4/31 - I Became a TOTAL BEGINNER AGAIN!

Good morning everyone,
Finally getting in the swing of things excuse the pun, welcome to the fourth video of the week, and you’re going to have to excuse the waffle.
This video, which is something a bit different to probably what you’ve heard on this channel, and probably other golf coaching channels, explains the importance of doing and practising the right things.
So not like the video, I won’t go on and waffle, I’ll leave you to the hopeful enjoyment of today’s video.
Many thanks as always for your continued support, either if you’re new here or you are a regular viewer, taking the time out to support and watch the videos is so appreciated.
Hope you’re enjoying this July series, if you have any ideas of what you would like me to show here on the channel, please suggest in the comments below.
Many thanks as always, and have a great golfing day, more importantly stay healthy on and off the golf course.
Kind regards
Warren (and Trev)

[@mikehammer8555]

Great insightful and honesty Warren, I can tell you have a lot of humility in you. Always enjoy your teachings on golf and your life in golf. You have one of the most graceful swings in the business. Thanks again.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Many thanks Mike and appreciate your message. Thank you for your support and your message. Regards Warren

[@keithharris6442]

Hi again Warren, really enjoying your July series. I found your story a great watch and struck a chord with me. I read 5 lessons by Ben Hogan 30 years ago, I knew the shallowing, watched all of Faldo's videos. I would watch the pros shallow out during their swings too. I knew the rotation part, I could see it. ( like skimming a stone). But I couldnt feel it, I was always stalling, saving the shot. Obviously, our skills are miles apart, but your story really gave me a boost. I was stuck at 10 for 15 years, with a better short game, I got down to 5. Your teaching, the way you word it, the feels, keep it very simple. At my age, its important to still have goals, mine is to swing this way as I approach my 70's . The title of this video certainly applies to me, cant thank you enough for the inspiration Warren. Keep up the great work, golf is a real pleasure thanks to people like you.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Hi Keith, I needed you 30years ago!! I can get into a lot of detail and have to clients who require that, but generally try to keep it simple in the videos. Mainly waffle too! 😉 Sending you my best Warren

[@wesmiller942]

Hi Warren. Everything you said resonates with me. I was taught the old way as a junior but for the last 6 months having lessons here in Australia and learning how to shallow and rotate. Difficult after being a hands player for 50 years but it’s working. Great video. Thanks, Wes.

[@roypierpoint8016]

thank you warren for being so honest , it just shows you how difficult this game can be, enjoying your daily videos .

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Thanks Roy it certainly can and many thanks for your support 👍 Regards Warren

[@andrewfranklin9851]

Thanks Warren, I’ve watched loads of your videos and you have really helped me to get my game back after a reasonably serious illness…really appreciate you for all your hard work and love Trev!!!

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Hi Andrew, Many thanks for your kind message and I really appreciate you taking the time out to message me. I wish you all the very best. Regards Warren

[@FT163]

A great video and demonstrates that even a Tour player can struggle with finding a coach that can identify and address an individual’s issues. Therein lies the problems for us ‘hacks’. There are so many PGA coaches that haven’t the knowledge, experience or the equipment to correctly analyse a golf swing and provide the necessary feedback. Thanks Warren for your dedication in providing such excellent information and instruction.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Many thanks, unfortunately it comes from struggle but I guess a lot of good things come from that place, just didn’t want it to last 30years+! Appreciate you taking the time to message, means a lot. Regards Warren

[@martynlee7473]

This video is a huge revelation to me, as amateurs, we assume pro's have it easy and the technical aspects of the game come naturally...not the case! Interesting what you said about your injuries Warren, I remember driving up to Slaley Hall for the 2002 Great North Open with the intention of getting your swing on film with my newly acquired second hand videocam, only to find you walking off the course clutching your ribcage 😢

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Hi Martyn, thanks very much for your message, blimey you know what I can’t even remember that at Slaley! It’s probably mixed in with the other countless times I was playing in pain, think I had two full years in 20 injury free so unfortunately it was one of the many. Glad you liked the video and appreciate you taking the time to message. Sending my best Warren

[@cryptoengineer9930]

Brilliant video explaining the truth about golf. Recently, my long game has gone through turmoil. I've tried everything to correct it, but having seen this, I now know what's wrong. I used to do this drill of getting the club behind me and could hit the ball pretty straight and consistently. As soon as I felt this shallowing move, it felt like it was in the past with the arms moving in opposition. Like you say, power comes from movements you can't feel.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Many thanks for the feedback and I’m sorry to hear about the long game struggles. I hope this will be the spring board to more consistency, I’m sure it will. Wishing you all my best. Warren

