3 swing is the ‘death move’ to avoid, according to Jordan Spieth’s coach

Cameron McCormick calls them swing death moves, which is probably sick, but maybe shock value is needed here. The results are bad, actually, at least in the golf sense.

But there is hope, McCormick said.

There are elixirs, that is, in accordance with the theme.

The GOLF Top 100 teacher and longtime coach of Jordan Spieth talked about a video recently posted on his Instagram page, and the focus was on improving the score by understanding the “death steps” – three in total – and ways to avoid them. . You can watch the video below, and below that, we will give you some ideas.

3 swing ‘death moves’ to avoid, according to Cameron McCormick

1. ‘Holding your arms behind your body because they are 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 that’s how far your body rotates,” McCormick said in the video, “you’re stuck.”

So what to fix?

In the video, McCormick, who is right-handed, extends his right arm forward with the palm facing up and places his left wrist under his right elbow with the left palm facing behind him, then takes an imaginary swing.

“Imagine, using your golf arm, that your arm is always outside your shoulder in your golf swing,” he said in the video. “You’re hooked, you’re hooked.”

2. ‘Staying in wrist extension too long in a swing’

Doing so, McCormick said, leaves the face of the club open.

So what to fix?

“You have to turn that logo away from you, down,” McCormick said in the video, “and eventually close the face, turn the push pieces into a straight shot or a draw.”

3. ‘Overactive shoulder, upper right, premature rib rotation and left side bending’

This, says McCormick, causes “a steep angle of attack, a left club path, and will probably end up causing some of this extension of the lead wrist.”

The fix here?

“We need to feel like our hip bumps,” McCormick said in the video, “[and] Our lat and back muscles stay on target as our shoulder drops down. ”

Good stuff. Let’s keep McCormick’s “death movement” discussion going. Last year, GOLF.com published an article titled “There’s a short game ‘death move,’ says Jordan Spieth’s coach. Here’s how to fix it,” and you can read that story by clicking here, or by scrolling below.

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Are you dumping grounds or chips? (It’s okay to say yes. This is a safe place. In fact, the author does, shall we say, from time to time. Let’s move on.)

Do you throw pitches or chips? (Again, it’s all good. The writer is prone to this, too. Too bad, seeing that ball shoot past the pit like an F1 car. Oye. Okay, back to the story.)

Cameron McCormick has an idea why.

He was speaking this week in a post on his Instagram account, where he shared a collection of golf lessons, while the GOLF Top 100 teacher was not training Jordan Spieth and a number of other professionals. This post is titled “avoid this hot deadlift” – it’s adorable – and you saw it right away in the accompanying video.

“This is a dead-end move that I want you to avoid at all costs,” McCormick said. “What I want to avoid [is] moving your upper body completely in the direction of your lower body.

“It’s the reason you hit the ground first or hit it the other way.”

For a right-handed person, that’s the right lean. For a left-handed person, leaning to the left. Doing so reduces the chances of good communication.

The fix is ​​easy then. Kind of.

“So how are we going to improve our communication?” McCormick asked in the video. “We’re going to turn our upper body to the front side and keep it there throughout the stroke, whether we’re hitting low shots or high shots.”

For a right-handed person, that’s left leaning, and for a left-handed person, it’s right leaning. Of course, you may not fully know where you are tipping your body, at least at first.

Here, in his post, McCormick suggested taking an alignment stick, placing it on your back vertically and shooting a video of the face. As he did.

Give it a shot. We will wait.

Once you’re back, we just wrote a few more short game stories, if you’re in the market for such advice.

— Here’s GOLF’s Nick Dimengo, via GOLF Top 100 teacher Brech Spradley, who uses “glue”.

— Here’s Top Golf Instructor Carol Preisinger on the secret to chipping over hazards.

— Here’s Parker McLachlin, GOLF Top 100 Teacher To Watch, on the easy key to chip shots when under pressure.

— Here’s Dimengo, by GOLF Top 100 teacher Kevin Sprecher, on how to “shave up to 10 shots” by learning hard lie chips.

— Here’s Dimengo, with 100 GOLF Top 100 teachers Trillium Rose, on the “safer” option on the greens.