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Welcome back to another episode of Stock Shot Secrets! This is Kyle Morris, and today we're diving deep into one of the most crucial aspects of your game: understanding and analyzing the key checkpoints of a great golf swing—from the down-the-line perspective. In this episode, Kyle unpacks what separates consistent ball strikers from the rest, why relying on ball flight or feel alone can be misleading, and why video analysis is the ultimate judge when working on your swing.
You'll learn exactly where to position your hands, arms, and spine at address, how to capture your swing on video for the best feedback, and what to look for in each swing position—from setup, to the backswing, all the way through impact and follow-through. Kyle breaks down the techniques used by elite players like Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose, explaining the subtle similarities and the science behind their success.
If you’ve ever wondered how to make real, lasting improvements—rather than just being the “golf ball whacker guy” at the range—this episode is packed with practical advice and actionable tips. Get your notepad ready, grab your phone for some self-video, and join us as we decode golf’s most reliable stock shot secrets. Let’s get started!
00:00 Interactive Golf Swing Webinar
07:52 "Filming Golf Swings: Focus on Hands"
11:11 Mastering the Stock Golf Shot
18:23 "Golf Swing Angles Explained"
26:06 Golf Swing: Steep to Shallow Transition
27:27 "Max Velocity Through Club Pivot"
35:03 "Steep-Shallow-Steep Golf Swing Explained"
41:13 "Filming Golf Technique Improvements"
47:44 Golf Lessons: Confidence and Competence
51:29 Golf Swing Alignment Drill
56:01 Hip Rotation and Swing Assessment
59:51 Creating Golf Swing Lag Effectively
01:05:41 Golf Swing Assessment Offer
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Copyright 2025 Kyle Morris
Transcripts
So the big question is this. How do passionate golfers like you and I develop a stock shot day in and day out? A stock shot that's as reliable as the sun coming up in the morning? That's the question. And this podcast is the answer. Welcome to Stock Shot Secrets. I am Kyle Morris, if you don't happen to know. But before we get any further, before I'm sitting here talking to myself for the next 45 minutes to an hour, can you guys just go in the chat and make sure you guys can hear me okay? Just go with somebody, go in the chat and go. Yeah, I can hear you. Super excited then as we're letting all these people in, because there is a lot, a lot of people in the waiting room, which is so exciting because I am super excited because we're going to talk about what a good golf swing looks like and the checkpoints that you need to hit, which means we get to nerd out on video, which is like one of my favorite things to do on planet Earth.
Kyle Morris [:So before we do that, I want to know where all of you guys are coming in from. So, like, I want you guys to go in the chat, type in the chat. I want this, this webinar to be very interactive. I want tons of questions all over the map. And if, before we get started, while you guys are typing in the chat, where you guys are from, one thing that would be super valuable is if you had a video of your golf swing on your phone or your iPhone or a tablet or a computer or a camcorder or a VCR or whatever it may be. I want you to get that puppy out so, so that you can compare your video to the video of what we're going to talk about, about the most important checkpoints that you need to hit in your swing. And then the second thing that you need to maximize your time is you need to get a pen and a pencil so that you can scribble all the notes that you possibly can. And the reason is, is because of the following question that I want to ask you, right? So this is the question.
Kyle Morris [:The question is, is when you are looking on your video or maybe not even looking at your video, right? Like, when you are working on your golf swing, how do you know whether or not you're doing it? I want to hear what all of your guys answer are. Answers are, we got a lot of technology. So I'm going to kind of go into the. You guys go into the text, go into the chat. I want to know from you guys what it Is that how you know when you're practicing whether or not you're doing it correctly or not?
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:And there's going to be a ton of answers, right? You're going to have, some of you are saying, like, okay, I know I'm doing it because it feels better. Okay? That's a possibility. Some of you are going to say, I know I'm doing it because the ball flight is good.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:That could be a common answer. Some of you will just go, actually, I have no idea whether I'm doing it, which is why I'm here.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:But the things that I would say to you for the first two answers is, have you ever seen a player who has a really bad golf swing hit a good golf shot? And the answer is, yes, of course, right? So whether or not you are doing it correctly or not cannot be based upon whether or not the ball flight performs good. Now the second one for the person who says it feels right. Have you ever made a swing or worked on something in your swing? And you go, this is what I feel like I'm doing. And then you happen to videotape it and you look at it, you go, that is nowhere near what I thought I was doing, right? There's so many players that will send in videos to us at the golf room everywhere. Or they come into the golf room here in Columbus, Ohio, they see their swing on their video, and they're like, my gosh, I had no idea what that looked like. And the truth is, is when you're walking on your golf swing, there is one answer. There is one judge in the juror. There is one judge in the.
Kyle Morris [:In the courtroom that is the judge to whether or not you are doing it correctly or not. And that judge is film. Because, listen, a picture is worth a thousand words. This is exactly how I look. Here I am in all of my glory, all of 5 foot 7, little bit of a dad bod, somewhat balding, blonde hair, short, you know, kind of athletic, but not really. This is what it is. And that's why the film is so important, because it tells you exactly what whether you are doing it or whether you are not doing it. And it is the only judge.
Kyle Morris [:And that is coming from a guy who owns more trackmans. And nothing against trackman. I love trackman, but I own more trackman than anybody on planet Earth. And even though you have all of this data, 28 data parameters or more, actually, now, the data doesn't tell the full story. The full story is told in video, and that is the judge which is why we are spending time tonight. So that when you look at video, you, you know what it is that you're looking at. So then the question that you would probably have as the follow up question is you would say, okay, Kyle, so what does a perfect video perfect golf swing look like? So now I want you guys to go into the chat. I want you guys, who would you guys say are the best golf swings that you know on tour, right? Is it Adam Scott, Max Homa, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McElroy, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Freddie Couples, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Right? Like it's all across the board.
Kyle Morris [:But you're probably going to see in the chat that there's a lot of similarities. And what would be interesting is if you saw and you took the swings of like Rory McElroy, Justin Rose, Max Homa, Zach Johnson, Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, they are eerily, and I mean eerily similar. Like crazy, crazy similar. So the question now ask is if you think those are the perfect golf swings. The first the question, the real answer is that they're not. There's no perfect golf swing. The only perfect swing that you're going to see is on where right around the corner. I'm going to show you what the perfect golf swing is.
Kyle Morris [:And you're like, oh my gosh, who is it? Like, who is around the corner that has the perfect golf swing? And it's this guy. This is the perfect golf swing. This is called the Robo Golf Pro. And if I turn this puppy on and I and it makes some swings, what you're going to see is that this, if this were to hit a shot over and over and over and over and over and over again, it would never, ever, ever miss. It would hit the same shot over and over. Like that's what you see is the USGA testing, right? They make a SW and they test the clubs. And the thing is just that big iron Byron thing that goes in a circle and it never misses a shot, right? Could be 300 yards away and it could land in like a trash can. So this is the only perfect swing that there is.
