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 …