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Spine at top forward by one. At impact forward by five. Only just forward now. Right, okay. Club at takeaway outside by nine. At delivery steep by five. Looking at the swing coach app, what we'll see here is a few things. The club plane or swing plane is very steep, okay, or outside as this goes back and down. Good news in a way it comes up and back pretty much the same direction, yeah, right, so there's no mad compensations which is kind of good. Now when we click this button to the side it shows us the hull of your golf swing, so it gives us a rating yellow and green and so on for everything. So you'll see the rest of your swing is pretty good. Lots of greens, a couple of yellows which are minor things. But the big thing is your swing plane, okay. So in the back swing it's outside by nine in the takeaway. Halfway back it's outside or steep by eight. When it comes down halfway down it's steep by four and then delivery steep by five. So the down swing is slightly shallower than what it goes back which again is good. So it basically would tell us if we get the back swing more on plane that's going to help you, okay, in terms of everything, okay. Yep, that's what it kind of tells us. Now if we look at the other angle, let's look at the last one. I put this on measuring your spine initially, so that shows you the blue zone where your spine should be at the top of the back swing and where it should be in the down swing. So what you'll see from that is you're a long way forward on the way down. So back swing almost perfect, you're forward slightly. Down swing you're forward by five. Now with the driver if your spine gets forward it pretty much nearly always leads you to cut across the golf ball and makes it very hard for you to release the golf ball properly. Right, okay. The thing with the ball is you hit lots of fades, some push slices, some pulls, some toe strikes which help you with the pulls. To be honest that gives you the gear effect in the club. But lots of that kind of, let's call it fade or slice bias in your golf swing. We'll look at why you do that in a minute but that's kind of what you're doing. When we look at the, again, the rest of the matrix from here, what we'll see really is on the down swing the main things again you're forward, forward by eight halfway down, forward by seven in delivery, forward by five in impact. So as you get near to impact you get less forward but you're forward always through the down swing. The back swing kind of in the zone. I think your spine can go more to the right in the back swing when I look at it on video. Okay. So that would help you with the down swing. But let's look at that. I think a lot of that is tied into your arm swing as well. So the lead shoulder on the down swing as well, at the top of the swing, sorry, is forward by six. So that's kind of what I see. The shoulder doesn't go behind the ball enough. All right, so that's sort of doing that. Yeah, so if you imagine, I'll do it in front of the camera here, in the back swing your shoulder is forward so it doesn't go behind the golf ball enough. Right, yeah. So I'd like you to feel like your spine and shoulder go a little bit more behind the ball and then down swing you're going to stay behind the ball. Now when your shoulder is not going behind the ball your arms will very much want to go more up. That's kind of what you do. So whether you fix it by working on your arms or you fix it by working on your body is a bit of chicken and egg. You know, everybody's different. You know, what works for you which we'll experiment with and look at what works. Yeah, sure. Sometimes the media just explains to you what you do and what you need to do. You might want to change those things. Yeah. So we'll suck and see. Okay. The head as well. So it's forward on the down swing. Top of the swing is forward by five and then down swing is forward by seven, forward by eight and then forward by six at impact. It's almost pulling me. Yeah, so it goes basically, top is slightly forward, goes more forward initially, then as you get to impact it goes a little bit more back. Right. So that'll be closing the clubface as well, won't it? When the head goes back, it'll generally, that's your way of trying to shallow the club. So when the club's steep here, when you get to impact, how you make it sort of work to get the club on board is by going back slightly. Right. Mostly with your head and spine is what you do it with. You don't do it with your knees or your anything else. The data tells us that. So it's mostly just your body compensating for the swing play. So in other words, we get the swing playing right and the body motion right. So the body motion's got to feel, if you like, a bit more. That's kind of doing this kind of motion. So it goes more behind the ball in the back swing. It kind of stays behind the ball on the way down. I often refer to it as the wall. So imagine you have a wall from your left groin here. We would try and feel like your shoulders and your head never get through that wall, particularly with the