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What You'll Learn In Today's Episode

​How different types of feedback can help influence your swing and lock in those changes quickly

How Bob Duncan uses the terrain around him​ to fix an over the top move

How the Step Change drill from Super Speed Golf can fix a reverse pivot

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Videos Referenced

Step change drill is at 3:02 Drill setup is at 2:00

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Hey McDivot, thanks for reaching out with the question. So from the sounds of it this is the classic over the top move. Meaning as you come into impact the face of the golf club is open and you are cutting across the golf ball. Depending on how severe your motion is this could be a pull fade that lands you generally where you want to be or a giant slice that sends you three fairways over. No matter how severe the shape my favorite solution stays the same and it comes from Bob Duncan.

Now, I don’t think we actually covered this exact issue in our episode but the fundamentals of Bob’s process are certainly laid out for you to understand. Matter of fact, now that I think about this, I’m fairly certain I saw Bob respond to this question elsewhere online. Either way, it’s a simple solution.

For all of you listeners who don’t quite know my teaching style, I like to teach using as many different forms of feedback as possible. Physical, visual, heck, even auditory. And it should be in a form that is more extreme than your standard everyday fairway shot. That way when you’re no longer focusing on fixing the problem and your mind and body regress a little bit, they fall exactly where they should’ve been all along. Alright, enough delay, here’s what you do McDivot.

Go find a hill and hit off of the incline. So the ball should be positioned a few inches above your feet. This way if you do come over the top and cast a little bit you are going to get the physical feedback of slamming that club right into the side of the hill! Trust me, after that happens a few times your brain will start to fix the problem all on it’s own.

Now the other part of your question will probably be a little harder to fix, simply because it’s a much more noticeable feeling. If your weight is even or drifting back a little at impact I’m tempted to think that you’ve got a little bit of a reverse pivot going on. That, if you’re not aware, is when your upper body drifts towards the target on the backswing so when you follow through you’ve got no choice but to uncoil and finish with your weight middle or back in your stance. As you can imagine, this can be pretty costly in the distance department.

One drill that can help this, as well as add some extra yards, is one of the swing exercises from Super Speed Golf. It’s their step change of direction drill. Basically think Happy Gilmore without the running up to the ball. Here’s a clip from their YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/Iq8ro0dGt6o?t=182

Doing this will help get that weight going forward through impact (which also helps fix the casting problem) and will leave you long and down the middle of the fairway. So I hope that helps you out McDivot. If you have a question feel free to reach out through Twitter, like McDivot, my handle is @golf_strategy