Been playing golf for 4 years... Swing progress!

[YouDaHamHider]

Hi all, my phone alerted me to the fact that I had my first golf lesson 4 years ago today! First swing is 4 yeas ago, second swing is today. Gotten down to 5 with the help of mainly AMG videos and Monte Scheinblum premium videos. Also help from folks on this forum. In particular @Valtiel who's comments on all videos I think are excellent. I'd love to get to 4 by the end of the year, any suggestions for what to work on for the next few months would be greatfully recieved. Cheers. 

[LegendJeff]

Wow great improvements. Your swing looks efficient and smooth now. 

[JBEIE]

Looks great. World of difference. What's the change to your scoring? 

[YouDaHamHider]

3 hours ago, JBEIE said:

Looks great. World of difference. What's the change to your scoring? 

Cheers! I was getting around 27 over par with first swing. With second swing shoot 5 over par +/- 2 shots most rounds. 

[Valtiel]

Agreed with the above guys, it's pretty hilarious how different those two swings are. If I was paired with the "old" you in a scramble i'd be thinking "oh god, how are we going to use ANY of this guy's shots?" whereas the "new" you looks like the guy that gets you in the fairway consistently and frees up the bombers to do their thing, which IMO is the most important guy in a scramble (you, not the bombers). 

Can you give a rundown of what your normal shots and misses are? Just looking at it on the surface i'd imagine you maybe get a little hooky when you're off? Your swing looks nice and compact/repeatable, but maybe a little quick and a little inside? Nothing egregious at all, but you have to start digging into the minutia more and more when trying to improve in the single digit range. Excellent work so far though, more than impressive on its own, let alone considering where you started. 👍 

[YouDaHamHider]

7 minutes ago, Valtiel said:

Agreed with the above guys, it's pretty hilarious how different those two swings are. If I was paired with the "old" you in a scramble i'd be thinking "oh god, how are we going to use ANY of this guy's shots?" whereas the "new" you looks like the guy that gets you in the fairway consistently and frees up the bombers to do their thing, which IMO is the most important guy in a scramble (you, not the bombers). 

Can you give a rundown of what your normal shots and misses are? Just looking at it on the surface i'd imagine you maybe get a little hooky when you're off? Your swing looks nice and compact/repeatable, but maybe a little quick and a little inside? Nothing egregious at all, but you have to start digging into the minutia more and more when trying to improve in the single digit range. Excellent work so far though, more than impressive on its own, let alone considering where you started. 👍 

Thanks Valtiel, you're right that I have a snap hook in me every once in a while (or a high block), normally when I'm trying to really send one on a par 5. I also have one or two mid iron shots a round where I catch the ball too far towards the toe and have to scramble for par. I had an online video review with Monte a couple of months ago and at the time I was told I had no wrist hinge (Gruff Monte voice: "Gotta hinge the wrists, end of story"). He also told me that I was working my hips all wrong, as in I was moving left hip towards ball in backswing and right hip towards ball in downswing, he said what I needed to work on was right hip away from ball in backswing and left hip away from ball in downswing. Been working on that at the range and have twice shot my lowest ever rounds since so the work has been paying off.