My Swing (saevel25)

[saevel25]

updated swing notes

Setup 

1. Straighter legs, Bend at hip, weight is at balls of feet. 
2. Engage legs and core more. Helps with hip turn and using me left leg.  
3. More grip pressure in left hand. 

Backswing

1. Left arm stays closer to body from P1-P2.
2. Hinge sooner from the wrists.
3. Arms and hands go straight up from P2-P3, and Feel like club is more vertical at P3. 
4. Keep the width between hands and right shoulder. Straighter right arm. 
5. Shift weight to left foot at P3.

Downswing

1. Extending left leg initiates hands down. 
2. Start hands down with flexing of left wrist. 
3. Keep on turning right side through impact. 

[TN94z]

I've been following your swing thread here and reading the notes. It sounds like we are working on many of the same things. Interesting reading through your thread for sure. 

[saevel25]

16 minutes ago, TN94z said:

I've been following your swing thread here and reading the notes. It sounds like we are working on many of the same things. Interesting reading through your thread for sure. 

Title of the story, The Golf Journey of a Mediocre Student 🤣

 

 

[saevel25]

So, my league starts next week, and I have a golf trip in two weeks. I am thinking no matter what I do, I will have to do my left leg and downswing turning piece. At least this turning piece helps me negate shanking the shot. 

I probably shanked the foam ball about 10x in a row yesterday. Given, I was doing downswing work with not much caring about the body rotation. I was struggling to feel the same thing from two days ago. Where I was able to feel the arm piece and the turning piece working together. Yesterday, my body turn was just destroying my arms down piece. 

That said, it’s not like I have a great feel for where the club is in space. Especially with how fast the downswing is. If I do the arms downswing piece with the turn piece better. I just feel those two things. Then after I am going into the finish I am like, "Oh, that was center of the clubface". I am glad the clubface found the ball. Maybe that is normal when you are trying to fix your mechanics. You are so hyper focused on the hitting the swing feel that the feel for the club is just gone. 

I’ve watched YouTube videos where they talk about how correct lower-body mechanics give you the feeling of having tons of time in the downswing. I’m like, BS! there is no time. If anything, it feels faster now. 🤣 I do notice that the clubface stays more open past impact, less flippy. Not like I am trying to do that. Actually, with the downswing arm piece, I am trying to feel like I am rolling my wrist (closing the club a bit more). 

[saevel25]

updated swing notes

Setup - Same stuff. Good posture, weight in balls of feet, engage lower body more. 

Backswing - Same stuff, hinge fully by P2 by using wrists. LBift left arm straight up to top of backswing. Control swing length, though it is way better. *Always a reminder 😊 

Downswing - More of starting the downswing with lower body rotation. Getting the right hip rotating out towards the ball and around me, and the left hip goes back away from the ball and back around me. Straighten left leg as soon as possible. Still a bit of a struggle to do this.  Still the hand path and club going down behind me, feels like the right arm stays really wide and gets wider. 

Spoiler

Though, I don't think I have poor hip flexor mobility. I stretch and move the crap out of them almost on a daily basis. It is part of my daily mobility routine for the past year. 

This position is kind of wonky looking 🤣. 

When I took my swing to that position and feel like I really sink my weight to the outside part of my left heel while extending the left hip more. I felt a big resistance from this area in the leg (sorry that is the right leg, blame Google). I was like, WTF! 🤣

Yea, more stretching may be needed. I wonder if I am avoiding that movement.