VIDEO: How to stay behind the golf ball through impact
Being centered behind the ball can make a massive difference in your contact, accuracy and distance. In this video, you’ll learn how to get behind the ball and stay there through impact.
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Club Junkie WITB, league night week 3: Enter the 11-iron
Back by popular demand, it’s BK’s WITB for his third week of league play. Check out the video for the details and WITB logic (such as it is from golf’s most impetuous equipment adjuster!).
Driver: Cobra Darkspeed X (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: L.A. Golf A-Series Mid X
3-wood: PXG 0311 Black Ops
Hybrid: Mizuno ST Max
Irons: Cobra King Tec Utility (4), Callaway Apex Pro (5, 6), Callaway Apex CB (7-9), Callaway Apex MB (10, 11)
Wedges: Adams Idea SW, LW
Putter: Ping PLD Anser 2D
Ball: TaylorMade TP5x
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Clement: Why your practice swing never sucks
You hear that one all the time; I wish I could put my practice swing on the ball! We explain the huge importance of what to focus on to allow the ball to be perfectly in the way of your practice swing. Enjoy!
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Equipment
Mitsubishi Diamana WB: Club Junkie takes a technology deep dive
Earlier this week, Mitsubishi announced the return of its iconic Whiteboard profile with the new Diamana WB shaft.
In our launch story, we offered a rundown of the key technology in the new WB — 80-ton Dialead pitch fiber, Aerospace-grade MR70 carbon fiber, Consistent Feel Design, and the Xlink Tech Resin System. To go deeper, however, we enlisted our Resident Club Junkie and bona fide shaft nut, Brian Knudson, to track down someone from Mitsubishi at the PGA Show. Fortunately, Mitsubishi’s Director of Global Aftermarket Sales, Jonathan Alongi, was on hand to answer all of BK’s questions.
Check out their discussion about the new WB, as well as the 20th anniversary of the original design, in the video above — time stamps of key points below, including a definitive answer as to how the surfboard graphic ended up on the original Whiteboard in 2004!
- :40 – Mitsubishi Japan expands to the U.S. in 2004
- :50 – “The shaft that set the standard”
- 1:12 – “The ‘board is back”
- 1:45 – WB or Whiteboard? Or both?
- 1:55 – The first iteration of the sixth generation of Diamana
- 2:10 – Incorporating key technology from a 20-year journey
- 3:10 – Modifying the tip section for more ball speed
- 3:50 – Delivering ball speed in a low-launch, low-spin shaft
- 4:20 – Drilling down on the shaft profile compared to the original Whiteboard
- 5:00 – The most impressive element of the new WB
- 5:30 – Butt, mid, tip specifications
- 6:00 – WB’s iconic graphics and the Diamana legacy — flowers, surfboard, numbering system
- 8:15 – An abundance of available weights and flexes
- 8:55 – More players going lightweight
Check out more photos and see what GolfWRXers are saying about Mitsubishi WB in the forums.
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Jacked_Loft
Oct 27, 2017 at 11:06 am
I watched the vid just to see if he hit the baseball against the wall. The rest was very informative also.
TexasSnowman
Oct 27, 2017 at 10:59 am
Another example of why I just do not ‘get’ Shawn’s instruction.
TeeBone
Oct 26, 2017 at 6:26 pm
With irons, good players have their center of gravity over the ball, not behind, at impact.
SteveK
Oct 26, 2017 at 6:05 pm
Very informative video and very important too…. particularly the door jamb image.
It seems to me that the positioning of the hips through the downswing is important. If your hips slide and not clearing, your head goes forward…. and if your hips block your head freezes or keeps going back in a reverse pivot fashion. Do I have that right, Shawn?
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It’s all in the hips… and the hips don’t lie …..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC8skR2Tl9U
SteveK
Oct 27, 2017 at 12:56 pm
Great hip and torso action in this video too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9w8s2l8NM
Haters
Oct 26, 2017 at 12:42 pm
Cue comments on why this won’t work!!
Personally I have tried to implement Shawn’s teachings to my swing and have seen positive results.