Kyle Morris [:So while we can never be perfect, we can sure strive for perfection. So the question now says is that when you are filming your golf swing, what it is, what do you need to look at on film? Now, first and foremost, with filming your swing and what it should look like, how few rules to live by. The first thing is that if you notice, right, the golf, the film, a tripod should be sitting 28 to 32 inches above the ground.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:Mine might be more of the 28 because I'm a little shorter. 32 of your. A little higher. And when I'm filming a swing, I want to have it so that the film is sitting right down my hand line from down the line. And the second piece is that if I'm filming from face on, the film is right on my handline. So we want the camera to be hand height and hand line. And the hands friends are really, really, really important. I could maybe argue the most important part of the golf swing, which is the same thing that Tiger would say.
Kyle Morris [:He thinks the hands are the most important part of the golf swing. So when we're filming, it's really important to put on the hand point because if we don't film at the right spot, if we go here and we film, the club's going to always look outside and over. And if we go over here, it's always going to look like, you know, it's always going to look shallow because the perspective of the, of the camera. So where we film is really, really important. So now what I want to do with you guys, this is where I want you guys to get your, get your videos out, get your notepads, and we're going to go through. I'm going to go to my laptop, screen share, and we're going to dive into basically the top 10 positions of the golf swing so that you know ultimately what it is that you're looking for on your video. So let's go over here. Let me get all set.
Kyle Morris [:I'm going to screen share my screen so you can see it. All right, I think that we're good to go. We'll, we'll check really quick.
Kyle Morris [:All right.
Kyle Morris [:All right, so first and foremost, if we're looking here at two videos, right? So we're looking at Justin Rose here on the left, and we're looking at Rory McElroy on the right. Okay, so there's a few things that we can see at play here, right? So I'm going to take. I need to reduce this. There you go. So the first thing is I'm going to draw some lines. And what you're going to see is that with Rory, right, both of these guys spine angles are going to be at 45 degrees. So that's the first thing that you need to write down is you go, I need to have my spine at 45 degrees. And there's a tolerance, right? So you go, there is some, there's an ideal, but then there's also things that we have, like.
Kyle Morris [:We'll say boundaries or, like. Like, spaces in which we can. We can live in. So the first one is we want to have a spine angle that's 45 to 50 degrees tall. So, like, there's kind of like a little bit of a tolerance there of where you. Like, where you can draw your lines. Now, what this ultimately does is make it so that when you are setting up to a golf ball or when Rory and Justin Rose are setting up to golf ball, you can see how their arms, their biceps hang directly over under their shoulders, and then their forearms are pitched out just a little bit, which you can see is kind of the same way that, like, our arms are wired, right? So my arm is hanging straight, and then my forearm, my. Like down here, it kind of pitches out a little bit.
Kyle Morris [:So I want my biceps and my arms are saying super off. Like, we want to be set up. Like we're one of those like. Like wind guys, like in car dealerships, where our arms are super soft, so our arms are hanging underneath our shoulders, and then our form is this, which leaves a little bit of a gap between the butt of the club and your legs. It's. I always say it's kind of like a hang loose symbol, right? Like, we want to hang loose symbol from the butt of the club. And the other thing which is so important, like, more important than anything else on planet Earth, in my opinion, is you will see that these guys are aiming parallel to the target. So the target in which Rory is aiming at is this flag that's right out in front, and you can see how his body is aiming parallel left to the target, right? So if he was.
Kyle Morris [:If he was aiming at this flag, which is right here, right. You kind of see it here in the distance. If he's aiming at that flag, his eyes are basically looking 40ft left to aim parallel to the target. Super, super important, because what we ultimately are trying to do is hit a stock shot, which is a ball that starts one way, curves back towards the flag, and never over curves the line. It's always playing offense, right? And how nice would it be if you were carving the same channel out of the sky over and over and over and over again, right? That is called a stock shot. And that stock shot, that's the ultimate goal. That stock in stock shot was embedded to me by Jack Nicklaus, right? I stopped in his kitchen in May of the Memorial Tournament one year, and I was like, Mr. Nicholas, how do you get really good? He's like, kyle, you need to have a Stock shot.
Kyle Morris [:A ball that starts one way, curves back to the flag, and never over curves the line. So I was like, that sounds sweet. How do you do it? He's like, well, you got to kind of figure that out. Like, I'm not going to give you a golf lesson right now. So then I went on a crazy quest and basically studied every swing there is under the planet and said, what is it that all players do and what is the similarities? And I was like, holy smokes. When you look at Justin Rose, Rory McIlroy, Tiger woods, all of these players, they all do basically the same thing. And I would actually, with this technology that we're looking at right now, I would silhouette their swings on top of each other. I'm like, these are the same.
Kyle Morris [:It's crazy. Okay, so when we're setting up, we got our spine at 45 degrees. Our arms are underneath our shoulders. The club. The butt of the club, you can see, is aiming at their belt buckle, right? So if you're standing too tall, right, you can. You're going to be more at your belly button, and if you're too low, you're going to be under your belly button or under your belt buckle. And for you guys, that might be a little interesting, because when you sit up to your clubs, you make. But I do that, and, like, the toe of the club comes a little off the ground.
Kyle Morris [:That's okay, because actually, at impact, the handle will raise about 5 to 10 degrees, which is why that club will then go flat when you hit it, right? So you actually want to set up. And the toe should be slightly off the ground. Not too much, but just enough, right? Which is also why custom club fitting really matters, because if the heel hits, it'll smack the toe over, and then you hit it left. And that's a nightmare, too. So you do want to have good, good club. So now what I want to do is I want to draw some line. We're going to draw a line up Rory's shaft and up Justin Rose shaft, right? Then I'm going to draw a line on their hands, because we said the hands are really important, because wherever my hands go is where the club goes. Okay, now, in the backswing, right, I want you to write this stuff down.
Kyle Morris [:So we want a stock shot. But in the backswing, the backswing consists of three parts, which, if you guys could see in the banners and reading behind, the backswing consists of a tilt, a turn, and a hinge. So what I mean by that is that first, these guys are going to stay in the same tilt in their swing, they're not going to stand up out of it. They're not going to dip down. They're just going to turn around their spine. Like their spine is a pole. Okay, now, so they have a tilt, and the tilt is fixed. The second thing is that you're going to see is that they turn.
Kyle Morris [:So when. When Justin Rose is turning, you can see his hands and his club are going up the line, kind of like Rory McElroy's here. You can see how their hands are going up the line. So at this position, this position is called position two, right? So we had position one. That's the setup. This is called position two. Now, at position two, what we want is we want our hands from down the line to be kissing our left thigh. So you can see how their hands are kissing their left thigh.
Kyle Morris [:Justin Rose cameras a little too high. It needs to be lower because it needs to be on the hand height. Rory's is good. Justice is too high. But we'll do with what we. What we have, right? Because I want to show you this, is that you can see that their hands are kissing their thigh. They're basically their club face, and their club is covering their hands. And.
