9-3 Drill in Action - Lesson Today

Since Joe was asking for some info on the 9-3 drill (hang in there Joe, we're publishing things as fast as we can), here's Dennis (new student, today was the first lesson). He is working on what he felt was an RST swing. Observe



His setup on the left was not good. His hands were well behind the ball and his spine was learning toward the target which will setup a lot of bad things as you shall see.



Now is where doing Move 1 correctly and being setup correctly gets the job done. This is the look of a near perfect takeaway from a very high handicapper in all of about 15 minutes of work.



Steep backswing, right hip bumping out, all baaaaaad.



He's not hitting a ball on the right, just working on pulling with his left oblique. He's more off his right side and his hands are leading the clubhead.


Hips facing the target on the right, hands in front of the chest, maintaining spine angle, head swivels, body through the shot, club fully released.

Here is a final shot of his "old" top of the swing position he started with on the left and where he was at the end of the lesson. Dennis' homework is doing the 9-3 drill for the next week, and more importantly do it at home in front of a mirror without a club.

Hence "near-perfect" instead of "perfect", I imagine.

Hey Chuck- 

Edited by rufdiggity - 25 June 2009 at 1:03pm

So it's ok to have the hips ok a little?  When I move to the full swing, I have a tendency to block my shots to the right with a slight fade.