My Swing (Xcho87)

On the driver, one thing I would say is try to stand a tad closer to the ball - seems like you are over reaching just a little.  Also, try lowering the butt of the driver to point at your belt buckle...it seems to point at your mid section. I also noticed your right leg straightening out during your back swing...perhaps this is a S&T move?  A great training tool to improve plane is the Gold Flex trainer...I have only used it a few weeks but my drives have improved greatly.

There is quite a bit of shaft lean on your PW shot...something else to experiment with.  Nice swing and follow thru though.

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Originally Posted by Hurricane 

On the driver, one thing I would say is try to stand a tad closer to the ball - seems like you are over reaching just a little.  Also, try lowering the butt of the driver to point at your belt buckle...it seems to point at your mid section. I also noticed your right leg straightening out during your back swing...perhaps this is a S&T move?  A great training tool to improve plane is the Gold Flex trainer...I have only used it a few weeks but my drives have improved greatly.

 

There is quite a bit of shaft lean on your PW shot...something else to experiment with.  Nice swing and follow thru though.

It's a move performed by the majority of good golfers. See here

http://thesandtrap.com/t/55080/myth-of-maintaining-address-flexion-in-the-rear-knee

Ok.  The video shows a marginal decrease in flexion by Milkeson.  Take a look at your swing around the 8 or 9 second point, the decrease in your flexion was very noticeable as it almost looks like your leg is locked. 

The book Swing Like A Pro studied the swings of more than 100 PGA and LPGA players.  They maintain that the right knee flexion should be the same at address to control vertical movement.  I just flipped through my S&T book and see that they recommend the opposite, ie. straightening the right knee on the back swing.  So I guess it really boils down to what works best for you.   I tried S&T and it wasn't for me.  

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Originally Posted by Hurricane 

Ok.  The video shows a marginal decrease in flexion by Milkeson.  Take a look at your swing around the 8 or 9 second point, the decrease in your flexion was very noticeable as it almost looks like your leg is locked. 

 

The book Swing Like A Pro studied the swings of more than 100 PGA and LPGA players.  They maintain that the right knee flexion should be the same at address to control vertical movement.  I just flipped through my S&T book and see that they recommend the opposite, ie. straightening the right knee on the back swing.  So I guess it really boils down to what works best for you.   I tried S&T and it wasn't for me.  

Are you referring to my swing or Xcho87? This isn't the place for it, there's 6 pages of debate over on that other thread if you want to pick up the point.

But I just wanted to make sure that Xcho87 wouldn't make the mistake of trying to keep that same address flex at the top of his backswing because it will most likely just introduce new problems. However he shouldn't be locking his right knee, but that's something totally different to maintaining address flexion.

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Originally Posted by Mordan 

 

Are you referring to my swing or Xcho87? This isn't the place for it, there's 6 pages of debate over on that other thread if you want to pick up the point.

 

But I just wanted to make sure that Xcho87 wouldn't make the mistake of trying to keep that same address flex at the top of his backswing because it will most likely just introduce new problems. However he shouldn't be locking his right knee, but that's something totally different to maintaining address flexion.

My error, i thought it was Xcho87 responding.  I'm not interested in debating anything...just wanted to point out a few things that he can try.

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Originally Posted by Hurricane 

The book Swing Like A Pro studied the swings of more than 100 PGA and LPGA players.  They maintain that the right knee flexion should be the same at address to control vertical movement.

Virtually none of the top PGA Tour players do that. That's not an opinion. Just look. Click through that thread listed above.

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Originally Posted by Hurricane 

My error, i thought it was Xcho87 responding.  I'm not interested in debating anything...just wanted to point out a few things that he can try.

You may not last very long here, then, sadly. :( We encourage questioning, debate, discussion, and exploration.

I thought the knee was OK. The hands in the iron swing start well forward but if you pause at impact the hands are fine. I like just about everything in this swing.

What does the driver do that you think needs changing? 

I forgot to add. IMHO one of the greatest and most under rated aspects of the golf swing is simplicity. It's all very well to Analyze the bejeezus out of yourself, and if you look around at lots of swings and advice on here, you'll see plenty of it. But a simple swing is repeatable and dependable, it lets you concentrate on other parts of the game. Don't be fooled into thinking your swing has to look like this or that. My point is if you can hit the nut down the middle then you can play golf to a very high level.

Your swing looks very simple and straight forward to me. The driver seems to come down the same path as it went up, hands look forward at impact,weight seems stable, power looks good. Go for it!

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Originally Posted by logman 

My point is if you can hit the nut down the middle then you can play golf to a very high level.

In other words: "If you can play golf to a very high level, you can play golf to a very high level."

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Originally Posted by iacas 

 

In other words: "If you can play golf to a very high level, you can play golf to a very high level."  

Dunno about what you mean there Erik. I'm just trying to say some people have pretty swings and some people don't. Aesthetics doesn't trump effectiveness 

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Originally Posted by logman 

Dunno about what you mean there Erik. I'm just trying to say some people have pretty swings and some people don't. Aesthetics doesn't trump effectiveness 

You said "if you can hit the nut down the middle" which is synonymous with "you can play well".

The point of analysis is not to make a swing that looks good, it's to make a swing that performs well. Not one of the 5SK is about esthetics; they're about function.