Kyle Morris [:And the club is, like, kind of turned down, right? There's a little bit of a boundary of, like, do you want the club face to be perpendicular to the plane? You know, we do want to be a little bit towed in. We definitely don't want to be open. So that's the first part. That's called position two. Now, the second part is that in as we go to position three is we have in the backswing, we have a tilt turn in a hinge. So as Rory is going back, he's hinging the club, and that makes the club halfway back. What you will see is that what a lot of players do is they will set up, and in the backswing, the club will look either inside the target line or it will look at the target line. But basically, never will you see a good ball striker with the club looking outside of the target line.
Kyle Morris [:So if the club is looking inside the target line, that is what we call steep, right? So when they go to this next position, what you will see is that there's some key things that happen. The first is that their hands, when their left arm is parallel or their lead arm is parallel, their hands are splitting their bicep, right? Very important. The second part is you can see the club is looking at the golf ball or slightly inside of the golf ball.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:That's establishing how the pitch of the shaft is working so that when he changes directions, it basically falls in the slot automatically. I worked with a guy on the PGA Tour for four years. When he started with me, he went really shallow at the top. And because of that, he would pull the handle, and it got super steep in the downswing. He was ranked 177, 77th in ball striking. We worked on this backswing position because the better he got at it, the better he went. And he went from 650th in the world to 91st in the world, 177 in ball striking to, like, 45th in ball striking on Tour. And he was the number one tour putter on Tour.
Kyle Morris [:So, like, he didn't need to be a great ball striker. He just needed to be better than average, Right? But this part, it really sets the motion of the club. So when it changes direction, it's basically shallows. Almost like by itself. It's almost like cheating. So as they're going back, the second position or the third position that we see is the hands at left arm parallel at this spot, are splitting their biceps, splitting their back right between their elbow and their shoulder, and the club is looking at or inside the golf ball. Now, the next part is, as we go up to the top, what you're going to see is that at the top, their left arm, right? Let me kind of erase two of these lines. Actually.
Kyle Morris [:Their left arm is matching their shoulder plane. So if you drew a line down Justin Rose's shoulder plane and you drew a line down his left arm, they're the same. And what you're going to see is that Rory is the same exact way. So he's left arm parallel. And you can see. Look at this. This is also interesting when you have a swing like a robot, right? The answer is usually if there was someone's like, what should the club do? There's something to be said about the. The answer is usually it should be 45 degrees or 90 degrees, right? It's kind of like if you went to, like, a Bible study, and they're like, what's the answer? And you're like, jesus, right? Like, you probably get away with the answer.
Kyle Morris [:So the point being is that, like, the golf swing is built around 45 and 90 degree angles. And the reason is, is because that's the fastest axis that things can turn, right? Just think of, like, if I had a string with a ball on it like this, the ball would spin 90 degrees to my hand at the top, like a Helicopter, Right. If it was slower, it wouldn't be going 90 degrees. So when my left arm is matching my shoulder plane, and now my body, like, anatomically is working in a position based upon physics to make a really, really fast pass at the golf ball. So what this position is, as these hands are moving to the inside of that original spot in our world at the golf room, everywhere in the golf room, we call that position depth. So we need to have depth. Most players, like 99% of you that are watching, I would bet a lot of money that if we drew your line down from the top of your backswing, what we would see is that your hands are more over the middle of your shoelace, and your arm would be too high, right? So what happens because of that is the fastest distance from a. From, like, the fastest distance between two points is a straight line.
Kyle Morris [:So now if the hands are too high and they take a straight line, they're going to be too steep, right? So working back a little bit. So we had position one, which is set up position two, which was halfway back. Position three was hands in the middle of your bicep shaft, looking at the golf ball. And then position four is that your left arm is matching your shoulders, right? The shaft. Oops, watch out. The shaft is. Is if we drew a blunt line from the ball to the grip to the shaft, it's on one plane, right? Now, what you will see is that when we. And there's a tolerance here, right? When you'll see is that if I did this for Rory and I drew a line up from his heels, we want the club to sit inside this little triangle of friendship.
Kyle Morris [:Now, for you guys, when we talked about no one being perfect, right? If you guys. Some of you guys might have seen this, and we've talked about it a lot at the Golf Room, how when Rory, this past winter, he said, I locked myself in a room for four weeks, and all I did was focus on the look of my swing. And what he was focusing on, the look of his swing, is that he and his coach were realizing that he was getting too across the line. So he was trying to get it into this triangle of friendship, which would therefore make him hit it better, which therefore made him win the Masters, right? So that triangle of friendship, and that's kind of where Justin Rose is a little. He's right on the verge. He's also hitting, like, a nine iron here. So it's a little shorter swing, but we want that club to essentially be sitting within this triangle, right? And your hands are above your heels. So position four is hands above heels, left arm matching right.
Kyle Morris [:Left, our matching shoulders. And you can see we're in the triangle of friendship. And then the club face matches our left arm, right? So you can see how their club face matches their lead arm. If the club face was hanging down, that would be open. If it was like this, it would be shut.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:So we ideally would like your face to be square and your wrist to be flat. Okay, so that's that position. Got it. So we got position one, we got position two. Position three, position for one other piece that I just want to mention is that what you can see is that this would be good for a lot of us. You can see that in their backswing, in their knees. You can see how they have shown the light, that them showing the light is a way for us to know or for you to know whether or not you're turning your hips enough. If you can't see the light, you aren't turning your hips enough.
Kyle Morris [:So we need to turn our hips more because depth getting flat enough is. Is created by turn. And remember, the backswing is a tilt, a turn, and a hinge. And that hinge is like how the face is planed, the club faces. I could do a seminar for two hours just on hinge alone and turn and tilt. But it's a tilt and a turn and a hinge. Okay, so that's the backswing. Now let's go into the downswing.
Kyle Morris [:So if I go here, right, and we talked about the fastest distance between 2, 2 points is a straight line, right? So if I bring this down, you can see that when Justin Rose goes back down on plane, what he's going to do is what it says behind me on Banner 4. Whichever you have your pen and pencil is shift, drive, pivot, and snap. So what Justin Rose is going to do is from the face on view, he's going to be shifting his body. His lower body is going to move 5 inches towards the target. You can't see in this video, but he does, right? So what he does is he shifts to his low, to his lead side, and then he drives, AKA lowers his arms, which therefore now shallows the shaft, right? So if you were to look at, like, his hands here.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:And you were to look at his hands here, you can see that they're basically in the same exact spot. And one thing to know about why you look at the swings of Rory, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, these guys. And you go, God, it looks so easy, and it looks like when they would never miss. The reason is, is because you're seeing the symmetry of their swing. So when a swing has a lot of symmetry, it looks very easy. When it's got a lot of mumbo jumbo, you look. You like that looks like it's a lot of work. So what you're going to see is that there's symmetry in these players.
Kyle Morris [:Swings on the backswing and the fall through, which is what makes it look very clean and very easy. So as Justin Rose goes up to the top, he shifts and drives, right? So now you can see that as he drives and he gets to basically where his hands are at, his belt and his shaft, you can see, is 90 degrees to his spine. There's another 90 degree angle, right? And you can see that his hands.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:When his hands get to his belt, his knees are square. That's a very, very important spot, especially for some of you guys who are on here. On here, who are working with a coach. And maybe the coach has you putting, like, an alignment rod in your belt buckle. That's you spinning your hips because you're out of sequence. You're like the player that is in a baseball bat. And then you get a change up and then go like this. You're like, oh, God.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:So you're out of sequence. We want something to. Where it's like you can step and then rip it. So when your hands get to your belt, right from down the line, we want your knees to be square. We want the shaft to be going through your right form, and we want your shoulders. We want your shoulders to be about. We're going to say 20 degrees shut. They should.
