My Swing (Stretch) - Page 4

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Well, after a long layoff for injury and a minor change of location, I'm back at it. Here lobbing a couple of eight irons up towards Table Mountain. Setup has gone bad again, attachment too closed, too close to the ball at address. Have been working on hip movement, secondary axis tilt and trying not to flip. It's a journey...

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My club has had the grass end of the driving range closed for the last few weeks for reseeding and maintenance. It was so nice being able to practice off turf again that I did a little gardening!

Working on driving the club through impact and (fairly obviously, I hope?) moving the low point further in front of the ball.

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Very inconsistent with the irons right now. Timing is either there or it's not, which usually means I'm rolling/slinging through impact. Took some video today and ... yeah well.



Looks to me like the shaft is just fractionally ahead of 90 degrees right at the point of contact and the left wrist is still flat, so may not qualify as a 100% flip -- but the club head certainly passes the hands right afterward. Characteristic of a rolling release, the left arm is tight to the torso in the follow-through rather than driving ahead.

Also, arms aren't getting down nearly fast enough and I'm not extending at all through impact. On the plus side, hips are getting forward better, head is static, footwork is OK and the low point is well in front of the ball.

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Nah, you're exactly right. I've just slouched back into old, bad habits.

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Yeah, but you can't get there from here.



Finally accepted that I just can't play golf consistently with a backswing where I rotate the hell out of the wedge right at the start of the take away and end up this flat at P4. Now for the painful process of actually trying to sort it out. Many, many buckets of balls are going to suffer for these sins, I predict.

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So it's somewhere in between "blah" and "meh"? Sounds about right.

Thing is, Shanks, there's deep and then there's deep and stuck and rolled wide open. Kuchar starts off the same way I do -- breaking the wrists and rolling the club head inside under the shaft plane -- but he makes it work by 1) putting in a lot more wrist cock and 2) lifting pretty much straight up from P2 to P3. Here he is in the equivalent position to the top of my backswing.



Even if he also stopped there, he'd be in much better shape coming down because he hasn't rotated the flying wedge open so much. Of course, he then goes all the way to the actual top.



He still has to tumble a little to come right onto the plane but, as you point out, he makes it work and gets himself into nice shape to approach the ball.



From where I am at "the top" -- let's call it P3.142 -- I have to bring the right forearm down almost vertically to get the club around the corner and the face closing fast enough to be near square at impact. And even then, I roll/flip most of the time to try and shape the shot.



Anyway, I can play generally OK with it since it's not a swing that causes a lot of wild misses and, thanks to working in the S&T pattern, some of the other bits are in decent shape. My low point is in front of the ball, my hips go forward and I maintain my inclination to the ground pretty well. But I don't think I'll ever be a consistently good ball striker, and certainly not a remotely powerful one, trying to hit from here.



TL;DR -- Deep hands maybe not best thought for Stretch.