Kwon drills have helped me immensely. Your series is by far the best golf instructional material on the web today. You aren't an ideologue; you survey the map and provide numerous looks and approaches to all facets of the long game, and you make efforts to link them together. I find myself wondering how one instructor's ideas relate to another's, and as if by magic you release a video attempting to connect them. You also don't come across as someone who has all the answers; you show the limitations and problems in your own game. There is no bullshitting, no sugar coating, no golf swing "lore," no pseudo-science, nothing. Just good, critical thinking and reasoning. I love it. Keep doing it. I hope I can do a Dr. Kwon school with you some day.
Ive been doing dr kwon drills and have found great improvements. The one that helped me with the lag is the rope drill because you have to be patent and cant yank the rope to quick from the top, left hand only swings i do lot of and also grip pressure is huge, a tight grip will stop all hand action and hurt ball contact. My biggest suggestions is to use all these drills on a half scale to start, just for small pitches and chips for the first few months, it really helps you understand the movements; yes it sucks and is boring to constantly do these focused drills , but you just got to dig deep and push yourself to do them everyday. With the new lag i have for pitching it makes ball contact so much easier, but it takes a while to get use to the new ball flight, it comes off lower with more speed…it also changes lob shots…i find now i have to play them a little more forward with a slightly more open face.
Hi Brendan. On your swings at the end you are getting forward way late (probably in efforts to get shaft lean) but you are hitting against a soft front side. It sure looks like you need to get your pressure forward way earlier so that you can push back and around with the lead leg. Because you’re late getting forward you have to get that lag tension by disconnecting your arms from your body (weak lag). If you are more stacked at that point (because of an earlier pressure shift) push away will clear your body and make room for your arms and hands (they will go up). The proper pressure shift will set you up for easy lag tension. It’s always much sooner than we think. Speed comes from hitting against a firm front side. Hope that helps, Alan
@@OrvinReyes sure thing! We have a course coming out with former pro at Rec Park in long Beach during the 90s coming soon! Shoots a 64 and learned from people like Bruce Hamilton, Ted lehmann,, and Corey Pavin.
At 11:56 you mention shots going off to the right. Those are hit high on the neck and are called shanks or hosel rockets by a lot of folks. LOL I have a lot of experience with that particular shot.
Goddamn it!! I've been chasing this (holy shit) elusive evidential perception -- going on 30+ years! This clearly simple video tutorial has finally, FINALLY got me hitting crisp solid mid to long iron and wood shots with full confidence and more importantly....with long forgotten POWER! I've wasted too much time including a small fortune+ trying to get to this point. Only wish I had discovered this pattern in my younger playing days. Thanks for this, mate!
@@jdheelfan …I’ve been a life long serial chicken winger. The ‘AHA’ moment for me was seeing the importance of the position of ‘0-Cock’ in relation to the ball strike. Chicken wingers lose power because they are PRE-Cock to ball strike. Proper pattern is POST-Cock to the strike - which also has the HANDLE meeting the ball first instead of the CLUB HEAD - which is what most amateurs do.
Great Job Brendan! We are all still looking for the Holy Grail of advice. I may have found a small piece of the puzzle. A man by the name of "Marcus Edblad" has explained something about the grip and wrist rotation that no one has explained,I should say lack of wrist rotation. He has his own way of explaining and swinging a golf club. This explanation of the wrist is found in one or several of his videos you must watch more than one to find it. As for the chicken wing effect you're having, one of your videos someone was explaining a Ben Hogan golf swing and mention keeping the right elbow facing the right hip and the inside of the right elbow facing forward. This was something you did in the video but you failed to do so with the left arm. Well hopefully this helps someone because Marcus Edblad has certainly done so. Take care everyone! 🙋♂️
This well known and been talked about for years. Awesome that he explains it in a way that connects with you. I think the issue you have is that your left leg is straight before you come into impact. Impossible for you to continue rotation with a straight leg, your hips can’t move.
