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  1. Professor Crossfield I will call you. You go for the intuitive
    understanding, good teaching style!?

  2. Thanks this really helped with my OT move. I really appreciated the video.
    One interesting thing happened when the OT move went away, my club face
    opened up 10-15degrees (I use swingsmart monitor to track progress). I’ll
    need to fix that next.?

  3. Cant help but agree with eddie brown unfortunately, this is a great drill
    for feeling how the club works and how your body should work and initially
    you start hitting it great and think wow eureka moment but eventually the
    old paterns creep back as soon as you put your hands back where there
    supposed to be that right shoulder starts to move out to the ball and your
    back to square 1, as i said i think eddie is right some people have that
    natural gift and as mark says it feel odd for him to hit from a outside
    path i think thats something you have to have natrually the mere mortals
    will always be fighting it, again this is a really great drill for feeling
    how things should work and hit some great shots after doing it but
    sustaining it is always the problem when its not god given?

  4. Hi Mark, thanks alot for you videos. Ive been suffering from pulls and I
    realize the fault is im coming in over the top. Im guessing thats why, when
    ive pulled, get the feeling that my body has rotated more to the left and
    not so much in a swingplane direction?

    Again, many thanks for your videos. Your review of WilsonStaff FG V2 made
    me buy those irons on a good deal and I havnt looked back since :).?

  5. Thanks for your show I am trying to find why I can swing well at home but
    as soon as I get on the the course I can not seem to hit the ball
    correctly. It is like I try to hit it harder no matter how much I think
    about not hitting it that hard.
    I will try today method about swing and thinking about a center point using
    the slit hand drill.
    Thanks Bob

    Keep up the videos!?

  6. I already pull-draw it left, this will just make it worse if I let the
    right hand get even more involved. I’m afraid golf is just harder for most
    accept people like Mark. Probably only 10% of people that play golf
    actually have that “it” gene that allows them to hit the ball fairly
    consistently. The rest of us just hack it around, no matter how much we
    spend on clubs and lessons.?

  7. Rainy day here in Paris. Good time to watch the old videos we forget.
    Fascinating insight about swinging the handle.?

  8. Hi Mark

    My bad shots are hooks and pushes. I’ve tried the split hands drill before
    without understanding its full value but your very clear explanation of how
    the handle should move has helped me learn so much from the drill in the
    last couple of weeks. The concept and a little practice of the drill have
    produced a significant improvement in a very short time. Can’t thank you
    enough.?

  9. Hey Mark, awesome video! I am playing off a six handicap but still can
    slice it 30 yards short and 40 right. Also I could not hit the ball far.
    This video helped me loads. Gotta wonder how much you could help during an
    entire lesson if your instructional videos help more than hours with my
    local pro. Cheers.?

  10. At 1:44 in your video you call the handle of the club the “black bit”, the
    grip end, and the bit you hold onto. Are you for real? Do you really think
    the average golfer does not know what the club handle is? Just because you
    are an idiot does not make anyone on YouTube an idiot. You plonker?

  11. Doesn’t that exercise give the impression to straighten their right elbow
    too quickly before contact? In the actual swing, the right elbow should
    be close to the body and still bent at moment of contact. The right elbow
    then straightens out a little after the ball. What’s your thought on that??

  12. hi mark,I have a problem with my hands coming through more away from body
    at impact than what they were at address,OVER THE TOP.any drills.?

  13. I assure of this – you can either hit the ball or you can’t and watching
    Youtube isn’t going to change it. I’m a 4 handicap and have been trying for
    30 years to quit pulling the ball so I could get to scratch – can’t do it.?

  14. You said that one should release and let the club head get in front of the
    grip. Wouldn’t that cause one to lose compression and make a less solid
    shot? My golf instructor wants me to keep my grip ahead of the club head
    when I strike the ball. Which is better??

  15. Also: Only thing I’d say about some of this is that (cf. Ernest Jones et
    al.) while the head of the club “passes the hands” in one manner of
    speaking, you don’t want the butt end of the club to lever backward
    relative to a fixed point. You can have the “pivot around the center point
    between your hands” as long as it doesn’t lead to the left hand, arm,
    and/or side putting the brakes on and quitting. It *is* true, though, that
    in the most efficient swings, points closer to the center of rotation (such
    as the hinge about the hands and wrists) have to slow down to allow the
    force to sling itself out into the clubhead. Otherwise, nobody could swing
    the club faster than they could move back and forth literally in one
    artificial, no-speed-producing piece.

    I know *you’re* not saying that the butt end ought to stop entirely. I
    just wouldn’t want somebody to misinterpret. That’s already the problem
    with how a lot of people see release — as some kind of stop-and-throw
    action. (Again, for anybody who wants to see an early treatment of this,
    cf. Ernest Jones on levering versus swinging.)?

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