driver. And I love to see the head over the right knee in the down swing. And your head will be forward with that right knee in the down swing. Yeah, I understand. But when the arms are up and your shoulder doesn't go deep enough on the way back, it's always going to be forward. Then you're fighting from there. You do a good job. Your timing, your skill is good. We need to keep that. But we need to try and get your swing to have more depth to it, basically. More depth to the body, more depth to the arm swing to help you. That make sense? It does, yeah. All right. Very quick summary from what we've said there. Obviously, we've gone through some technical detail in that. The big thing for me would be that, you know, you stand relatively good to the golf ball. The takeaways you take about the arms and hands tend to go out and away from you. And this shoulder tends to go up towards your chin like this a little bit, rather than the shoulder going down and across like this. You'll see immediately as I take the shoulder down and across, the other club comes more inside. And, you know, we want it on plane rather than inside or outside. But the idea for you would be in your backswing, we can get this arm swing lower, your shoulder more behind the golf ball. Then as you start down, the swing arc again will claim to be lower and your head to be further back. And then we release the golf club more in terms of the wrists and hands. So we get the clubface to close more, essentially. Again, a tune of about five degrees. The trackman data we saw was that you were cutting across the golf ball quite considerably. I think it was like seven degrees, wasn't it? It was, yeah. And the clubface is five degrees open. And we have a lot of toe strikes, which help reduce the curvature for you, but obviously reduce a little bit of your power and your distance. You've got good speed. So we want to use that. And also because you hit down on the golf ball, that cost you a bit of yardage as well. Okay. So the idea for you would almost be that, again, like we talked about earlier, turn behind the ball, arms lower. Keep behind the wall, release that golf club, and then start to get that contact more in the middle. Right, okay. So if you want to jump on that mat there. Yep. Take yourself to that T peg. Just make a gentle backswing for me. Just a gentle backswing. So what I'd want you to feel, if you can, is this shoulder feels like it's lower. Okay. And you feel like the arms are more behind you like this. Okay. And in the downswing, we feel like we stay closed, club comes here, and then we would release the golf club more like that. Right, okay. Still sitting back there. That's the feeling. Okay. So at contact, you feel almost like the chest is looking at that PSG back there. Yeah, proper. And you feel like your hands are being overtaken a little bit. Yeah. Specifically for the ride of this, okay? Okay. Right. So just make a practice swing where you feel, you try and repeat that on your own for me. And then we'll give you a go, you know, with no other guidance. And then what we'll do, we'll develop some things and exercises and drills for you to use, depending how you get on with just having to go with it on your own. Yeah, sure. So the big thing I want you to do is kind of understand what we're trying to change. Have a go at it. Can you do it without any props, any gadgets? Because that means it will be more meaningful and long lasting. Yeah. If you can't, then we try and make you do it. Right, okay. And also then we try and give you, you know, the prescription to go away and home with that you can practice that will change you as well. Yeah. Okay. Let's have a go at hitting one. Let's just see what you do. Again, there's no failure here. It doesn't matter how good or bad or indifferent this is. It's just you having a go. Okay, that was better. So that one, you only cut across at four degrees. Clubface was still open there quite a lot. Okay, yeah. But in terms of the path and the angle of approach and everything, that was a lot better. Right. And the plane was lower. Right. So good first go. Let's have another go. And again, try and feel like you released that club a little earlier for me as well. Okay. Again, I will teach you how to do that in a second. Got the same feeling. So shoulder, sort of what you feel is down and behind the ball. Let the arms go with it. Yeah. In terms of plane, it's massively better. Massively better in terms of plane. Yeah, you cut across that with four degrees. And again, you only hit down 0.4 degrees. And if you look at the difference in your pivot there and your arm swing, massively, massively better. Yeah. Yeah, that head seems to be more. Yeah. And we'll put you back on the swing coach app again to show you the numbers and how they've changed. We're going to do a bit more work for us now. But yeah, that was pretty damn good. Okay. Right. So I think you set it the same way. You could almost go with that backswing and sort of say that's good enough. Or certainly a lot better. And if we just work a bit in the downswing, we might well get where we want