Impact position is awful....

Have been trying everything for what feels like a lifetime....no improvement at all at impact. any tips are appreciated.

You call it awful, but it is not obvious what you dislike about it.

This is true. My bad. There is zero shaft lean at impact, and obviously my distance is severely compromised. I hit an 8 iron 140-ish??? My ball contact is also very poor and very inconsistent. Hit it both fat and thin.

Its very simple. You early extend.

More or less impossible to get shaft lean if you EE.

Off course you didn’t spend a life time trying...

Look at your spine angle at impact. All your shaft lean disappears because you change that angle. It leads to your EE & why you tend to have inconsistent strikes.

Any good drills to stop? Seen a few online....

Stand on just your front leg. Take a swing while keeping your balance. That should force you to keep your spine centered instead of letting it fall back.

Few thoughts from a fellow random player.
1) Your grip is too strong. One of the contributors to your flip. Hands are positioned in a way that they can hold off the club or flip. Can't allow any forearm rotation without shutting the club. You need a grip where the V's point in that yellow box range.
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2) You need a different synchronization with your pivot. Hands need so stay in front of the body. Use this stick drill to start get a feel of that. Start with chips, then half swings, then full swings. Don't let the alignment stick hit you. It will, once you flip.
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There is no simple answer to get better impact position. It's a result of many things. Easier to do a drill like above, to give you a way to feel what is closer to what you want, than telling you 15 things to change in your swing. I would start there if I were you. @glk is the man for further drills. If you ask him nicely, he might recommend a few more things.

Thank you for a detailed tip, very appreciated.

Most the advise you have recieved is not going to help you. For example: "your grip is too strong".. The tour is loaded with string grip players with a lot of forward shaft at impact, in fact the handle has to be further ahead with a strong grip to ensure a squarish face angle at impact.

Your real issue begins in transition with your lower body. Your left knee does not clear and get out of the way like it should, causing your hips to be underrotated at impact. As a result, you have to lose your spine angle (early extension) and slow your arms to make room for the club pass in order to hit the sweet spot.

When your clear that left knee correctly to start the downswing, your hips will clear early, causing your swing plane to shallow while causing your hands to have room to stay ahead if the clubhead through impact. You compress the ball more consistently and probably see a significant distance increase.

Golf watch George Gankas in YouTube... He seems to focus on the exact issue you have more than any modern swing coaches.

DM me if you want any more analysis

Best

Colton

It's not a complicated issue: Turn your hips more and allow your hands to get much deeper. Feel like you set the club (earlier would be good), then your hands travel to just above your shoulders. It'll feel hella flat, but it won't be. At the top, you should just about be able to draw a vertical line from your heels to your hands. Right now, you limit your hip turn, which doesn't help your shoulder turn, and at left arm parallel in the backswing, you just lift your hands to the top. If you want to keep from coming over the top, the only way to compensate is by dropping your arms too far behind you, which causes your back shoulder to drop, which leads to the slide. Slide= early extension.

The Dan Carraher drill above is fine, but definitely work on feeling flatter hands and turning your right butt cheek back and towards the target. All this will give you much more room to swing more out and less down.

Worked on squatting down to start downswing, not sure this is helping or not. Any tips are appreciated.

I'm no pro just a hacker so take this with a grain of salt. Your swing does not s--t the bed. Very athletic.

other folks have mentioned hips. In slo mo, face on, you seem to start the downswing by shifting your hips forward first.

Try concentrating on starting the down turn by turning the hips , not shifting forward.

To get that feel, Set up, facing a wall with your head touching the wall, no club, arms folded. Concentrate on starting the downswing with the hips turning not swaying. Then do it with your butt touching the wall. If you turn your hips, you won't slide on the wall.

Practicing without a ball is also helpful. You'll just concentrate on the move you are working on, not where the ball goes.

Too much lateral movement in transition . Once the outside of your left hip moves beyond your left heel , you run out of range of motion to rotate.

First try the simple way to get more rotation , flare out your left foot more towards the target .

Second, even though more hip rotation at impact should improve forward shaft lean, you also need to RETRAIN  your wrists to have more forward shaft lean at impact. You do this via short/1/4to 1/2 speed swings in which you consciously maintain the angle of your right wrist through impact.