Former U.S. Open champ Wyndham Clark is the reigning king of fun-looking range drills. While some players prefer chasing feels, Wyndham and his coach, Pat Coyner, use obstacles and training aids to get his swing in the positions he wants.
Avoid the obstacles, and your swing will be moving the way you want it to.
His method works—Clark has been playing some great golf heading into Shinnecock—and early in the week at the U.S. Open, Wyndham Clark had a lot of obstacles set up in his practice station. But there’s a good reason for each.
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Let’s break it down.
1. Notice the two train tracks. Simple: To help Wyndham swing more towards the target. Wyndham tends to swing more left; this helps him swing more to the right.
2. The ball is on a driver-height tee even though Wyndham’s hitting an iron. This is to shallow-out his swing; to help him swing more around. It’s hard to hit down on the ball when the ball is teed up high.
3. There’s a perpendicular line just before the ball. That’s to give Wyndham a visual of a square clubface and to ensure he’s contacting the ball first, ground second—to control his golf swing’s low point.
4. It also helps Wyndhamfocus on delivering a square clubface, which he talked about in his cover story right here.
5. Wyndham is using a ProSendr training aid. He uses these training aids often to help him get more width in his wrists and arms, and prevent getting too long and in his words, “laggy.”
6. Finally, you can see an alignment stick in Wyndham Clark’s belt loops. That’s to prevent his hips from spinning out and getting his arms “stuck”. If that happens, his arms would smash into the stick. When they don’t, it means he’s doing it right.
He’s essentially installed little fail-safes into every part of his swing. The result is a move he can trust—and maybe even win another U.S. Open with.
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