Kyle Morris [:You. We should definitely still see, like, our heart in our chest. And what you'll see is that when Rory does this, right, when he comes down, right, you can see that he's basically in the same exact spot as Justin Rose. So if we were to overlay the videos, they're the same. If you took away their face, you're like, I don't know if that's Justin Rose or. Or Rory McIlroy, right, because they're very eerily similar. But, you know, you can kind of see like Justin Rose or Rory does a little thing with his head. So you probably would pick it out if you could see their face.
Kyle Morris [:But they're the same spot, right? So that spot, that's kind of what people would deem as the slot. Now, what happens from here is interesting because of the fact that the club went back steep, right? And then it comes down, you can see now when it comes down at that spot, Let me get this arrow really quick. So you guys can see this as it comes down. You can see that now the shaft is looking outside the golf ball, right? And when it's outside the golf ball, that's called shallow. So they go back steep or air steep, and then they come down shallow. Many of you guys, most of you guys have hands that go out and shafts that go shallow. So when my hand goes out, right, because when I push the club and I push the grip, I push the grip out. When I push the grip out, the club goes flat.
Kyle Morris [:And then when I pull the handle down, the shaft goes steep. So your body and the club are just reacting to the physics that you're basically putting onto the golf club. And we need a swing that's just like Mr. Iron Byron, you know, Robo golf pro down over there, that basically would never miss, right? That's what we're shooting for. We're shooting for a perfection. And we're probably never going to get it. And that's okay. You can still shoot 65 and be a little bit outside the triangle of friendship and win a Masters, okay? So we don't need to be perfect.
Kyle Morris [:Okay? So now as we go from here, we went from position 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, right? So when we get down to here to like six, this is where you guys are going to see that the club is coming on the inside part of their hands. And you go, why is that important? Well, let's think about this. It's summer right now. So if you and I go boating and I pull, this is my boat, and you're back here in the ski and I pull the boat, right? And let's just say I rip the boat to the left, what happens to the skier? The skier flings out and creates a lot of speed as they swing around the boat. Now, let's say, for example, I'm going this way and I'm pulling the boat, and then I pull the boat this way and I turn the skier back here is going to go faster, but they're not going to go as fast. Now, in the third example, if I go to the inside part of the wake over here and we're pulling straight and then I turn the boat, what happens to the skier back here? He reaches max velocity because he's going to really swing and create a ton of speed. So now when that club is slightly inside your hands, because now we've shift and drive. Now what we need to do is we need to Turn the boat, or what it says in banner four, which is pivot.
Kyle Morris [:So now what's going to happen is they're going to start to really turn on the gas and turn their body, right? So Rory and Justin are going to turn their body and they're going to snap their wrists. So in Banner 4, it's A. We're in Banner. Banner 4. It's a shift, a drive, and a pivot and a snap. Because now they're imparting all the speed and cracking that club on the ball like a whip.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:Like. Okay, so now when we get to impact, let's take out all these lines. You're going to see a few things. The first thing that you're going to see is that if we kind of look at this is we're going to see that they're right, the foot is down, right? So this is their right foot. Their right foot is down and rolled in a little bit. And they're. It's rolled in because they've shifted five inches towards the target, right? So they've laterally shifted their foot. And heel is not up and out.
Kyle Morris [:When it's up and out, you are spinning out. We call that the stank leg, right? You don't want to have a leg that stacks. So we want to have that right foot down, and that allows your arms to get down and flip in front of you rather than. Many of us will take our right foot and spin it out. It takes our hip, pops it out, our elbow gets stuck, and then we flip it. Okay? So that's a byproduct. Your right foot is a byproduct of proper sequencing. Okay? So their right foot is down.
Kyle Morris [:Their hips are sitting between 28, 26, and 38 degrees open. Open to the target. They're not like 45, they're not 90. They're 20, 28 to 38 degrees, 26 to 38 degrees, their chest, right? So my hips, if this is my. If this is my, like, my arrow of showing this, right? My hips are 38 degrees open. My chest. My chest is 26 degrees open, right? So my chest is more. Where my heart is pointing, is more open or is less open than my hips, but it's still open relative to the target line.
Kyle Morris [:But what's interesting is their shoulders. Their shoulders are square. So if I go this way. Look at this. I can open my chest and my hips, but my shoulders are still square, right? So getting it so that you have this symmetry. And then at the fourth and final pieces, you can see that their Left arm is on top of their trail arm. And that position, right? When we all say, hey, it all, like. It all comes down to impact.
Kyle Morris [:100% true. It is the moment of truth. It is the climax of the story. But there's a way in which it gets there. You can't just get to impact. You've got to have the right things in motion so that getting to that impact spot is easier. And there's symmetry that's involved to get to that spot, right? It doesn't just happen. It's kind of like this is the climax of a movie, and you've got to have a really good plot leading up to the climax.
Kyle Morris [:And then the climax is like, oh, amazing, right? So whereas if the rest of the plot sucks, but the climax is good, it's like, okay, the movie was all right. And then at the same time, if the plot was really good, but the. But the climax of the movie sucks, you're like, that's a terrible, terrible movie. I'm never going back, right? So that the impact is really, really important. But it's leading up to that impact that makes it, like, that much better. And it's an effect. It's not really a cause. And that's one of the big things that I want to drill home, is that the golf swing is a compounding amount of, like, layers upon layers to make this thing as efficient as possible.
Kyle Morris [:So that you're building a swing built around physics and efficiency. You're trying to build a swing that has the most amount of time for the minimum amount of compensation, rather than the most amount of compensations in the minimum amount of time. Okay, so now this is. This is impact. So now as we go to the next spot, right, when we look at this, as we look at Justin Rose as he turns through, let's see if the divot kind of caught it. So we're okay here. Then let me go to Rory as we push through. Okay, so what you're going to see at this stage is both of them, right, have a club face that matches their spine angle, right? Whereas if the player's face was turned over like this, the ball would go way left.
Kyle Morris [:And that would be someone who had to really flip it with their hands. And this one way open with the ball would go way right? So behind me on Banner 5, after they have done their backswing of tilt, turn, and hinge, they then have shift and drive, and they've pivoted and snapped. Now their turn turning, and they're matching the club face to their spine, which has very little rotation in it, if any.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:It's got a little, but not very much. And that's why you would make an argument at where the time of this. Of this webinar is being filmed. That Scotty Scheffler is. Is the man on top of the mountain right now because he controls the best club face in the game under pressure. His face is so square through the hitting area, and it doesn't matter. The event, because his self identity is not tied to winning tournaments, is in something greater. And because of that, he plays with a level of freedom.
