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www.shawnclementgolf.com Shawn Clement, Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre and top 25 Canadian PGA Teacher as rated by Score Golf Magazine, shows you how to use momentum to achieve the contact needed for all shots; even hitting out of divots!
Golf Pro Lesson Hitting Out of Divot
March 4th, 2010 
Robert Stonehill 
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The other analogy that is more about physics/geometry is where you make contact with the ball in relation to the bottom of the swing.
If you pick the ball clean thent he ball is near the bottom. If you hit that low liner knockdown wedge then the bottom of the swing is well infront of the ball and you create a huge divot.
The thing is that your brain will recall feel, ie contact with the ground, much better than the physics/geometry of the swing.
Very very well said!!
Thanks very much for the great comment and Happy New Year to you!
Shawn
You know this video also made me understand the relationship how the club head interacts with the ground vs ball trajectory.
Shawn has touched on this with other videos. Let’s say you are hitting your hybrid. You can hit a stinger, a normal shot or a high shot. Each of these shots has a different feel with how the club head interacts with the ground. The important thing is to simulate that feel in your practice swing before you address the ball. Then it is all about repeating.
Very interesting.
Fantastic! You are on track!
Thanks for writing in on that!
Shawn
Shawn,
First time I was in a divot after viewing this video I simply had shot nirvana. It was amazing!!.
You know, hitting a ball out of a divot in this video has the same effect as your two ball drill in the “Through the ball” lesson.
So now when I go to a driving range and see a grass “station” with a bunch of non continuous divots, I no longer gripe. I see that as an opportunity to hit crisper irons. Having to visualize my club head plowing through the front wall of grass widens my focus.
Actually, I have posted another just yesterday that is a great complement to this one which is “golf pro lesson take better divots”; Enjoy!
Shawn
Well, there is a difference between cupped slightly and collapsed; you want to make sure that wrists hinge together on both snuff boxes; see the following: “Golf Pro lesson bridging flat wrist with hinged wrists” and “golf pro lesson weak grip or strong grip” as well as “golf pro lesson grip 2 wrist hinge” Shawn
Shawn,
I always had a ‘problem’ contacting the earth and this video give me an excellent perspective on the course.
Recently, I have been using this technique to practive in my backyard witn an imaginary ball and the target of the divot being an offending weed that I want to scoop out. This has given me a great feel for taking the divot. I let my sons come around and fill the ‘weed’ divots with a mixture of sand and grass seed.
Thought I’d share this.
Keep those videos coming.
Hey Shawn,
Greetings from london again, I was wondering what your views on a cupped vs. flat wrist at the top of the back swing are. The more time I put into looking at & digesting your videos and applying my own logic, the more I am starting to think there is a very strong connection between my cupped left wrist and my bad shot which is coming across the ball and slicing / pull left. I think the cupped left wrist at the start of the downswing pulling the club along the wrong / across path. thk
You are most welcome! Thank you for letting me know!
Shawn
Hi Shawn, Two first, one second, one third and one forth. Over a thousand dollars in cash and script. Your dvd and you tube videos priceless! Thanks for my allowing me my best year ever.
Thanks very much; you are the one doing it so let’s call it a great team effort!
Shawn
Great question!
They will be smaller and shallower by about 25%; but you should still be able to take a healthy divot! Shawn
Shawn, Reading the comments, sounds like everbody has really missed your lessons and appreciates your videos and DVD as much as me. Thanks again! I have a question about divots and different clubs. I have very forgiving clubs, ping raptures, lots of perimeter weighting, big bounce, etc, they are not sharp like the bladed or solid back pro style club, will I still have the same type of divots as you or will they be smaller and shallower? Thanks again!!!
Shawn, can’t thank you enough for the videos. Best instruction I have ever seen. You are a natural teacher. Just watching your videos I’ve dropped from a 28 handicap down to just over a 16 through the summer. I literally believe it is all thanks to you.
You have just descirbe why Cubans, with all of there passion and energy have yet to take over the world. They are constantly taking one step backwards and two steps forwards. It is so damned inneficient. My wife is Cuban and I am half Philly-Irish and 1/2 Cuban.
There is great make up sex, which still kills my golf for the rest of the day!!
Great video as always
thank you Shawn for putting up all the great videos.
Thanks you guys!
See you in more videos soon!
Shawn
LOL! For the fight part, get your wife and yourself to a Landmark Forum (Landmark Education) which will not only get you what you need to smooth things over in a hurry with your wife but get you in the state of mind of how incredibly important it is to be in the moment in anything you do; especially golf! Don’t waste another day on the golf course stewing over something that should not even exist in the first place…:) My Daughter just completed hers and my son is his as we speak…Shawn
Thanks for the comment!
Depends if you want to fade or draw the ball! (yes, even out of a divot) Have a look at my “golf pro lesson be a solid ball striker” and “golf pro lesson tilted spiral” part 3; (Tilted spiral part 1 and 2 are great lead ins to part 3 if you have not seen them yet;
Shawn
Another great video Shawn. I have directed a couple of older guys having probs with their back to your site and they think its great…
Very Good Video Shawn. Always look forward to your instruction because you have helped my ball striking tremendously.
Waiting for that next DVD……
Thanks for all you do Shawn, you’re the best!
Hmmm, 6 handicapper you say…well Jack Nicklaus played every shot off the inside of his left foot…you know better than him also?
Cool video! Did you get a new camera? The clarity is great! Nice slo mo too.
Dan H.