My Swing (straubam)

See post #2.

Hello all

I am new to posting here but have been following this site for a long time.  I have been having a problem with the hooks lately along with a couple pushes thrown in there as well.  I have tried everything from weaking the grip to only seeing 1 knuckle on the left hand to moving the ball up in my stance(have moved it back to the left instep) and am currently holding the club open a little.  I am using a callaway x-460 (yeah i know old) with a fujikura 65 grain shaft with low torque high kick stiff flex.  Any  help you guys have at all in terms of posture, alignments, swing plane, or anything else you see.

sorry for the double post don't know what happened there

another view

That camera angle is a little too close, check out this article.

http://thesandtrap.com/b/playing_tips/filming_your_swing

In the FO view your right hand is a little too strong.

The V's from your thumbs as you see in the image should be pointing somewhere between your ear and shoulder.

everythinggolf-   thanks i didn't know that at all and i will get some better views tomorrow.  thanks for the tip on the right hand

tear it up boys

If you haven't tried it already, tee the ball a little lower. When I started teeing the ball lower, my drives went straighter. I didn't lose too much distance either.

The 1st image is your setup. Notice the white lines on your head.

This is the top of your backswing and you are lifting your head up a little. Everything else looks good.

Next is the downswing, it gets worse, here you start to lift even more and fall back a little.

As a result you hit the ball off the toe of the club. The white line.

First work on your posture, trying to maintain your inclination to the ground. The more you try and take the club back the more likely you will lift your head.

thanks again i will try and work on that especially keeping the head down, and still

any training drills to help with this?

One thing I notice is that you don't move your lower body much on the down swing.  Read the "biggest secret - slide your hips" thread.  In general if you don't get your weight through or get it through late that can definitely lead to the pull hook miss.

everything golf do you think my back swing is to much?  I feel like on the backswing me right shoulder is pushing my chin up thus moving the head.  I don't have any excuse for the downswing i guess i need to put more weight on the balls of the feet.

andy

mdl   what do u think about everythings golf last picture what do you think about the hips there?  Do you think they aren't open enough???  Or not enough weight transfer???   Thanks guys i really appreciate it

You transfer your weight. Red line is address, white is impact. I had the same problem with my shoulder pushing into my chin and causing me to lift my head. One thing I did that helped was to tilt my head back alittle to alow my shoulder to rotate under my chin. When you get to the top of the backswing you start to lift your arms instead of rotating around your Inclination.

Here is a couple of image's of Anthony Kim at the top of his back swing and follow through.

The head should lower a little on the backswing, some players do it more than others.

In this image you can see how he has maintained his incination all the way to his follow through.

EverythingGolf:  I see those lines, and it's true he's not totally stationary, but does that not look like a swing with that's a little too rotationary in the upper body with less than desired weight shift?