GolfTEC Lessons

[Canadan]

So they want you to have more flex? I would not say the left is bad. But I honestly dont know. What is the goal with that?

I've been tasked with starting with around 13-15 degrees of flex at address. I am completely allowed to straighten it and even extend it as I take my backswing.

I would assume a lot it is because there is leverage used during the swing by the legs. In my case, I think it's weirdly squaring me up a bit better rather than over extending into my front side and getting stuck at the top. By starting in a flexed position, I can seem to easily get back to it. Maybe.

I'll ask next time.

 

[Templet0n]

I've been tasked with starting with around 13-15 degrees of flex at address. I am completely allowed to straighten it and even extend it as I take my backswing.

I would assume a lot it is because there is leverage used during the swing by the legs. In my case, I think it's weirdly squaring me up a bit better rather than over extending into my front side and getting stuck at the top. By starting in a flexed position, I can seem to easily get back to it. Maybe.

I'll ask next time.

Cool! Thanks!

 

[blazinden]

Lesson number 1 tonight in the books.
Previously Swing Eval 10.30.25, Practice 1 11.3.25,

Tonight's lesson was on Hip Sway.
A common swing fault is excessive hip sway. This happens when your hips slide laterally instead of rotating around your spine (coiling). This movement shifts your weight too far to the trail side, making it hard to get back to the ball cleanly. When the hip slide laterally it also reduces both power and contact consistency. Instead of swaying, focus on turning your hips while maintaining a stable trail leg and centered upper body. Think coiling, not sliding.
A good checkpoint: your trail hip should rotate around, not past, your trail foot. Proper hip rotation creates torque between the upper and lower body, allowing you to deliver the club from the inside with speed and control.

Before Swing;

Before Swing;
I had a little too much hip sway during the back swing. At the top of my swing I was pretty far away which is good for power but not for consistency. I have a lot of ground to make up. However, I do a good job of getting back but it takes a lot of effort and movement.


After Swing;

After Swing;
We used the ball against the wall drill tonight to help with hip sway. Place a ball between your hip and the wall, rotate and try to keep the ball from dropping to the ground. *notice the green ball in the back ground. This helped me rotate a bit more when starting the backswing vs moving my hips laterally.

It did feel weird at first trying to keep the hips from moving back to try and generate more power but with less movement and rotating better, I was getting close or better numbers than my before swing. I need to practice this drill a bit more to stay consistent but were already moving in a positive direction.

Coaching Tips:
1. Feel pressure build under the inside of your trail foot during the backswing, not on the outside. That’s a sign you’re coiling properly instead of swaying.
On the downswing, let your lead hip clear and rotate open, not slide laterally.
2. Try putting more weight on your lead (my left) foot in the backswing
3. Practice ball against the wall drill (if your hips sway laterally, the ball will fall). *Do not put to much pressure against the wall/ball causing a hip slide and not a hip turn.

 

[jdtox]

Last lesson was all about getting recentered. Recenter early with the irons. Get right and recenter HARD with the driver.

Went to practice this afternoon. These numbers are batty. I love them.

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Is that at a GolfTec? I've only ever seen SkyTrak software at my GolfTec.

 

[blugold]

Is that at a GolfTec? I've only ever seen SkyTrak software at my GolfTec.

It is not. It's a different indoor facility in town. I like it better for practice. Outside is some odd misreads with my irons last week, I trust it.

GolfTec for the instruction.

 

[jdtox]

It is not. It's a different indoor facility in town. I like it better for practice. Outside is some odd misreads with my irons last week, I trust it.

GolfTec for the instruction.

Should probably keep that in the practice thread, this is all about GolfTec

 

[E.Appleton]

Awesome lesson tonight with some great homework and clear goals. Will do a full write up tomorrow but early extension dies this winter

 

[Scooby45]

This was likely covered in the 85 pages, but has anyone done putting lessons with GolfTec? How did it go?

 

[E.Appleton]

This was likely covered in the 85 pages, but has anyone done putting lessons with GolfTec? How did it go?

I have not yet, but I did witness one. They have a couple of holes and putting green in house and I watched them use Blast Motion to analyze the stroke and mirror work. I wasnt there for the full lesson to know how much they worked on alignment and such

 

[TWright]

This was likely covered in the 85 pages, but has anyone done putting lessons with GolfTec? How did it go?

@jdtox had a putting lesson he posted about recently here:

GolfTEC Lessons

I am going to start working my way through all 79 pages of this monster thread. In the meantime if anyone wants to walk me through the ins and outs of how their lessons work I would appreciate it. Obviously it starts with an evaluation first.

www.thehackersparadise.com

 

[jdtox]

@jdtox had a putting lesson he posted about recently here:

GolfTEC Lessons

I am going to start working my way through all 79 pages of this monster thread. In the meantime if anyone wants to walk me through the ins and outs of how their lessons work I would appreciate it. Obviously it starts with an evaluation first.

www.thehackersparadise.com

Good looking out. Will probably revisit at some point. I frankly didn't love what he was trying to get me to do and am certainly not comfortable with it.

