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antney79 Established Member

antney79

OK, I have two different lessons from two different pros over the past 12 months.

one pro is telling me to take my back swing on a more level/flatter plane, but I constantly have problems with keeping the club face open at impact. At the top of my backswing my club face is almost open to the sky, but it is still in line with my left arm.

The other pro wants me to pick up the club on a steeper plan, he says take your right thumb and point it into your right ear (right hand golfer) to get me the feeling of getting the club higher. This works a little better for me, but this is new so I am not comfortable with this.

I have always had a problem getting through the ball at impact, the pro that wants me to go steeper said with the flatter back swing I was able to slow it down through impact, where as the steeper backswing makes the club head speed increase making it very difficult to slow it at impact and hit the ball rather than through the ball.

What are your thoughts on this, steeper or flat backswing?

In my Bag:

Driver- Launcher Driver 9.5 Loft, Stiff Shaft
Woods- G2 3- Wood
Hybrid- Halo 2 Iron G10 3 Iron HybridIrons- 4- Pitching i10Wedges- 52, 56 and 60 Degree RACPutter- 2 Ball

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powerfader Established Member

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I think you should pick one instructor and sign up to their ideas wholeheartedly. Just look at the pga tour on tv and you'll see there are plenty of ways to skin a cat; while there certainly is a "text-book" way of swinging a club, some of the greatest players deviate massively from that model. In general I would advise you to have an upright plane if you're a tall guy, or a shallow plane if you're a slightly dimunutive golfer like myself.

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R7 Draw, stiff Exsar FS2
F-50 3-wood, stiff Exsar FS2
F-50 5-wood, stiff Exsar FS2 MP-60 3-PW, reg TT dynamic gold MP Tour Style 54.10 and 60.09,reg TT dynamic gold Bobby Grace DCT Response, w/ golf pride "2 thumb" grip B330S

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