Xander Schauffele makes use of a singular approach to advertise stable contact in his swing.
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Xander Schauffele had a yr for the ages in 2024 as he turned the primary golfer since Brooks Koepka to win a number of majors in a season. It was a breakthrough marketing campaign for Schauffele, and one which many had been anticipating of him since his early days as an expert.
Watching the 30-year-old play golf, it’s troublesome to seek out any weaknesses in his recreation. The stats illustrate as a lot, too. In the entire 5 most important strokes-gained classes, Schauffele ranked inside the highest 25 for the 2024 season. Actually, in 4 of the 5, he ranked inside the highest 10, together with his SG: Across the Greens rank (twenty second) being the lone outlier.
For a lot of Schauffele’s life, he’s relied on a single swing coach to information him: his father, Stefan. And whereas Schauffele has opened up his circle and begun working with different coaches of late, the DNA of his swing nonetheless has Stefan’s fingerprints throughout it.
Correctly shifting your weight throughout the swing is essential for effectively producing energy and producing constantly stable contact. Schauffele usually makes use of the favored “step-drill” to ingrain the proper approach in his swing — however rising up, Stefan inspired him to make use of one other unconventional methodology as nicely.
“Once I was rising up, he wished me to grunt,” Schauffele informed GOLF High 100 Instructor Chris Como.
Similar to tennis gamers, Stefan wished his son to make an audible noise when making impression with the ball. Why the unusual suggestion? As a result of it helps with timing up your impression.
By making an audible noise at impression, Schauffele is solely including much more emphasis on the second of impression. In doing this, it could actually assist train his thoughts and physique to zero in on the precise second the membership hits the ball.
“He at all times informed me, if in case you have stable impression, you will get away with quite a lot of issues,” Schauffele mentioned. “When you’ve got quite a lot of good coordination and good impression to shut the door, you will get away with so much.”