 

[Nashtyone]

This was likely covered in the 85 pages, but has anyone done putting lessons with GolfTec? How did it go?

I have not yet and had to push out my lesson that was scheduled for last week but I plan on talking with my coach next week about a putting lesson and any drills I can work on before hand. I feel like my putting has been off for way too long and need a ton of help there.

 

[E.Appleton]

The Death of Early Extension
Early extension has been one of my primary swing flaws since getting back into golf. It can cause so many issues: toe balls, hooks, low point issues, pushes, the list goes on. For the longest time I have been trying to eliminate it by simply telling myself to drive my trail heel down, but it was only kind of successful and it was yet another swing thought to add to the pile. I tried to use a wedge to try and drive off it and could never figure it out. My old golf coach would always tell me to push off my trail inside foot, but I never felt like there was anywhere to drive from.

This week's lesson my coach said to me "this is the winter we end your early extension" and it felt like the end of Braveheart to me lol. So what's causing it and how do we fix it? The answer surprised me.
Here's a video of my before swing straight out of the cold weather https://gt.golf/Hx4PzH (unsure if this is a new feature, but how cool that we can directly share this!)
At set up I am a bit straight legged, so there's no way to load anything

It's hard to tell here, but my backswing and weight transfer was around my trail leg. Call it maybe like a pegleg. It looks like a fairly competent backswing, but my weight is more forward because I am afraid of swaying too much and again, around my trail leg. What we want to do is load the trail leg so that there is something to push off of, rather than it just being along for the ride.

Look how early that heel starts to come up

Heel comes up there's nowhere for the hands to go and thus we get that toey flippy hook.

What he had me do are some various feel exercises. Some, hard to describe, involving squats and then moving the feet into position to feel the back leg loaded, but the easiest to describe and replicate was a towel drill. Stand on a towel, with your feet, try and tear the towel in half pushing outwards with both feet. This really gives you the feeling of using the ground to generate power and instantly resonated. Loading the back leg also requires more lateral movement than I was comfortable doing (or so I thought). I thought any sway is bad so I would try to turn but not shift the weight to the back leg. What I was told is sway is really when your hip goes further out than your feet and then he showed me a video of me doing the swing correctly. It felt like a real movement laterally but on Optimotion we saw it was 0.3 inch movement. I was blown away and another shining example, of how the technology is so impactful and how different feel and real is.

So here is the after video: https://gt.golf/5SaYPa
What changed is from setup I am slightly more knees bent and in an athletic position (I see you @Canadan ), I load my trail leg in the backswing, and PUSH with it in the downswing. Voila, look at the heel

I will be bringing a towel with me to practice today to continue to drive that feel. Killing early extension should lead to more consistent strikes and even more club head speed mwahaha. I am so excited to kill early extension forever.

 

[blugold]

The Death of Early Extension
Early extension has been one of my primary swing flaws since getting back into golf. It can cause so many issues: toe balls, hooks, low point issues, pushes, the list goes on. For the longest time I have been trying to eliminate it by simply telling myself to drive my trail heel down, but it was only kind of successful and it was yet another swing thought to add to the pile. I tried to use a wedge to try and drive off it and could never figure it out. My old golf coach would always tell me to push off my trail inside foot, but I never felt like there was anywhere to drive from.

This week's lesson my coach said to me "this is the winter we end your early extension" and it felt like the end of Braveheart to me lol. So what's causing it and how do we fix it? The answer surprised me.
Here's a video of my before swing straight out of the cold weather https://gt.golf/Hx4PzH (unsure if this is a new feature, but how cool that we can directly share this!)
At set up I am a bit straight legged, so there's no way to load anything
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It's hard to tell here, but my backswing and weight transfer was around my trail leg. Call it maybe like a pegleg. It looks like a fairly competent backswing, but my weight is more forward because I am afraid of swaying too much and again, around my trail leg. What we want to do is load the trail leg so that there is something to push off of, rather than it just being along for the ride.

Look how early that heel starts to come up
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Heel comes up there's nowhere for the hands to go and thus we get that toey flippy hook.

What he had me do are some various feel exercises. Some, hard to describe, involving squats and then moving the feet into position to feel the back leg loaded, but the easiest to describe and replicate was a towel drill. Stand on a towel, with your feet, try and tear the towel in half pushing outwards with both feet. This really gives you the feeling of using the ground to generate power and instantly resonated. Loading the back leg also requires more lateral movement than I was comfortable doing (or so I thought). I thought any sway is bad so I would try to turn but not shift the weight to the back leg. What I was told is sway is really when your hip goes further out than your feet and then he showed me a video of me doing the swing correctly. It felt like a real movement laterally but on Optimotion we saw it was 0.3 inch movement. I was blown away and another shining example, of how the technology is so impactful and how different feel and real is.

