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This insight is adjusting from a life of hockey.

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So, as I've been in Colorado here for a while, I've been working with more and

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more hockey players.

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They tend to have a pattern just like those tennis players, just like those

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baseball players tend to have a pattern.

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So, there's three major things that I see consistently with hockey players.

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It doesn't mean that you're going to see them with everyone, but if you're an

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ex hockey player

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and you struggle with these issues, hopefully this will help you understand why

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and give you some strategies to work on them.

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So, the three major things that hockey players are going to do with the golf

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club

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is they are going to tend to sway a little bit off the ball.

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They're going to tend to keep the club face closed or restrict forearm rotation

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during the backswing,

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and they're going to tend to have a forward lunge of the upper body.

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So, these are three big movements that are helpful when I'm hitting a slap shot

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,

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but problematic when I'm swinging a golf club.

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So, the sway is essentially going to be this lateral movement

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and typically their initiation, which would be good with a hockey stick,

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is going to be that closed face and they will have some of the most closed face

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of anybody who I've ever measured on 3D,

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but they'll tend to have closed face with a little bit of a sway

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as opposed to rotating and kind of letting my upper body turn into my trail

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side.

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They tend to stay a little bit more lead side bent,

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which by itself can make it problematic for hitting the driver

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unless I have this major jump on the way down, which a lot of them tend to do.

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The other one that I've seen more and more and from talking to one of my ex

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hockey players,

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he says that this is actually encouraged in hockey of the sports.

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This is one of the few that I never really played,

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but during the hockey slap shot, you're going to want to have your upper body

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drifting

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towards the net during the entire time.

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You're not going to want to post up and go like so

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because you have the tendency to fan or swing over top of the puck.

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This upper body covering movement like so

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tends to let you hit behind it and then keep the blade close to the ice

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as it goes through the puck.

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When it comes to golf, this can cause big time angle of attack issues

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as well as forcing you to cast both to hold off some of this face rotation

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and to shadow out the club from this steep upper body movement.

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They tend to struggle with what I think are some of the more annoying problems,

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one of which being fat wedges.

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Because I'm taking it away closed and I'm forward lunging like so,

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I'll tend to fall into this early extension pattern late

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and get the path coming too much from the inside.

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Now with a hockey slap shot, I can hit behind it and that actually helps with a

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slap shot,

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but the problem is with a golf club, if I do that, if I come from the inside

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and have the club bottom out behind it, I'll typically get leading edge strikes

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,

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so I'm going to get laying side or I'm going to pull my arms in and I'm going

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to blade it.

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So if you're working on getting out of hockey and becoming more of a golfer,

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one of the things that I would recommend is working on this stable pivot,

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which we teach during the backswing in the transition section,

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and then working on having a little bit more forearm rotation on the way back.

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By letting it open up kind of like so, it'll allow you to square it without

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using that forward lunge.

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And that forward lunge can be great for iron play,

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it can be great for a few specific shots, but typically hurts your wedges,

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typically hurts your driver, and so I think it's kind of one of those problems

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you want to get out of.

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So if you're coming from hockey, you've got to learn to let the clubface rotate

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a little bit more,

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you've got to learn to stabilize your pivot, and usually you'll have to work on

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a little bit

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of this early extension pattern, but if you do, I promise you can find that

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this game is just as fun

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and a lot less dangerous, something that you can do well into your older years.

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So good luck adjusting from a life of hockey into a life of golf.