Swing Help

TheDiesel · May 10, 2020

I have had trouble developing a remotely consistent swing and am typically all over the place. I have a bad habit of watching tons of golf instruction videos to help my swing and think I have overloaded myself with too much info and wanted to try a forum for some simple straightforward advice. I was watching an instructional golf video the other day that said on the downswing the club needs to be parallel to your feet line right before impact. I went and watched some videos of my swing and noticed on my good days I get the club parallel to my feet line and usually hit it well. But, on the videos of the bad days it looked like I was bringing the club way too inside and the club was inside my feet line. I think the coming way too inside makes me have tons of misses as I feel like I can leave the face open, push the ball, hit high and right shots, hit hard and weak hooks, and get way too "flippy" at impact sometimes. I feel like it basically leads to the majority of my inconsistencies. The 2 photos of me in the green bucket hat are me coming too inside and the club not being parallel to my feet line. The 2 photos in the normal hat are me with the club parallel to my feet line and both were nice shots. Any advice on helping me get that club parallel to my feet line right before impact? Or any other advice in general? Thank you!

tthomasgolfer605 · May 11, 2020

Camera angles can distort the true path of the club. Can you post a video?

TheDiesel · May 11, 2020

Scottbox · May 11, 2020

Check your aim. I'm not saying you're aimed too far to the right, but that can happen and it affects your swing, to the extent that you're a good athlete and you'll compensate by hitting a slinger to get it back on line.Your club goes inside right off the bat, then you lift it going up to the top. Which puts you into an across-the-line position at the top. This forces you to drop your right shoulder (or pull your left shoulder up, whichever you prefer) to keep from coming over the top. That's why you have so much tilt and the club shoots out to the right. This also causes you to stand up at impact. Soooo... It'd be great for you to work on some vertical wrist hinge while your turn to keep the club on plane. The club will feel more "laid off," but it won't be. I could go through the downswing stuff, but I highly recommend spending a couple of bucks on this:

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