Hey Everyone!Shawn Clement here. Wisdom in golf and man Jordan Speith is back. Isn't that awesome.
So over the course of the week, golf.com came out with a little article about the improvements that
they felt was the difference between how Jordan Speith was performing and how he's performing now.
And he is barking up the right tree instead of the wrong tree. He was trying to go for distance.
And what was happening is in overdoing, his downswing, his arms were falling behind him
and there's that big block to the right or that over the top, you know, pull hook to the left.
Now you'll see Jordan in a much more supported downswing and he's able to stay with his golf
shots and that that's what makes the difference. And that's what gives a player, the confidence
when you know, to perform, because if he can stay with his golf shots,
then he goes back to the old Jordan speed, the bold with, Hey, small target, small mistake.
And did you notice on Saturday that beautiful shot, he hit on 16, there was
mud on the right side of the ball. He knew it was going to come back with a, with a, with a draw
and because the shot called for a drawing kind of fit together and he stayed with his shot and
notice he dumped it in the hole that happened to Phil Mickelson as well. When he was in college,
there was mud on his ball. He had asked his plane competitor, if he could clean it,
the plane competitor says, no, you can't. And that pissed Phil Mickelson off, and you don't
want to piss him off. And he dunks it in the hole and his coach, the coach for the other guy said,
don't make him mad. They'd only make some more focused.
So now that Jordan Speith is more focused. So here's a really good drill for those of you
who have a tendency to get too shallow in the downswing, watch your level of effort.
If you're trying to hit it too hard, and you're jumping on a too harshly, it's very, very easy
to collide. So you get into the top of the swing and you force the turn for those of you who are
trying to turn the hips aggressively, what's going to happen when you do that is you're causing your
arms to collapse into you. And then your, your club gets stuck behind you. And now you're coming
in way too much from the inside to get scrappy. You get thin, you tend to push them off to the
right. You tend to come over the top to save the furniture, right So what we're looking for
is we want to have the ability to stay with the shot. And what you don't realize is let's say I
want it to throw my club in the direction of the target. That's a, a mantra that we have here at
wisdom in golf. If you can throw the club in the direction that you want to start the ball,
You're delivering
A swing, that's going to have a proper weight shift and a proper hip clearance, a proper body
turn at the right amount at the right time. Why Because we're focused on the target. We're not
focused on turning the hips aggressively. If I'm going toward the target, while my brain's gone to
go get the ground, I've shifted my weight. It's going to use the ground to turn my body out of
the way, the right amount. What's the right amount about the right amount to throw the club in that
direction. So that makes a really big difference. Number two. So we want to, on a scale of one
To 10, you want
To throw the club with an intensity of about seven, seven and a half
As far as velocity. And
You want to use about three out of 10 for effort. No more than that. So three
out of 10 for effort, seven out of 10 in velocity, it looks about like this.
So that feels like I could do that all day and get really good results.
Secondly, for those
Of you who are falling out of their posture early extending, here's a really easy drill.
And on our premium channel, I noticed this when we were doing, the walking drill on a downhill lie,
I've always had posture issues dynamically, but when I'm walking and cutting grass,
notice the videos, you'll see me do these on Instagram.
Look at my posture. The posture
Is absolutely phenomenal. So if we were to do a two swing drill, in other words,
you do two swings in a row in the direction of the target. So I'm going to
Throw the club, throw the club in the direction.
I want the ball to go, and I'm going to use, I'm going to hit the ball with the first swing. So
now what I'm setting up over the ball, my brain is saying, okay, we're throwing that way, but twice.
So that means I can't blow out of my posture. I got to stay with this sucker in order to get
through my second swing. So what's it feel like when I'm throwing twice yeah, it feels about like
Throw throw, and then we look over there, the balls on the left.
Yeah, just cut the left side of the green. We'll do that again,
Doing a draw. There's my intermediate point going to start it right there
and draw it back to that center line.
I get set up, I'm looking for two throws to the right edge of that intermediate point.
Number one, number two.
So if I can throw twice in a row like that, my brain has to maintain my posture well enough
for me to get through both shots. So now when I'm addressing the ball and what I've
integrated in my routine, so let's say I'm going to hit a fade. Now
I'm going to go left edge of that intermediate point and faded back. I'm gonna play the ball
here for, to center. So now when I'm throwing in that direction, I want to feel like I got
two throws to execute. Then I'm going to go ahead and swing it and that direction,
Look at that finish. And here it is There you have it. So I've got my one 85, seven iron.
That was a nice, smooth one. Nice little fade. So my carry on that one was one 75 and it started
one degree, right And had a side spin of 81 left. That's basically a straight draw. And I was trying
to basically hit a straight fade with that. So see how close that'd be. I came to that and that
felt extremely easy to do. And I'm only 15 feet from the flag stick. So hope you enjoyed that.