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28/09/2026

There are several reasons a golfer can overswing. In Alan from Australia’s case, I could have spent time working on exactly what was causing the club to travel too far, including how he was initiating his backswing with his shoulders.

But sometimes the golfer doesn't need another technical thought. They need a sensation that changes the movement.

So I put Alan next to a wall with his lead foot about a clubhead width away from it. With a short iron, his job was simply to make a full backswing without allowing the club to hit the wall.

His first practice swing produced exactly the problem we were trying to eliminate. The club clattered into the wall.

That little shock gave him immediate feedback.

After a few rehearsals, Alan was able to make a full shoulder turn while keeping the club away from the wall. The overswing had reduced without me asking him to consciously restrict his turn.

That's the important coaching point here. I gave Alan a simple external reference that changed his perception of where the club needed to go.

Sometimes the fastest way to change a complicated golf movement is to stop talking about the mechanics and give the golfer a sensation they can actually feel.

27/09/2026

𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠.
The wrists release too soon, the club gets ahead of the hands at impact, and you lose the leverage you created in the backswing.

Makes it impossible to 'trap' the ball with weak contact and a loss of speed.

But rather than simply trying to “hold the angle”, try this.

Place an alignment stick in your grip so it runs up the lead side of your body and sits underneath your lead armpit.

Now make some slow swings.

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞: don't let the alignment stick hit your lead ribcage.

If you cast the club early, the stick will whack you in your ribs.

If you maintain the angle and the relationship between your hands, arms and body for longer, the stick stays clear.

It gives you immediate feedback without having to think about angles or positions.

Try it slowly first. Then gradually add speed while keeping the stick away from your ribs.

This is one of the things I enjoy most about coaching. A swing fault is rarely fixed simply by being told what you're doing wrong. The real skill is finding a way for the golfer to understand the movement, feel it, and then transfer it into their own swing.

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐢𝐭.

After more than 25 years of coaching, that's the approach I continue to believe in: understand the problem, find the right movement, and give the golfer a way to feel the solution.
𝙊𝙬𝙚𝙣.

26/09/2026

𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐬.

You change something in your swing such as your grip, your takeaway, your weight shift, and for a week or two you get worse. Not slightly worse. Shots you used to hit clean now feel foreign. Your scores creep up. Every instinct tells you that this isn't working, go back to what you knew.

Here's what's actually happening: your old pattern is grooved. Your new one isn't, yet. For a while you're stuck between the two, and that in-between stretch feels like proof you made a mistake. It isn't. It's the only way real change gets built.

Most golfers bail right there. They revert at the first sign of a dip, and they end up doing the same rebuild six months later, from scratch, because they never let the first one finish.

The players who actually improve are the ones who can tell the difference between "this is wrong" and "this is unfamiliar."
One means stop. The other means keep going.

If your numbers dipped this week and you're second-guessing the changes, that's not a red flag. That's usually the exact point where it's about to turn.

25/09/2026

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬.

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24/09/2026

𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆. When your hips and lower body move towards the golf ball causing your upper body to lift up and away, your posture straightens up, your head rises, and you lose your original spine angle before impact.

You run out of room to swing the club freely, leading to poor ball striking, poor distance and poor accuracy.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐗
As shown in the video, place an alignment stick at roughly a 45° angle, parallel to your target line, just outside your feet line.

• 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐚𝐥: Focus on keeping your trail (right) knee from kicking out and hitting the stick during the downswing.
• 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: By missing the stick, your lower body stays back, your hips rotate properly through impact, and your posture stays locked in.

Watch the short video to see the drill in action and test it out during your next practice session.

This is one of the things I enjoy most about coaching. A swing fault is rarely fixed simply by being told what you're doing wrong. The real skill is finding a way for the golfer to understand the movement, feel it, and then transfer it into their own swing.

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐢𝐭.

After more than 25 years of coaching, that's the approach I continue to believe in: understand the problem, find the right movement, and give the golfer a way to feel the solution.
𝙊𝙬𝙚𝙣.

23/09/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭... but you'll be surprised what enables them to do this. And it is 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 "𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧."

If you literally try to pin your chin to your chest through impact, all you do is restrict your shoulder turn, stop your body from rotating, and invite back and neck pain.

𝐒𝐨, 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐬𝐨 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬?

They aren't "holding" their head down. They are maintaining their posture and thoracic extension (arch) as they rotate!

When your upper back and chest can keep that forward tilt through impact your head naturally stays stable as your hips and chest rotate out of the way. Their head position is an outcome, not a forced action.

𝐓𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞:

INSTEAD OF thinking "Head Down," which blocks your body... focus on "See the tee after impact" or "See the divot after impact".

It really is that simple. This is one of the things I enjoy most about coaching. A swing fault is rarely fixed simply by being told what you're doing wrong. The real skill is finding a way for the golfer to understand the movement, feel it, and then transfer it into their own swing.

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐢𝐭.

After more than 25 years of coaching, that's the approach I continue to believe in: understand the problem, find the right movement, and give the golfer a way to feel the solution.

22/09/2026

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21/09/2026

𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠.
The problem with many golfers is when the pelvis keeps sliding instead of beginning to rotate. When the hips slide excessively, the body can get too far ahead of the club, the pelvis can stall, and the arms and hands are often left trying to rescue the delivery. The result can be inconsistent contact, blocks, pulls, slices, or that frustrating feeling that you have to manipulate the club through impact.

Rather than simply telling a golfer to “stop sliding,” I prefer to give them a movement they can actually feel.

In this drill, I place an alignment stick through the front belt loops and position another stick in the ground just behind the lead foot.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞:
Start rotating the pelvis early enough in the downswing that the alignment stick in the belt makes contact with the stick in the ground. That gives the golfer an immediate physical reference for the movement we are looking for.
It isn't about violently spinning the hips or trying to manufacture a textbook position. It's about learning the difference between the pelvis continuing to slide and the pelvis beginning to rotate.

Once you can feel that difference, you have something you can actually take to the golf swing.

This is one of the things I enjoy most about coaching. A swing fault is rarely fixed simply by being told what you're doing wrong. The real skill is finding a way for the golfer to understand the movement, feel it, and then transfer it into their own swing.

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐢𝐭.

After more than 25 years of coaching, that's the approach I continue to believe in: understand the problem, find the right movement, and give the golfer a way to feel the solution.

21/09/2026

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18/09/2026

A common problem with pitching is that because you're using a really lofted club, like a Lob Wedge or a Sand Wedge, you need to trust an accelerating swing which is tricky to trust when you're so close to the green.
But a good pitch shot needs acceleration through impact. Decelerating or trying to 'help' the ball often leads to poor contact and poor distance control.

Try this simple drill:
Start with your left hand only.
Make a few practice swings, feeling a shorter backswing and a longer follow-through.
When you have a good feel for this, hit a few balls with your left hand only. Don't worry about where the ball goes. Focus on the motion, not the outcome.
Once you're comfortable with this motion, put both hands back on the club and recreate that same feeling.
Shorter backswing. Longer follow-through.

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