Ok, I have someone in my regular foursome who has taken two lessons in three years with Brian, but because of circumstances hasn't been able to get a lesson in the last year. After the first lesson with Brian this friend added something like 50 yards to his drives and could actually find the fairway off the tee and in one week went from shooting in the 85-95 range to breaking 80. The change in one day was unreal. And then gone a few weeks after the lesson.
This friend still has has an outstanding short game and is an excellent putter, but he really struggles hitting hybrids or fairway woods, and his drives on consecutive holes may be a block 50 yards right and OB, a low snap hook that starts in the middle of the fairway and goes way left, a way left straight pull, or snap hook that starts left and goes even lefter. He's not a slicer. Ball flight seems low and distances seem short given how athletic he is and how far he hits short irons.
I know Brian actually helped him by getting him to lay-off the club more. The low snap hooks tell me path too far inside out, and so I continually suggest watching NHA and trying to hit a high fade as a cure, but my friend will hit one shot like that and then is back to hitting blocks, pulls and hooks everywhere. He goes to a corporate place that has suggested not worrying about path and just opening the face a heck of a lot more on the backswing and just schedules weekly appointments. They've said, 'don't worry about a straight right push OB, that will be a sign of progress (and come see us next week)." I think this is crazy.
I know the answer is a flight to New Orleans this winter, but what causes someone to hit a drive 100 yards right, followed by a worm burner, followed by a snapper 100 yards left? Am I wrong the in-to-out path is mostly to blame?
I once asked my friend after he hit two OB balls off the tee that must have been 300 yards from each other (one in left rough other, one right OB) if he monitors where the face of his club points when hitting at all an he said no and had no idea what that meant. Don't all golfers have some general sense about where the club is facing at impact?
Can any of these questions be answered without trackman/FS/swing video input?
This friend still has has an outstanding short game and is an excellent putter, but he really struggles hitting hybrids or fairway woods, and his drives on consecutive holes may be a block 50 yards right and OB, a low snap hook that starts in the middle of the fairway and goes way left, a way left straight pull, or snap hook that starts left and goes even lefter. He's not a slicer. Ball flight seems low and distances seem short given how athletic he is and how far he hits short irons.
I know Brian actually helped him by getting him to lay-off the club more. The low snap hooks tell me path too far inside out, and so I continually suggest watching NHA and trying to hit a high fade as a cure, but my friend will hit one shot like that and then is back to hitting blocks, pulls and hooks everywhere. He goes to a corporate place that has suggested not worrying about path and just opening the face a heck of a lot more on the backswing and just schedules weekly appointments. They've said, 'don't worry about a straight right push OB, that will be a sign of progress (and come see us next week)." I think this is crazy.
I know the answer is a flight to New Orleans this winter, but what causes someone to hit a drive 100 yards right, followed by a worm burner, followed by a snapper 100 yards left? Am I wrong the in-to-out path is mostly to blame?
I once asked my friend after he hit two OB balls off the tee that must have been 300 yards from each other (one in left rough other, one right OB) if he monitors where the face of his club points when hitting at all an he said no and had no idea what that meant. Don't all golfers have some general sense about where the club is facing at impact?
Can any of these questions be answered without trackman/FS/swing video input?
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