David Rickwood Golf

David Rickwood Golf PGA Teaching Professional

26/08/2026

❌ NARROW BACKSWING = NO ROOM TO MOVE

First swing — narrow, cramped and STEEP coming down.

Instead of trying to shallow the club on the downswing, we went after the cause 👇

CREATE MORE WIDTH.

Give the arms more space going back and suddenly there’s WAY more room to deliver the club coming down. 🔥

Fix what happens BEFORE the problem.

GolfTraining

26/08/2026

❌ THIS is what “stalling out” looks like…

Watch the first pressure trace — the movement starts, then STOPS.

Instead of hitting ball after ball hoping it changes, we exaggerated the opposite move to create a completely different feeling.

Then check out the LAST TRACE 👀🔥

That’s the change we were looking for.

Don’t be afraid to exaggerate.
What feels MASSIVE to you might only be enough to change the pattern.

See it. Feel it. Change it. 📈

GolfTraining GolfLesson

22/08/2026

🛑 STOP TRYING TO HIT THE BALL!

Sounds ridiculous for a golf lesson… but hear me out 👇

When you’re trying to change a movement, the golf ball can actually become the biggest distraction.

Put a ball down and suddenly the brain wants one thing…

HIT IT. 🎯

And very quickly we fall straight back into the movement pattern we already know.

So take the ball away.

❌ No worrying about strike
❌ No worrying about ball flight
❌ No judging every rep by the result

Instead, we can exaggerate, explore and actually LEARN THE NEW MOVEMENT.

In this lesson we went:

🏌️ Old movement
➡️ Remove the ball
➡️ Work on the movement with the towel
➡️ Remove the training aid
➡️ Keep the new movement
➡️ Then bring the ball back

Change the movement first. Chase the result second.

Sometimes hitting fewer golf balls can actually help you improve faster. 👀

Struggling to make a swing change that just won’t stick?

📩 Drop me a message and let’s change the way you practise.

21/08/2026

🚨 NEW KIT… but it’s what’s underneath that matters 👀

The pressure mat has had an upgrade with its new personalised protective cover 🔥⛳️

But what are we actually looking at?

⚖️ 50/50 is just the starting point.

From there, every movement changes how you apply pressure into the ground — and the mat lets us SEE it happening in real time.

Shift right ➡️
Shift left ⬅️
The pressure trace follows.

This is why I love using pressure data in lessons. Instead of guessing what you think you’re doing, we can actually measure it.

Seeing is believing. Feeling it is where the change starts.

Want to see what the ground sees when YOU swing? 👀

📩 Message me to get on the pressure mat.

19/08/2026

DEEP ➡️ STEEP ❌
HIGHER ➡️ SHALLOWER ✅

Sometimes you need to take the golf ball completely out of the equation.

We used training aids to get the backswing higher and more in front, giving him a much better opportunity to shallow the club in transition.

Then the important bit…

Take the training aids away and see if the movement stays. 👀

Every swing here is into a towel.

No worrying about strike.
No worrying about ball flight.
No chasing a good shot.

Just learning the MOVE.

Change the movement first. Add the ball later. ⛳️

19/08/2026

🚨 YOUR PRESSURE SHIFT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE FORCED

3 pressure traces.
1 lesson.
A completely different movement pattern. 👀

1️⃣ BEFORE
The pressure starts to move… but then STALLS in the downswing ❌
No real flow through to the lead side.

2️⃣ THE CHANGE
We used the step-step drill to stop thinking about positions and start FEELING the flow 🔄

Step back ➡️ Step through ➡️ Swing.

Suddenly the pressure shift becomes a natural reaction rather than something he’s trying to manufacture.

3️⃣ AFTER
Back into a full swing… and look at the difference in the trace. 📈🔥

Better flow.
Better transfer.
More athletic movement.

And all of this changed IN ONE LESSON.

This is why I love using a pressure mat alongside the AiSensor app .live — you can actually SEE what you’re doing, understand what needs to change, then find the FEEL that changes it.

Seeing is believing. 👀

Think your pressure shift could be holding your swing back?
📩 Message me and come and see how the ground sees your swing.

18/08/2026

⚡ STOP TRYING TO PUSH INTO YOUR RIGHT FOOT!

This golfer was staying far too centred in the backswing and never really loading into the trail side.

The fix wasn’t to tell them to push harder into the right foot…

Instead, we changed the intention:

👉 LIGHTEN THE FRONT FOOT

By feeling the pressure come off the lead foot, the body can naturally move and load into the trail side without forcing it.

Sometimes it’s not about trying to create MORE pressure on one side…

It’s about allowing pressure to come OFF the other. 👌

🏌️ Lighten → Load → Shift → Go

Using the pressure mat and AiSensor app .live , they could actually SEE the difference — and once you can see it, it becomes much easier to understand what you need to feel.

Seeing is believing. 👀

Struggling to shift your pressure or feel stuck and centred in your swing?

📩 Drop me a message and come and see how the ground sees your swing.

10/08/2026

👀 SEEING IS BELIEVING…

Two different golfers. Two different swings. Same problem.

Both were struggling to create a proper pressure shift — and until they could actually SEE what they were doing, changing it was difficult.

Using the .live + pressure mat, we could show them exactly what was happening under their feet…

Then we changed it. 🔥

The big breakthrough?
👉 Learning to lighten the front foot in the backswing.

Once they started to feel that, shifting pressure became possible instead of trying to force it.

Both golfers used slightly different versions of my step drill to exaggerate the sensation and get the body moving more naturally.

📊 The before & after pressure traces speak for themselves.

This is why I love using pressure data in lessons.

SEE IT → FEEL IT → CHANGE IT.

Sometimes what you think you’re doing and what you’re actually doing are two completely different things.

Want to see what the ground sees in YOUR swing? 👣⛳️

📩 Message me to book a pressure mat session.

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