Good stuff! I would love to see a concise video simply about the leg motion...the Up and Up. It seems really critical. A short video that's just about the Up then Up and a drill or two to help practice this would be FANTASTIC. Your slow mo inserts are great by the way. Thanks for all you do.
Is the hand path and left leg extension a factor in chipping also. If so since it is a short shot do you only flex and extend the left leg with the weight mostly on the left leg with chipping?
Hi Brandon, really interesting video because I have somewhat approached this topic of lead leg rise before in my own journey. For me trying to swing the rope as fast as possible + perhaps also on hearing how Rory drops and then rises in his swing to hit such high balls. Dr Kwon as usual is v illuminating. On the matter of your 5iron (200y, i wish i could) at Torrey Pines, would you entertain the possibility that it was your right shoulder in the transition that set off the chain reaction causing the chicken wing? R shoulder is seen to move out and over. Perhaps tension? Usually for better players like yourself it is the transition that spoils a shot, unlikely that halfway down you forgot to move your legs correctly (unless some new intention came in then). In the side by side video of you in red, your R shoulder stays back. What aids this staying back could come from thinking more a left arm throw of course among others - what I mean is it doesnt have to be fixed by a R shoulder thought. Hope to catch up to your level one day
So much great insight. The downside to Dr. Kwon is that prior to these videos, I was not aware of him. Now that he is on here, his scheduled is crazy booked, hopefully I am able to get in to see him, I am in his local area. I have been a fan of your journey for along time, I love how you have worked with the greats to get different perspectives on the golf swing. Great stuff, keep up on the content. However, I hope you start to incorporate some course vlogs. Would be interested to see your scores, distance improvements, and accuracy.
The physics of the 'hub path shift" are actually much more interesting than the what-to-do. Kind of wished Kwon would have gone into that. The old adage you have to "hit down" on the ball is completely wrong. You have to hit up on it with a two lever implement.
It’s all about timing impact. If your sequence is paced correctly for your personal swing speed you’ll have the time to hit a nice fully extended arm position which equals quality strikes. It’s when you’re under pressure or try to get a lil extra out of it when the swing breaks down
Regarding zero cocking my bad miss is when my right elbow straigthen too early trying to hit the ball instead of waiting and turning passively with the body for the impact. This is more like a subconcsious thing when I play poorly. Wonder if there is any drill to help.
What does "Zero cocking" really mean? Looking at Hackmotion-data of pro's, ulnar deviation doesn't get to much more than that of the address position in some of the graphs that I looked at.. Might be a difference in driver and irons-swings, though I suspect Dr Kwon's definition is based on a 2d-view (left arm and club inline from a front-view). Then "Zero cocking" is a quite misleading name for it..
Three reasons you chicken wing'd that shot: One you were trying to kill it because you doubted you had enough club; Two, you were trying to prevent the ball from going left by holding the face open; Three, your body knew that it didn't have anywhere for the arms to go in the followthrough before they ever got there. It's like trying to swing normally when you know you're going to hit something in your followthrough - you react to it before you ever get there. So, when you body knows you're not going to make a full relaxed and confident followthrough it's scared to go there and you get a chicken wing. To prevent this, swing as if you're trying to purposely hit something in your followthrough, as you'd do when testing to see if you can make a full swing in your house ... you extend the arms and club to their maximum ... testing if you're going to hit something. So, no imagine there is something way out there in your followthrough that you DO want to hit and you must have full confidence that the ball will fly straight and far.
This dude will never be consistent with all these swing thoughts and positions to get his body in. It's almost impossible to get full extension while trying to get the club to exit left because you are swinging around your body. If you hold the face off you can hit good shots but as soon as you close the face a little you will pull hook everytime and coming over the top makes it worse I've fought this for years. If it doesn't feel natural and has to be manipulated it will never work no matter how much you practice
I wouldn't call what you did a chicken wing, I would say that your arms knew the ball was going left and your left hand and arm tried to stop it.. You'll see all good players do that a little when they hit a pull.. and you were hitting shanks and hitting it right because you slid too much which you know is your tendency. if you put a shaft in the ground with a pool noodle one full closed hand in front of your lead hip you would be forced to land rotate and then push up back and around without getting your hip outside your ankle
You're chicken winging because you're not releasing the club down the target line with your left hand. It's anatomically hard to chicken wing when your left hand is in dorsal flexion, you bend the elbow when you stand the club up at left arm parallel on the follow through.
