Help me and my swing!

[sirmarlo]

OK everyone, I've got a crazy problem that's beginning to haunt me AGAIN. I'm hoping someone has something helpful to suggest. Ok here's the deal.

I use a strong grip which with normal wrist rotation in the downswing would cause major hooks for most people. I've learned how to control my rotation to produce straight or slight draw shot. What's happened now is that for some reason, I've lost all intuition as to how much to rotate my wrists and now I'm mishitting bad. I'm slicing my iron shots particularly bad and finding that I'm topping them more often that I ever have. I'm guessing it's because my face is too open at impact due to underrotation.

Has anyone ever had this problem or can offer any suggestions?

[ks8829]

Overhaul your grip and wrist from your swing:
My suggestion is to simplify your swing and heres how you can do it.

1) new grip on your club.
neutral grip


2) take your wrist out of the swing on the follow through.
keep the club face square throughout the swing.

when you make contact with the ball keep the club face square throughout the total swing after you have made contact with the ball in other words, without turning over the club face to create a draw or slice but square for a straight ball.

3) draw or fade on command
once you have mastered the square face contact throughout the swing, now you can play a draw or fade whenever you want by slightly opening or closing the face at your setup position. then take the same swing as above and you have just created a draw or fade at your command.

[sirmarlo]

Overhaul your grip and wrist from your swing:

I've tried that w/ average results. I would like to keep my strong grip b/c the club feels more secure in my hand during the entire swing. I sometimes feel like it's loose during a neutral grip. I could probably get away w/ a neutral grip if I work on it some more, however if anyone has any quick tips to help me out while I still can maintain my strong grip, that would be really helpful.

[ks8829]

Will you be compensating for a strong grip by playing a slice swing? How about changing your grip to a slight draw and playing a slight slice swing and keep your wrist out of your swing altogether?

Would you change your grip and swing if you can become more consistent under pressure and shoot a lower score?