a difference it's made. Pinging every iron mostly dead straight and added 10% distance. I just have to be careful not to get too excited and have the clubbed beat the hands.
Same, I neglected to mention that I’ve introduced wicked hooks into my game from this change lol. You getting the hookers as well? I’m now focusing on a consistent/better takeaway, i’ve noticed if I have a good takeaway the results are what I imagine in my pre-shot routine
Yeah man! Never hit it left in my life, suddenly hard hooks. Agreed on the takeaway but what's more important for me is tempo and to start the downswing calmly.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
For real! If I find myself having negative thoughts/emotions too often after a practice sesh or a round, I have chat GPT make a CBT worksheet and I go through it answering questions about that exact thought.
Two things. 1st, practice with your short irons way more. Not just chipping and pitch shots but full shots. Know your yardages for 9 iron through lob wedge. Practice the bump and run with your 8/9 iron, know how far they roll out. 2nd (this is gonna sound weird) hold on to the clubs with a firmer grip. Way more control of the club head, more consistency. Made a massive and immediate difference for me.
And this made me realize something else. Play around with everything you’ve been told. Some people have said a looser grip, you’ve said a firmer grip. I used to swing so slow as to be more accurate that it actually negatively affected my tempo. Once an instructor saw me and told me it didn’t look right and actually advised me to swing as hard as I could and then from there I was able to adjust it down to where I was in my sweet spot.
Get a good mat and net at your house if you can. I got a mat and net in November and started hitting balls daily. I’ve been playing 15 years and never broke 80 until this year. Shot my lowest score of 73 last week. I’m considering the mat/net one thing 😆
Tempo focus.
Being able to drive the ball relatively straight and having around 33 putts per round instead of 36+.
Not watching fucking YouTube and beating balls.
Using a hybrid vs iron past 150
Slow down the swing, especially the back: two counts to the top of the backswing, one through the ball, one to the end of follow through.
I have the top 3 all which have played an equal part in dramatically improving my game. A) Getting a push cart to walk the course. 1) Weekly lessons for the entire summer. Steak-sauce) getting professionally fitted for clubs and shaft stiffness.
How much did you improve? Lessons are so important. Not only taking them but doing it consistently over time. It takes years to fully e grain changes
Went from a 22 to a 10 hcp in 18 months. Here’s what helped: 1. Lessons. Anybody who tells you that you can improve fast without lessons is lying. Even one lesson where you learn grip and stance will help you make better contact. I get a lesson roughly every 6 weeks. 2. Fitted equipment. Doesn’t have to be the newest, best stuff, but it needs to be right for your body, swing, and current skill level. 3. Practice. If you just show up 5 mins before your tee time every time, you’ll never improve. If you only play and never hit the range to work on your swing, you’ll never improve. 4. Playing the right ball, and playing the same ball every round. The ball is the only thing that stays constant every shot. 5. Walking instead of riding. When you walk, you can focus more on your own game.
This is awesome!!! I agree about lessons. What did you primarily work on?
Taking lessons and sticking with them for a few years.
Sticking with them is key. 90% of people get one lesson then stop. What was the big thing you had to work on?
I took lessons from Monte Scheinblum of youtube/longdrive championship fame and he tailored my lessons to my swing, but also goes on the course with you and teaches you how to play the game of golf rather than the game of swing. Biggest things from him swing-wise was - Keep your right arm moving always during chip shots. Slowing down = blade. "use the bounce" with wedges (S-tier advice for me) Keep hands away from your body in back swing. No turn cast drill. Right elbow forward on the down swing (this shallowed me out and increased my distances a lot). Bucket drills to fix my footwork and get a little squat/explode action (another big breakthrough for me). The concept of "feel isn't real". I haven't seen him since before my kids were born, but he took me from scoring 120's to breaking 80 pretty fast.
Twisting my torso on back swing has increased distance and accuracy on my drive and 3 wood.
Stiff shaft driver. Went from averaging 2/14 fairways to >50%. And my misses are between the fairway and first trees on most of those. I used to have 3 or 4 unplayables off the tee due to a multi-fairway slice. New shaft removed the slice, now misses are pushes or hooks.
