THE GOLF SWING IS INVISIBLE
You can’t see what I really do.
I can’t see what you really do.
We can only observe the end result.
That’s perhaps the biggest misconception in golf instruction. We copy what we see, but what we see is merely the consequence of something else happening underneath.
For the Trail Power Hitter pattern, this has never been more true.
Most of the time, when I spend an hour or two on the driving range, I end up with a small gathering around me (sorry for the brag). People rarely come over because they are fascinated by my golf swing. They come because of the sound, the smoothness through the strike, and the draw ball flight.
Eventually someone almost always says:
“Wow… you really swing smoothly through the ball.”
I usually smile to myself.
Because that’s not what I’m trying to do at all.
In my mind, I’m simply dumping my trail arm vertically into the ground long before impact.
That answer usually leaves people rather confused.
Sometimes the truth sounds like a lie.
WHO IS IT FOR?
This pattern isn’t for everyone.
If your dream is to create one of those long, beautiful Nicklaus-style arcs with a flowing finish, then the Big Arc Swinger is probably a better fit.
But perhaps that’s never been you.
Perhaps you’ve always felt that your trail arm wants to do more. That you enjoy feeling the strike rather than simply watching it happen. That you like compressing the golf ball and making it obey.
Then you might have found your home.
You enjoy experimenting. You enjoy understanding why things work. And you probably have that little itch that tells you there is another way to swing a golf club.
You’re not a smooth harmonic swinger.
You’re a hitter.
VIDEOs ABOUT THE TRAIL POWER HITTER PATTERN
PATTERN KEY PRINCIPLES?
Everything in this pattern starts with one invisible intention.
The trail arm is responsible for dumping power before the golf ball. That is the engine. Everything else is simply there to support it.
The backswing exists to create room.
The grip exists to create wrist mobility.
The body exists to support the direction of the power.
The clubface then rotates naturally and is simply harnessed before it overshoots.
That’s really all there is to the base pattern.
Once that starts functioning, the pattern becomes incredibly fun because almost everything can be tweaked.
Want more power?
More compression?
Different shot shapes?
More spin?
Go for it.
The pattern is remarkably adaptable.
Ironically, the hardest lesson to learn is that you don’t actually need all those tweaks. The basic Trail Power Hitter motion produces a trap draw that is already good enough for very high-level golf.
Everything after that is refinement.
One final note.
This has nothing to do with The Golfing Machine. I’ve never studied it in depth because, quite honestly, I don’t particularly enjoy the swings that came out of it. The similarities are largely superficial. The intentions are very different.
EARLY O’Grady, Langer, Woosnam, Price, Stenson etc
This pattern developed as I slowly began understanding my own trail-arm dominance.
For years I kept asking myself why certain golfers could compress the golf ball so effortlessly while others appeared to create speed in completely different ways.
Langer fascinated me.
Then Woosnam.
Nick Price became another huge inspiration, and Henrik Stenson probably possesses one of the purest modern versions of this strike.
Eventually I realised something rather interesting.
What I naturally enjoy doing shares many similarities with what Mac O’Grady did during the 1980s—long before MORAD evolved into the system most golfers know today.
His swing wasn’t built around unusual tilts or complicated geometry.
It was simply vertical power layered onto an over casting golf swing.
That, in my opinion, was the perfect marriage.
Another thing gradually became obvious.
Mac and Ian Woosnam controlled the clubface in remarkably similar ways. Their power wasn’t something that had to be managed afterwards.
The power itself became the control.
Not too shabby.
HOW DOES IT APPLY TO SWING FAULTS?
Let’s start with the over-the-top golfer. Most golfers fight path with positions. This pattern simply changes the intention behind the swing.
Once the vertical power dump begins matching the backswing, the club almost has no choice but to approach from the inside. I’ve seen golfers move from five degrees out-to-in to five degrees in-to-out in roughly one hundred golf swings. I shit you not.
What about hookers? Well… that’s actually the whole point. This pattern embraces how you trap a hook golf swing. Once you own it, you can start shaping it into whatever shot you like. Pelvis adjustments. Wrist adjustments. Exit changes. Clubface management.
The possibilities become endless because the foundation is finally working.
And early extension?
I don’t really think about fixing it. Early extension is often a balance response to a power intention that’s moving toward the target far too early. Change the intention. Change the balance. Early extension quietly disappears. Not because you fixed it. Because it no longer serves a purpose.
EDUCATIONAL COURSES = PEACE OF MIND.
One thing I’ve never liked about the golf industry is how knowledge is often drip-fed in tiny pieces. It sometimes feels as though coaches deliberately hold things back in order to create another lesson, another video, another purchase.
I’d rather do the opposite.
The educational courses contain the complete foundation. The biggest benefit isn’t that you’ll suddenly become a scratch golfer overnight. It’s that you’ll finally understand why things happen. Once that understanding exists, your practice suddenly has direction.
Inside the Trail Power Hitter course you’ll learn the complete protocol from the ground up. The base motion is surprisingly straightforward, but the advanced modules allow you to spend years exploring different power feels, shot shapes and club variations.
It’s honestly a pattern that rewards curiosity.
And judging by the number of golfers who have adopted it, I’m certainly not the only one who thinks so.
HOW TO START TRAINING?
- Go to Youtube and become a member on my channel. I have both light and advanced version but I ALWAYS recommend the advanced since Knowledge first leads to Simplicity second. Join for 1 or 2 months to see if it’s your style. 29$ per month. Click here to enter my Youtube Channel.
- On Skillest (coaching app) you can purchase it as a course one time payment. 99$ for the advanced version Click here to come to my Skillest Coaching Profile
.Or of course you can just send me an email on: forgottenmastermoves@gmail.com.
REMARKABLE 2 LESSONS RESULTS
Oskar started by studying the material for several hours, and then we continued with hands-on coaching. He went from shooting 84 to 74 in ONE WEEK because he was able to eliminate all the garbage from his mind and simply focus on his talent.
Let’s see where this takes us after lesson three. I believe sub-par is only the beginning for this young lad.
And by the way, it truly doesn’t matter whether you’re young or old. The same principles apply to all of us, just as they have for over a century. 🙂
Congrats, Oskar.
You have been released from mechanical prison.
