Lunging at ball

[Chuck Porter]

What are some likely causes and fixes for lunging at the ball? I will go to the range and hit a number of good shots. Suddenly, I will feel myself lunging at the ball, with the inevitable sh*** happening. It usually first occurs with a 5 or 6 iron, and then seems to travel throughout the bag.

I have alternated between a Graves Golf/Moe Norman single axis swing, a rotational /Hogan/Slicefixer swing (for those of you familiar with Golf WRX) and a S&T; swing/ Sean Foley swing. I know that I need to stick with one style, but the lunge doesn't seem to be peculiar to any particular style. I also recognize that video would be of benefit, but don't have ability to do that now.

Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated. I'm trying to be patient, and hope to get to Golf Evolution for a lesson or class, but Spring seems far away right now. Thanks.

[senorchipotle]

my advice, don't lunge at the ball. this is a byproduct of bad posture and balance., straighten your back and keep your head steady. that always works.

[Shanks A Million]

What are some likely causes and fixes for lunging at the ball? I will go to the range and hit a number of good shots. Suddenly, I will feel myself lunging at the ball, with the inevitable sh*** happening. It usually first occurs with a 5 or 6 iron, and then seems to travel throughout the bag.

Don't spend another penny on instruction, equipment, or other junk, get a camera. The camera tells no lies, and even a small digital point and shoot camera will usually have a video feature (I use a Canon, and it works great). You can find an old or used one cheap, and with the large capacity memory cards avalible, you can shoot forever (I can go for 2 hours and 13 minutes on one memory card).

Just because you may feel that you're lunging doesn't mean you are. What we feel is often not what is real. When I got a camera, my swing was just dreadful, huge over the top, ultra flat backswing, head moved everywhere, feet moved all over, swayed, swung past parallel, arms broke down, hit up on the ball, wristy, hands dominated, almost too awful to watch. After a few months, most of those problems were being fixed, and now about 7 months later, my swing looks very good, nice hip thrust, hit down, short swing, wide arc, body does the work, etc. Without a camera, I would still be hacking away, with nothing but a guess as to what I was doing wrong.

[tm22721]

Over acceleration in start down can be fixed by putting a little stretch at the top.

Over acceleration