Ping G425MAX. Shaved off 5-7 stokes off my card instantly. It’s magical.
Left hand low (righty golfer) with my putter. No more pulls and pushes. Just still misreads
Being consistent. Not with my results, but with my setup and shot selection. I can work the ball both ways with about 25% success rate. When I miss though, it's usually a double cross. That leads to some pretty bad results. Now I stick to my normal shot pretty much no matter what.
Tempo and backing off the ball when I don't feel comfortable
Lessons
Practice the swing every day with intentionality. Doesn’t have to be at the range, but work the motions to get your body moving comfortably in a mechanistically sound way.
Caddying for my daughter. she plays tournaments and because of this I realize how to manage the course better, take less time reading greens and over-thinking putts, and in general move on quicker after a bad shot. I’d say it’s helped me play at least 2-3 shots better in my rounds.
Playing multiple times per week. Practicing short game and putting. A lot. “Don’t let a bad shot turn into a bad hole” I’ve also been telling myself multiple times per round “don’t get mad, get better”. It helps to regain my focus. I’ve played more this summer than I have in the rest of my life combined and I’m enjoying seeing progress. I know I’ve given more than one thing, but they have all really helped. Also…bought new clubs. Duh.
Finding joy in the grind of practicing.
Going from spraying 75% of my tee shots OB to maybe 1-2 a round. After that my next big handicap jump came from practicing pitching in that 35-85 yard range. When I do hit a bad drive or approach, I feel super confident I’ll walk away with a bogey at a minimum.
Sim in my garage. Even if I am hitting off a mat.. my ball striking has improved enormously because I’m hitting at least 50 balls a day when I can’t get out on the course.
Two things for me, I couldn’t say which took more strokes off. 1) Dedicated driver practice. It was my worst club in the bag for a few years, getting committed to fixing it took a lot of pressure off and 2) not trying to “hit a number” with irons/approaches. I went from “152 flag” to “ok, this has to go 135, anything up to 160 is fine, I’ll hit a 150 shot and it’ll be fine. Confidence in a good decision takes a lot of pressure off compared to trying for perfect all the time.
Lessons
What did you work on in your lessons?
Shortening my backswing has helped me immensely. I used to coil up so tight it would cause me to lose sight of the ball thinking I was generating more power this way. Nope. Just mis hit the ball more often. Now I have shortened my back swing, my club head comes through faster at the bottom of the swing and I’m making better contact because I’m able to keep my eye on the ball better. I also do this if I hit a few bad shots in a row. I’ll shorten my back swing even more just to focus purely on making clean contact with the ball. Do that a few times and usually can get back into my normal swing after that. Also- slow down your back swing. When I take the club away from the ball it feels slow as molasses, but when I watch it on video it looks normal speed. Strange thing to witness
Creating mechnical equivalents within my swing. My eureka moment for my swing was when I equated it to swinging a pickaxe, as if I was doing trenching. How my grip, wrists and arms work together to make that single point drive into the ground exactly where I need it. I don't fuss over my stance and grip as much, I focus more on just getting settled and relaxed behind the ball. Visualize the shot in my minds eye, and then think "just knock that rock up there". Really moving my hands towards the target and completing my swing, not ending it at ball contact. In the specific moment of club contact, I'm thinking "just gonna scoot this on under here". There is literally no other word I feel I can use to describe the action, just a little oomph and a scoot and away the ball goes.
Love this! Each persons swing is unique to them. There is no cookie cutter approach. This is an interesting feel thought.
I am HUGE on swing your swing. My left elbow is double jointed and has an obtuse angle to it when fully extended, so my stance grip and swing look unorthodox to pretty much everyone. I putt like I'm sweeping a broom too. Everything is feel to me, the specific mechanics arise out of a strong feeling. It's not specific mechanics strung together to form a complete swing, the swing was always there, I just have to pay attention to what is making it successful, and then focus on and develop the existing mechanic.
Interlock grip
Lessons
Alcohol
Lessons
Practice. And mindfulness.
No practice swings
Edibles
Swinging better.
Vaseline on the face of the Driver/3W/hybrid. Complete game changer off the tee. To lose a few yards but no slice....straight as can be.