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03/10/2026

IF YOU KEEP GETTING AHEAD OF THE BALL… TRY THIS.

A really simple way to control excessive sway is to give your head a reference.

Place an alignment stick on the floor directly underneath your chin at setup.

Now make your backswing and feel like your chin stays roughly above that stick.

You don’t need to stay completely frozen — a little movement is normal — but I generally don’t want to see the head drifting more than about an inch past that reference.

Then through the ball, keep the head from racing excessively forward as the body rotates and extends.

This helps create:

✔ Less sway
✔ Better centred rotation
✔ More consistent low point
✔ Better pressure shift
✔ Less getting ahead of the ball
✔ More stable contact

The goal isn’t to pin your head in place.

It’s to stop the whole upper body sliding around unnecessarily.

Give yourself a reference, stay centred, then rotate through. 👊🏼

02/10/2026

THIS IS WHY YOUR TRAIL ARM KEEPS GETTING STUCK.

If the trail arm lifts too much in the backswing and gets pulled behind the body, it can end up trapped behind the shirt seam coming down.

From there, the club has nowhere to go.

So the golfer usually has to compensate by:

✔ Throwing the club out
✔ Flipping the release
✔ Disconnecting through impact
✔ Sending the path too far right
✔ Creating a strike that gets too shallow

Using the Slider, we worked on keeping the trail arm much more connected to the ribcage instead of letting it disappear behind the body.

That gave him a much better relationship between the arms and torso, so he could keep rotating without having to throw the club back in front.

The result?

✔ Better trail-arm structure
✔ Better connection
✔ Better rotation
✔ Less flipping
✔ More neutral path
✔ More consistent strike

And the change becomes really obvious using the overlay and Blend feature.

Overlay the before and after and you can see just how much more organised the arm and body movement becomes.

Less lift. Less stuck. Better rotation. Better delivery. 👊🏼

01/10/2026

THIS IS WHY YOU KEEP COMING OVER THE TOP.

A lot of golfers try to fix an over-the-top swing by changing the arms or club.

But often the problem starts with the lower body.

If the chest spins open too early and there’s very little pelvis shift into the lead side, the arms get thrown out and the club works across the ball.

That’s where the slice pattern starts.

A simple checkpoint I like is getting the lead heel roughly over the lead ankle as you move into the downswing.

That gives you a better pressure shift before you rotate.

From there, the pelvis can move forward, the arms have more space to fall, and the club can approach from a much better direction.

That helps create:

✔ Less spinning from the top
✔ Better pressure shift
✔ More room for the arms
✔ A shallower delivery
✔ Better path and contact

Don’t just try to stop coming over the top.

Change the body movement that’s creating it. 👊🏼

29/09/2026

If your trail elbow disconnects through impact, the clubhead can get thrown away from you too early.

That often exposes the heel, changes the strike, and makes it much harder to control the clubface through the ball.

The feel I want is the opposite.

Keep the trail arm connected to the ribcage as you rotate through, rather than letting the elbow fly away and the club release independently.

Using the Slider gives you a really clear reference for that.

It helps you feel the trail arm stay connected through impact so the body and arms keep moving together.

You can also use a simple bent alignment stick to exaggerate the same sensation — keep the trail arm connected and feel the stick maintain pressure as you turn through.

That helps create:

✔ Better trail-arm structure
✔ Less throwing from the top
✔ Better heel/toe strike control
✔ More stable impact conditions
✔ Better rotation through the ball

The goal isn’t to pin the arm forever.

It’s to stop it disconnecting at the exact moment you need the body and arms working together.

Reconnect it. Keep turning. Let impact happen. 👊🏼

28/09/2026

A lot of golfers obsess over where their feet are pointing.

But one setup alignment I pay just as much — and sometimes more — attention to is the forearms.

Why?

Because the forearms have a much more direct relationship with the arms, shoulders and club.

If the forearms are aimed too far left or right, that can influence how the arms hang, how the club moves away, how we pivot and ultimately the direction the club wants to travel through impact.

That can affect:

✔ Swing direction
✔ Path
✔ Strike location
✔ Start direction
✔ How much compensation you need during the swing

Your feet still matter.

But you can stand slightly open or closed and still deliver the club well.

If the upper body and forearms are poorly organised, the club often has much more work to do.

So when you check alignment, don’t just look down at your toes.

Look at your forearms, shoulders and how the arms are hanging relative to the target line.

27/09/2026

EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT SHALLOWING… BUT THIS PART DESERVES MORE ATTENTION.

A lot of golfers are trying to shallow the club in the downswing without first creating enough depth in the backswing.

That makes the whole job much harder.