[@jdwond3673]

9:55 This hits home with me. After a left shoulder injury, I let my right hand take over and was changing my grip midswing because of lack of confidence. I'm now in the process of changing my grip and swing. Mainly my grip, as it became so strong , I was hooking and duck hooking off the planet.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Many thanks for your reply, and wishing you all the very best in your journey back from the injury, which is never easy one. Trust is the hard thing, especially with golf with what we were used to doing, I think repetition and time will give you that confidence back I’m sure. Thanks once again Warren

[@ThomasTsehongkonglawyer]

What you said was very true and I trust your invaluable insights. Many learners aim at hitting long distance. My coach keeps telling me accuracy and consistency are paramount. Therefore, as a beginner, I aim at making my swings consistent and repeatable. Besides, I aim at hitting the ball to go straight line towards the target. To achieve this I also train my ball impact on the club head.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

That makes perfect sense and I agree, too many go after distance and become inconsistent. From good solid foundations like you say you can layer speed. Your coach sounds like he knows what he is doing. Good job 👍 Regards Warren

[@gerrymcintosh4477]

Great insight. Thanks for sharing. I’ve been playing nearly 60 years and I can really appreciate your thoughts on the golf swing. 🇨🇦💝🙏

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Thanks Gerry, appreciate you taking the time to message. Kind regards Warren

[@boogiewoogie108]

What a great tip. It really makes the contact crisp and clean. Great demeanor and teaching skills. Much appreciate the lesson Sir.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Glad it was helpful and many thanks for the feedback and for the message. Wishing you all the best. Regards Warren

[@kennethsplaine1149]

Great hearing your experience in conquering coming over the top and how to bring the club back on line and how to give you the confidence to shape your shots. Great video and tutorial as always!!!! Keep them coming you give us all hope of seeing the light!!!! 🙂

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Thank you once again Kenneth, glad you’re enjoying them. All the best Warren

[@neilw4881]

A great insight into what can go wrong with the top pro’s and proof that it’s not just us club golfers that suffer with a gizzilion swing thoughts! 👍

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Hi Neil, I may have had a gizzilion and 1! It felt like that anyway. We are pretty much in the same boat it’s just a different type of miss the higher up the golfing ladder we go, doesn’t have to be a lot out on the tours for things to go a bit south very quickly. Appreciate the support Warren

[@77bovi]

Hi Warren this is giving me chills. @7:26 talking about getting the hands back inside (under the shoulders). Been working on this but struggling. Picturing with my golf grip I am holding a hammer sideways, T-shaped broom drill. I tend to respond better to visuals it did bring me some results. The T shaped broom movement I got from another UK based instructor that is on youtube. Cant help but feel this is the movement you are explaining too. Makes me very excited.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Yes that makes perfect sense to me, I have t seen that broom drill done but I can see the visuals. Glad you got something out of the video and appreciate you taking the time to message. Regards Warren

[@77bovi]

@@warrenbennettgolfacademy to be clear for others, it's not the sweeping broom but the scrubbing kind where the head & bristles form a T to the handle. Perpendicular. Where you hold it with the bristles tracing the target line. Warren, do you feel this movement requires more left forearm rotation?

[@tjvbham5831]

Excellent lesson. I've fought with my swing for 40+ years to keep the club shallow.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Thanks for the feedback very much appreciated 👍 Warren

[@gsrnitro1639]

I get the need for shallowing for those with steep backswings. But if you're already a flat swinger flattening the swing even more = shanksville.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

You’re right, I then wouldn’t encourage it but the majority I’ve seen don’t go flat to flatter. Thanks for your message Regards Warren

[@JJ_Khailha]

Great context to what you teach.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Thank you 👍

[@pbode1]

Nice bit of history context around your teachings, thanks for this !

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

My pleasure and glad you enjoyed it 👍 Regards Warren

[@3rdmillenniumfuture607]

Thanks for another great video. In terms of ideas for the future one I'd like to see would be how to develop good ball first contact when playing off a mat. Like many I have no access to a practice range where you hit balls off real turf so get no experience of taking a divot. So when I practice I'm not sure if I am actually doing things right or not in terms of contact and when I go onto the course I often find I am taking no divot at all. So my question is, when hitting a ball off a practice mat how do you know if you are gettting good contact and how can you work to improve it? I don't recall any video covering this so it may be of interest to others too. Thanks again.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Brilliant, thanks. I’ll go and get my thinking head on and make it happen. Many thanks Warren

[@fandangomobile]

