Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Online Student Fixes Slice | Amazing Before and After"

In today's lesson...

Professor Q shows the amazing transformation shown in his swing review student...

...and explains how he started shallowing the club in the downswing...

...and started hitting dead straight frozen ropes down the middle of the fairway!

The game gets a lot easier when you're striping the ball down the middle of the fairway off the tee!

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 7:05

Video Transcription:

Hey, Quentin Patterson here. I'm really excited to share with you some awesome improvements that my online student Dan has made to his swing. So Dan was really struggling with a big slice. So let's get rid of me and then let's talk about what these lines are here on the screen. So these lines I have on both of these swings are what we call the elbow plane line.

And this is a line that goes from the zel of the club up through the elbow. And what this does is it gives us a good reference of how the club is coming down. Uh, in the downswing, if it's coming down above that plane or above that line, it's gonna typically be steep. If it's coming down underneath that line, it's gonna be shallow.

So typically what we like to see is with a driver. Let me change colors here. So if you watch the yellow line here, I like to see with the driver. I like to see this club kind of tracking down underneath there. The reason is that if it's on that line, then it's probably still gonna be a little bit steep.

Um, because the ball position's a little bit more forward in your stance, so we need to be a little bit more shallow with the driver. Because the ball position's forward in the stance, the club's gonna tend to wanna work more to the left as it as it arcs around your body in a circle, right? So if the ball position's more forward, it's gonna tend to wanna work more to the left.

Now we don't wanna put the ball position back in our stance with the driver because that's gonna tend to lead to us hitting down on it and hitting it too low. With the last spin, it's not gonna go very far. We want to hit up on it. Um, so that way we can get a high launch low spin. In order to do that, we gotta put it forward in the stands.

Which means we gotta shallow it out a little bit more. So if we watch here on the before swing on the left, what we're going to see here with Dan is how his hands really go inside quite a bit. He really flattens out the club in the back swing. This is something I commonly see, you know, cause everyone's trying to shallow it and everyone's thinking shallowing it right from the beginning of the swing.

So what ends up happening is we actually shall the swing in the back swing. Which ends up backfiring because usually shallowing out the club too much in the back swing, like Danny is here, is going to lead to steepening in the down swing, and that's exactly what he does. So watch hands go in club, comes back really, really flat, and then the hands are gonna go out and the club head goes out as well.

So now we're seeing that club work down above that elbow plane line that's gonna be steep. So if you look at your swing on video and you're seeing that club come down above that elbow plane line, You're going, you know, if you're struggling with pulls, slices, pull hooks, that's likely the reason why. So getting that club to work underneath the elbow plane line would certainly be something that, that can, can really, really help you, uh, to help you to start hitting it straighter and be, be more consistent with your shots.

So that's what we worked on here, was getting that to work in a better position coming down. So if you watch with this takeaway, let's actually go back here. Let's go to Club Parallel. And you're gonna see a difference here. The hands aren't. Well, the club head isn't going as much inside. It looks in a much, much better position.

It's actually tracking up the elbow plane line. Now, it doesn't have to do that, but it can definitely make things a little bit easier. There are definitely players that brought the club inside like a Raymond Floyd, but generally you're gonna see most players, uh, bringing that club pretty close to that elbow plane line, or even sometimes a little bit above it.

Um, Dan's got it in a really, really great spot here. And if you watch at that lead arm parallel position in the backswing, this is where you're gonna see the biggest difference. You can see the hands aren't near as much inside, and you can see how that club is pretty closely matching the elbow plane line.

It's not so flat. This is gonna make him, uh, it is gonna put him in a, in a much better position to be able to be successful and shallow out the club in the downswing. So now let's watch, watch how he comes down in the downswing. Watch how his hands move. Remember in his before swing, the hands basically kind of would loop in and then go out, right?

So you can see that's kind of what his hands are doing here. They kinda loop in and then they go out away from him. Now if you look at this, the hands go up and then they come down on the elbow plane nicely. So basically his hands are kind of going up and then right down on that elbow plane line, that's exactly what we, what we wanna see and that's gonna allow him to shallow it very nicely.

Watch how that club tracks. Just like what I talked about at the beginning of the video, it's tracking underneath that elbow plain line, right where I said I like to see it. And if we watch this ball flight here, we can kind of see, watch how the, if you kinda watch this string in the background here, that rope that's hanging down, you can see how it just goes straight at that and basically doesn't leave.

It goes a little bit left of it, but doesn't really leave it. That ball is a dead straight frozen rope. And that's exactly what we wanna see. And if we get that club tracking down underneath that elbow plane line like that, You're gonna be much more likely to do that. You're also gonna be much more likely to have a center face strike because when we come over the top and above the elbow plane line, watch how this club is working to the left.

See how it's working to the left? Now you can still hit it in the center of the face. It just makes it more difficult because. The club is going across the ball, right? So the sweet spot's working toward you quite a bit. Just makes it a lot difficult or a lot more difficult to get that strike in the center of the face.

If this club's working from the inside nice and shallow out, and it's kicking out to the ball, I mean, look at this strike. It couldn't be whoops. It couldn't be more dead center than that right there and dead center strike with a nice swing plane coming down is gonna lead to. Pretty, pretty straight shots as long as you're squaring up the face.

So what we worked on was a lot of the stuff in the 20 minute showering fix. There was some specific things that I gave him to help him be a little bit more successful. And you can do exactly that. You know, you can work through the 20 minute showering fix. And in fact, if you're struggling with this, um, that's definitely what I would recommend you do is go work through that 20 minute showering fix.

If you go to the instruction tab at the top, you know, at the top of the screen, and then go to the 20 minute showering Fix, you can work on this yourself. But there can be some things that can make it a little bit more difficult. We can't cover everything that may be going wrong, you know, in the 20 minute showering effects.

And that's where, um, the online lessons can really come in and help out. And that's what we did here with, uh, with Dan. So if you'd be interested in doing the online lessons, if you're watching this video on the day that we're releasing it, I'm actually opening up some spots for my online lessons today.

And it doesn't have to be shallowing at the club if you're struggling with anything. If you're struggling with your chipping, you're putting. Um, your iron game. It doesn't have to be driver. It can be really anything. I would love to have the opportunity to help you. Uh, so like I said, if you're watching this video on the day that we're, that we're releasing it, I should have some spots open.

Uh, if you didn't quite get there soon enough, they may be sold out. No worries. All you have to do is uh, click the link and join the waiting list so that way whenever I open up spots in the future, we'll send you an email, um, ahead of time so that way you can be ready and you can sign up, um, at that time.

So, I'd love to have the opportunity to work with you again. I thank Dan for letting me use his videos here and, uh, giving me the opportunity to work with him. I'm glad it's paid off for him, and I hope it can pay off for you as well. So join the waiting list if you don't see any spots or grab a spot if you see one.

I'd love to work with you. Hopefully you're playing well, and, uh, I'll talk to you next time.