If the hands and trail arm stay too much in front of the body at the top, you often need more side bend, more rerouting, and more compensations to get the club underneath you.

Create more depth first, and suddenly the downswing becomes much easier to organise.

Now the trail arm has more room to:

✔ Lower
✔ Reconnect to the ribcage
✔ Help the shaft shallow
✔ Work with the body as you rotate through

The key is that you shouldn’t need huge amounts of side bend just to get the club behind you.

A better backswing gives the club somewhere to go.

Create the depth first. Then let the arm reconnect, shallow and rotate through. 👊🏼 Thanks to for the little 4 finger drill for the downswing.

26/09/2026

THIS ONE DRILL FIXES SO MUCH OF THE GOLF SWING.

If you want one drill that connects the takeaway, hinge, backswing, transition, P6 and impact, this is one of my favourites.

Grip down the club and start with the clubhead outside your lead leg.

From there:

Run the club down the lead leg.
That helps organise the takeaway.

Then add the hinge.

From there, elevate the arms and turn to complete the backswing.

On the way down, feel the arms lower so at P6 the hands are around the trail thigh.

Then from there:

Push. Extend. Rotate through.

That gives you a really simple sequence for how the whole swing should flow together:

Takeaway → hinge → elevate → turn → lower → push → extend.

Done properly, it can help create:

✔ Better takeaway structure
✔ Better wrist hinge
✔ More organised arm elevation
✔ Better P6 position
✔ More space through impact
✔ Better rotation and extension
✔ More consistent compression

The golf swing becomes much easier when each movement sets up the next one.

Don’t chase isolated positions. Build the sequence that creates them. 👊🏼

25/09/2026

YES, YOUR ARMS SHOULD LIFT… BUT NOT LIKE THIS.

Arm elevation is a normal and important part of a good backswing.

The problem comes when that lift gets excessive.

If you reverse pivot, over-extend through the spine or lose your tilts, the arms can keep travelling up and away from the body.

That’s when they start to become disconnected.

Try this simple drill.

Place your lead hand on your trail bicep and apply a little downward pressure as you make the backswing.

That gives you instant feedback on how much the trail arm is lifting.

The goal isn’t to pin the arm to your side.

It’s to keep the lift organised while the body turns underneath it.

That helps create:

✔ Better arm structure
✔ Less excessive elevation
✔ Better connection
✔ Less reverse pivot
✔ Better body tilts
✔ A more organised position at the top

The arms should elevate.

They just shouldn’t keep lifting because the body has lost its structure.

Control the lift. Keep the turn. Build a better backswing. 👊🏼

24/09/2026

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THIS ONE FEEL CAN SHALLOW THE CLUB FAST. ⭐

Other options:

* STOP PULLING THE CLUB DOWN.
* THE SHALLOWING FEEL MOST GOLFERS NEVER TRY.
* THIS IS WHAT I’D FEEL FROM THE TOP.
* IF YOU GET STEEP IN TRANSITION… TRY THIS.

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THIS ONE FEEL CAN SHALLOW THE CLUB FAST.

If you tend to get steep from the top, try changing what the trail hand is doing.

As you start transition, feel like you almost take your index finger, middle finger and thumb off the club.

You’re not literally letting go.

You’re reducing how much those fingers can dominate the transition and pull or throw the club out in front of you.

That softer trail-hand feel allows the club to lower, narrow and shallow much more naturally.

It can help create:

✔ Less steepening from the top
✔ Better trail-arm movement
✔ A narrower transition
✔ More room for the club to work from the inside
✔ A cleaner delivery into impact

A lot of golfers try to shallow the club by forcing it behind them.

Sometimes the better feel is simply to stop interfering with it.

Soften the trail hand, let the club fall, then turn through. 👊🏼

23/09/2026

EVERY GOOD GOLF SWING DOES THIS.

The change is really obvious when you look at the centre line using the skeleton feature on .

Before, the upper body was tilting towards the target.

After, you can see a much better pattern with the body tilting away from the target and staying far more centred and organised.

Then with the Blend feature, overlaying the two swings makes the difference even clearer.

Same player. Same club. Completely different pivot.

A good backswing isn’t just about turning more.

It’s about how the pelvis turns, how the shoulders tilt, and how centred you stay while doing it.

First, an alignment stick through the belt loops, with another on the floor at roughly 45°.

The goal was to match the pelvis to the stick rather than slide or collapse.

Then we added a second reference for the upper body.

A club around 2 inches inside the trail heel gave him something to match with the shoulder turn.

That helped create:

✔ Better pelvis rotation
✔ Better shoulder tilt
✔ Less sway
✔ Less reverse pivot

The best swings don’t just turn.

They turn around the right angles. 👊🏼

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