My Swing (Timastyle)

Hey TommyBoy and thanks for the advice. As I accidentally posted in your blog, I feel like I'm mostly arms which could lead to the early wrist action. It looks like to me, that I'm looping on the downswing rather than swinging down on the ball. I don't feel like I have enough hip action on the downswing and my hands have me letting my wrist go early. Any drills on how I can focus on not letting my wrists go early?

My first thought would be to work on getting the break locked a little earlier in the backswing...then get the feeling of the wrists being locked at the top instead of "bouncing". I've seen a lot of great players complete the wrist break by the time the arms are parallel. Address the ball, start your backswing and take it back to when you feel the tension of a full wrist break and stop. See where you are. Even if it a little higher than parallel that's okay. Just get the feel for that position. get that feeling ingrained. Now, work on maintaining that feeling and tension for the remainder of the backswing AND the downswing. Fight the urge to let it go! When I start to swing from the top...I get that wrist break set and look back over my shoulder. Then I move the club up and down and again just to get that feeling of that locked position. I don't really know how to explain it better right now..

Did you look at both videos? To me, the first link, I'm not taking the club too far back on the backswing. A buddy of mine even commented that it almost looked like I was only taking it 3/4 of the way through. I'll have to read this again to see if I understand what you are trying to explain tomorrow. All I know is I need to fix this problem stat. Probably will get my first lesson ever tomorrow or Saturday.

Ok, I read it again and this is the part that confuses me I think. I got the part of getting the wrists locked early on the backswing and keeping it at the top. Where I get a little confused is the "I get that wrist break set and look back over my shoulder". You don't mean on my actual swing right? You're talking about just practicing this right? Also, what do you mean by moving the club up and down? Do you mean just repeating it to get the feel for it? Do you do this at regular/moderate speed or do you do this in slow motion?

Well I was planning on laying it out there that I don't want to overhaul it right now, just help getting it fixed so that I can make a proper swing. Then I would go back to him after the trip for more lessons.

I'm not hooking it at all right now. My shots are either straight, pull, fade, shank, and slice (last one with a driver). I wonder if the camera angle makes it seem as though I'm standing too close. The reason I say this is that when I stand further away from the ball, I keep catching the ball thin, basically every time. I've recently started rereading Ben Hogan's 5 Fundamentals and incorporated some of the stuff (grip, stance, etc) and that's when my swing started slowly going to crap. It wasn't really an overnight thing. I'm wondering if that had anything to do with it. I will try tinkering with ball placement and see what happens.

This was the first time I played this course and will definitely be the last. I'm not sure how much, if any, of my GIRs contributed to this, but the fairways were mostly soft dirt and patches of actual fairways. I have never seen a course in such terrible shape. The greens themselves were kept up fairly well though.

That's what I need to start doing. I think too much about too many things at the range. I need to go with the KISS (keep it simple stupid) mentality.

I think I got what you're saying and I should be good with one. I'll be picking a couple sticks up today after work on my way to the range.