Andrea’s first day on the course after spending eight weeks learning and practising in the school having first held a club back in May. This swing honestly wouldn’t look out of place at Walton Heath this weekend. Retweets welcome! 👏🏌️‍♂️

Here’s a great drill to give you the feeling of hitting through the ball rather than at the ball…

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

Lovely to see our old friend Marian back in the school today. Marian built her swing in the school during the early to mid 70s. Over 50 years later and her swiñg is looking as simple and repeatable as ever…

90% of recreational golfers destroy the swing plane within the very first movement of the takeaway…

Great performance from Charley Hull in a thrilling US Open. Although some may think her swing looks a little quick and unconventional her fundamentals are very strong and hit every angle. Charley’s early teacher was Lee Scarbow who came to the school in the early 80s as a young 14-year-old aspiring to be a Golf professional. Can well remember his dad bringing him along and being put through his paces with press ups and wrist strengthening exercises. Just as we had a few years beforehand!

Never lose sight of the fact that essentially golf is a bat and ball game….

Last takeaway drill for the moment. This time taking you all the way through to the top of the backswing. Hopefully you’ve found this little series of clips very useful and have helped to unlock a few mysteries. Over the next few months we will compile a series of clips detailing the downswing and release into impact…

Last week we posted a very simple drill to allow you to check your position at the hip stage of the backswing. Here’s another, it’s very similar, but it is different!

Just a couple of takeaway drills to go now. Hopefully our little series of clips has made the swing’s initial movement a little clearer and has decoded a few mysteries….

It is not only the recreational golfer that is affected by the twist and roll of the hands on the takeaway. Good low handicap players can also slip into this swing wrecking movement. Here Phil assists 4 handicap Dan who gets away with it with his irons but hits his driver all over the place. The driver will always catch you out!

Continuing on from last week’s takeaway videos. Here’s a time proven very very simple way to check your hip height position on the backswing…

He is a great drill to help you eliminate the cursed twist and roll of the hands in the takeaway. A problem suffered by 90% of struggling golfers….

Yesterday we showed you how 9 out of 10 recreational golfers destroy the swing plane within the first movement of the takeaway. Here’s a very simple, highly effective drill you can practice anytime and anywhere without even needing a club!

95% of recreational golfers destroy the swing plane within the very first movement of the takeaway. We highlighted this in our 2004 book The Swing Factory. Sadly, 22 years later, nothing has changed. Over the next few weeks we’ll be posting regular clips on how to restructure and build a sound consistent takeaway…

Yesterday we posted a clip showing how the hands should be applied to the club, for some a little trickier than you may think. Illustrations are a thing of the past but we think you can still learn a lot from old-fashioned pencil images. This is how we outlined the right hand grip in our 2004 best selling book The Swing Factory…

A few weeks ago we posted a clip of how to apply the left hand to the club. Today we show you again, this time without a glove! We also focus on the right hand and this is something you should pay special attention to as many recreational golfers really struggle with this…

At the Masters golfing legend, and former pupil of our mentor Leslie King, Gary player said that the ball is now flying too far and needs to lose around 50 yards. He stressed that this was only in the professional game and that the amateurs should continue making the game as playable as possible by continuing with current equipment. A few weeks ago we ran a little test using a 1.62 Dunlop 65 from 50 years ago against a modern 1.68 ball. Today Phil tries out a McGregor Tourney Driver from the early 70s, considered the gold standard of the time. Phil is a former Tour player, not so young anymore but still averages a drive of 280 yards…

During the Masters Butch Harmon commented on Tommy Fleetwood’s grip and how he holds the club well below the end of the shaft. Tommy feels that this gives him far more control, especially with the longer clubs. Something we would readily endorse. We consider most modern Drivers too long for the average player. When selecting a new Driver for our students we generally go half inch or even an inch shorter than standard. Far easier to use and a more consistent club by far.

A fabulous Masters win for Rory and great performance from Justin whose swing is as close to our ideal as possible. Fundamentals we try to create for all our pupils. Naturally individuals look different depending on physical attributes etc but the essentials are the same.

Rooting for Rory to pull off another win at the Maters, it will be tough but he has a chance. A few years ago, one of our guys was at the Open and started chatting with Rory‘s long term boyhood coach Michael Bannon. Michael asked our pupil where he had lessons and he told them Knightsbridge School. Michael replied by saying I love their book The Swing Factory, it’s so simple.Now we could never, ever claim to have had any input in building Rory’s swing, and this is only a bit of fun, but these angles are very very similar! 😎