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  1. Great work Rick!! Path is loads better and hopefully ball flight will be a
    little more consistent. Keep working on it but not too hard!!! See you
    soon.?

  2. Hands down the most relevant video for my swing I’ve seen – thanks +
    Meandmygolf and +RickShielsPGAGolf. I have exactly the same swing path as
    you Rick, and cannot hit a straight ball – overdraws and blocks all over
    the place! Cannot wait to try these drills this weekend!?

  3. Some of those are still drawing quite a lot still from a face only 1 degree
    closed to path. What’s the main contributing factor here? One of the first
    ones (2:32) was out of the toe (gear effect?) but are the others (4:37)
    because of the lie which is tilting the spin axis? I’m pretty new to this
    so just trying to figure out why they’re still going a bit left. Good
    improvement Rick, beats hitting floodlights 😉 Should give you top
    confidence to aim a bit further right now you don’t have to worry about the
    push.?

  4. This swingchange seems like it also has you hitting less up on the ball,
    are you thinking that you will just get back to hitting up on the ball more
    eventually once you get used to this swing or will you possibly try lofting
    up more on your driver??

  5. Thank you Rick for your work, Peter’s and the boys at Me and My Golf. I
    have been following you all since I got back into golf after a twenty year
    break. I had 25 years at 5 or better before that, most at 3. (That dates me
    PN… post-Niblick LOL.)

    Trackman, and it’s competitors, have opened my eyes to a whole new swing
    methodology. It has taken me several months to get my head around the
    numbers but thanks to Martin Chuck the penny is finally dropping.

    What I am seeing in this video and in your Titleist 915 v 913 video plus
    the analysis on Me and My Golf is that you have the enviable path of, lets
    say, plus 5 degrees (OK not all the time but proves that even you Pros are
    human) But the guys want you to have a square club face instead of an open
    face. This seems to me where it all falls apart. In both of the recent
    videos your flight starts at the target and goes left depending on how much
    plus is in your path and how “closed” your clubface is relative to that
    path.

    Keep your plus 5 and add in plus 2 (open) face and you have the perfect
    draw, starting down the right third of the fairway and drawing back to the
    middle, not starting on target (face alignment) and hooking 20 plus yards
    to the left (swing path) as evidenced by your videos. (That’s my
    understanding of the numbers…am I right?)

    Going back a bit to Carnoustie, you were smashing them down the right side
    of the fairway with a draw. Great. Understanding that the hook was probably
    the same swing but with a square or slightly closed face might be all you
    need to think about.

    For what it is worth!

    David (Australia)?

  6. Rick..I think a really interesting question to address would be why…that
    swing path is….or is inclined to…get to the inside like that. On a cause
    and effect basis. I would think that would generate real power for change
    without the need to be “thinking” or compensating in the swing. Your
    thoughts? Do you really want to have swing thoughts..any swing thoughts….or
    do we want fundamentals we can commit to and trust??

  7. Nice video Rick. This was the same suggestion I got the other day by a
    local professional. One thing he did mention to me was to make sure I’m not
    closing the face at the same time as feeling the leftward path.?

  8. I have tons of respect for a golf pro that not only allows his swing to be
    analyzed, but also implements the advice given. Nicely done! Thanks for all
    the great videos. ?

  9. Great to see a pro admitting their ‘mortality’ and putting efforts to
    improve. In the midst of too many know-it-alls, who i of course know much
    better than the average Joes, it is very refreshing to see Rick learning
    from the other pros. ?

  10. Your dedication is inspiring Rick! Looking forward to see the ball flight
    change in your future reviews! ?

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