Kyle Morris [:So his level of nerves, while he cares, it's super competitive. He can control the face better under pressure than everyone else, which is why he wins a lot. Okay, so now if we go to the next stage, what you're going to see is that as the player goes through, and I'm going to draw one more line here, because as this comes down there, that's the. That's the. The beeline that we talked about. What you're going to see is that the club and the hands exit on the same line. And now you can see the club is exiting steep in the Follow through, right? So as Justin Rose and Rory Rackleroy come down, you can see that they're exiting on the same line. And the shaft is slightly inside the target line.
Kyle Morris [:So in the backswing, the shaft goes steep. In the downswing, the shaft goes a little shallow, and in the Follow through, it goes a little steep. So it goes steep, shallow, steep. And the steep part that you see them exiting and turning around the corner, exiting on that same hand line that they had in their backswing is them being able to control the face and control the curvature of the ball with their pivot, right? But they're not controlling it from the top like this. That would make the club be over the top and out of sequence. They're kind of like shifting left and kind of like firing their arms down and then catching it with their pivot and ripping it around the corner, like the motor boat analogy. And then as they go into their finish, depending on the club that they. Depending on the club that they have, right? As they go through, you can see, oh, he knocks it off a little bit.
Kyle Morris [:Let's see what Rory does. He knocks it off, too. But as they go, would go through this club would then fall right through their ear line, right through their hole, and guess what? 90 degrees to their spine.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:Once again, a lot of 90s and a lot of 45s. And when you're seeing that that's what you're seeing in regards to a swing that is built upon symmetry, right? And if you have a swing that's built upon symmetry, just like Mr. Robo Golf Pro back there, guess what? You don't miss. And then you ultimately get to do what Jack Nicholas told me to do, which was to build a stock shot, one that starts one way at the hole or one way, like, outside the target, curves back to the target, but never over curves the line.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:And if you take it right, like if I just drill this home really quick. If you take it as Mr. Nicholas, one of the greatest of all time, who was like, hey. What he would say is, like, building a stock shot is important. And then you take another piece of advice from this guy of Tiger woods who says, hey, guys, if you want to get better like I did, here's what you need to do, which is what the answer to this is. Guys, you need to understand what it is that you need to do, which was the point of this webinar with you. I need to make it so that you are indoctrinated as to what is truth, what is the way, the truth in the life to what a good golf swing actually looks like. So that when you're cruising the Internet and Instagram and YouTube and Facebook, you can see someone, and you could go, you're an idiot.
Kyle Morris [:You're not right. This is right. You're wrong. So don't talk. You should sell insurance, right? Because this is what all players do every good golf swing. I'm not saying that there's not players on tour who don't do this. There 100% is. And they made way more money on tour than I did.
Kyle Morris [:But what I'm saying is that they had to hit more balls to build more timing, and they have made their golf swing built around timing, which is a little bit more. I would rather have a swing that's not revolved around as much timing.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:So now that we understand what it is that we need to do now, the question becomes, is now we need to make it look better. So that's where we get into, like, our philosophy of what we do as at the golf room everywhere, of basically, we create systems so that when you're practicing, we can 100 make sure that your swing looks perfect. We don't care yet how it performs in practice. We just need to make it look better first. And you're gonna look. It's gonna look better. You're gonna set. We're gonna set up, like, ways so that, like, if you were, you know, let's say, way underneath the plane and you would, you know, come through and you would smack the cushion.
Kyle Morris [:It would go like this and you'd be like, oh, my gosh, I was stuck underneath the. The line, right? That way it would now look better. You go, that feels so weird. But then over time, it'll start to feel better. And now once it starts to feel better, guess what? You get more loose and relaxed. And now once you've done that, now it starts to perform better in practice. And then once it performs better in practice, you're like, gosh, I hit it so good at the range and it looks amazing, but I can't do it on the course. And then guess what? You get to do it on the course.
Kyle Morris [:And then you're like, gosh, I could do it on the course when I play on Saturday or Sunday with my son, but I suck at member, member. And then guess what? Eventually you're going to be able to do it a member member. And that's the process of actually getting better. You going out to the range, right, and just dropping and taking time off work, dropping balls and whacking golf balls. You're. I, I'm sorry, but, like, you're not getting better. What you're doing is you're just a golf ball whacker guy. You're hitting golf balls and trying to own and basically match up the timing of your swing.
Kyle Morris [:And on the day that you're hitting golf balls and you hit it really good, you go, man, I hit it so good today. My guess is you've got nothing going on at work. You're super relaxed. You're not in, like, you don't have any, like, log of emails coming in from work, no one's texting you. Your wife's not worried about you getting home too early, and you're chill. Then on the day that you're not hitting it good, guess what we're called. Your wife's mad that you're playing on Saturday and it's four and you're not home yet, right? Like, you're hungry, you're tired, all those things. Because now when that happens, your timing is off.
Kyle Morris [:So we need to build a swing that looks like those guys that doesn't rely on timing as much. And every swing relies on timing because there's no perfect model except for Mr. Robo Golf Pro, right? So that's what we need to do. We need to first understand what it is that we need to do. Then we need to create systems so that when you're practicing, you know what it is that you're looking at and you don't necessarily have to have a tripod, right? By the grace of Jesus. Golf bags. When they have golf bags like ping hoofers or whatever, those bags where the clubs, the stand bags, pretty much every bag, guess what, they're all 28 to 32 inches. They're perfect tripods.
Kyle Morris [:Or how about the thing where you lay the clubs like in the back of the range like, like the little caddy things that hold your clubs. Guess What? They're also 28 to 32 inches. So you have tripods all over the place. All you gotta do is pull out a phone and I know that you have a phone so all you have to do is film it. And now hopefully after this class you know what it is that you're looking for, right? So and I think that if it would be okay, I'd like to share with you one thing that I think would be really valuable and then I'd love to take some of your guys questions is that it's one thing to know whether or not what you how to understand what it is and you go Kyle, this is great. Like I know what I need to do now like from the down the line we could probably spend a whole nother hour going the face on because that's really important. Maybe we'll do that next month, right? But I know what it is that I need to look off look at from down the line, right. And I understand now I want to know how to make it look better because I'm going to look at my video and I'm going to see like my hands go out and the club goes in and my hands are too high and I steep in the shaft and I got the stank leg.
Kyle Morris [:But how do I go about fixing it? And that's why what I want to do for you guys if you want, you don't have to. Many of you guys on here already have a coach so you guys are already going through this process but if you are one of them and you don't have a coach, what I'm going to give you guys, I want to give you guys a chance where you can get a full breakdown of your swing for like 20 minutes. We're going to go through your swing with a massive fine tuned comb for like 15, 20 minutes, draw all the lines, compare you to Justin Rose, compare you to Rory McElroy, do all that stuff and I'm going to give you an access to my master plan video series. Which is kind of like the bible of everything in my brain on what a golf swing should look like, but then importantly, how to fix it. Whether you're in your living room, your bathroom, your bedroom, the golf, like, the range, a net, wherever, you're going to get that video series for free inside of it. I'm also going to give you access into my short game blueprint so that you can understand how to work on your, your short game. Because you are a human being and you are going to miss greens. So let's make it so you have a framework of what to do when you're short game.
