More technical swing?

[skillzwhogolfs]

So first off my average score is about a 40/41 and have had about 4 37's this year and have yet to break par. my swing feels okay and can hit my irons really well and my driver is kinda stinky right now. The problem I have is when I miss hit it becomes a pretty big slice and happens more often than I would like.

So I was just wondering opinions from others if I should really focus on technique of a good swing and change my swing around that or stick with the swing I am having now or just try to fix my swing and decrease miss hits. I am really trying hard to break par. Please tell me what you think.

Also any sites you know that would give the technique/mechanics of the swing would be nice.

[Old1964]

First, are you able to video your swing and post it in the appropriate forum?  There are great instructors on here who can give you great advice.

If your iron swing is basically sound, they may see something with your driver that would eliminate the horrible slices...which would turn a 37 into a 36!

Second, do you slice with your longer irons from time to time?

Third, is your ball flight typically a fade, a draw, or straight?

[skillzwhogolfs]

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First, are you able to video your swing and post it in the appropriate forum?  There are great instructors on here who can give you great advice.

If your iron swing is basically sound, they may see something with your driver that would eliminate the horrible slices...which would turn a 37 into a 36!

Second, do you slice with your longer irons from time to time?

Third, is your ball flight typically a fade, a draw, or straight?

First: not sure I am going to try hopefully sometime soon but my camera has not worked so well with my computer in the past.

Second: yeah seems like more often lately.

Third: i would say mainly pretty straight, possible slight fade

[Adam Young]

It's hard to tell without looking at your swing. I normally look at a player and see what the limiting factor is

• their concept of how to hit the ball, or understanding of ball flight
• their technique
• their skill/co-ordination
• their psychology

focusing on skill can acheive much more immediate effects, and it is usually the limiting factor. Although, if someone has an awful technique then, although possible to achieve, they are not making things easy for  themeslves. If you think that you can do it - which you probably can break par (a test is to see if you have at least once in your life pared all the holes on your golf course, not in one round but over the course of the time you have been playing), then focusing more on skill and psychology will help you. I have lots of info on these things but too much to put here in one post.

by skill, I mean controlling the clubface and strike predominantly. If you are good at these, any swing can work well (although you will eventually be limited by your technique, most players never ever reach these limits). The problem with changing the technique is that it is risky, for many reasons. A better looking swing, or mechanically better, may not actually function any better. Even if it does, this may not create a better player. I have seen it many times where a good player has straightened out their shot, only to never play good golf again - lots of subconscious reasons for this. I learned this from my own mistakes, where i took a good scratch handicap player who played a 30 yard draw, straightened them out (was very pleased with myself) but they lost all feel for the shot, opened up both sides of the golf course on their misses, leading to less confidence and worse performance. Also they were thinking about the technical change on the golf course, and i couldn't stop them doing it, again leading to poorer performance.

On paper the change was great, in reality, it didn't work. In hindsight I wished I had worked on improving their ability to control the draw, and their psychology to improve the repeatability of their best shots.

As a general rule, if your best shots are good enough, then work on repeating them more through better skill and psychology. If your best shot is not good enough (for example if someone only hits it 150 yards, they are never going to shoot level)- then it may need a swing improvement.

Hope that helps

[skillzwhogolfs]

yeah that does help thanks for the info it definetly gives me stuff to work on. I will try to get a swing video on here sometime soon