@@RCGolf Perspective. Definitely don't agree because you can hit a 90mph fastball 500+ ft without your arms being connected to your body. I don't see why that changes for a completely still ball on the ground.
@@RCGolf left arm only swings will help a lot. When Davis love was a junior his dad(a big time teacher at sea island) made him do left arm only swing for baskets at a time. He would hit metals too.
I am shanking like possessed, and was looking at your wiffle ball strikes (1 good 1shank). Good shot P6: clubhead between wrists and elbow. Shank P6: the clubhead covered your wrists. Obviously further out. My thought: are we shanking because we use wrist Extension instead of Ulnar deviation? (A sort of wrist-only over-the-top?) Thinking Scheinblum said to keep club mass Inside the path (shockmotion Videos). ??
Kwon drills have helped me immensely. Your series is by far the best golf instructional material on the web today. You aren't an ideologue; you survey the map and provide numerous looks and approaches to all facets of the long game, and you make efforts to link them together. I find myself wondering how one instructor's ideas relate to another's, and as if by magic you release a video attempting to connect them. You also don't come across as someone who has all the answers; you show the limitations and problems in your own game. There is no bullshitting, no sugar coating, no golf swing "lore," no pseudo-science, nothing. Just good, critical thinking and reasoning. I love it. Keep doing it. I hope I can do a Dr. Kwon school with you some day.
Ive been doing dr kwon drills and have found great improvements. The one that helped me with the lag is the rope drill because you have to be patent and cant yank the rope to quick from the top, left hand only swings i do lot of and also grip pressure is huge, a tight grip will stop all hand action and hurt ball contact.
My biggest suggestions is to use all these drills on a half scale to start, just for small pitches and chips for the first few months, it really helps you understand the movements; yes it sucks and is boring to constantly do these focused drills , but you just got to dig deep and push yourself to do them everyday.
With the new lag i have for pitching it makes ball contact so much easier, but it takes a while to get use to the new ball flight, it comes off lower with more speed…it also changes lob shots…i find now i have to play them a little more forward with a slightly more open face.
Great video, full of information. Really good idea to have you demonstrating at the end. Excellent. Thank you
Hi Brendan.
On your swings at the end you are getting forward way late (probably in efforts to get shaft lean) but you are hitting against a soft front side. It sure looks like you need to get your pressure forward way earlier so that you can push back and around with the lead leg. Because you’re late getting forward you have to get that lag tension by disconnecting your arms from your body (weak lag). If you are more stacked at that point (because of an earlier pressure shift) push away will clear your body and make room for your arms and hands (they will go up). The proper pressure shift will set you up for easy lag tension. It’s always much sooner than we think. Speed comes from hitting against a firm front side.
Hope that helps,
Alan
This right here is a 💎!! Driving that right knee at the ball brings the rib and hip closer together allowing you to *rotate* around a posted left leg.
Seems like great advice guys but i would like to see YOUR swing first :p
@@OrvinReyes sure thing! We have a course coming out with former pro at Rec Park in long Beach during the 90s coming soon! Shoots a 64 and learned from people like Bruce Hamilton, Ted lehmann,, and Corey Pavin.
Great summary at the end….I have the exact same miss that just drives me crazy. Can’t wait to give this a try at the range.
Great video guys!! I now see my left leg as my power piston... get weight on it and PUSH to start downswing. Thanks again!
Well done one of your best. Thanks for sharing!
At 11:56 you mention shots going off to the right. Those are hit high on the neck and are called shanks or hosel rockets by a lot of folks. LOL I have a lot of experience with that particular shot.