to get to for today. Wow. Yeah. Okay. So take your set again for me. Okay. So what we're going to work on is this yellow line is your kind of downswing line. Okay. So effectively, you're going to be swinging at the camera. Okay. Right. So swing back to the top of your batting for me. So I want you to feel it on your downswing is the club's going to be trying to go on this yellow line. And you're going to try and get that golf club to overtake the hands before contact. Feel that? Right. Okay. So it's a really early release for you in terms of what we call a lever release and also rotational release. You want both. Okay. Basically means you'll feel a bit more casty, but also we're going to rotate the arms and hands. It's not a flap of the hands. It's kind of rotation of the arms and the wrists. But also at the same time, we are unloading the wrist a little early to help with the driver. Yeah. Up on the ball as well. Okay. So same backswing feels and then try and swing down that yellow line for me. Yeah. Very good. In terms of swing and direction, very good. That one there you hit from the inside point three of a degree. Okay. And you hit up on the ball two degrees. So just the contact was a bit toey. Wow. Yeah. But everything else there was great. So it's changed. Yeah. Definitely. Massively. Okay. Keep going. So the drill we've got you doing just for the camera, you're swinging back from the front of the mat so we don't hit the back of the mat. Yep. Backswing, we're still trying to feel the same thing. So the shoulder feels like it's down and across. Bring it back to me nice and slowly. Arms feel a little bit more like they're coming across that microphone. Bouncing, we're trying to hit the ground back here. So it's kind of level with your back foot, the trail foot. We're swinging in the direction that would be right angles almost. And as we swing to that direction, we also want to rotate those wrists so this clubface points to the ground. And essentially I want this right shoulder to feel down and back. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. That helps them with your consistency of contact. When you stand up a bit, which you do a little bit, which we all do, that brings the club closer to you, which is why you get some of the toe strikes. Plus the fact you're bouncing across the golf ball. So we're trying to keep your levels in a good swing direction and getting the clubface closing. Okay. So have a couple of practice swings just doing that. Hitting that part of the mat. Very good. And just stop in front of the camera. Perfect. And you're checking the clubface position when you stop there. Where is it pointing? So do it again and just check it for me. Where's that clubface pointing? You'll see there's pointing straight towards the ground. Yeah. So ideally right shoulder lower. Very good. And you almost feel like your hips kick a bit more towards me. So it's like. Oh, like that. Yep. Yeah. And that. Right. Okay. As I said, catch and reign that. This tailor-made logo points more towards the ground. Right. It's an exaggeration. We're trying to exaggerate you swinging too much from the inside and closing the face too much. And ideally, I'd love you to hit hooks for 20 minutes and then go, what's normal? We're looking to influence your normal swing as opposed to have a normal swing. Cool. Yeah. Okay. We want you to play tomorrow with your normal swing. And you might think on the golf course, just something simple like shoulder towards your trail foot and then basically hang back into these. Something like that. Okay. Let's try a ball now with those same feels. Okay. So the idea in process might well be that you do two practice swings like that and then hit a normal shot. And you might do that for 20 balls. So you might do 20 balls where we concentrate on the shoulder movement and feeling that low plane. 20 balls where we concentrate on this movement to change the downswing. And you might hit 20 balls with a rod in the ground as a visual. Right. Okay. And that might be a 60 ball practice. You might not do it all with the driver. You might do half with the driver, half with an iron. You want the same thing with your iron swing. Right. Okay. Let's have a go at a shot. So as comfortable as you can make that. Again, shoulder down across in the backswing and in that downswing feel we had. Okay. Decent movement. Just contact with the ball. Okay. Right. Okay. Let's go again. So again, you only cut across that one two degrees. So that was your second lowest. Right. Okay. Again, when you swing in naturally, shoulder down across and focus on that yellow line. Decent contact ball. Decent movement. Okay. Go again. Same thing. I expect you to have quite a few poor contacts to be honest with you. Right. Okay. That one there you hit two degrees from the inside. We put this here. So basically if you hit the ball off the toe of the club now, you'll see you'll be close to hitting this towel. Right. Also if you cut across the ball, you'd hit this towel. So the idea is you come down the yellow line, miss the towel. So now we're not focusing as much on the