Maverick McNealy's Golf Swing Evolution and Injury Recovery

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00:00And we actually ripped a video from Scott Hamilton's Instagram.

00:04This was you working with him, I believe, was it yesterday?

00:07Yes, it was yesterday.

00:08So we're going to get into a little bit of your injury history.

00:12But the text I got from Scott Hamilton

00:16when asking about you, Maverick, was your shoulder injury,

00:21how it kind of happened.

00:23Your swing got like the face got open and the club got underneath.

00:27And now you are trying to work on just hitting hitting a fade.

00:30I mean, was that something that you did in collegiate golf and early pro golf?

00:35Like, have you always seen fade?

00:38So it was.

00:41I give the kind of 30,000 foot view of my golf swing.

00:44And it makes everything kind of make sense.

00:45In college, I was very much over the plane

00:50and kind of steep and left.

00:52And I would always try and hit draws and they'd always come out like little fades.

00:55I wasn't a great driver of the ball.

00:58I think that was partly equipment related.

01:02Started working with Butch

01:05and that really turned around my driving a lot more dynamic move.

01:09And that's, you know, what got me on to the PGA tour there

01:12and allowed me to compete and drive a good drive.

01:15What do you mean, dynamic move?

01:17What was the dynamic move you're talking about?

01:19It's just a lot more hip turn, shoulder turn and a better weight transfer.

01:24You know, you look at those early, early videos of Tiger.

01:26That guy rotates a ton and really just increasing

01:30that rotational speed helped me a lot.

01:34So you were hanging back a little bit.

01:35Is that what you're kind of saying there?

01:38Staying on my left side a little bit

01:40and more than anything, got ahead of the ball.

01:44And when you get ahead of the ball, I had to back up through it.

01:48So that kind of happened that I got a lot stronger, gained a lot of speed,

01:53worked out a bunch.

01:54And unfortunately, I started to get really underneath

01:59and that club got really under the plane, stuck behind my hands.

02:02And the way I'd shallow from being ahead of the ball and under the plane

02:06was to back up out of it harder and jam my left shoulder up and in.

02:11And it was twenty, twenty

02:15two at Pebble on the

02:19thing is a 70 at Monarch Peninsula.

02:21There was like an hour backup because there's always a backup on that team.

02:25That's a tough part. Three, two.

02:27It's like always like a four iron to that back left pin or maybe left.

02:31It's always on the left side.

02:32It is. And I really wish I had a four iron because I sat there waiting for,

02:36you know, almost an hour.

02:37Like it's cold. You get tight.

02:39And I think I tried to smash a five because at that point, I wasn't.

02:44You know, when you're way underneath and flip in the face,

02:46it's not comfortable to to hit a nice little soft hold off.

02:50And yeah, so I try to rip the five.

02:53I felt something weird in my shoulder.

02:55And then by the 10th hole, it felt like someone was sticking a knife in my chest

03:00every time I took a backswing and I tore the ligament

03:03that connects my collarbone to my sternum and try to play through it.

03:07A bunch golf is hard and it's really hard when you're hurt.

03:11And I realized that I wasn't doing any favors for myself at the point.

03:14At that point, I was 28 in the FedEx Cup, like having a great year.

03:18You had like six top 15 or something.

03:21Like it was almost like the you know, you're finally

03:25really like trending towards a win.

03:27Like so that had to be so deflating, right?

03:30A little bit. I was number one on tour putting.

03:32I was getting more than a stroke around putting.

03:34So I was just making everything up.

03:36You're just hooping. Yeah, I was just hooping.

03:38It wasn't like I was maxing out everything I could out of my golf game,

03:41especially when I was hurt.

03:44And then, you know, I still see Butch and talk with a bunch,

03:49go hit some with him every once in a while.

03:51But I kind of, you know, he's

03:55the best to do it ever, but he just doesn't travel as much.

03:58And I don't see him as much.

03:59And I started spending a bunch of time with Scotty Hamm

04:03and got on a 3D with him in Cartersville.

04:06And he's like, yeah, I mean, the way your left shoulder is working,

04:08of course, your shoulder is going to hurt.

04:10So he really wanted to get this left shoulder

04:11working down and around as opposed to up and in.

04:15And it kind of floated me the idea of hitting cuts.

04:18And I was like, you know, how I see his draws now.

04:20I've been hitting draws for six years and

04:24coincidentally not been hitting it very good.

04:26But eventually I kind of took my medical PRP done

04:31and used that to kind of rework my golf swing,

04:35retool my golf swing to get the swing direction from,

04:39you know, way right to significantly left.

04:42And and so the phase started.

04:45It started to come out the joint for you.

04:47It did not initially, but eventually.

04:50And like, you know, I talk six degrees of swing direction.

04:54That's like a mountain in terms of golf golfers feels like.

04:58Yeah, that's the difference between a 15 yard draw and a five yard fade,

05:02which is huge. And

05:05so that's kind of where we went with it.

05:07My brother Scout's been catty for me the last couple of weeks.

05:10And Jackson, he was like, yeah, we get it going

05:14really good Monday through Wednesday, but then Thursday through Sunday,

05:18we start to see more and more of these kind of push draws,

05:20which turned into pushes, which turned to blocks.

05:24And he's like, we need to be hitting like steep,

05:28you know, scuzzy cuts Monday through Wednesday

05:31so that when you get up on the tee on Thursday, you feel right.

05:35So that was another kind of breakthrough.

05:38But yeah, that's just kind of what we've done.

05:41We just move the swing direction left.

05:44I'm hitting down on it more.

05:45That's what Scottie says.

05:46We compress it just like, you know, going shallow to steep

05:49as opposed to, you know, steep a couple of ways and shallow late.

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