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Sticking with the same stuff, left leg slider feel and maintaining the right ankle dorsiflexion. Hitting it well, taken a lot of the left miss out of play, misses recently have been pushes. Went to PING last week to get fit for the new woods, some changes from my last trip which I think is reflective of the swing trending in the right direction. Don't need to tweak the loft lower with the driver anymore and they recommend I hard-step my iron shafts. I like how stable the right foot is on the backswing and how the left foot is rolling to the outstep much less with the face-on.

Maybe it's time to go lefty? Pro employs most bizarre putting stroke you’ll ever see Mark Hubbard, through 35 holes at the American Express, had taken 56 putts with his two hands on the grip of his putter. He took his 57th very differently.

Last few rounds. Took a quick trip to Phoenix/Scottsdale to get fit for the new G425 woods, played TPC Scottsdale, was in great shape.

Sticking with the left leg abduction and band feels. Experimenting with a floor slider to train it more at home. I'm sure I've posted this but tendency is to get "spinny" with the hips and the left leg/hip roundhouses around the corner (left hip flexion/IR). So the slider drill gets me to feel the opposite, ER, extension and abduction. Trying to "peel" away my midline away from my left femur, and then downswing would be reversing it. When I do this I can work well into the right hip and maintain "stability" as I work out of the hip. Downswing is staying good since I have more space on the downswing. Hitting it really good and farther.

Last several rounds

Main cause could be the pivot (or lack of), arms reacting to the motion of the torso. Depends on the player.

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I'm talking more about the torque created by the body to keep myself engaged and doing work at the lower body joints. I wouldn't worry too much about the Swing Catalyst stuff, especially if they aren't tracking body center of mass. Remember it's a reaction force and by far the most important of those would be the shearing forces or basically just friction. To feel it, setup and imagine you're trying to spread the ground away with both feet, keep the bottom of both feet firmly planted as you do it. Like if you had cleats on and trying to rip the grass. Will also feel your glutes squeeze together. As you rotate back, keep spreading the ground on the backswing and during the downswing. This makes it easy for the lead hip to externally rotate and trail hip internally rotate on the backswing. Then for the center of the pelvis to work away from the trail hip in transition and work into the lead hip on the downswing. Please understand this cue is good for someone like me that "pops" out of those hips joints and just rotates the pelvis without much hip rotation. Could be horrible for someone that slides their hips on the backswing. Example fro almost exactly a year ago from how the lower body has changed, hit it further now by about 2-3 mph, most importantly lower dynamic loft. On the face on recent pics, notice how the knees are pointing towards the camera, so the body is pivoting rather than just turning. Another way to do it, I also warm up like this. Like if someone was trying to push your legs together and you were pushing out to resist them. But that push should start from the feet and ankle joints, meaning the feet stay planted and not rolling to on side or the other. The "look" would be more like the bottom swing. Femurs wider (knees over the feet), which helps you get the glutes and lateral rotators involved. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIj_hyiAyyz/ Latest from this week. Review stuff says it all. The cheat with the pitching is that I'm setting up with the right heel a little off the ground or feels like it. Shaft getting steeper! Goal is to keep the com between the arms longer.

- Play golf on the East Coast. Qualified for the US Four-Ball at Philly Cricket Club but then it was cancelled because of the pandemic. Love Pinehurst and it's been two years since I've been there. Also have an open invite to play Shinnecock anytime I can get there. - Win the Club Championship. Obviously a goal every year. How? Keep playing in tournaments and testing myself under the gun. Keep improving speed control on the greens. Get the pitching and chipping tighter, I tend to be good with the hard shots but need to take advantage of more of the standard/stock chips and pitches that I don't get up and down. - Qualify for a national USGA event. Most likely it would be a Mid-Am. How is basically above. With the swing, keep improving mechanics so I can trust I'm not going to miss shots left. - Increase ball speed. Have been putting a good amount of time in the gym and starting to see a little distance gain but I'm still behind other good ams. So keep the body in good shape and keep improving mechanics. - Get hole-in-one number eight. It's been 9 years since my last one and I'm due! - Stay healthy. Like I said above with spending more time in the gym, I've been able to not only get functionally stronger but improve the way I move and feel.

Agree with @iacas, left arm needs some freedom to elevate and then move down. If it's pinned to the upper chest you limit your mobility and ability to create leverage. If you have a chicken wing or over-swing, it's most likely more of a grip or pivot issue than an arm issue.