Kyle Morris [:And we're going to give you basically an encompassing plan so that when you go practice, you're just not a golf ball whacker guy. Right. We're going to put that in the chat if one of you guys want to do that. I think it's 49 for all of that, which is insane.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:But that's what I want to give you guys because you guys are here. If you've never really taken part in that journey of taking an online lesson because it's a different experience, right. A lot of times people are like, I don't know about online lessons. I need in person. And it's just not true.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:If you were sitting in my bay, I am not groping you. I'm just like, hey, bro, miss the cushion. And you're like, okay, right? So like anybody can do that. And if you want to do that, the link is in there. But now let's go take some questions. Let's see if anything came up that you guys can help. I don't even know what time it is. Going on a rant.
Kyle Morris [:I told you guys I was going to be super excited for this because I love video. All right, let's scroll up here. Matt said, steep, shallow, steep. Love it. If you guys have any questions, be sure to ask below. Dave said, what if I physically. What if I can't physically get my arm to parallel to my shoulders? Well, first off, Dave, what I would say is that I had a gentleman last week who came in. This is a left handed club.
Kyle Morris [:That's okay. We'll just pretend. So I have. He had a. He had a. He had. He came in for a lesson and he went back and he was good here. Then he was hands and bicep, but he couldn't really make a turn to get this back.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:So I was like, that's okay. Right. What we're going to do is we're just going to go Back. And we're going to get our hands in the middle of our bicep because now I can come down and you can hit perfect stock shots. Now, when you do that, Mr. Dave.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:When you're doing that, one thing to know is that you will be sacrificing some distance. That's okay, right? Because there's three things that create distance. One is hand speed. So how fast I move my hand determines how fast I crack the whip.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:Or how fast I move my hand determines how fast I throw the med ball. The second one is how much pressure I put into my lead foot.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:So that's the 5 inch shift that we talked about when we were going through the video. And the third one is the length of the hand path, Right? So if I go back to right here, I can't hit it very far. And if I go back like John Daly, I could hit it far, but I might be losing the symmetry and therefore hit it more crooked, I. E. Your long drive, guys. So there's a balance between the two. So if you look at guys like Tony Fanow and Jon Rahm, you go, man, those guys hit it far. But Jon Rahm does not hit it far because of his short backswing.
Kyle Morris [:Jon Rahm hits it far with like, without his. Like, he would hit it farther. Sorry, I didn't lost my words there. If he. He would hit it further if his backswing was longer.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:But it's not. So he still hits it far, but he could hit it farther if he wanted. Same with Tony for now. Okay, next one. Should we shift 5 inches with the driver, too? Yes.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:So if I bring this up. Let me see if I can bring this up really quick, just so you guys can see. Because the beauty is, this is what's so nice for you guys, is that the world cannot. Teachers these days cannot say stupid stuff. Like, if you do, you get called out. So if you look at this, right, this is a graph of pelvic sway. So this is my pelvis. This is my pelvis swaying.
Kyle Morris [:So you can see the purple line is the top 100 players on the PGA Tour. The green line is my first shot of the day. That's me. Okay, so what you can see is at the top of the swing, their pelvis, their belt, they have turned, so it's at the same geographic location now as it shifts down to. Down to downswing, chest high. So it goes here from downswing to chest high, they have shifted 4 inches and then another inch to 5 at impact, which is probably super Enlightening for you guys, because you're like, I thought I was supposed to spin in a barrel. It's like, no, you're not.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:Like, I thought it wasn't supposed to go like this. You're like, no, you are. And I go, that's why you hit it fat and behind the golf ball, because you're here and you just spin. And. And then when I spin, I throw the club out. Yay. Free lesson. Okay, next.
Kyle Morris [:Next. Next. Next thing. Okay, let's see if there's any more questions. How do I transition from current to desired form and still play three or four rounds a week? Great question, Mr. Craig. So here's the. Here's the answer, Craig.
Kyle Morris [:First off, as instructors within the golf room, in the golf room, everywhere, remotely, right? For our online programs, you have two types of lessons. The first thing is you have lessons of confidence, and you have lessons of competence. Competence and confidence. There are two different types of lessons. If I go out on the PGA Tour and I'm at the Players Championship on a Tuesday, I am giving that player a lesson of confidence. If I am working with a player in November and I'm like, what do you got coming up? He's like, nothing for two months. Guess what? Lesson of competence. Because the competence is like, hey, you're a six handicap.
Kyle Morris [:Let's do the lesson of competence. So you become a one. And then if you're a six handicap, let's give you a lesson of confidence so that you can play better tomorrow and maybe play to a five, right? So my question, though, is, and this is what happens so much, Craig, with our. With our players is I go to him and I go, let's just take the guy who comes into the golf room and practices. I go, hey, Mr. Guy, how much do you work on your golf swing into February? And he goes, I practice. My wife gives me three hours a week. And I go, that's great.
Kyle Morris [:Now, when the summer. So then the summer comes around and we're getting ready to go. I go, Mr. Mr. Golf Guy, how many hours a week does your wife give you to work on your game or play golf? And he goes, I get 10, right? Or I get eight. We go, great. Then you don't get two rounds of golf. You get one, and you get three hours to work on your game.
Kyle Morris [:Because that is where. When I was playing professional golf, I had what was called mundane Mondays. It was always the day that I would recalibrate from what I worked on last week. And when I would play in tournament rounds after my Tournament round on Tuesday or on my practice round on Tuesday, on Wednesday, on Thursday, on Friday, on Saturday, hopefully on Saturday and Sunday.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:I would go to the range after the round and then recalibrate the feelings, because when we play, it gets sloppy. That's why NFL teams, college teams, they like off weeks because they need to recalibrate what they're doing and get back to, like, fundamentals of what it is. Like, ooh, are we gonna get back to learning how to tackle?
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:But there are certain things, Craig, that you need to taught when you. When you dive in, whether you're in our program right now or you're gonna take. Take that offer of getting a new student assessment with the master plan and the short game series and the practice plan and all that stuff. When you do that, you go through the process, and you're like, yeah, let's start to do this. Like, let's do some quick wins, right? Right now, because I'm still playing. And then once you get into October and November, you're like, great, let's do the real hard stuff. Because I'm sitting in a net in my garage, and I can grind, right? So there's a little bit of time for both. But you do need both, right? Because you're trying to raise skill, too, so that you can reach your ultimate golfing design, which is why we're here, man.
Kyle Morris [:These questions came ripping in now. Best drill to control face through impact. My first question, Brady, for you, is, are you sure that you need to be working on controlling the face through impact? So let me challenge you. Are you sure that your knees are square, hips are square, shoulders are square, your grip is good, your weight is 55% on your lead side. You have 5 degrees and 10 degrees of tilt. Your hands are working, kissing your thigh. Your club face is just outside your hands. Your hands are in the middle of your bicep.
