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I've been struggling recently with my weight shift. I think I know what the problem is but wanted to check with you guys before i really started working on it. Before my hips were spinning out and it caused me to cut across it losing loads of distance and hitting a horrible high fade that went nowhere. Now I've been working on sliding or bumping the hips at the start of the downswing and this has helped a lot. But I was sliding both my knees and my front knee at impact was bent. I think I need to shift the weight to the outside of my heels driving my back knee towards my straight front knee. This the right thing to do? Cheers guys

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Your front knee should remain flexed all the way through impact. Your weight should be on the center/balls of your feet. A couple of swing thoughts - you can try to 1) feel like you are crushing a can with your front foot to begin the downswing or 2) feel like you are driving your right knee towards the left ala Gary Player.

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