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9 hours ago, carpediem4300 said:

Miss at the moment is a big heel strike off the driver. Irons appear to be fine at the moment, miss with those is a big push.

My grip deffo needs to continue to be worked on. Something Else I also noticed by watching my swing over and over and watching Pro's setup I have noticed that I place my left foot fine, but then when I place my right foot out into position I move my whole body doing so, also moving my centre line and left shoulder back, creating a kind of Eiffel tower base looking effect with my legs, both shoulders are equal distance from the instep of my feet. when I look at most pro setups, their lead shoulder is inline with their lead foot instep, and their trial shoulder has a much bigger gap between the instep of the trail foot. This leads them to look more straight up and down on their lead side and more right knee kicked in on their trail side. if that makes sense AT ALL. I tried this at the range last night, setting up my left foot and then moving my right foot without the body, and the strike was way way better and consistent, turn felt better etc, didnt video it, but something I will likely stick with

You mean basically staying more over your lead foot at setup? I would disagree that's what the pros do. With the longer clubs and the driver especially you'll usually see some spine tilt away from the target. Given weight at setup is usually fairly even left to right (I think it might be like 60/40 one way or the other, don't remember, but I'm pretty sure it's ~even), that means front hip a bit towards the first foot and chest center a bit towards the back foot. Maybe that's what you're interpreting as them being over their front foot? Either way, IMO you should video it. Sounds iffy 🤷‍♂️

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Posted
8 minutes ago, mdl said:

You mean basically staying more over your lead foot at setup? I would disagree that's what the pros do. With the longer clubs and the driver especially you'll usually see some spine tilt away from the target. Given weight at setup is usually fairly even left to right (I think it might be like 60/40 one way or the other, don't remember, but I'm pretty sure it's ~even), that means front hip a bit towards the first foot and chest center a bit towards the back foot. Maybe that's what you're interpreting as them being over their front foot? Either way, IMO you should video it. Sounds iffy 🤷‍♂️

Probably more how I'm explaining it than interpreting it 🤣

I think I've interpreted what you have described, and explained that I'm not doing that, but incorrectly 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

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1 hour ago, mdl said:

With the longer clubs and the driver especially you'll usually see some spine tilt away from the target.

Not much.

 

 

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