My Swing (TimS65)

I've been Playing Golf for: 2 years

My current handicap index or average score is: 28

My typical ball flight is: straight

The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: poor strikes from rough

Its taken a while to make my first Swing video, but I'm glad I did! Did a bit of googling yesterday and found out our camera (Nikon P510) could handle slow mo video relatively well, and I've made a "sort of" driving range at home (for SOFT balls!) so I thought I'd give it a try.

I immediately noticed a few things -

1: in general my swing was a lot better than I expected ie: backswing and downswing tend to follow a very similar path. I've been suffering from Over the Top swing issues, but concentrating on keeping my weight off my toes so I don't topple forwards seems to have helped dramatically!

2: my swing does appear to me to be very "shallow" (if that is the right term - ie: it looks to be around behind me more than up above me). Don't know if that is good or bad but it does appear to be my swing plane at the moment.

3: I sometimes don't get my hips forward enough at the start of the downswing, which may account for me hitting the ground before the ball on occasion. However when I move correctly I do appear to hit ball then ground - which is good!

4: in earlier attempts I noticed I was swinging too far and letting my left arm collapse (bend) too much at the top of the back swing. I would not have noticed this without videoing my swing, and tried to concentrate on not letting that happen later on. It looks much better in the swings I have posted...

So generally I am a LOT happier with my swing than I thought I would be! I've been really struggling for a few weeks but I think that was down to trying too many tweaks, especially with grip. I had read about Rory keeping his left thumb tight to his fingers in the grip and had been trying this out, but I think it meant I didn't have a firm enough hold of the club and was therefore losing control badly when I hit the ball. I've gone back to my original grip in these videos and after 6 holes this morning at the local  course, and things seem a lot better.

Any constructive comments appreciated!