My Swing (Rusty35)

[rusty35]

Hi Everyone, my first video that mashes a bunch of driver swings.  Looking at the swing, it is fairly obvious that I come over the top and have a left to right ball flight, though every now and then i catch one and it goes (i think the last one in this set).  What I need to do is get far more consistent off the tee to set up approach shots from the fairway.

Anyway, never took a lesson, so everything that moves or doesn't in my swing is as a result of my natural (un)giftedness.

I'd be very interested in hearing what you have to say.  cheers, rusty

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[mvmac]

Hi, welcome to the site. One thing that stands out is your shoulder alignment at address. Your feet are aimed right, your upper body is aimed well left and the knees and hips are somewhere in between. Your knees are "twisted" so far left of your feet that it causes you to set up with a fairly straight right leg. All this is kinda pre-setting yourself to come over it.

I'd check out these threads but definitely make sure to clean up the address position. Aim your feet more left and your shoulder more right. Throw a club or alignment stick on the ground to help with the feet, then try to have the shoulders parallel to the stick. Shoulders will probably feel like they're aimed 50 yards right at first.

[rusty35]

Hey thanks mvmac, amazing how those ingrained habits just go unnoticed, I started by looking at swing plane, swing length etc, but of course, start at the start!  really makes you want to pound your head on keyboard.

Anyways, took your advice to the range today.  Unfortunately, I didn't have anyone to spot me, or a camera, but I noticed the following..

1. evaluating my aim by putting down an alignment stick after taking my stance, I am pretty good at aligning my feet when I am thinking about it.  So that is good at least.
2. turning my shoulders is an odd sensation, make me feel like the left shoulder really drops down.  I did have another video from that same day, a 6i from the caddy view.  the camera wasn't very well set up, but it was good enough to show that a line through the shoulders would definitely be rising from right side thru left, so I wouldn't be surprised if that shift in shoulder alignment served to level them out.
3. I have never been so conscious of my feet, hips and shoulders at address, really a terrible feeling lol.  but what the heck, we're all trying to get better.

thanks again, I hope to have another vid soon.  cheers.

[rusty35]

should have noted one other thing, while the results of day one were predictably inconsistent, i did note that with my irons, my divots were a lot straighter, and I mean a lot!

[rusty35]

Fairly productive day at the range I think.  Pretty certain I have my alignment issues cleaned up to a pretty good degree (though some of those drivers look a little sloppy with the feet, shoulders look much better (i hope)).  here is a set of 6 iron and driver videos.  My amateur opinion at this point is that i need to get the club inside my hands at that A6 position you noted.  I probably also could use a little help getting the camera set up properly lol.