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I don't love all of those. Your face was super shut on the Day 1 stuff. Your right elbow bent too much on the Day 3 stuff. Your club was low across your chest (and angled down) on the Day 2 stuff. We don't know how much you were turning in any of these. The Day 4 or 5 stuff, you were just kinda standing there with a very, very flat hip turn (very little hip slant).

And… they're "days" because you're supposed to do them multiple times, not cram them all together. Here's the hard truth:

17 minutes ago, Markdd91 said:

Once I got to my full swing, I looked exactly the same as before, way. Too. Steep. I keep rehearsing, watching myself in the camera to see what “feel” or movement flattens out my downswing, but so far no luck getting it into a real swing. I did slow my swing way down and really focus on this and this was, what I think, was my “best” swing today. I am all ears for how I can get myself out of this steep downswing, or atleast make more efficient progress on it.

Because you didn't really do all that much. This stuff takes months, man. Months of dedicated work.

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36 minutes ago, iacas said:

I don't love all of those. Your face was super shut on the Day 1 stuff. Your right elbow bent too much on the Day 3 stuff. Your club was low across your chest (and angled down) on the Day 2 stuff. We don't know how much you were turning in any of these. The Day 4 or 5 stuff, you were just kinda standing there with a very, very flat hip turn (very little hip slant).

And… they're "days" because you're supposed to do them multiple times, not cram them all together. Here's the hard truth:

Because you didn't really do all that much. This stuff takes months, man. Months of dedicated work.

I can accept hard truths. I will go back and look at what you pointed out in the drills. Day 4 and 5 I was literally just trying to make the shaft do what I think it’s supposed to do, I can’t even do it standing still, never mind adding and further action to it? 

I don’t expect to fix my swing in a day, or even within one golf season. I’m just surprised by how hard it is to enact a change when I see what I’m doing wrong…which is probably because the list of things wrong is longer than the right lol. 
 

Im going to keep working, even more slowly. 

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Find your one or two priority things and work on that.

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Alrighty.

I had a previously planned round of golf scheduled this morning with my buddies, I really don’t feel ready for that, as anyone following probably knows, but I figured I would try to make the best of it.

 

I got up an hour early so that I could go out back and try to work on just a couple small things before I went.  I tried to just focus on the first two Covid drills and really focus on getting them right. Erik, please let me know if my form is still off on these, and ignore me mumbling to myself 😂

 


Obviously, none of this will fix my steep and OTT tendencies so I tried to just really focus on trying to make a more shallow swing while I was playing. On the positive side, I have gotten very consistent on striking the ball. I make very solid contact practically every swing and the ball carries well…on the flip side my miss was still a very hard slice. I had several good shots today, about 4 drives that were dead straight, but I think that these are likely times when I was still too steep, I just happened to get lucky and got the club face perfectly squared up prior to impact. 
 

I managed a 98 today, which is right about where I ended last season scoring. Im happy to be breaking 100 more often, but I know I have a lot to work on to get this right and make some real, sustainable progress.

I think this next week I am going to focus on finding a way to make an overly shallow downswing and see how that feels. Then maybe I can work it back and find the happy medium? To be continued.

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For your grip, look at this video below. It still looks a bit palmy as @billchao mentioned.

 

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2 hours ago, boogielicious said:

For your grip, look at this video below. It still looks a bit palmy as @billchao mentioned.

 

Will do, I think I take for granted the assumption that my grip is good, which is not necessarily true!

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