Fairway Performance Podcast

Nobody has ever booked a coaching call with Shaun asking to improve their balance. It isn't flashy and it doesn't sound like the thing that's costing you shots. It quietly sits underneath a huge number of them anyway, and once you see it, it's hard to unsee. There's a test in this episode you can do right now: stand on one leg, get stable, close your eyes, and count how long you last before you wobble or put your foot down. Shaun screens golfers all the time who can barely manage a few second...

You give it absolutely everything. The bloke next to you makes a smooth, almost lazy swing and flies it 30 past you. That's not a strength problem. It's an efficiency problem, and it's good news, because it means you've got distance sitting there that you simply aren't using yet. Distance doesn't come from how hard you swing. It comes from how well you sequence and how much separation you create. Most amateurs aren't short on effort, they're short on efficiency, and swinging harder just makes...

"Shaun, I do my mobility stuff and it just isn't working for me." This one is for the golfer who is genuinely doing the work. The stretching, the foam rolling, the whole routine, and getting frustrated because none of it shows up in their golf. Here's the part that sounds strange at first: you can get more flexible and still not change your swing at all. The flexibility most people chase lying on the floor doesn't automatically transfer to a fast, dynamic, standing up, athletic movement like ...

A mobility drill off Instagram. A power exercise off YouTube. A stretch your mate's coach told him about. Before long you've got 15 or 20 random exercises you do whenever you remember, in no order, with no progression, and no idea whether any of it is right for your body. Shaun calls this the shotgun approach: firing a lot of pellets and hoping something hits the target. This episode is not a go at anyone doing it. Golfers end up here because they care and they're trying. The problem is that ...

Here is an idea that will change how you think about your body and your golf game forever: where the pain is, is rarely where the problem is.Most golfers, and honestly most of the fitness world, treat the body like a collection of separate parts. Sore shoulder, work on the shoulder. Tight back, stretch the back. But your body does not work like a set of separate boxes. It works like a chain. When one link cannot do its job, another link picks up the slack, and eventually that other link is th...