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Hi... I posted a few weeks ago with my swing and my problem of shanking the ball.  After seeing an instructor we noticed a few things that I changed.  I was getting disconnected and swinging out instead of in/in.  This was exposing the hosel and it was making me hit some wicked shanks.  After hitting a bunch of balls and changing some things, I noticed that I am hitting the ball just left of the sweet spot towards the hosel. I had impact tape on the club so I knew that is where it his hitting the face.  Granted the balls were my normal iron distance with a slight draw, the impact was a little too close to the hosel for my comfort.  Could my clubs not be fitted correctly?  Right now they are 1 degree flat.  Could that be causing the ball to hit close to the heel?  My guess it is still my swing, but i thought there might be an issue of a poorly fitted club.

Brad


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Originally Posted by zimmerbz

Hi... I posted a few weeks ago with my swing and my problem of shanking the ball.  After seeing an instructor we noticed a few things that I changed.  I was getting disconnected and swinging out instead of in/in.  This was exposing the hosel and it was making me hit some wicked shanks.  After hitting a bunch of balls and changing some things, I noticed that I am hitting the ball just left of the sweet spot towards the hosel. I had impact tape on the club so I knew that is where it his hitting the face.  Granted the balls were my normal iron distance with a slight draw, the impact was a little too close to the hosel for my comfort.  Could my clubs not be fitted correctly?  Right now they are 1 degree flat.  Could that be causing the ball to hit close to the heel?  My guess it is still my swing, but i thought there might be an issue of a poorly fitted club.

Brad

I think you may still be working on the swing correction.  It will take time.  At some point if you continue to work on it, you'll probably notice a few toe shots.  Then another correction will have to be made.  I guess that's golf.

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Originally Posted by zimmerbz

Hi... I posted a few weeks ago with my swing and my problem of shanking the ball.  After seeing an instructor we noticed a few things that I changed.  I was getting disconnected and swinging out instead of in/in.  This was exposing the hosel and it was making me hit some wicked shanks.  After hitting a bunch of balls and changing some things, I noticed that I am hitting the ball just left of the sweet spot towards the hosel. I had impact tape on the club so I knew that is where it his hitting the face.  Granted the balls were my normal iron distance with a slight draw, the impact was a little too close to the hosel for my comfort.  Could my clubs not be fitted correctly?  Right now they are 1 degree flat.  Could that be causing the ball to hit close to the heel?  My guess it is still my swing, but i thought there might be an issue of a poorly fitted club.

Brad

I went through a phase of hitting the heel/hosel years ago.  I discovered that I was standing too far away from the ball (in a misguided attempt to manufacture and inside-out swing path), and ended up over-compensating and reaching for the ball, causing heel/hosel contact.

I corrected it by correcting my distance to the ball AND intentionally trying to hit the toe of the club for a while.  At first, to my surprise, what I expected to be a toe shot and some club twisting in my hand was still slightly inside center face.  But, in a short time, I was able to re-ingrain a proper stance and swing path and cured the problem.


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