johnrobison

Yes. And I have shoe inserts to study trace as well. Yes. Path shallower. Low point better.

I'll second this. Especially the South course. It really is a great track!

I've played and seen a lot of baseball and 90% of the people I see throw a ball, do it at the equivalent of a 20 handicap golfer's swing. Perhaps, like me, you were somehow just a natural at baseball. Perhaps, like me, you played with a lot of guys who were also somehow just naturally good at it. Not that we all weren't taught and fine-tuned in the mechanics to be even better, but we had an innate talent/skill for the fundamentals. But, just like golfers, most people (in my experience, anyway) are very far from naturally good at throwing a ball and without learning proper mechanics simply swinging "effortlessly, naturally, free-flowing" or whatever, won't get them anywhere.

I'll second those recommendations ^ Navy has always been top of my list but ElDo is a arguably the better course (though I'd suggest an early start to avoid a very long round).

Or maybe Alex P Keaton. Those pants are choice! This is true

And a very nice pressing on those trousers, my friend!

How is this not your signature?!

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Ahh…yep. My bad. I assumed when he said “set up for the open” he meant the tips but I just paused the video where he entered the score and see that he selected the blue tees.

El Dorado is just shy of 7K and currently set up for the LB Open. It’s no pushover, and a 68 there right now is pretty impressive.

I don’t know that that’s the point of it all, though. The premise of his channel from day one was to seek out divergent perspectives, preferably controversial ones, even, and put them to the test.

I think that instructors have varying points of view on this, including: 1. Pushing off the trail side correctly 2. It's a result of how your pivot works 3. Plenty of good players don't bank the trail foot

If your goal is to hit balls far, that makes sense. If your goal is to improve, they're not wasted. That's exactly why you paid for them.

You're probably going to feel like you're sitting down. Or squatting really deep, about to jump. It will feel crazy exaggerated to you.

How much would you charge for yours?

So, hand path appears steep from excessive right tilt? My (uneducated) first thought was to keep the right shoulder high and straighten the right arm sooner. Hands come out more, while shaft is still on plane.

Steep? Really?! I'm tuning into this one to learn what the pros here have to say about it.

Agreed! For me EE was a huge catch-22. I had to work on it to make other things possible (primarily shallower downswing) but I also couldn't resolve EE until the other things were better since it was the compensation I was making. I remember talking with Monte about it over lunch one day - it was a "It's not whether people need to do this or that, but that people need to do both" kind of discussion.

How do you know that your backswing is too long and causing you to be steep?

My advice: Post a swing video from DTL and from FO. Myriad things could lead to your issue and without seeing the swing all anyone can do is make guesses.

If that's where he should start to move forward, SP, you may need to leave him with a map and some breadcrumbs to find his way back.