Right foot coming off ground too fast

[Stevep21]

Is there anything I can do to keep my right foot more grounded during the downswing through to impact. It is exaggerated the higher club I hit, with my driver my right foot comes up almost immediately on the start of my downswing and im on my toes at impact. Also feel like I might be swaying my hips a bit too much, any help or any drills/advice anyone can give me?

[JetFan1983]

Flare your right foot out at address, use less shoulder rotation on the downswing, use more lateral hip slide instead of hip rotation on the downswing.

[Stevep21]

Thanks for the response, will try flaring the right foot out tomorrow, when you say less shoulder rotation on downswing, how do i do that, rotate them more after impact?

[JetFan1983]

There are exceptions to this rule - Matt Every and Harris English come to mind - but the amount the right foot comes up and turns out can be an indicator of how much the body is rotating on the downswing. More "hip bump" or lateral slide along your stance line at the start of your downswing will reduce shoulder rotation, but there are other things you can do as well. Close your shoulders relative to your stance line at address. Swing the arms down faster independently of your shoulder rotation. This is a difficult change to make. I've seen many students struggle with this during lessons. In the end, our shoulders should be square relative to the target line at impact. Usually, I just increase weight shift/ hip slide on the downswing and that by itself slows my shoulders down, but this isn't the case for everyone.

[Stevep21]

I have tried speeding up my arms but my draw turns into a hook, will try it again tomorrow with your other suggestions, I do overswing with my driver aswell because I turn my shoulders quite a lot, might try less shoulder turn on the backswing too.

[JetFan1983]

might try less shoulder turn on the backswing too.

I'm not sure I would do that. Be aware of the right knee kicking inward towards the ball. That can cause all this as well. More lateral sliding of the hips would fix this too.

[Stevep21]

Since trying to change it, it feels like I'm just dropping my arms into the ball and not turning my hips into the ball as much, it is actually really difficult to change haha, I think I've got it then I look on camera and it looks the same! I played 18 yesterday and had a 79, there was a 3 hole stretch where it felt like it clicked, should of been birdie birdie birdie but was birdie par bogey for some bad putting and a misclub on the 3rd of them, the strike sounded amazing and got more spin than usual, had about 6 foot of backspin with a 6 iron, don't think I've ever done that before. Getting there!

[Gaetano Fasano]

On 1/7/2012 at 9:38 PM, JetFan1983 said:

Swing the arms down faster independently of your shoulder rotation. This is a difficult change to make.

Hi JetFan! I started working on something similar one week ago. I am tying to keep my head more steady and behind my hands during impact and follow through. I have the same problem of right heel popping up to soon which takes my right knee and rx hip moving towards the ball too much during DS (I suppose this is not good, better to keep rx knee inside the toe line moving more towards the left knee). It also cause my upper body to drift forward (not only the pelvis).

I then discovered this drill:

1. I make full turn in the BS trying to keep my arms well extended in front of my chest; I also let my head rotating back with the shoulder so I can look at my hands which are waiting for the DS on my right side with the shaft pointing upwards.

2. I try to move down the handle fast like I was trying to hit the ground on my right side (like my club was and ace cutting a piece of wood placed on the ground, on the toe line, just outside of my right foot).

3. I think about this but before hitting the ground I reroute my hands (first) and the club head (following) "falling" through the ball, almost like I was swinging behind me, looking from the top to my hands which disappear under my left armpit.

4. I let my body turn naturally in order not to get hurt and magically the club face square itself and the momentum transport my upper body to a very nice high hand finish.

This seems very similar to what you suggested. In case I am right, eventually my question is: 

I can hit great shots this way but only with short irons. When I try to apply the same concept to the driver (also woods and long irons) I tend to hit the ground with the club head before the ball.

Do you have any comments / suggestions for using this feeling also with long clubs?

ps. to keep the right heel down before impact, I try to image I have a low hurdle, which passes over the toe of my foots, and arrives at the knees and then I try to swing avoiding the knees touching it during DS.

Cheers