Recent scores

Latest, after working on a good amount of "structure" and good tension the past couple months, adding some dynamics back in and seeing how that goes. Keeping an eye on the belt buckle and trail hip on the backswing, don't want to see the femur spin around or the pelvis turn as one unit. Seeing more IR work being done with the lead hip. Continuing to see the club pitch more out here, still gets too shallow but overall better.

Updated Nevada rules, have to start wearing a mask on the range, went into effect yesterday 👎 Doing a lot of slow reps, taking it to 4 withe knees staying over the feet and then breathing into it. Legs are looking more stable, matching up well with the handle being more forward/shaft steeper on the downswing. When I can keep the femur "spread" it feels like the club works "straighter" into the ball rather than under and out to the right.

Keeping the inside of both feet pressing against the board from address to impact doesn't make sense to me. Not saying you want the feet to roll to the outside edge but pressing "in" at address makes it harder to get balanced at setup and load into the hips. If anything you want to use the insides of the feet to torque outward. You see more setups and backswings like these, with the femurs more "bowed out" (knees over the feet) than kicked inward. I think the board could be useful for some downswing feels, specifically from about A5/6 to impact.

Giving TRUE shoes another try, these feels pretty good. I like how my left foot is given more freedom to pronate on the backswing. First couple swings are focusing more on the foot torque and creating as much tension as possible at 1 (glutes, core, feet) and keeping it during the swing. Spreading the ground on the backswing and downswing, hips can't get spinny if I maintain that stability. Hit some really solid shots working on that today. Then the last two swings are more on the play feel of turning the sternum.

Basically unknown because it depends on how it affects his ability to rotate/stretch, could hurt his game. There's obviously more to it than just adding weight or adding muscle/bulk. What's impressive about what Bryson has done is that his mechanics have improved and he can still move really well.

My thoughts are that it sucks and I need it to be different. Everything I do is related to changing this, getting the arm to separate from my chest, creating more lean, sliding the hips less and "posting" up more on that lead leg. A lot of it is a domino effect of moves or compensations happening well before impact. Draws with the misses being pull draws. Every once in a while a big miss will be a thin push. Some recent swings dialing up the "scaps down" feel.

Don't want to jinx it but in the last week have hit several shots that just sounded different, more flushed. Doing a better job of creating "tension" at address and in transition of "spreading the ground" and working through those hip joints. With Mario today, working on an important piece that I've been drilling in the gym and at home with breathing and corrective exercises. Keeping the scaps "down" allows the torso to tighten and the shoulders to connect and ride on top of the upper ribs. Basically it makes it easier to rotate on top of the pelvis. Also when that clubhead banks inward at 2, that's when those shoulders shrug and the rotation is just coming from the shoulders and not the ribs/spine. I think this is going to be more of something I train and not a cue. Going to stick with the "turn sternum" cue or "turn sternum all the way to the top" image.

Scoring hasn't been great the last few weeks but hitting it ok. That's golf, posting last five scores since I haven't posted in a while. No golf this weekend because of the weather.

What @iacas said. How it's been explained to me. Basically we do better with movement being more task focused than body part focused. Internal: Turn my right hip back External: Turn my right hip away from the stick

Updated swings. Hit these really solid. Dynamic loft is coming down 👍 Working on: - More stability in the setup (more torque with the feet), neutral neck. Goal is to keep the torque feeling during the whole swing. - Loading well into my right glute to shore up the right leg/foot on the backswing and give myself room on the downswing. - Starting the pivot by moving the sternum and keep it moving throughout the entire backswing. Reason why I have that tape on my shirt to track the sternum movement. When I've been practicing I've been doing a 32 ball drill I learned from an instructor who gets deep into the neuroscience. Goes like this. Make about 3-4 rehearsals on the motion you want, repeat the cue to yourself, then hit a ball focusing on the cue. Ask yourself if you that's what you wanted, basically did you get close to repeating the feel. Jot down yes or no in a journal (I use Notes on my phone). If you didn't do it, then make 3-4 more rehearsal moves and anchor those that feel. Repeat three more times. With the next four balls do the rehearsals, repeat the cue but when you hit the shot, just hit the shot. Again, check in with yourself and evaluate if you did it and jot it down. Then repeat the process three more times, so in total you're doing four sets of four reps doing your best to repeat the motion you want followed by four sets of four in play mode. Goal is to get to the high 20's or into the 30's which shows you're creating those new neural pathways. Goal is to not react to the result/shot and just evaluate how well you did the motion. More simple the cue the better and I'm told from guys that have gotten results that external cues are better than internal ones. Basically used my cue as a mantra when I was in a pressure situation when I won this tournament.

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