My Swing (wrx_junki)

[wrx_junki]

Hey delav, is the weight shift onto my right foot necessary? Keeping slightly more weight on my left foot throughout the swing allows me to hit the ball more solidly. I'm not sure if this is correcting a wrong with another wrong though.

Also, people always said I have a wide stance but it kept me in better balance through the swing. If I don't feel restricted throughout the swing is it necessary to narrow my stance?

Thanks for your input.

Slow motion version of the original:
http://www.swingacademy.com/videoPlayer.aspx?id=6154

[delav]

A wide stance isn't a bad thing, but for a guy your size if it's masking larger balance issues it very well could be. A stance that wide could restrict your hips through impact.

Of course keeping your weight on your left foot might help you hit more solid shots... Is it the right way to swing a golf club, it depends on what school of thought you subscribe to. You'd be hard pressed to find many tour pros playing without some sort of weight shift. It's a way to generate power and tempo in the golf swing.

The biggest question is, are you happy with your distance and shot shape? Without a weight shift or some sort, you'll be very limited here.

You are certainly free to do your own thing, but narrowing your stance and shifting your weight will likely be the recommendation of many teaching pros should you seek lessons.

I'd recommend looking at tour pros and watching them swing. Who would you like to emulate? What do they do? Compare your swing against theirs, and perhaps pick up a copy of Ben Hogans classic book as food for thought.

Good luck.

[wrx_junki]

Have the book haven't read it since the first time. I don't really have anyone in particularly that I want to emulate but I guess if anything it'd be AK. Never saw his swing in slow motion but just like the aggressive player that he is.

I used to play a push draw last year but after a 6 month layoff its harder to predict my shots but its tendencies are for the majority a pull fade now. Distance is something I am content with since its going 165-170 with a 6 iron.

Going to tinker with some of the stuff you mentioned later today. I'll let you know how it goes.

[iacas]

Of course keeping your weight on your left foot might help you hit more solid shots... Is it the right way to swing a golf club, it depends on what school of thought you subscribe to. You'd be hard pressed to find many tour pros playing without some sort of weight shift. It's a way to generate power and tempo in the golf swing.

Stack and Tilt guys - the most extreme example of trying to keep your weight left throughout the swing - still shift their weight to the right. They don't FEEL as though they do, but they still do - your chest and arms are in front of your spine, so all that weight goes right during the backswing.

I'd recommend looking at tour pros and watching them swing. Who would you like to emulate? What do they do? Compare your swing against theirs, and perhaps pick up a copy of Ben Hogans classic book as food for thought.

Ben Hogan is an awfully good fit for Stack and Tilt. Look at page 73 and his shoulder turn diagram - his shoulders didn't "shift" to the right on his backswing. Look at

this image and realize that Baddeley is exaggerating some positions and yet Ben Hogan _still_ lines up with them. A lot of the misconception about Stack and Tilt stems from this weight shift stuff. The feeling is one thing - what happens in reality is another. S&T; wants you to feel as if your weight stays left. In reality, it goes right and then left just like every other good player's swing.

[delav]

Very interesting visual with hogan and baddley there. I am by no means educated in the stack and tilt, so I cannot comment from this standpoint.

However, their body position at the top is very similar. One consideration omitted from your illustration is ball position. Hogan played the ball farther forward in those visuals than baddley does (using baddleys ball as the ball for both images is misleading). Hogan was loaded and behind the ball in those images in his book, where at baddley is loaded over the ball.

Just my $.02.

wrx_junki - if ball contact and consistency are your primary concerns, they are many resources available to explore the "stack and tilt" swing camp. I've just been swinging traditionally too long to give it much thought.

[iacas]

Hogan played the ball farther forward in those visuals than baddley does (using baddleys ball as the ball for both images is misleading).

There's no ball in the Hogan drawings, so it's not "misleading" it simply wasn't there.

Hogan's hitting a wood, but otherwise his ball position is basically identical to where Aaron is playing the ball - just forward of center for a mid- to short-iron. And I'll stop there, because this thread isn't the place for a Hogan vs. S&T; discussion, which we've had elsewhere before. I'll simply conclude by saying that Hogan was a pretty "traditional" swinger that had 95% of S&T; components. People can do their own research from there.

[wrx_junki]

Had a question about my swing as I watch it. Should I try to not have as much hip turn on the backswing?