What am I doing wrong? swing video

[abstill]

I've finally gotten some video of my swing. This is after about 3 weeks of working to change my posture. I was told before that I was bending at the knees too much and not enough at the waste. My irons have been fairly consistent, but I just cant get any consistency with my driver. Please take a look. Thanks in advance for any comments.

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[nlowplacez]

i think you need to start the downswing with the lower body more. your backswing is really flat, but thats ok, and a lot of people would say ideal, specially with the current trend toward the hogan swing. but your starting with your upper body and it like like OTT, especially in that driver vid. your shoulders feet etc. are pointed will to the right and your ball went pretty straight as to the camera angle. try starting the downswing with a nice hip turn (but not a lateral move if your gonna swing that flat) turning in a barrel as hogan said.

[is2linda]

quick question is this a stack and tilt swing?

[abstill]

quick question is this a stack and tilt swing?

What does that mean?

[RC]

At the moment of impact, your hips have not turned open -- you are still aligned along the target line -- cannot see your left hip pocket at all. That means your upper body is coasting through the shot. Simulate an impact position statically, and notice the difference between how your weight and hip turn lead your arms and shoulders.

This is why video is so useful. You look like you turn through the shot but everything important has already happened before you turn you lower body any further than you were in your preshot stance position. That means the upper body is hitting at the ball first, and then you turn through after the fact -- probably one of the most common faults in golf.

The swing is not like a closing door, but more like a spring that unwinds from the ground up.

[mc0388]

Are you playing in Crocs? You need to work on balance on your follow through, it will be hard to work on unwinding and swinging in a barrel unless you know what it feels like to hold your follow thru, balanced on your left foot.

[abstill]

At the moment of impact, your hips have not turned open -- you are still aligned along the target line -- cannot see your left hip pocket at all. That means your upper body is coasting through the shot. Simulate an impact position statically, and notice the difference between how your weight and hip turn lead your arms and shoulders.

And I thought I was making a full hip turn

. I just tried for 5 minutes or so outside to exaggerate and really turn my hips through first. To do this and stay balanced it feels like I'm really shifting my hips laterally. I've always been told that is a bad thing? Any advice?? I'll try and post a video of me practicing my hips turning first to see if I'm doing it correctly.

[RC]

Go to the "Over the top" topic in the swing tips section. Find the posts with the videos of Sergio and Tiger. Watch Sergio in slow motion and use the start and stop button to pause the video -- you will see what an almost extreme hip clearing move looks like. The key is you absolutely cannot jerk the club inside on the backswing and turn like that. If you are just shifting left (and that is not bad, you need a left weight shift) then try the feeling of turning your left hip back, as if behind you, on the downswing -- just make sure your wind up with the weight on the left leg as you finish. It really is a hard thing to do by "how it feels" and what you think you are doing -- you need video and/or a teacher who can watch the sequence of the hip clearing move. When I suggested 99 percent of golfers don't get it right, I meant they are not optimal and are losing distance compared to how they could hit it if the turn and clearing move was better. We can't be like Sergio, but almost all good swings will show the left hip pocket at least peaking around from behind at the moment of impact. If it doesn't, then the swing has died and the upper body is coasting through the hitting zone -- no matter how hard it feels you have swung. Good luck, and I hope this is useful.

BTW, I should have been more complimentary of your driver swing -- you do clear more with it (but you are a bit closed.) I really only focused on the iron swing.