Goddamn it!! I've been chasing this (holy shit) elusive evidential perception -- going on 30+ years! This clearly simple video tutorial has finally, FINALLY got me hitting crisp solid mid to long iron and wood shots with full confidence and more importantly....with long forgotten POWER! I've wasted too much time including a small fortune+ trying to get to this point. Only wish I had discovered this pattern in my younger playing days. Thanks for this, mate!
Can you explain to me what the "this" is? What did he say that unlocked this new found swing pattern that changed your life?
@@jdheelfan …I’ve been a life long serial chicken winger. The ‘AHA’ moment for me was seeing the importance of the position of ‘0-Cock’ in relation to the ball strike. Chicken wingers lose power because they are PRE-Cock to ball strike. Proper pattern is POST-Cock to the strike - which also has the HANDLE meeting the ball first instead of the CLUB HEAD - which is what most amateurs do.
Great video. I am going to take this to the range.
Great Job Brendan! We are all still looking for the Holy Grail of advice. I may have found a small piece of the puzzle.
A man by the name of "Marcus Edblad" has explained something about the grip and wrist rotation that no one has explained,I should say lack of wrist rotation. He has his own way of explaining and swinging a golf club.
This explanation of the wrist is found in one or several of his videos you must watch more than one to find it.
As for the chicken wing effect you're having, one of your videos someone was explaining a Ben Hogan golf swing and mention keeping the right elbow facing the right hip and the inside of the right elbow facing forward. This was something you did in the video but you failed to do so with the left arm.
Well hopefully this helps someone because Marcus Edblad has certainly done so.
Take care everyone! 🙋♂️
Great info, B. Good work, sir.
This well known and been talked about for years. Awesome that he explains it in a way that connects with you. I think the issue you have is that your left leg is straight before you come into impact. Impossible for you to continue rotation with a straight leg, your hips can’t move.
Good stuff! I would love to see a concise video simply about the leg motion...the Up and Up. It seems really critical. A short video that's just about the Up then Up and a drill or two to help practice this would be FANTASTIC. Your slow mo inserts are great by the way. Thanks for all you do.
Is the hand path and left leg extension a factor in chipping also. If so since it is a short shot do you only flex and extend the left leg with the weight mostly on the left leg with chipping?
Hi Brandon, really interesting video because I have somewhat approached this topic of lead leg rise before in my own journey. For me trying to swing the rope as fast as possible + perhaps also on hearing how Rory drops and then rises in his swing to hit such high balls. Dr Kwon as usual is v illuminating.
On the matter of your 5iron (200y, i wish i could) at Torrey Pines, would you entertain the possibility that it was your right shoulder in the transition that set off the chain reaction causing the chicken wing? R shoulder is seen to move out and over. Perhaps tension?
Usually for better players like yourself it is the transition that spoils a shot, unlikely that halfway down you forgot to move your legs correctly (unless some new intention came in then). In the side by side video of you in red, your R shoulder stays back. What aids this staying back could come from thinking more a left arm throw of course among others - what I mean is it doesnt have to be fixed by a R shoulder thought.
Hope to catch up to your level one day
So much great insight. The downside to Dr. Kwon is that prior to these videos, I was not aware of him. Now that he is on here, his scheduled is crazy booked, hopefully I am able to get in to see him, I am in his local area.
I have been a fan of your journey for along time, I love how you have worked with the greats to get different perspectives on the golf swing. Great stuff, keep up on the content.
However, I hope you start to incorporate some course vlogs. Would be interested to see your scores, distance improvements, and accuracy.
The physics of the 'hub path shift" are actually much more interesting than the what-to-do.
Kind of wished Kwon would have gone into that.
The old adage you have to "hit down" on the ball is completely wrong.
You have to hit up on it with a two lever implement.
It’s all about timing impact. If your sequence is paced correctly for your personal swing speed you’ll have the time to hit a nice fully extended arm position which equals quality strikes. It’s when you’re under pressure or try to get a lil extra out of it when the swing breaks down
Regarding zero cocking my bad miss is when my right elbow straigthen too early trying to hit the ball instead of waiting and turning passively with the body for the impact. This is more like a subconcsious thing when I play poorly. Wonder if there is any drill to help.
