Marc: Welcome back to Golf is Hard TV, the golf show for the rest of us. Hopefully you just watched the previous episode, we talked about casting.
Dave: Casting.
Marc: Now, it's my turn, average golfer's turn. So, I am going to this a try because I did -- I was taught to try to hold down to the angle.
Dave: Yeah.
Marc: And I for a long time, in my head was -- that was actually a swing thought, hold on an angle and then really kind of power the club through but this is a totally different, it almost -- this idea is weird.
Dave: Yeah. Obviously.
Marc: Now, I have been doing this for a while, since you and I have been playing and talking a bit. So, I am a little more used to this, but let me go ahead and demonstrate or attempt to few of these shots and we can talk about whether I am doing it right or not.
Dave: Okay. Great. The key -- I talked about prior episodes, we are going to have a nice, light, loose grip with this. Really feel the weight in the clubhead. Get it to the top and just think clubhead first, get the hands moving. That's beautiful right there. I mean that's a draw, I could tell you folks that Marc used to -- he sliced the ball last year, even earlier this year. Al the time --
Marc: All the time. Every shot.
Dave: I mean there is no -- go ahead take the club back and hold it.
Marc: Hold it up top.
Dave: None of this, he is not trying to do this in a down swing. This is something that we can't teach to an advanced golfer, scratch golfer or single digit. If we are try and teach them to fade or to fade the ball typically, but at this stage, it's the opposite.
Marc: It's a very different feeling here. I really at home, we go to range or go to play around. Just this feeling, for me here is what it feels like, it feels like I am generating a lot more clubhead speed. I don't know if that's true.
Dave: Let me tell you where actually the first time I really heard about this or read about it was a great book 'Extraordinary Golf' Fred Shoemaker was the author.
Marc: Okay. I think you have mentioned the book on the show before.
Dave: Yeah, it's an outstanding book. So he talks about this and he talks about when he used to teach, he would have the students actually throw the club out on the range.
Marc: Really?
Dave: Throw it like, release it during the swing without a ball. Most people will throw it up in the air, sometimes it would go that way. So, it's really incorporating the feeling of letting it go and the point is we are holding on to the club too long. Trying to maintain the angle or whatever it is, so it's really throwing the club out and really -- and then a friend of mine, I was teaching with and I grew with him, Shawn Hester he now, we worked together out in Arizona for a while. He actually had his students, have them throw the whole bag out there. And seriously -- yeah the whole bag. It's kind of dangerous because if there are other people on the range, the club is going to go up and over but the point is, your grip has to be loosened up, here you are starting to let go at that club and just fling it from the top. And that's what it comes down to.
Marc: Now, let me try one more.
Dave: Your last one was perfect. Let's see if you can do it.
Marc: Let's say, if we can try and to do it.
Dave: Good. A little heavy behind it, which is why the posture is so important. But you still rotated that face right through, you have got that 180 degrees working through a squared impact.
Marc: Casting this, it feels totally different and I feel like I doubled the clubhead speed. There you have it, Golf is Hard TV, and we'll see you next time.
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