So here is the after video: https://gt.golf/5SaYPa
What changed is from setup I am slightly more knees bent and in an athletic position (I see you @Canadan ), I load my trail leg in the backswing, and PUSH with it in the downswing. Voila, look at the heel
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I will be bringing a towel with me to practice today to continue to drive that feel. Killing early extension should lead to more consistent strikes and even more club head speed mwahaha. I am so excited to kill early extension forever.

That after swing looked pretty darn good! No more humping

 

[E.Appleton]

That after swing looked pretty darn good! No more humping

Oh you mean this humping? Save that for the Mrs.

Vs. our boy Rickie

 

[Canadan]

Fixed.

 

[FlipFlop]

I decided to mix it up a bit and meet with Mitch at the Cincinnati location to get another set of eyes on the driver swing.

When he came into the room, I said pretty bluntly that I am quite pleased with my iron swing (I had a 177 yard carry 8 iron on the screen at the time, tight little center draw lmao) and the real reason I am emotionally compromised is because of my wood swing, that goes down to my hybrid.

After watching my swing a handful of times and using the OptiMotion tool to showcases some of the angles, he decided we should focus purely on one element of my setup/move, which was the amount of knee bend I had at address, and allowing that flex to reduce by the top of the backswing, and then compress again on the way back through. Fortunately the "back through" part is a natural move for me, so it was really just getting the starting flex from 3 degrees to about 14 or so.

Genuinely speaking, it felt like some power came back immediately. Obviously lots of work needed, but I almost never felt 'lost' in my swing which has plagued me for months. Super weird, super satisfying.

We moved to the hybrid because I brought it in as well and while implementing the move, I was regularly and frankly, casually ripping 240+ yard carries with the OG super hybrid and the stock steelfiber shaft. It felt controlled and powerful as hell.

We're going to do 30 minute lessons and 30 minute practice sessions weekly or bi-weekly and his goal is to isolate certain things, refine them, and then move on when we're happy. The next big piece of the puzzle will be length of backswing, and I am SO ready to dial it back a bit.

Love the fact that a coach can see something with his eyes and use the visual from the OptiMotion to back it up instantly. Not just for him but for you the golfer. I'm sure with you being as good as you are and really knowing your swing, this added visual and data feedback helps tremendously.

 

[E.Appleton]

Tonight's practice reinforcing back foot push was a mixed bag but mostly quite successful! Finding it a lot easier to feel with irons than driver for whatever reason, but getting there. Here's a 6i and a driver with that feel

The low iron spin will continue with these heads, but the good news is with this small change I'm seeing much better spin with more appropriate heads. Lofted up an ai200, King tec, and i240 all spinning and launching in better ranges. Exciting stuff!

 

[FlipFlop]

My coach’s wife had a baby so I have a couple week break without a lesson. I need to get a practice session in this week. I’m having GOLFTEC withdrawals!

 

[blazinden]

Tonight's practice reinforcing back foot push was a mixed bag but mostly quite successful! Finding it a lot easier to feel with irons than driver for whatever reason, but getting there. Here's a 6i and a driver with that feel

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The low iron spin will continue with these heads, but the good news is with this small change I'm seeing much better spin with more appropriate heads. Lofted up an ai200, King tec, and i240 all spinning and launching in better ranges. Exciting stuff!

Taking advantage of the practice each week is clutch.

 

[blazinden]

My coach’s wife had a baby so I have a couple week break without a lesson. I need to get a practice session in this week. I’m having GOLFTEC withdrawals!

Get those practice lessons in.

 

[FlipFlop]

Get those practice lessons in.

Sir yes sir! 1 hour session booked for 7pm tonight

 

[E.Appleton]

Get those practice lessons in.

I'm booked as far out as the system lets me!

 

[jdtox]

Sir yes sir! 1 hour session booked for 7pm tonight

I need to book a practice session to get away from work for awhile. I need to see if Saturday morning is open

 

[FlipFlop]

Practice session was really good last night. Ran into my coach who was back and getting himself ready to return this weekend. He was watching the swing and said things look good. He asked what I want to move to next and I told him Putting! He was surprised I said that and not driver, but it was a happy surprise.

We talked a bit about my putting issues and he suggested we start with a fitting first. He said that doing a lesson in the wrong putter will take longer to put a bandaid over the problem. “Let’s make sure you’re in a putter that actually fits you, then see what your real problem is.” Makes sense to do it that way and ensure I’m not fighting the putter.