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S&T Newbie Baseline

The word "baseline" might be a little misleading, as I have studied Tom's theory in the past, and have been working on it a lot over the past week, but for the most part, this setup and moves are new to me. I'm in my house as you can see, so not really taking a full swing, but mainly wanted some opinions on my basic set up and motions... and any specific drill recommendations are also greatly appreciated. Currently a 25 handicap, most common miss is a snap hook, and even though I tried to swing like a Saguto golfer yesterday, I still had a couple(snap hooks).. and I also had a few hosel rockets yesterday, which never occurred with my old swing... I am most definitely not saying that S&T made me shank but curious if anyone else had that issue early on when transitioning to this method.

Any advice is greatly appreciated, thanks!

5 comments

5 Comments

Julian

Apr 02, 2022

Thanks so much for the info Gerry. I have to admit, I've been focusing a lot on my lower body positions, so it's not surprising to hear my lower body(specifically knees) are doing something odd.

Thanks again! Much appreciated.

Tom Saguto

Apr 04, 2022

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@Julian - Without getting into an a swing analysis here, I just want to piggyback off of @Gerry_Lager's reply and suggest that you check your setup. You need to have both feet flared out approximately 20 degrees, with the knees similarly angled outward. This orientation enables the knees and legs to work properly, and it provides for an unrestricted 45 degrees of tilted hip turn, at which point we only need to add another 45 degrees of shoulder turn for a full 90 degrees.

Please spend the appropriate time in Chapter 1 mastering the setup. I cannot emphasize this enough, as frustrations predominantly occur when a student jumps ahead in the curriculum without properly dedicating himself/herself to the foundational base upon which our consistently repeatable, powerful, low maintenance swing must be built.