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#HelpMeGolfDigest: Trillium Sellers fixes your transition and solves your posture problems
By Matthew Rudy
When Golf Digest Best Young Teacher Trillium Sellers gives a piece of swing advice, there are extra reasons to pay attention. The Maryland instructor earned her master's degree in motor learning and control from Columbia in February, and she put that rare (in the golf business) credential to use this week selecting a few swings to analyze for our regular #HelpMeGolfDigest series.
Reader Tim Egan (@thetimmer_ on Instagram) submitted his video shot from an unconventional quartering angle. It made judging his setup position harder but revealed some room for improvement in his backswing-to-downswing transition.
"Emma definitely has something to work with, but at the top of the backswing her lead arm just collapses," Sellers says. "The club goes way past parallel, and makes John Daly's backswing look short. She needs to feel that lead arm extend so that her hands are away from her neck, which will also straighten out her downswing."
The last swing comes from @Garrett_njd30, whose posture looks a lot like Paula Creamer's. Sellers is worried he's headed for back pain. #iframe://instagram.com/p/pfY7bIlLx2/embed/|||
"Garrett makes a strong move at it, but he drops his head so much that his shoulders are almost vertical at impact," Sellers says. "He has to set up with the ball off the toe because that head move will make the club go out much more than it was at address. To get that spine more vertical, hold a club against your chest and make some swings keeping it -- and the shoulders -- as horizontal as possible. That's also going to change the setup position a lot, with the ball farther away and the arms extended more."
Submit your swings via Instagram or Twitter with the #HelpMeGolfDigest hashtag and you could see yourself analyzed in this space this summer.