Live Lesson with PGA & European Tour Coach Dan Carraher

welcome back to the channel her name is Andrew it's good to see you today's video is something I haven't done in like almost a year just a live fly-on-the-wall view of a lesson I had with my coach Dan kara hurt last Friday dan and I got to work as we're preparing for tournament golf which is about to ramp up for me in about three weeks typically I would see Dan like a week or two before the tournament that sometimes worked well sometimes didn't work so well because I would be still thinking about technique come tournament time so I made a point of seeing him probably three weeks before tournament time so I can really focus on the technique and what we learned in the lesson in the session for about a week or so and then just implement it in two plane so that's what this video is this is about 15 minutes of our lesson flying the wall you have to hear all of his wisdom and just see us work through some small tweaks I hope you enjoy it I hope you learned something from it and I'm really pumped to get back into tournament golf so enjoy this lesson with your arms and then wedges are just gonna go high the same thing with driver like when I'm relaxed and trusting myself I can really shape it hit low I cut it but what I'm not I'm rushed arms get quicker I'm just kind of get stuck you hit these high ones I have notice the other day like when I was in here one day I've been using this thing because I noticed like my heads are moving quite a bit of that but I've been doing like rehearsals just like lifting this leg to kind of keep me on top of it and turn a bit more it has felt pretty because that sounds like it let's meet and you know which leaves do now we're really trying to that's actually what you need to do better out yeah so the what happens is I don't mind if the left leg kicks in a little bit but it's backwards the problem is the knee has to get in front of the hip on the downs for you so the problem is like if you're really good at getting that bit clear yeah then you can get away with a kick and a little bit on but if you go here and then start sliding your hip forward yeah your knees actually now pointed the wrong direction yeah so you're cutting off your flexibility and so like this entire leg is rotated internally and then you're trying to turn it's all more internally you're shutting off your flexibility range so then like when we first met that with then you start to stand up just a little bit and the right side works out to them and you short kidding tor the right side comes up out to try to make up for that extra tournament you early extend a little bit yeah and then you know kids much chef and that's where the ball starts going really high what I noticed sometimes like when I take a video at address this me seems like it's already been four more in like more like that's not death but as you come down it's the hip going it's while this is there you got this goes there then it actually deepens it it actually almost rotates like those fangs come with playmates everything going this way so then the knees actually pointed still behind the golf ball yeah and so the only way you can get from there to rotate is that leg starts to straighten yeah and the problem the left hip rises the left hip rising is basically going to trigger the release here then you start dumping the club and then it's gonna pass right so that's the over drawl that comes out of mill work that like you get a good good good and then you miss one way left do so then you start to get gun-shy and starts like kind of hold everything off to try and not get that job you pretty much gonna stay there like it doesn't really clear much yeah until late then you can start to see the divot yeah but the problem is the right sides working out that entire time yeah so what we need to do is get the left side to clear before the right side works out so the transition it's actually getting this left side to open up right beside stays back so it's actually if your left knee is getting as far away from your right hip as possible and then once once that left hip clears and left leg kind of rotate once that knee gets in front of your hip so this gets here then the right side can start to fire but if it gets there too early everything needs a counter so the right side is going out without the left side going back you're moving closer to the ball yeah that's right so what we want if anything is to go create more space so if anything we want this to clear and get back before this one and I'd rather wait too long to where you actually as I Hogan a lot of great players but actually go through get their hips deeper than they were at setup yeah is that's this left side clearing a lot more in earlier than the right sides working out and so if you ever watch them their right knee and hip never really get past kind of the arch ball of their foot like this stationary inside of their foot or you see the opposite guys getting up on the toe and the knee starts getting out past the toes and then you know how many space that's where the shape can come from like the heel shots the and that's the flip like all of it you try to swing time around your right leg like it's in the way it's more of that here yep what's a pity more shots with like the band's how big advance helps a lot yeah is that it the goal is to get it to stretch as much as you can in transition yeah and then what happens is just because the bands trying to make you do it wrong is trying to prevent that leg from rotating yeah so like you can use the one that the hardest one that's the easiest to kind of see yeah is the like physio ball played with a big exercise balls yeah have it open get you tailbone and touching the wall well what'll happen is if this side doesn't rotate that knee doesn't get in front of the hip and this hip doesn't get back before this starts without the ball drop every single time yeah it only has to move like an eighth of an inch and it's gone and you can actually usually start to feel it drop before it actually drops it's really acute awareness of what's happening or is if you do this correctly you actually squeeze the ball so the reason I like the ball the ball four into the wall or you can just keep it the same but if you move even a little bit closer than all fall coming down and lose that space you're in trouble the other thing is that as that left leg opens up it actually pulls your arms more out in front yeah without skipping a lot of a shadow versus when that psycho moves linear and their arms pull down right networks out so clubs a little steep whether that was a little behind and that's why you have to jump everything earlier that night that's one of the things that