My Swing (JamesIndy)

I've been Playing Golf for: 15-20 years (only a handful of times a season, till this year)

My current handicap index or average score is: 25

My typical ball flight is: Slice. Starts straight at first then a wicked slice.

The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: Slice

I really appreciate any and all help. I've decided I wanna stop hacking and actually get good at this game (or decent anyway). Today was a particularly awful day at the range whereas 9 our of 10 shots were awful slices. When I went last week by the end of my session I was hitting 8 out of 10 irons pretty much straight, and about half my drives were straight. Today I was just awful across the board.

Videos: All videos starts out full speed then I added a 33% speed at the end.

Driver - Down the line

Driver - Front

5 Iron - Down the line

5 Iron - Front

Wow. I knew I was doing something drastically wrong, and I appreciate you painting the picture for me. Really gives me something to work on. I'm kind of amazed I was even able to make consistent contact with the ball this year after looking at those pictures. I'll give it a shot and let you know how to it goes.

I practiced a bunch in the mirror today. I had read about a starting move of slightly tilting my right knee towards my left knee before taking the club away, works great to stop me from swaying away from target and make me rotate around my spine, I  was keeping head super still in mirror. Then I was at Golfsmith today and hit a bunch of balls on the machiine. Oooof, wasn't pretty. Slice was still there, but not as pronounced. But I couldnt make consistent contact at all, before i could 95% of time but now not so much. I guess this will just take more practice to get the feel. Maybe ill need to tape myself again to see what other fault this change may have brought along.

So I have a few new videos.  With my driver my outrageous slice is still there, but with my irons and 3 wood its not, which is confusing to me especially when you see my driver video compared to my 3 wood video from today below. I feel like I  am getting my lower body more forward at impact with my driver more than my 3 wood, yet my 3 wood is going straight fairly often where my driver is a bad slice 9 out of 10 times. I also feel like I have greatly minimized the backward sway I used to have in the original post in this thread with both clubs. I think I definitely still need to get my lower body through earlier, I know its better but I have a ways to go, its just hard to break that habit. Any and all advice on how to fix this slice is greatly appreciated.

Driver -Front

Driver- Down the line

3 Wood Front

3 Wood - down the line

Thanks, appreciate it. Loved the post on drawing the ball.

After looking at both videos, while I improved somewhat with my hips and weight forward, my swing still looked very similar and my weight was definitely not forward enough. Gonna have to work real hard on breaking the habit and changing the picture as you say.

I've been practicing changing the picture in my yard. I've been able to accomplish most of it, even at full speed now. I definitely am keeping my hips from swaying back and getting my weight forward at impact. But it's created a different problem. My head starts moving forward on the downswing. It's steady on the backswing but by A5 to A6 my head moves forward by almost half my head's width, so say 3 inches or so and stays at that point through impact. I've tried concentrating on keeping it steady but it doesn't seem to work when i correctly shift my weight forward. Any tips on keeping the head steady while doing a correct weight transfer?

I would say more similar to the image on the right, but I don't have as much torso tilt. But a picture will probably be much more helpful: