New 9-3 vid, comments..

[milesgiles]

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0oCjQaA68A

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ubd4qa3Dnhk

trying to get this right while locked down! Thoughts?

[milesgiles]

Trying to turn steeper and earlier over a flexed right knee, then lead with right hip and shoulder from the top.. anything obvious you would change? Been doing this about 40 mins a day for the three weeks we’ve been locked indoors, better make sure it’s right..

[milesgiles]

Anyone? Lol

[Deuce3]

Ok, I'll bite, but keep in mind I'm not a golf instructor. Looks like your right arm gets narrow quickly on the backswing - likely pulling your arms across the chest but not turning the torso. You're at P2 before the chest moves. On the downswing the lower and upper body move at the same time, which causes your lower body to stop turning and hands stall out and flip prior to impact.

Recommend searching for "Larry Cheung Golf Half Swing" on YouTube. He has multiple videos on the 9-to-3 move. Good luck!

[highpro]

well, you’re not really turning in the backswing. Even in a 9-3 I would still expect to see something very close to a 90 degree shoulder turn. After that, it would certainly appear to me that you have little or no pressure shift in your swing. You need to learn to shift your body and your pressure to the target beginning in the backswing. Check out some of the athletic motion golf weight & pressure stuff. Get way more left way earlier.

[milesgiles]

^^ thanks both

thats me TRYING to focus on turning shoulders early lol..going to keep working on that. As far as I understood Jim Hardy the chest and hips unwind together, no?

I made an immediate improvement last year by keeping my right foot flatter on the downswing, not raising my heel and keeping my weight more centred..I’ll have to mull that one over..

[golfing_penguin]

What would happen if you shift backswing focus from shoulders turning back early, to ribcage turning back early?

[milesgiles]

The issue there is that my natural shoulder plane is very flat, so for the drill I’m trying to be aware of my left shoulder crossing over my left foot, not in front of it.. if that makes sense?

[mikpga]

Why are you trying to keep your trail knee flexed?

[hammersia]

I don’t really believe in the 9-3 drill as I think it leads you down a path of believing in some mystical learning of timing of rotation and release. I would focus more on “throwing the club” down the line which makes you concentrate on impact conditions.

[CupCup]

You backswing likes like all arms...

[milesgiles]

Started a similar thread a while back and that was the consensus, to turn over a flexed right knee, amongst other things. Unless I misunderstood..

[sprcoop]

No 9 to 3 thread would be complete without this. Can't believe it took this long!

 

 

[mikpga]

I would look take a look at a lot of the players on any tour and observe what their trail leg does.

 

Does the flex in the trail knee stay maintained, or does it tend to extend?

 

Then consider what you observe and ask yourself why you see what you see...

[milesgiles]

^ im taking luke Donald as a swing to aim for, yes he straightens his right leg on the backswing but not completely? I read in one description of the 9-3 that the right hip should rise.. I don’t know why?

[highpro]

in any good swing you begin with your shoulders and hips roughly level, I know the right shoulder will be lower but just stay with me, roughly level and tilted forward to the ground. At the top of the swing the right hip and right shoulder should be higher and the left hip and shoulder should be lower, having worked down towards the ball. Then the positions reverse, at impact, or shortly thereafter, the right hip and shoulder will be lower, having worked down toward the ball, and the left hip and shoulder will be higher.

a drill I like to have students do is to put a club across your chest at shoulder height such that the shaft is running just underneath your collar bone and touching both shoulder sockets with the grip of the club to your left. Then take a set up posture. From there, turn So that the grip points down to the ball. Then (without unwinding) shift towards the target so you feel all your “weight” in your left foot. Then, without allowing your “weight” to go back to your right foot, turn and point the club head at the ball. This is roughly where you should be just after impact. Then point the club head at the target. This will give you a feel for the shift and pivot.

[MK7Golf21]

trail leg will have some flex but you don't have to think about keeping any, your on the extreme end of keeping trail leg flex in the backswing and you turn very little as a result but this is also a wedge.

[Zitlow]

When you walk you're balanced on the leg that's extended. In the golf swing the same principle applies. As he steped to his right foot his right leg/knee extended and he was balanced on his right leg and hip.

Also, he didn't swing the club on the 9 to 3 static baseline. If you do that you'll be in a constant state of recovery from the get go.

[milesgiles]

Thanks, yep got it will work on that

[milesgiles]

Sorry don’t understand the second bit what is the ‘static baseline’ ?

[Zitlow]

The target line. Instead of swinging on the static plane established at address Austin swung on a dynamic plane, as he turned his plane turned with him.

[Hilts1969]

I spend a lot of time swinging in a lounge similar to yours and you have to be careful it can mess you up coming into and post impact. It’s easy to end up with a slow armsy scoop of a swing. Those ceilings and sofas can sub consciously play on your mind. I managed to let is all go once and the club head battered into the ceiling. Luckily I tried to slow it down at the death and didn’t cause any damage.

I use a 60 degree wedge because I know it can’t touch the ceiling in the backswing and I put 3 cushions in front of the clubhead sometimes with a foam ball there sometimes not. You can swing a lot faster. As others have said that right arm is a problem too narrow too bent. If you have an alllignment stick while you are stuck indoors I would do the iteach drill where you brush it down your left leg. It pretty much fool proof for getting in a decent back swing position.

[milesgiles]

Thanks I’ll look at that drill

gripping down on a wedge I can swing full speed at a plastic ball no problem. I don’t put a mat down either as I like to feel I’m sweeping without a divot(just a personal preference)