What do you think of my swing?

[costarichie]

Recently have been striking the ball a bit cleaner after using Clay Ballard's stable and fluid spine videos on Youtube.

 

My HCP is 11.

 

What should I be working on?

 

Thanks!

 

 

[costarichie]

I have been able to make some slow motion videos of the swing where it is easier to see.

 

 

It seems to me like I have inside takeaway, I am hinging my wrists too early and my hands aren't high enough. Can anyone confirm this?

[LeoLeo99]

> @costarichie said:

> I have been able to make some slow motion videos of the swing where it is easier to see.

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> It seems to me like I have inside takeaway, I am hinging my wrists too early and my hands aren't high enough. Can anyone confirm this?

 

I don't know about the early wrist hinge but I see inside takeaway and low hands, too. I'm not disagreeing about the early wrist hinge, I just don't see it and know if that's a problem.

 

My advice is to not make any changes unless it's with someone that knows what they're doing. You have to correct the root cause of these things and if you try to piece meal it, you could end up worse than when you started.

 

You don't need to upload slow motion video. You can hit the star wheel on a youtube video to slow it down.

[Moonlightgrm]

The club face fans open on your backswing. At the top of your swing, the toe of the club points downward, which means the face is wide open. You compensate for this by rapid face rotation through impact. If you look at the frame after impact, your left hand has already been covered by your right hand. If you didn’t do this, you’d lose everything to the right. Your aggressive release is a byproduct of the open club face. I would work on having a square club face at the top and calming your hands a little bit through the impact zone. You’ll become a more consistent ball striker.

[costarichie]

Thanks for the feedback.

I've been working on fixing the inside takeaway but now am losing balls right which I haven't done in awhile, have been fighting hook.

Will work this week on keeping the clubface square in the backswing.

[mschantz]

I'm not a coach but I recently worked with one. You're doing some of things I was.

 

Takeaway--inside way too early, which is opening your club face. I think you're also off swing plane here. Try taking it straight back and when the club is parallel to the ground the head should be tilted a little to the left to match the angle of your spine. Or to about 11 o'clock. A drill that worked for me is first dragging a towel along the floor with each hand separately, making sure to keep your hands ahead (or to your right) of the towel as you drag it. Then use a club keeping your hands again to the right of the club head. Basically, you want to lightly drag the club backwards about 18 inches before it comes off the ground. This felt very strange to me but it was easy to get.

 

Upswing - when the shaft is perpendicular to the ground (and a little further up) have you right palm facing behind you. Essentially your left hand's position wont have changed since the beginning of the takeaway. This keeps the face closed.

 

At the top: it appears your club head is off plane. This was one of my problems. The shaft should be a straight extension from the left arm. It looks to me like your shaft has crossed over and gotten closer to you. Think of an overhead photo of you at the top of your backswing. It appears to me that the shaft would be angled inward toward you from your left arm rather than being straight. Also, your left wrist is is heavily cupped, meaning it's being bent backwards when it should be flat or slight bent the other way. You start cupping your wrist during the takeaway.

 

Downswing: I think you're releasing too soon. In other words, there's not enough lag. You may already know this, but that 90 degree angle made by the shaft and your left arm holds a LOT of power. You're losing that angle before the club is parallel to the ground (casting) and therefore leaking power early that won't go into the ball.

 

Your swing is almost identical to what mine was. That's why I offer these comments, hoping they might help you.

 

Try taking a shorter backswing until you're on the right plane at the top. I included a photo of me at a lesson with my coach that shows how the club should be aligned with the left forearm when it's in plane at the top (you can, of course, turn more to make it deeper but the shaft never angles off). Also look at my left hand and wrist. Then look at yours at the top.

 

The good news is that your swing can be easily fixed. I believe most swing problems begin in the takeaway. You will need to drill yourself to get more lag into your swing (holding on the angle longer). I tried many drills and so forth. The thing that helped me was an Orange Whip (and it helps with much more) and release drills.

 

You'll get this.

 

 

 

[Moonlightgrm]

For future videos, your down the line view should have the camera placed along your toe line, parallel to your target line. The camera angle you’ve used in your DTL video creates a parallax which gives the impression that you’re bringing the club too far inside. This may not be the case. Just a few inches in camera angles can distort what’s truly happening.

[costarichie]

Thanks for the feedback.

I'm working hard on the inside takeaway will post some updates in a couple weeks.

Regarding camera angles, my feet line is not the same as my target line, this is my path line, that's how I setup for a draw. As I'm getting used to the angles I will reign it in.

[jhaw]

Check out ‘lagging club head takeaway’ and ‘extensor action’ from the golfing machine stuff. You could add these two components and would help a lot