Kyle Morris [:Shaft is looking back at the ball. Left arm parallel face, matching spine. Hands above heels. You shift into your lead side 5 inches with the shaft looking outside the ball. Your knees are square, and now you're ready to work on impact. That's the question. Because if you're not there, then that part's coming too early. That would be like me saying, hey, man, when do we get the hot tub in the.
Kyle Morris [:In the house? And I go, you don't have a roof yet right now, if you are there, which you could be right. If you are there, then the best drill that I know is basically a drill. Can you get that cooler there for me? A drill that I like to call hidden holds.
Kyle Morris [:Right.
Kyle Morris [:So what you're trying to do is you're trying to. Basically, if I was outside and I had a stick, basically, I would put a stick five paces out in front of me, and it would be on the target line. Brady. And then one to the right, Right. And what I would do is I would set up and I would hit shots, and I would get it so that when you could see this, as I did that, I would go through, and you could see how the club face matches my spine, and I would hit it, because if I could do that, and then all I have to do is kind of fold like Rory, Right? So that would be. And there's a lot of things to go through with that, but that's like one of the last pieces, and that might be you, right? Very, very well could be, right. So. But that would be one of the things and.
Kyle Morris [:And controlling the face in the curve, it's kind of like pitching. So I always equate it to, like, a pitcher who's throwing sliders. They've got to learn on how much to snap their wrists so they can create max curve but not throw a ball. So they do that, and they're like, man, I keep doing this and keep going as balls, like, okay, I gotta go a little less, right? So. And that. That's why I'm saying there is an element of timing, of how to control the face, which is hard, because, you know, you have a. You hit a golf ball from 4 degrees from the inside, and if it's 5 degrees open, the ball goes way right. And if it's 2 degrees, it hits the flag, which is the difference between, like, here and there.
Kyle Morris [:Golf is hard. Okay, TJ Jefferson, could you talk about being out of sequence, spinning out and stank? Like, oh, gosh, that's like a whole video, man. Let me. I could. There's. So first and foremost, let me say this, is that what happens with. The reason that is, is because players don't know how to create speed it they correctly. So when I go, hey, do.
Kyle Morris [:When you try to hit it hard, how do you hit it? You go, terrible. And the reason is, is because you try to create speed with your chest, right? So if I tried to create speed, tj with my chest, it's not very fast. If I do my arms, I don't know if you can hear that. It's way faster. So my arms create the speed. My body creates the control, right? So it's kind of like an arm. Like, I could bench Press. I'm going to be here tomorrow, and I'm going to bench press.
Kyle Morris [:And I can bench press a lot more than, say, I can curl. But my bench press would be like an army tank. The army tank is super strong, tons of horsepower, but super slow. The arm. The. My arms are like the motorcycle. Less horsepower, but way faster. So what happens is, as I go up to the top, right? That's a.
Kyle Morris [:There's a reason why Jack Nicholas said, I feel like I'm trying to keep my back to the target because as I lower my arms, the shaft shallows. You guys try to get fast and spin and move with your chest, which then brings the stank leg. Your hips are too fast, the club is out, and then you're out of sequence.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:So we want to feel like we're shifting and driving and then pivoting and snapping. Okay? So it's a. It's learning how to combat that. And there is a bazillion drills that we can give you. If you're not with a coach, then do the assessment, and then we'll give you all the drills that your heart can desire so that when you're practicing, you're actually practicing. And if you're in the membership, then I'm sure you have a plethora of drills as our coaches or your coach has given you. So. But it's really learning how long and short to, like, get your arms down in front of you, back to the target.
Kyle Morris [:It's why Ben Hogan said he felt like he was taking an arrow out of his quiver. Sergio feels like he's ringing a bell. Bryson Shambo says he feels like he's doing a lap pull down. I've never heard a player say, I've never heard two or players say, I just try to turn as hard as I can and spin out. They're like, I try to be really patient and not rush the downswing. I feel a little pause. Right? So that's kind of what they're talking about. All right, let's do, like, a couple more.
Kyle Morris [:You talked about showing the light between the legs at the beginning. Is there such a thing as too much light? And. Absolutely there is. And what do you typically see causes that? So showing the light would be as if I put this behind my left leg and on top of my right leg. We call these the can overs. And I'm turning, and now you can see the light. If I had too much light, that would be too big of a hip turn. If I had no light, that would be not enough hip Turn.
Kyle Morris [:So this would determine how my hips should work. So if Matt, your hips, if you're having too much light, there's a possibility you're over rotating, which good for you, man. You're flexible. But two, you could also look with your coach to see are you kind of reverse pivoting too much this way, rather than kind of loading and getting brace into your right side? So that might be more of a pressure thing to. You would check your pressure in your feet, which is where, you know, look at the coach and ask him if you are with someone once again, you know, if not, do the swing assessment. I hate to, like, keep putting that in your guys's brain, because that makes it feel like I'm, like, throwing it down your throat. That's not the point. The point is, is that these questions are amazing questions, but every swing is different and unique, right? So it's kind of like if I get an Instagram guy, they're like, how do you fix a slice? And it's like, dude, there's like a million ways that you could be slicing, right? It could be your alignment, it could be your grip, it could be your club shafts, it could be your hands.
Kyle Morris [:It could be a cup drifts to the top. It could be your sequencing. Like, I'd have to write a dissertation. And this is an Instagram message, right? So, like, everyone's unique, which is why you need to see what you personally do and why you do it. And all of you guys, I know for a fact you guys all love the game as much as I do. So it's like, there's nothing more maddening than feeling like you're hopeless. And you're like, I'm working on my game. I don't even know if what the hell I'm doing is even it right? And that's where you're trying to.
Kyle Morris [:That's where you guys are trying to solve it. But, like, there's a brotherhood and a fellowship where you could have people walk beside you so that you're not, like, lost with what you're doing proper. So. Good question. Is there a way to create proper side tilts? Yeah, super easy, Sean. So what you're gonna do is you're gonna put the. You can put a club down your chest, like so, right down the middle of my buttons. This is in video mat, like module two.
Kyle Morris [:I think of the Master Plan video series, and you're just gonna tilt. You can see how it touches my leg, right? The other way to do it is if I just get in my setup make sure your weight is on your lead foot. I'm going to put my hand on my right leg, and I'm going to go and touch my knee. And now that's that 5 to 10 degrees of tilt. Pretty easy, right? The other way you could do it is in your backswing is if I take my backswing and I go up to the top, you go, am I. Do I have enough tilt like this? Away you go here, and then you go, can I take my left arm and touch my knee? And if I can, that's the right amount of tilt, which we want. Tilt away from the target. Just like if I was throwing a football, I'd have tilt.
Kyle Morris [:If I was serving a tennis ball, if I had a tilt, If I was, like, trying to do a home run derby, I would have tilt. If I was, basically every sport there is, I have tilt. Nothing's like this, right? So we need a little bit of tilt away from the target. Carl. Vertical hinging and horizontal hinging. That's a fancy one, Mr. Carl. All right, so just for definitions, horizontal hinging, like a wiper blade, Vertical hinging like a hammer, right? So if we have a tendency, which I do, to horizontally hinge, the club gets flat, and then it goes through, and I flip, and then it's too shallow.
