
Cameron McCormick, right, and Jordan Spieth in 2018.
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Cameron McCormick, his video with complete instructions, took a swing. Why not, he apparently thought. Practice what you preach, as they say.
He almost dropped the iron.
“Come in,” McCormick pleaded.
“Come in.”
“Ohhhh,” he moaned as his ball apparently just missed the hole.
So he knows what he’s talking about, although his status as a GOLF 100 best teachers AND of Jordan Spieth The coach also suggests this. Notably, he had just talked about a move to put him in position for a quality shot. He teased her well too.
“Here’s the best setup tip you’ve never heard,” McCormick said in the video. “And I’ll give you the what and the why.”
With that, you should watch the video and you can do that hereor immediately below. We will consider it below.
Cameron McCormick and the ‘best setup tip you’ve never heard’
“What,” McCormick said in the video, is simple.
“While you’re holding your stance,” he said, “I want you to turn your elbow so it’s facing your side. So the pit of your arm is toward the sky.”
Interesting. Why do it, though?
“On the backswing, that’s the movement your trail arm should take, kind of a bicep curl (in a direction behind you),” McCormick said in the video. “But yet when your elbow is out, the bicep curl will be performed this way (more pointed toward the sky), causing your right elbow to move away from your side, losing your swing connection.
“So the best setup tip you’ve never heard is designed to improve your drive connection and help you start flushing it out.”
From there on in the video, McCormick almost walked away.
Let’s continue the conversation with McCormick’s advice. Late last month, GOLF.com shared an article titled “3 ‘death swings’ swings to avoid, according to Jordan Spieth’s coach,” and that article can be found by clicking hereor scrolling down.
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Cameron McCormick calls them deadly moves, which is maybe a little morbid, but maybe the shock value is needed here. The consequences are grim, after all, at least in the golf sense.
But there is also hope, McCormick said.
There are elixirs, so to speak, in keeping with the theme.
The top 100 GOLF teacher and longtime coach of Jordan Spieth was speaking in a video recently posted on his Instagram page, and the focus was on improving scores through understanding “death moves” – there are three in total – and ways to avoid them. . You can watch the video belowand below we will offer some thoughts.
3 swinging ‘death moves’ to avoid, according to Cameron McCormick
1. ‘Punch your arms behind your body because they’ve moved too far behind your body’
A death move, for sure. How does it happen?
“When that right arm moves all the way to the side of your body relative to how far your body rotates,” McCormick said in the video, “you’re stuck.”
So what is the fix?
In the video, McCormick, a right-hander, extended his right arm forward with his palm facing the target and placed his left wrist below his right elbow with his left palm facing behind him, then made an imaginary swing.
“Develop a sense, using your golf arm, that your arm is always in front of your shoulder in your golf swing,” he said in the video. “So stuck, bound.”
2. ‘Standing in wrist extension for a long time in downward motion’
Doing so, McCormick said, leaves the club open.
So what is the fix?
“You have to drive that logo away from you, all the way to the ground,” McCormick said in the video, “ultimately closing the face, turning the thrust slices into straight shots or draws.”
3. ‘Early right shoulder rotation, overactive, with left side turn’
This, McCormick said, causes a “steep angle of attack, the left path of the club and will probably end up causing some of that extension of the wrist joint.”
The fix here?
“We should feel the hump in the hip,” McCormick said in the video, “(and) our hamstrings and our back muscles stay on target as our shoulder drops down.
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Nick Piastowski
Editor of Golf.com
Nick Piastowski is a senior editor at Golf.com and Golf Magazine. In his role, he is responsible for editing, writing and developing stories across the golf space. And when he’s not writing about ways to hit the golf ball farther and straighter, the Milwaukee native is probably playing the game, hitting the ball left, right and short, and drinking a cold beer to wash down his score. . You can reach him about any of these topics – his stories, his game or his beers – at nick.piastowski@golf.com.