My Swing (jefftommy06)

[jefftommy06]

A little background. I first picked up a club about 7yrs ago when I quit baseball after about 20+ yrs, I've been addicted ever since. When I started I got a job at a golf course and in 3 yrs I shot an 81, I've only seen 80 since! I have been working very hard on one main problem with my swing, taking it incredibly flat. I didn't know I was this flat until about a year ago when I finally filmed my swing, believe it or not this is better than a year ago! I've tried so many things but taking the club like that feels very natural to me, I don't want it that flat and am working on things to help out. Even with the flat swing I still make excellent contact and produce a high long ball flight. My last round was this past weekend and I shot an 86 with 2 birds, the short game was my issue this last round......I was on the green putting for birdie on 10 holes and only came away with 2 and a lot of 3 putts. Another little thing I see is me moving my head all around when I start my swing. Any help is appreciated for the flat swing.

FYI.....second swing is my friend.

[phillyk]

If you watch the backswing closely, you notice that you have no wrist cock, the club is brought back very flat as you said, so your not bringing the club straight back all the way.  Your starting the turn too early.  Try taking half swings really focusing on bringing the club straight back towards a fixed point a couple feet behind the ball.  If you can get that comfortable, bring the club to a full swing and see if its still flat or more vertical (I'm not 100% sure this will work).  Making a more vertical swing will also bring the ball flight down.

The other thing is you really restrict your wrists from cocking, at least that is what it looks like.  Loosen them up a little.  You want a full wrist cock at the top of your swing, and it doesn't look like you have it.  A good way to imagine doing this is pumping the club on the downswing before hitting the ball.  A good way to imagine this, I hope, is as your doing your downswing, stop nearly halfway down and look to see that your wrists are still almost fully cocked, and just practice leading the club down with your wrists without uncocking them.  If you think you have it along with a more vertical swing, you'll get solid contact as well as a lower ball flight.  I hope this helps.