notice with Julian and what I do so I was making some rehearsals just really like I can feel the club gaze get there without yeah what it feels like to most people's the arms are gonna work way over the top is that left side opening up pulls the arms out yeah but it also costs to the shaft to fly so it's kind of like the arms are out in front but the club is kind of behind and so it's a weird feeling and that most people probably feel like you're going to get this big block but it's look because they're gonna keep rotating around a tall square but up it's almost like this drop yeah what I said is you have to give yourself permission to hit it right even though it's not going to go right like it's going to feel like it's gonna go right so you have to kind of get it out of your head that that's a can be a negative and then when you got we'll go like very small draw that will fall luck with short irons and generally probably a tiny fatal driver so I'm just right now I guess all I'm thinking about is imagining that I having a band yeah yeah it's all I said is that the transition it's getting that left knee almost as far away from your right hip as possible that's probably the easiest as lower right away absolutely okay so that lack of Chaplin comes from soon as the left leg straightens the left hip Rises left shoulder rises and that's a geometry problem yeah if your left shoulder is going up you know how hips going up the only way you can reach the golf ball is the dump the club down like you have to make the club longer terrible and you'll see like it's you're gonna feel like you're doing it a lot it's gonna look visually be a lot more but shuttle when you see a side by side it's not subtle like it but I full-speed it's a very subtle but as soon as that knee gets in front of the hip always the in front of hit the nice pointed like 45 degrees in relation we're gonna so you have sixty degrees more range of motion before you have to start kind of standing up yeah which means you're going to be in the follow-through before that happens so then what happens is before when you're there that Club heads almost all the way down by your right foot no it's parallel to the earth because I can see I'm trying to talk just a little bit like yeah because it have it but that left leg staying bent is the left leg left hip doesn't climb quite as fast then the leg straightening kind of just past impact so it could even be more yeah but that's significantly better than there I just imagined honestly you like I'm an exercise ball behind me yeah well and watch doing like 60% speed you try to do the left leg the most I mean I love the feeling of it just like big that's the first thing that happens well what will happen is you'll do something where you'll swear you're swinging 60% speed and the ball goes just as far yeah but let's see that's even more yeah it's 3 inches let's just not this massive but it feels huge because 3 inches down there is a big deal that's what she said what it's almost like I noticed my foot cuz I've always noticed my foot I naturally kind of go in transition to my left toe and then heel yep whereas this is getting me right to my heel right we'll get to the toe but it'll be a more quicker like it'll be everything's gonna happen sooner like the problem is you did clear the left side yeah after the right side worked out and after you kind of slid forward like it's a it's not that it never happened it just happens slow and Lake and so it's pretty easy to use the divots on the ground yeah see that starts working away from the target line early yeah and pull the arms or out the shaft actually lays down sooner yeah things happen again and then right on all the more facts he'll be more bent over through it and everything that's just gonna get a little cleaner I said before wasn't bad but the problem is is so as long as you kind of committed to everything it could have been pretty good yeah but the problem is with the club over taking a little quick edit being dumped under if you slow down even a little bit or it was a little bit kind of lack of confidence yes yeah if I was like those if my home planet was up or I'm not thinking like when I'm filming it's just there by myself it's very easy and this kind of into it but playing with them and playing Julie and playing with the kids like I have to think a little bit because I want to play well it comes down to rhythm and comple tiny basically yeah well so like the difference is basically if you were coming against the gloves that's out and come down stop a good hip-hop it's like now you're here before our sphere yeah so that clubface is gonna overtake and shut down a lot quicker then not one so what's gonna happen is if you slow down at all that becomes there and then that's where especially with longer clubs are like a 3-wood this has the propensity to turn over anyway that's why did shot yeah I did it I was gonna go yes two days ago right how did like kind of punch a 6-iron and hit a high hook 6-iron in the bunker yes because most guys are trying to hit it like if you're trying to hit it low it's two things is you don't have it son - a plane it couldn't because the way the leg or cage so then you try to do it with the face you're good to set it down to get the low and then you're also slowing down and I'm hitting it you have more Club not hitting it hard although that's actually making it harder to hit it low without hitting it left yeah whereas when you do this correctly that left leg rotates out you can actually stay away on top of it have more shaft fade and you'll be able to hit it low and not have to take this look like you'd be able to maybe take half of one more and hit it hard yeah but you won't have to take like two clubs extra back way off which just makes it easier to start them all online yeah so it's not that the other one can't work it's just it's harder which is why it'll show up the good was still good but the bad was too bad too often and especially lately it's been blowing like 20 miles an hour mix it all day you're trying to take shortcuts or putting too much pressure on yourself and actually making it harder to perform at a high level I'm gonna play that swing thought events the 30th 31st as of 1450 I'm not filming anything I think it's just let's got everything done let it upload but like let's prepare and play a lot of golf and practice and feel confident - not just on the club face moved a lot less - alright that's it I hope you enjoyed that lesson I hope you learn from it if you did subscribe like the video give it a big ol thumbs up share with a friend who needs some help with what their lower body is doing in the golf swing and yeah I guess I will see you in a couple weeks [Music]