My swing (martytilma)

[martytilma]

Here is my swing with my driver. Been hitting it pretty good lately. Usually hit it straight, can play a fade if need to. People say I have a pretty smooth swing and good tempo. I don't know what it is but when I watch my self on video, something just doesn't look right. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Driver face on:


Driver DTL:


Thanks for any help.

[mcfc_nick]

not that its too big a problem if you are making good contact all the time but id try and straighten out your left arm in the backswing

[martytilma]

not that its too big a problem if you are making good contact all the time but id try and straighten out your left arm in the backswing

That's something I'm actually trying to work on. I might need to lose a few pounds and work on some flexibility.

[SpringBokVol]

You are right. It is a very nice swing with very good temp.

Two things:
Try straightening your left arm in your address o the ball and take it back with a straight arm as well.

Try shorten your backswing a bit and start your move down sooner with your hips; you will actually create more power this way

[Stretch]

You're much better than I am, so this suggestion is offered only because I just got very much the same assessment from some actual teaching pros.

Your left knee is breaking in too far. That's causing you to have excessive spine tilt to the left at the top of the backswing and means your hips can't really start to move and turn until the knee has returned to its address position.



Here's Tiger in the same position. He's made a huge turn, but the knee is still flexed mostly forward to the left toe, so he doesn't have to unwind from a falling-over-backwards attitude.

[martytilma]

You're much better than I am, so this suggestion is offered only because I just got very much the same assessment from some actual teaching pros.

That is an awesome illustration of how you should look at the top of your swing. I try and try to keep my left arm that straight, but it just doesn't want to do it. If I want to look anything remotely like that I'm going to have to work on getting more flexible. I guess I never realized that your knee should be pointing forward at the top of your swing. Good to know!!! Back to the range!!

[Stretch]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting you can't break the knee in quite a bit and still be in good shape at the top of the backswing (see Hogan, Ben and Nicklaus, Jack among others! ) But it needs to be a strong position, and you better be able to move pretty hard into your left side from there.





So I'd say (and again, I'm nobody's idea of an authority on this stuff) that "forward" is probably pushing it, but if you try thinking about keeping the left foot more planted and adding some knee flex toward the toe, you'll start getting quite a different feel.

[martytilma]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting you can't break the knee in quite a bit and still be in good shape at the top of the backswing (see Hogan, Ben and Nicklaus, Jack among others!

I tried it in the backyard, and boy is it ever quite a different feel than what I'm used too. I think I'm more interested in trying to keep my left arm straight and shorten up my backswing. That's one of those things where I know that my backswing is a litle long but for some reason I revert back to it over time.