Hi guys it's Aimee, your golf coach!
Today is the mysterious beginner series
level 2 golf lesson I told you about last time.
We worked on the 8 o'clock position last time
so it really should be the half swing next
but we're going to do something completely different
and skip the half swing.
If you need some help with your half swing positions,
please refer back to the beginner series level one half swing lesson.
It's very thorough.
And I'm just assuming that you've seen my beginner lessons level ones
and you have a rough sketch of your swing going.
So I'm just trying to kind of give you some tempo into your swing
and just fine-tune it.
So we're purposely skipping the half swing position
and go straight into the 3/4 position today.
How exciting because it's a position you really rarely learn about.
That is really going to help not break down those swings so much
and give you their smoother tempo.
And from the 3/4 swing all you have to do is just complete your shoulder turn
and you're at your full swing.
Let's get started!
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Now back to a golf lesson.
Ok so we worked on the takeaway and the 8 o'clock position.
And half swing usually looks like this making an L.
We're going to skip that and go straight into the 3/4 swing
to smoothen out your take back up to a fantastic-looking top of the backswing.
We did a split grip last time.
Grip the lead hand in the correct spot
and then instead of here the trail hand went down to the shaft.
So we're going to go ahead and do the same thing.
And you're going to get into your 8 o'clock position
when the shaft is parallel to the ground.
And then what you're going to do is
you're going to continue to push that left hand on the grip end
and go all the way until, boom, it's about ear high.
And what the trail hand is going to be doing
they really didn't do much up to the 8 o'clock position.
But from here when you keep pushing,
you're going to feel that head in the trail hand like it's supporting the weight.
At half swing you can't really feel that your angle is about so much
so you need to feel that in your trail hand.
And that's really going to help you to be able to relax your hands
at the top of the backswing and really set it into your trail hand.
And that's gonna help you to keep that club face square
keeping that compression going and you know how it feels
when you hit it correctly with the right compression.
Let me give you some positions.
From eight, you go boom now your body turns a lot more than your half swing.
So your hips are a lot closer to full swing about 45 degrees turns
and 90 degrees your shoulder almost looks like ear high
and the club is right in between your half swing position
and your full swing position.
Full swing we usually we refer it to parallel to the ground no more than that.
A lot of people to do tend to keep it shy of that that's not a problem.
And the hands are right in between half swing
and full swing as well right there.
So like ear high slightly below is perfect.
So now look at it from the side view from eight o'clock,
you keep pushing your left palm and then feel the weight in the right.
You see it looks like I'm holding a tray
and you see that clubface is 45 degrees that's square.
At the top when the club is parallel to the ground,
the club should be pointing at the target.
That's the correct position.
But because this is 3/4 swing your shaft has to point left to the target.
This is what we want to see.
So it gets into that trail hands supporting the club, you feel that
plus getting that club traveling on the right plane.
A lot of people that tend to go inside now they gotta compensate.
So what that really happens is they start tracking that way
and you go across the top.
That's when chicken wing happens overswing happens
now it's all catch-up game from then on.
You're just improvising to get that club somewhat square
so you're losing a lot of speed a lot of energy a lot of accuracy
which means you're gonna hit the golf ball short and crooked.
Combination we don't want to know about right?
That's why we get to eight o'clock and you pushing that left hand
so the club is pointing about 15 to 20 degrees or so left of the target.
So this is something you can do standing in front of a wall at home
excellent thing to do when you're working on positions instead of
beating golf balls. You gotta work on it indoors without hitting.
Okay, so you're going to stand about like a foot in front of the wall.
So there's a little bit of gap there.
Eight o'clock you go to half swing.
There's a slight tap on the wall it should be a very light touch.
Continue the shoulder turn. Keep feeling the head dragging on the wall.
A foot away from the wall or so, eight o'clock, turn half swing tap,
keep rotating really feel that club head leaning back a little bit.
We're really trying to check your three-quarter position to help you
smoothing out your backswing get your good tempo going.
And also after half swing a lot of people break it down too much
and then they don't know what to do with their hands.
So I gave you a very simple pushing the hands away
into supporting it with the trail hand
so you are like tossing it press down boom into the trail hand.
From here all you have to do is really complete your shoulder turn
maybe like five or ten degrees and you're done.
So I'm giving you a very simple feeling to get it in the right plane position
and club face squareness as well.
We did something different today.
We hit 3/4 swing position where you rarely really get to see.
I hope you guys are able to follow along.
please work on that pressing down with the left palm,
tossing it into the trail hand,
and club pointing to the left of the target.
Please work on that at home against the wall.
And in the next lesson we have a lot to talk about for the top of the backswing.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you for golfing with me.
See you in the next one!
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