Great lesson over the weekend

[Mr3Wiggle]

Originally Posted by AwYea

Okay, you need to work on turning your left shoulder under your chin on the backswing. You're litterally standing up on your backswing while moving your head up and to the right so your left shoulder can turn. This leads to the major re-routing on the downswing and laying the club off.

You need to work on your posture at address and maintaining it thoughout your backswing. You seem to slump your shoulders a little bit at address instead of bending from the waste while keeping your shoulders tall. You'll need to experiment a little on your own to see what works best for you. Like sticking your rear out more, tilting from the waste, bending the kness. Whatever allows you to turn your left shoulder under your chin while keeping your head still on the backswing.

A good drill is to have someone stand out past the ball and put their hand on top of your head while you swing. This will let you feel if you're moving your head or not. You can do this with or without hitting balls. If you don't have someone use a shadow or a mirror and keep an eye on the mirror or shadow to see if your moving your head. You can do this inside or outside with or without a club. Another thing you can try is turn your head to the right before you start the backswing. Jack Nicklaus did this.

The biggest hurdle you're going to have is your swing is going to feel too short and a lot different and you're going to subconciously revert back to your old swing. You seem to hit the ball pretty well they way your doing it now, but it's almost impossible to be consistent laying the club off like you are.

I hope this helps. Maybe you can find some more info on turning the left shoulder on the backswing or ask your pro the next time on what you can do, but your major problem now is that you have to move your head up and to the right so your left shoulder can turn on the backswing.

Yeah, that's one of the things I'm working on now.  I've noticed it's easier for me to not lay it off if I keep my head steady.  Feeling like I'm pivoting around my left leg gives me that feel.  I'll just keep grinding through.  The way I see it, no matter how bad the results are, it can't be wrong to ingrain a steadier head in my swing.  The results should come with practice.  I have a lot of compensations built into my swing to overcome that head movement and loss of spine angle.  I need to work them out too.