My Swing (saevel25)

[saevel25]

I was trying not to make the club head go to inward at A2. I went back to the feeling more turn and less arms to A3, with a little more umbrella feel. 

I'm trying very hard to get my right side through more with the driver. Still a struggle to keep myself from standing up out of the swing. 

Pitching was better. I went back to chipping first, just to feel a more torso driven motion. I need to trust in using more speed. 

Putting was better as well. I find that when my eyes track the putter head, I make much more solid contact. 

[saevel25]

Played much better tonight in my work golf league. Not the hardest course. 7/9 greens in regulation.

One thing that worked out well for me is feeling / keeping a slight more pressure in my lead foot with also a slight more feeling of the knee being bent more. This helped me take out the few groove thing shots I was hitting and my driver was spot on.

[saevel25]

Total 180 deg. today, sadly. 

Shallow to steep, struggling to get enough turn. The standing up with the driver just pisses me off. Hitting more fat and thin shots (see face on).

[saevel25]

Not to go to far down the rabbit hole, but this seems relevant maybe to my struggles. It does feel like my short irons and wedges are good compared to the mid to long irons. 

The ball looks to far back for a 6 iron. 

Does the head looking away from the ball at A4 cause an issue? I do feel like I loose site of the ball. 

The head has slid forward at A5 and the upper body. Now the ball is relatively further back. I probably can't turn through or I might miss the ball or top it. 

I feel like I need to fix these to make it easier on me to do what I need to do. 

 

 

 

 

 

[saevel25]

Trying to work on not standing up in the golf swing. Slow progress. 

With the driver I worked more on controlling the backswing. I found a bit of success taking a backswing that feels 10% as fast going back as normal. I want to try to control the momentum of the golf club so it doesn't oversewing as bad. 

 

 

[saevel25]

Played 9 holes tonight for a work league. Got to network :) 

I shot 40, but that was with 2-3 three putts (I can't remember off hand). Overall I hit the ball pretty good. 

The slower backswings helped out a lot. It helps with letting me feel the backswing length. It controls the momentum of the golf club to help stop the over swinging. While practicing the other day, and a few other times in the past, I noticed when I over swing I can feel the club pull my arms more while my body stops rotating. I sometimes stop my swing entirely if I feel that. Swinging slowly helps a lot in stopping that type of motion.  

On the course I focused on two backswing. First, keep looking at the ball while I take the club back. I have a bad tendency to turn to look at the club moving back. Second, the slow backswing piece. The downswing is still trying to turn better through the ball. 

Going forward with practicing, I am still going to focus on shortening the driver backswing and get the club flatter at A3.5-A4 or just not let the club tip across the line at A4 for all the clubs. I still am going to work on getting my body to turn better with out losing my angles. 

[Jack Watson]

Question,  is the right hip much too high here?  It looks like a possibility that the tilts are not right.  The high right hip due to the right leg not regaining flexion coming down seems to screw up the hip turn in comparison to a pro.  

[iacas]

I don't understand. Why are you talking about his right hip? That's not "swinging the clubhead." That's thinking about a body part.

[saevel25]

4 minutes ago, Jack Watson said:

Question,  is the right hip much too high here?  It looks like a possibility that the tilts are not right.  The high right hip due to the right leg not regaining flexion coming down seems to screw up the hip turn in comparison to a pro.  

That is quite possibly true. It is something I am working on. Obviously the hips are not working correctly. As to the remedy, I am not sure. It is something I will need to keep working at to figure out a good feel for the motion I need. It might be related to trying to keep more flex in the hips and knees, or it might be something else. 

[saevel25]

Well I had two swings today at the range where the turn was better. 

 

[Hardspoon]

35 minutes ago, saevel25 said:

Well I had two swings today at the range where the turn was better. 

I'm assuming you walked up, made two (good) swings, did a club twirl, and then walked off the range. 

[saevel25]

@iacas, just some simple set up questions. 

So, is my weight to far back on my heels here? It just looks like it. 

It looks like my left hand grip is weak and my right hand grip is strong. 

 

[phillyk]

If I may, I'd say your grip looks strong in both hands, so it seems fine. Your stance does look very slightly heel heavy. 

[billchao]

3 hours ago, saevel25 said:

It looks like my left hand grip is weak and my right hand grip is strong. 

 

Both look strong to me. The left hand would be more palmar flexed if it was weak.

[saevel25]

1 minute ago, billchao said:

Both look strong to me. The left hand would be more palmar flexed if it was weak.

Thats a good point. 

[iacas]

10 hours ago, saevel25 said:

@iacas, just some simple set up questions. 

So, is my weight to far back on my heels here? It just looks like it. 

Maybe a little? I don't see it very much, and the camera is slightly tilted too, right? But yeah, a little, I'd buy that.

10 hours ago, saevel25 said:

It looks like my left hand grip is weak and my right hand grip is strong. 

That one I don't think I'd go along with. I think your left hand line is farther left (from this view) than you've drawn it. You can see two full knuckles on your left hand.

[saevel25]

19 minutes ago, iacas said:

Maybe a little? I don't see it very much, and the camera is slightly tilted too, right? But yeah, a little, I'd buy that.

That one I don't think I'd go along with. I think your left hand line is farther left (from this view) than you've drawn it. You can see two full knuckles on your left hand.

Yea, the camera might have been tilted. I've been using the JOBY adjustable grip camera stand for the iPhone. It's a little tricky not having the camera angle be slightly off like that. 

Ok, I won't worry about the grip. I might make it a brief thought in the set up for not letting the weight settle far back on the heels. 

[saevel25]

Backswing 
1. Keep eyes on ball for the entire backswing, do not follow the club head back. It just helps a lot. It cleans up the consistency. 
2. Keep it shorter (Always ).
3. Still need to work on a flattening feel. 

Downswing
1. Keep eyes on ball longer in the downswing. More-so I want to get the turn going while keeping my head steadier. Similar to the pitching issues I had, I think. 
2. Right side, right hip through works best. Though in some instances feeling the left going behind me has worked, just not as consistent. Feeling like the arms stay still at A4, while I try to feel my right side through also works.

Some Issues
1. The amount of error from a good shot to a fat shot is small. 
2. Sometimes I will hit these straight slices. Though I feel the handle of the club go down an in quickly after contact. These shots are not overly common, but they can pop up. 

Overall not too bad. I was able hit some decent shots at slower swing speeds. If I do that I need to feel the arms staying put at A4 while I try to turn.