*That's it Brandon, the game begins here now play the game. Here in Whittier.*
I like the scientific breakdowns.
Brendon--great to see the shorter backswing. That got rid of your flipping
Your face on swing looks great!
Good swing!
I like the old guy taking notes LOL
Lee Dietrick!!! Star professional!
What does "Zero cocking" really mean? Looking at Hackmotion-data of pro's, ulnar deviation doesn't get to much more than that of the address position in some of the graphs that I looked at.. Might be a difference in driver and irons-swings, though I suspect Dr Kwon's definition is based on a 2d-view (left arm and club inline from a front-view). Then "Zero cocking" is a quite misleading name for it..
Whoa!
I get stuck with my right arm behind my back, how can I get rid of that?
Why am I shanking the ball when I try Dr Kwon's swing ?
Shoulders too flat. They should be more vertical
Didn’t know Jerry jones knew so much about the golf swing
lol played well but I didn't putt well! You mean you hit it good but didn't score very well.. we've all been there
Three reasons you chicken wing'd that shot: One you were trying to kill it because you doubted you had enough club; Two, you were trying to prevent the ball from going left by holding the face open; Three, your body knew that it didn't have anywhere for the arms to go in the followthrough before they ever got there. It's like trying to swing normally when you know you're going to hit something in your followthrough - you react to it before you ever get there. So, when you body knows you're not going to make a full relaxed and confident followthrough it's scared to go there and you get a chicken wing. To prevent this, swing as if you're trying to purposely hit something in your followthrough, as you'd do when testing to see if you can make a full swing in your house ... you extend the arms and club to their maximum ... testing if you're going to hit something. So, no imagine there is something way out there in your followthrough that you DO want to hit and you must have full confidence that the ball will fly straight and far.
Why did you change your swing? Just watched your never pull or hook video and you were hitting the ball so well 🤦🏻
MARK CROSSFIELD SAID THIS YEARS AGO!!!
Put Duct Tape around the whiffle balls and the fly better
Huge
This dude will never be consistent with all these swing thoughts and positions to get his body in. It's almost impossible to get full extension while trying to get the club to exit left because you are swinging around your body. If you hold the face off you can hit good shots but as soon as you close the face a little you will pull hook everytime and coming over the top makes it worse I've fought this for years. If it doesn't feel natural and has to be manipulated it will never work no matter how much you practice
I wouldn't call what you did a chicken wing, I would say that your arms knew the ball was going left and your left hand and arm tried to stop it.. You'll see all good players do that a little when they hit a pull.. and you were hitting shanks and hitting it right because you slid too much which you know is your tendency. if you put a shaft in the ground with a pool noodle one full closed hand in front of your lead hip you would be forced to land rotate and then push up back and around without getting your hip outside your ankle
You're chicken winging because you're not releasing the club down the target line with your left hand.
It's anatomically hard to chicken wing when your left hand is in dorsal flexion, you bend the elbow when you stand the club up at left arm parallel on the follow through.
@@RCGolf totally makes sense.. if you're initiating the downswing 45 degrees down to the earth it does stall
@@RCGolf Perspective.
Definitely don't agree because you can hit a 90mph fastball 500+ ft without your arms being connected to your body. I don't see why that changes for a completely still ball on the ground.
@@RCGolf in the initial move the right should does deep a little down to the ball.
@@RCGolf left arm only swings will help a lot. When Davis love was a junior his dad(a big time teacher at sea island) made him do left arm only swing for baskets at a time. He would hit metals too.
I am shanking like possessed, and was looking at your wiffle ball strikes (1 good 1shank).
Good shot P6: clubhead between wrists and elbow.
Shank P6: the clubhead covered your wrists. Obviously further out.
My thought: are we shanking because we use wrist Extension instead of Ulnar deviation? (A sort of wrist-only over-the-top?)
Thinking Scheinblum said to keep club mass Inside the path (shockmotion Videos).
??
John Daly is big on the one handed hitting balls because it forces you to use your legs and come up.