Driver Video

Club comes back far too much to the inside. I actually think it could stand to be more upright and more to the outside.

And that's about all the analysis one can really do of a YouTube video. Good golly I hate YouTube videos. Frame by frame? Ha, good luck getting 30 frames at a time.

First: Setup is "okay." Arms might be a little more hanging and a little less bent.
Second: Hips not turned through as much as they could be. Right heel way off the ground. Spine angle is somewhat consistent though, but also look at the arms - not fully extended again.
Third: Club way, way too far behind ya...
Fourth: ... which leads to this.

You should submit your video to Swing Check.

The swing has some fairly severe flaws.

He doesn't go far past parallel - he's across the line, pointing WAY too far right of target.

Is anyone actually watching the video?

I'm not trying to dump on DD here, and his flaws are probably fairly easy to fix, but there are flaws and they're pretty obvious. DDB - you should still take some more videos and submit them to Swing Check.

No denying that, and again I don't mean any disrespect to you or DD about it. I just want to make sure the obvious flaws are made obvious to everyone, and I doubt DD was posting here so everyone would go "oooh, nice." He was probably posting so that we could point out the things he could improve on.

It's good of you to point out the good, too, so he makes sure he holds onto that. I tend not to comment on tempo personally because it's different for everyone, but I'm glad you have.

Do you contradict yourself a bit here? I must not quite get what you're saying. I'm not trying to judge someone based on their handicap - I think everyone that posts a swing video wants to improve, so the handicap is somewhat irrelevant to that.

I don't think DD posted here so everyone could go "ooh, nice." I also don't personally care for how "pretty" something is, because that's subjective. What's generally not subjective is what "good" positions are in the golf swing. Sure you can debate the nuances, and there's always a Jim Furyk or someone who is different, but in general an effective golf swing is an effective golf swing. Pretty is a different beast entirely. To that, my swing may very well be uglier than his (perhaps because my tempo isn't what you like to see), and I have a feeling DD would like to improve. I think that if he fixes the way, way inside takeaway and the way, way over the line (horizontally, not vertically) that causes, he'll become a better player. That single change may shave his index two strokes, because he may eliminate the one or two bad drives he probably typically has per round due to the flaw. I hope not to have come across as just being argumentative here - my goal here has been to not only help DD out, but like we do with our full Swing Checks, to point out the flaws so that others can learn, too, if they take their own videos or whatever. In general, that sort of takeaway and position at the top is "less good" than what DD or anyone else should strive for. Anyway, I think I'm talking myself into a little confusion here. I think with a little work DD could shave two strokes. His swing is fairly good, but he has a noticeable flaw that can be fixed by fairly small tweak. He should work on getting the club to parallel his foot line at both horizontals (partway back on his backswing, and at the top of his backswing).