You came in over-long and feeling tight off a heavy summer. So we matched the swing to the body you have right now — shorter, wider, more behind it — and reset the putter. The headline you leave with: the distance question is physical, not mechanical.
Every yard you've been chasing, you've been chasing with the length of your backswing — and it has cost you the strike. The answer is speed and strength from the body. The swing's job is to get shorter, wider and more behind the ball so the strike comes back. Then we go get the yards in the gym and with speed work.
Especially with driver — the club strands behind you, and the woods and long irons come out of the neck and the bottom of the face. It shows up worst exactly when you want yards: the swing gets longer instead of faster, and the strike pays for it.
The bridge (half) swing keeps everything in front of you. Load lateral and wide, back to the target longer, hands drop, hips neutral. Nothing here is a new swing — it is your swing, matched to the body you have this summer.
A high, turning-over ball on the woods and long irons — the one shot missing from your bag on the tee shots that have been costing doubles.
From fairway-wood tee shots alone across two rounds. All three of your doubles at the FL Open Qualifier came from the tee into a hazard.
Your money zone is elite. Then the floor drops out at the exact distance a long iron or a wood is in your hands.
Your read from Cabot: “the leaders have shorter irons in — a huge advantage.” Correct. But note what the bands above say: you don't need a longer swing to close it. You need the 200–220 shot to exist and the body to add the yards.
The club strands behind you at the top — most of all with driver. Everything after that is a recovery.
The bridge (half) swing — everything stays in front of you and you control the top.
Narrow off the ball, chest opening early — no margin behind it, so the low point creeps forward.
Load more lateral and wider. Back faces the target as long as possible; leave the club stuck and let the hands drop.
Force replaces rhythm when you want yards — and the two-way miss shows up by the back nine.
Hips stay neutral through the bridge swing. Rhythm over force — the calmer move is the one that repeats.
Woods and long irons come out low off the neck and the bottom of the face — 18% greens from 200–220.
Trust the flop / scoop draw: short–wide–reach launches it higher and turns the ball over.
“My full swing is just such a big hole in my game — distance to contact and the two-way miss I have going.”
“My fairway woods / 4-iron have just been awful — basically a neck / bottom-of-the-face strike.”
“Started to swing the driver more athletically today, which was nice.”
One thing to retire: “I was clubbing up to allow for mishits.” Clubbing up hides the strike instead of fixing it — and it's what puts a wood in your hands on holes where a hazard is live.
Today's swings are already uploaded and drawn on. Film your practice blocks into the same feed and I'll mark them up between sessions — that's how the change stays honest without waiting two weeks to see it.
More lateral and wider off the ball — give yourself margin behind it.
Shorten the top, hips neutral, everything kept in front of you.
Back faces the target; hands drop, no early shoulder spin.
Pop it up for a high, turning-over strike you can trust.
Stay with the claw — it feels better and it matches the putter. No change, and that's a decision, not a default.
Line on the ball plus the string drill. We dial the start line to a degree — this is the piece that pays off at 8–15 ft.
Leaning slightly shorter, and the mallet (Spider) — it rolls purer off centre than the blade. Off-centre is where your misses live.
No stroke change, no green-reading overhaul. At 96% from 3–5 ft and 6% three-putts, the stroke is not the problem — adding a mechanical thought here would cost you the good part.
Tight and on the toes per Brandon's screens. Free the hips and the wide, behind-it load becomes available instead of forced.
Three max-effort swings, 3–4 sets daily. Build clubhead speed on purpose so you never have to buy it with backswing length.
Travel weeks are where this gets lost. Bodyweight and bands count — the yards come from the body, so the body doesn't get a week off.
You said it yourself at Cabot: “the leaders have shorter irons in — a huge advantage.” Here's the arithmetic. Move 281 → 295 and a stack of your approaches drop out of the band where you hit 18% of greens and into the band where you hit 80%. You don't need tour length. You need one club less.
Your own read: “I've gotten really good at learning how to get around the golf course in a smart, strategic way so I can compete even without my best stuff.”
That is real and it's rare. 0 doubles in a seven-hour rain delay at Cabot, 15 pars and one bogey in your best round, 82% par-or-better after a bogey. It's why we can change the swing in July without your scores falling apart.
You are not rebuilding anything. You're making the swing smaller so the strike comes back, and going to get the yards where they actually live. Two weeks of honest reps and the 200–220 shot is yours.
Same size as your tournament pocket card, so it lives in the same pocket. Print it, carry it to the range, and check the gates off as you hit them. If you only look at one page between now and 22 July, look at this one.