My Swing (Kasch Money)

I've been Playing Golf for: 3-4 years

My current handicap index or average score is: Just under 100

My typical ball flight is: Used to slice driver bad now it's pretty straight. If not straight I push it

The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: Still hate that slice but I think I beat it

Videos from iPhone 4s SwingReader app:

Rear view: http://www.swingreader.com/video/view/HZ5wlRRM/brian-kaschyk-driver

Side view: http://www.swingreader.com/ video/view/SqHWgRYv/brian- kaschyk-driver

Thanks for the input

Hey Kasch, I am not very good at analyzing swings and have my own huge issues, so take it for a grain of salt!  That said, the 1 thing I can see is how far off the ball your hips appear to sway in your backswing.  I was always taught to imagine my spine was staked into the ground like a pole.  You want to rotate around a pole and try to maintain that spine angle.

I am sure others will have better commentary.  Good luck!

Hey Kasch,

unfortunately, I do not have any constructive criticism on your swing as Im a newbie myself. However, I noticed that you said you used to have a bad slice, I am wondering what are some of the techniques you used to fix it?

I have a bad slice myself.

I am no where near good at this game, but there are a couple things that just stick right out to me. The main thing is that your back swing is faster than your swing, which doesn't do much in the way of going solidly through the ball. Slow your backswing down, it doesn't help to do that part quickly. Also, I think you might have some plane issues. It seems like your are having to lift the club up quite a bit in your backswing, rather than allowing the club to effortlessly float up by rotating it with your shoulders. I have a hard time explaining that second part but my instructor pointed it out in my lesson today and I immediately hit some flush shots as soon as I started working on this.

I'm sure there will be people post who can better address your swing. Good luck!

I had a revelation one day while swinging the club in my backyard about what an inside to outside swing is. I knew you are supposed to swing in to out but the concept didn't click for me. When I first started playing I had a bad slice and was always trying to over correct it by aiming left etc. As part of this process I was trying to hit the ball left. Even when I was able to close or square the club face on contact I was still slicing because the club was striking the ball from right to left (I'm right handed). This was causing a clockwise spin on the ball resulting in the slice. I could tell I had a square club face at impact because the ball went straight for 150 yds or so before diving to the right. Now I actually picture myself striking the ball from left to right. One would think the ball would go right but if the club face is square it usually goes straight for me. I do sometimes push it right but in those worst case times I'm usually playing from the right side of the fairway or the near right rough. I used to play my shots from the fairway of the hole to the right. When I realized what an in to out swing was I started hitting 90% of them straight almost immediately. My goal now is to close the club face slightly more while swinging in to out in order to get a draw.

The few times I see my slice reappear I remind myself to slow down my swing and try to keep my upper right arm connected to my body/hip. Starting my swing by turning my left hip helps keep my swing inside to out. My major problem now is that while my driver is straight all the stuff I did to fight my slice has caused me to pull or hook my irons.

With a name like "KASH MONEY" you better start living up to the hype!

Your head movement is pretty busy.  I'm no teacher or even a low handicapper, but if there are just a handful of hard and fast rules in maintaining a solid swing, one of them is keeping the head still.  Another poster mentioned that your swing is "too fast", or at least the backswing or something like that.  You might want to try not accelerating your swing so fast from the approach.  I mean, if you force any part of your body to move from a dead position to "as fast as possible", it's going to be hard to keep your head still, balance in check, and eye on the ball.

Yeah the name is kinda a sarcastic joke.