backswing because it's too much for the brain. It's more about swing back, yellow line, miss the towel. Okay. And you can concentrate on the path and then club face separately if you want to as well. Right. You know, depends how your brain works. Okay, good shot. That was definitely a different strike. What I want you to do in this one is start your swing from here. So we're going back 20 inches. Take your shoulders and hips with it. Okay. Put the club down on the ground. So see there. Like the edge of the ball tray. Now from there, I want you to do the same swing and hit it. Good. Pull it. So that might be what I get you to do in the course today, tomorrow. What it helps you do, it helps you to do the visual line of swinging more from the inside. Also gets your shoulders a bit more closed. It helps the backswing go deeper for you. It also presets everything a bit more behind the ball. So everything we're trying to get you to hit more up, hit more from the inside. That does it. You can exaggerate this for drills and I do this quite often with people where we go to the back edge of the mat. Again, what we've tried to work on is the mechanical change to make you do this naturally without this kind of interference. But for a short-term gain, starting back like that helps a bit with what I'm doing. Okay. Let's just do another one. And if we're going for the full golf course routine, which might as well do for the next four shots, okay? Yeah. What I want you to do basically is a practice swing that would look like what we were doing earlier, hitting the ground. So again, you can do it with the ball there. You shouldn't hit the ball. Go to the front of the mat again. On the grass, this is easier. Yep. So you swing back. You can hit the ground here. Go over the top of the ball, close the face. And then when we go and hit the ball, we start back from the ball and just swing, okay? So if you hit the towel, you know you haven't done it enough. Perfect. What we do in the golf course is maybe just do one of those. Right, okay. Now step to the ball. Set up with that golf club back about 10 inches. Take the shoulders and hips with you. Use the same kind of feeling. So shoulder down and across and give it a whack. Good shot, well done. Well done. So you cut across that 1.4 degrees, hit three degrees up on the ball and the clubface was two degrees open. Slight toe strike. Pretty good. If we can get it so the face is a bit more closed and not toe strike, perfect. Even though the ball flight is good, right? Okay, yeah. Massively different. One, two, the other way now. Is it really? Yeah. So only just forward now. Right, okay. So if you look at this one, you come down. This, you know, the spine. Almost perfect in the backswing. Almost perfect on the way down. Look at the data. The spine is only back by three, halfway down. So it's back, not forward. Back by one at the top. Four by one, four by one. It is, yeah. Great work. What we've managed to do, data-wise and everything-wise, we've changed your club path at impact. We've changed your spine movement. We've changed your playing. Potentially, your playing might be a little too low, and that might be something we come back to to make that more perfect for long term. But you've changed that without me having to really do too much work on it, just giving you some feels and talking through it too upright. So I would second see how that goes, because you might want to revert back to what you do playing a bit more. What I would recommend you do for practice is, as we said earlier, we would try and hit 20 balls where you concentrate on the backswing movement, shoulder down and across. Don't worry too much about the arms. They tend to behave more when you do that. 20 balls, maybe concentrate on the downstream direction, where you might have the yellow rod down, but also do those practice swings. And then maybe 20 balls, concentrate on the club face, where we do, again, that club face down drill and feel the rotation and that early release. And then you might hit 10 balls normal. Now, 70 balls of the driver's hard work, you might do quite a few of those with an iron, and then some drivers. Or you might well do, OK, I'll do five, five and five with the driver, same routine we've done, and five normal, 20 balls, and then do the rest with an iron. But try and keep that kind of ratio that we're trying to do. 10% to 20% normal shots to 70% what I call change work or drill work. That'll give you the most influence on your natural golf swing. Then when you are on the golf course, I want the routine where you do the practice swing, which is exaggerated, and then set up for that club 10 inches back, and then just trust your ability and just give it a smack. Be confident and hit it with trust. Don't try and steer it. Give it a bit of a belt. You've got nice speed, good handling and coordination, good skill. We're going to use that on the course as much as we can. Brilliant. Any questions? Anything you want to ask? No, good. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Great work. Lovely. Thank you. Appreciate it. And well done.