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I'm trying to work something out mentally and if anybody has any thoughts to help me figure this out... great!

A few months prior I took a lesson with a great teacher (a friend of Grant Waite) and the few things he really tried to get me to do was to move the ball way up in stance (like 7 iron at my left heel) and get the weight moving forward.  My issues prior to seeing him were hitting it fat (almost sounds cliche), inconsistency (cliche as well) and shanking it.  On video all my shanks were because my path was too shallow into the ball (I actually drop the club in transition).

So I've been working on these things, but on my own , I really wanted to understand them (an hour lesson is too short in my opinion).

I've been thinking that if there is a semi circle arc on the ground "my" swing's arc is a little farther forward thus for "me", getting my ball position more forward would prevent the shank?  Is that a reasonable conclusion?  So the top of my arc is further forward than most?  Like Jack?  (Haha).

As for the other arc (the one that is on some kind of swing plane (I'm not an expert in this stuff)) should be the one that determines the low point of the swing.  So moving my weight forward should move this arc... right?

If so... why are a lot of my swings still bottoming out early?  It's not all of them... but enough to cause me irritation to say the least.  I've had 90% of my weight forward, doing the pump drill so I don't cast at the ball.. and still... 50% of the time my divot is almost at the ball... not in front.

Am I thinking correctly about this?  The shank is not an issue anymore.  I'm tempted just to move my ball back in my stance but doing this causes shanks again.  Thoughts?

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