Great video, interesting swing insights and good to know that pros can at times have all the swing anxieties that us weekend warriors have during Saturday’s medal round.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Many thanks and you’ll be surprised, more than you think, it’s just a different kind of bad, but at tour level it doesn’t have to be that much off to push you down the rankings very quickly. Golf is hard that’s why we all have to have some understanding of our own golf. Many thanks and all the best. Warren

[@paull544]

great advice. thanks

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Thanks Paul appreciate the message Warren

[@johnnyhicks2386]

Warren was your left hand cupped in the back swing and flattened out when you rotated the club back down to the ball.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Hi Johnny, I would say it is a fraction cupped. I have a video regarding the left wrist on my list to do in July. In a perfect world having some cup is ideal so it’s got somewhere to go to regarding shallowing the club, but that is very hard for the majority as it’s happening so quickly so takes a lot of practice. Cheers for the message Warren

[@JeffPassageCPA]

Every day I feel like a beginner. I seemingly have no muscle memory with golf.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Hi Jeff, I think it’s, even if it’s a slight feeling, it’s finding feelings through repetition. Tom once said it’s about movement first and then feeling second. so I would encourage you to find something you’d like to work on that you can do regularly, on the range or at home and stick to that and I’m sure feeling will come. Wishing you all the best Warren

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

*Tom Kite that is

[@keithwilberforce]

Took this advice to my club range (far end) yesterday keeping shaft on same angle as right forearm. Could not believe the results.great advice

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Thank you, Keith, and thank you for taking the time out to not only watch the video but to message and to leave your feedback, it is very much appreciated, and I’m so glad that you’ve got something out of it. Kind regards Warren

[@PeterDoyle-m8b]

I absolutely get the shallowing part of the golf swing but struggle to square the clubface from half way down. It invariably comes through open, or if I try and exaggerate the release, it's too closed. I'm sure that's the reason we get so exasperated at our inconsistencies....an inability to square the clubface on a regular basis.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Hi Peter, I get the seesaw, but in my experience coaching golfers to hit more inside l/shallow etc if done properly it virtually impossible to overdo the release so it should just draw. I think I will do a video on the blend as I get the struggle mate. Cheers Warren

[@steveperry1344]

it seems golf is not a very instinctive action. i've gone through the same things you have it seems but on my level, thnx for the insight. i'll get it one of these days. ok now the redsox hat.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

I would say definitely not Steve, hogan said ‘reverse every instinct and you have a near perfect golf swing’ Kind regards Warren

[@countfloyd1269]

Excellent teaching. I believe this is the best way to hit the ball also. Hogan and Moe Norman both say they try and keep the club behind them. I have heard so many say they did not actually do that though. They did though. Aha moment for me was Hogans Coleman video when he's demonstrating on the beach. I had seen it numerous times and then one day I heard his friend say that's all I practice. Hogan wasn't going to teach his good friend wrong, so I started the slow-motion drills. The hands get ahead automatically and the ball jumps off the club with little effort.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

What an excellent video that is, I can see in my mind. I the slow motion exercise that he did for the camera. I think a lot of golfers try and find a quick fix when the answer although sometimes can take quite a bit of practice, is shown to us by those great players, how I applaud you in your practice and what your practising. Many thanks for taking the time out to message me and wishing you all the best . Regards Warren

[@brucemarshall1439]

Hi again Warren, I'm going through your July series again and find this one very interesting. It must have been devastating for you at the time, I can appreciate the "two way miss" from my own journey in golf!! I'm pretty much only following you now in my own re-learning. I've been playing ( very badly ) for about 40 years, mid sixties now and reached my lowest ever handicap last week of 17.9hi. My question for you on this vid is . . what, if any, is the difference between you shallowing the club as shown here and other vids where you are suggesting using a more arms and hand swing for the irons? I'm a bit confused and suffer from coming over the top creating an out to in swing, hence fading, slicing.

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Hi Bruce , Many thanks for your message and question. The difference being with this video you will need to use more body rotation to square the Club face up into impact, using your arms it will be more neutral and less body, so golfers who normally suffer from a slice encourage more arm swing as shown in other videos. Appreciate your message and I hope this helps. Regards Warren

[@wimbrow1]

milo lines

[@davecummings9301]

Is that a Red Sox hat?

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Hi Dave, I believe it is, my wife has family in Boston 👍🇺🇸

[@channelsis1569]

Hi Warren, same for the driver? Thanks 🙏

[@warrenbennettgolfacademy]

Yes absolutely shallowness is your friend with a driver. Many thanks Warren