Kyle Morris [:Vertical hinging this way would make it very, very steep and very steep, right? So it's a little bit of blend of both, right? But most golfers, they go horizontal hinge, then they come down, and then they go vertical hinge, and then they go horizontal hinge, right? Where we could almost say you can make an argument where you go vertical hinge, right? Horizontal hinge, vertical hinge, Kind of like steep, shallow, steep. Okay, good question. I like. Like, I like nerdy questions. What are the most common cause and solution for backswing is too long. Marco, the reason your backswing's too long is because you. You take too long to start your downswing. So what I mean by that is that what we go back, right? It's sequencing.
Kyle Morris [:So you go back, and you don't transfer your weight to your lead foot soon enough, right? So what happens is you go back, and you just keep turning. So if I take my car and I get in my car after this, and I reverse my car, and I put it in reverse, and then I thrust on the gas, my body goes like this. Then I lag, and I have to go forward. So what happens in the backswing is we want to go back and then forward, and then guess what that does? Creates lag you go, kyle, I've been trying to create lag, man. I just thought I was supposed to, like, go like this. I go, no, no, the lag's in effect. It's not a cause, right? You get lagged by change of direction. Just like my body lags when I go on a roller coaster, right? So the lag is the effect.
Kyle Morris [:So the way you could work on that, Marco, is just go into a wall. If you had like an impact bag here, put your left foot against the wall and tap the wall back tap. And then if you had an impact bag, you'd go. And you learn how to make a full swing full speed and not hit the wall because your wife is going to be upset. All right, maybe two more. Although I could do this all night, I tend to hit the ball straight. Do I still work at my drawing the ball as my stock shot. Also, I thought Jack Nicholas stock shot was a slight fate.
Kyle Morris [:Absolutely. I know he was the best. So understanding that, but just wondering why that was his stock shot. So great question. So I'll. Let me pin this on Ben Hogan. So Ben Hogan said to hit a proper fade, you have to know how first to hit a proper draw. Ben Hogan also hit a fade, right? So the point being is the symmetry.
Kyle Morris [:The guy I was talking to you earlier about, the guy on the PGA Tour, he hit a fade. But if you look at the tilt, turn, hinge, shift, drive, pivot, snap, turn, match, and fold, the symmetry, it's the same symmetry. There's no difference, right? So if I look at this and I show you guys some models here on. On the camera, really quick, right? Let's just go. So if we go here, let me pull this back. This was my swing, my one swing earlier.
Kyle Morris [:Right?
Kyle Morris [:You can see, like, both shafts are going through their right. For my right forearm, his right forearm, I'm hitting a draw, he's hitting a fade. The only difference is, is look at his kneecaps are open. My kneecaps are slow, so my club will go a little bit more out to the right. His will go a little bit faster. But the. But if you look at the way the shafts are, the shafts are the exact same, right? The same would go for. If you go here.
Kyle Morris [:Oops, I didn't mean to do that. Well, you can see that Zach Johnson, his shaft was the same way as Charlie's. But look at this. Just since we have this here and we were doing it, Let me just show you this just so you guys can see I'm not a liar, right? So there's plane, there's depth. He goes back. Hands will kiss his thigh. Oh, that's the same as Rory. Oh, his hands are in the middle as the bicep, and the club is looking back slightly inside the ball.
Kyle Morris [:That's position two.
Kyle Morris [:Okay, cool.
Kyle Morris [:Then he goes up to the top. Oh, my gosh. His left arm is matching his shoulders. Wow. His hands are above his heels. Now, Kyle said his hand should take a beeline to the ball. You go, oh, yeah. Look at what he does.
Kyle Morris [:Hands go at the ball. And then he goes, oh, my gosh, look at that. The club's going now outside the golf ball. So now he's shallow. And then you go, oh, my hands are in my belt. My knees are square in the shaft. Once again, 90 degrees to my spine. What? Then you go through the shot, and you go, holy smokes.
Kyle Morris [:Look at that. It's steep again. So it goes steep, shallow, steep. And I go, I know. Oh, that's because they all do it. Just do what everyone does. And it's so easy. Tilt, turn, hinge, shift, drive, pivot, snap, turn, match, and fold.
Kyle Morris [:And then create practice stations so that when you're practicing, you have to do it right. And when you do that, guess what happens? You get really good. It's not about whether if you get good, you get good. Like, if you follow the standard operating procedure, it works. It's not about whether it works or not. It works. Like, I will bet everything that I own that it works. You just have to do it.
Kyle Morris [:And you can't think about it. You can't be like, I think I'm gonna feel like I'm under a noodle. Just put the noodle on the range, man. And when the guy makes fun of you, just go, sweet. I'm gonna practice here. Then I'm gonna get done. Let's play for money. And then go out and wax him and then make fun of them because you're actually practicing and you're not a golf ball whacker guy, because you understand what it is that you need to do.
Kyle Morris [:You're making it look better. It starts to feel better. Then it progresses, performs better on the course. Then you can take it to a tournament. And that's the process of getting better. But you first have to understand what it is that you need to look for in video. And if you're not videoing, then how do you know? Okay. All right.
Kyle Morris [:I hope you guys enjoyed this. I loved it. I mean, I could be here literally for hours, but I got to get up at, like, 4. And then I got to fly tomorrow, so I'm going to go home. But if any of you guys want, be sure you don't leave. I'll try to see if I can somehow figure out all of you guys who. I didn't answer your questions because I don't want to leave you, like, high and dry. So maybe what you could do.
Kyle Morris [:Jacob, Let me actually, before you guys go, where's my phone at? Let me get this. So here's what I want you guys to do. For those that sent these questions, this is what I want you to do. Get out your phone really quick. I'm going to give you my number. You're gonna text me your questions, okay? So here's what I want you to do. I want you to text. You guys can all do this.
Kyle Morris [:You guys can all put down my. My number down in your phone, right? You can send me all the questions you want, right? I'll try to get to as many as I can. 614 541, 1988-614-5411-988614-54119 eight eight.
Kyle Morris [:Okay.
Kyle Morris [:And I will try. I'm flying tomorrow. I'll try to get as many questions I can because I hate leaving you guys high and dry, but I also don't want to monopolize your time and your evening. I thank you guys so much for being here. If you have never gotten your swing assessed by us at the golf room everywhere, please, for the love of God, do it. It's the best 49 bucks you'll ever spend. I promise you, if you think it sucks, send me an email and I'll send all your money back, no questions asked. Okay? But it will be amazing because you're going to get the swing assessment, plus you're going to get the master plan, which is a video series with hours worth of content, plus the short game blueprint, which outlines everything you do for your short game, plus a practice plan.
Kyle Morris [:So, like a journey. So, like, you know what it is that you need to do in the order you need to do it and kind of your roadmap to getting better. I promise you it'll be the best 49 bucks you ever spend. But in the meantime, I hope you guys have a great evening. Sleep well. I'm going to bed. Love you so much. Thank you for being here.
Kyle Morris [:And I'll see you guys back here next month.