Craig Phase 2 Session 6 Review
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Here Craig reviews his progress side by side with RS Founder Chuck Quinton's swing
Hello, everyone.
Rotary Swing Tour instructor Craig Morrow here.
I hope everybody's doing well today and enjoyed my first session back.
And as always, I'm going to do a little bit of a review of my swing.
I saw a lot of faults that I wanted to talk about.
And yes, I can be pretty nitpicky on my move.
But I'm going to highlight one in particular because I definitely think that after a layoff from a winner's nap, it's very easy to fall back into some old movement patterns or some old habits.
And today, that's exactly what I did or in this session is that my trail arm started to get a little bit too dominant again.
Phase two is all about gaining control.
It's not about power.
It's not about hitting it over the fences.
It's about learning how to release the club to gain some control.
And for me being a lead side releaser, if my trail arm starts to overwork or get too dominant, it's going to cause chaos with what's going on with my club face.
So you'll see me on the left hand side of the screen.
And I'm going to show you what caught my eye as I started working from the takeaway, which my swing got back a little bit long again, which I'm going to tackle.
You'll see in the transition right here, I started pushing on the club just a little bit.
Now, I don't have a major cast or anything, but I can see that I started pushing on the club just a little bit.
Now, why is this so bad for me?
Well, pushing on the club right here did a few different things.
Number one, it started to get the club to go out away from me too soon.
And when the club started to go out away from me too soon, everything started to really kind of slow up.
My arms started getting out of sync with my weight and my hip turn, Because now I'm starting to kind of put the focus or dominate the face.
Versus allowing the weight in my hips and my torso and my lead lat to pull my arms in front to get to that good impact position.
So the pushing on the club is starting to get the club to move out away from me too soon.
And so I'm a little bit out of sync with my body with my arms now.
And as I work into impact, you're going to see how much my trail hand is on top of the club.
Now, as I started working through my session, I noticed I started to get a little pull in it.
And that little pull was being caused by my trail hand overworking the face.
If you want control in your golf swing, you kind of have to give up control.
That's the hard part.
It's not about being more dominant.
It's about being less dominant.
And you'll see my trail hand right here, my V is really rotated over.
In fact, it's almost pointed right to my lead shoulder and I just made impact.
And so what's happening is I'm starting to make my transition.
I'm getting back into the swing of things, but my trail side is saying, Hey, you do everything with your right arm and hand on a daily basis.
So I'm going to kind of help you out today.
And that's exactly what happened.
I pushed on the club a little bit.
I controlled a little bit of face rotation with my trail hand too much.
And that's why the face started squaring up a little bit too soon.
And I started experiencing a little bit of a pull for my miss.
If we go over here and look at Chuck, you'll see that as he starts to go through here and works into impact, he doesn't really have any push on it in the transition, the arms and hands kind of just falling and reacting to his leg work.
And as he works into impact, you'll see at the same position, look at the difference in his trail hand.
His V is pointed a little bit more at his lead ear or his lead eye.
It's not completely over the club.
Now, there are some different parameters that you might see when you start adding speed and swinging for the fences.
But in a phase two, it's all about gaining control.
And you don't want this trail arm dominating the rotation of the face.
And I need to get this out.
I need to get this little bit of a push out of my swing.
So if you go to phase two and you go to the faults and fixes section, under pull, you're going to see one of my favorite drills to help get rid of this, which is the two finger release drill.
That's going to show you that A, you don't need both hands to release the club.
B, you don't even need all your fingers to release the club properly.
There's a balance to things in the golf swing.
You have the lead side has its role and the trail side has its role.
But my trail side is overworking in this position right here.
And so I'm actually going to go back to the two finger release drill to start to get the pressure in my lead hand.
Working a little bit better to start letting the club release itself.
The old adage of you have to give up to control to gain control is perfectly true in the golf swing.
I got away with some of my shots because I've hit a lot of golf balls in my lifetime, but I don't want to get away with this.
I want to get my swing back to form and back to where I had it in the good old days.
And in the good old days, I didn't control the face rotation too much with my trail hand.
I allowed the power to transfer passively through it.
And I allowed the club to release itself.
So if you start looking at your swing and you start seeing in phase two, that the club starts kind of casting a little bit too soon, the arms and hands start to get out of sync with your body motion, that when you look at impact, your trail hand is completely rotated on top of the club, my advice is take it off.
Learn that it really doesn't need to do anything, especially at this stage and at this pace.
Phase two is about gaining control.
We'll do speed later.
As I start to work into phase three and make the swing longer and faster, we'll talk about the speed and I'll start to get a little bit more jump on the ball.
But at this stage, at this size, I want to achieve the goal in phase two, which is allowing the club to release and really narrowing my margin for error when that club is rotating through the hitting zone.
So for me, I've got to get my trail arm out of the equation.
And I would imagine for those of you at home watching this video right now, if you're just now getting back in to golf after a long winter's nap, You're probably going to see the same thing.
Because a lot of us are just very right side dominant, because we do everything with our right side in everyday life.
And so I'm going to work on the two finger release drill to start quieting my trail hand.
Because the easiest way to start fixing this issue is to get the trail hand off the club and start realizing how much you don't need it.
In a small swing to get the club to release and kind of hit some effortless release shots.
Jonathan
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Jonathan
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Jonathan