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I've seen Monte (and other instructors) post several clips like this: https://www.instagram.com/montescheinblum/reel/DFqDV2evNxy/?hl=en This is a sample of one...some time ago I spent three days with an instructor. I was tilting back too soon in transition and my hands were working deeper so I ended up stuck too far from the inside and hitting blocks and hooks. There was a small amount of backswing work but about 90% of the time was spent on keeping the upper body stacked over the lower in transition and the hand path working more out in transition (an intention of exiting more left helped with the hand path). Almost every swing was at 30-40% effort and there was no talk or measurement of grf or even speed. At the end of the final day the launch monitor came out and the instructor had me hit a few drivers. By this stage I was really tired (it was hot and humid and I'd hit a lot of swings even if they were low effort). Much to my surprise, my CHS was up 7-8 mph just because of an improved swing (and grf must have been better too).

I have 2 postulates and a question for the instructors: --Almost every time an instructor posts before and after swing videos of a student that has made a big improvement to their swing, their club head speed usually went up significantly. --If their club head speed increased significantly, their grf must almost definitely have increased significantly too and/or the timing of grf improved, all without thinking about it. My question is how often is directly targeting grf beneficial versus simply cleaning up the swing and grf improving as a byproduct and how good does a swing have to be for direct grf targeting to take place (as opposed to fixing something else move obviously wrong)?

It should also be food for thought for the course management system teachers that the dominant player plays this way. They tell even tour pro's that they must hit one shot shape and trajectory when the dominant player is doing the opposite (never mind that almost all the great players shaped it both ways even if they had a preferred stock shape e.g. Nicklaus, Woods, Tiger, Phil, Hogan all moved it around).

The British Open is often won by someone who plays well and gets on the correct side of an improbable sequence of lucky random bounces while timing the weather well. This course isn't a random outcome generator like a lot of links courses; it punishes bad shots and rewards good shots. Add in decent weather (by Bristish Open standards) and you get the best coming to the top.