Driver set-up question

[drewfus813]

After watching a video by "Trackman Maestro" on the effect of club path and a slice, I have a question. I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with him or his videos,but he says that in order to swing inside out, you should keep your weight on your front leg and leave it there during the swing. Also, he states that if you put your hands in front of the club face at set- up, it will encourage an inside out path. One, does keeping your weight on your front leg lose distance on the shot since there is no weight shift? And second, should I try to have my hands ahead of the club face even with a driver? Thanks for any help.

[Mordan]

Originally Posted by drewfus813

After watching a video by "Trackman Maestro" on the effect of club path and a slice, I have a question. I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with him or his videos,but he says that in order to swing inside out, you should keep your weight on your front leg and leave it there during the swing. Also, he states that if you put your hands in front of the club face at set- up, it will encourage an inside out path. One, does keeping your weight on your front leg lose distance on the shot since there is no weight shift? And second, should I try to have my hands ahead of the club face even with a driver? Thanks for any help.

If you start and finish with 80% of your weight on your left leg you might lose a bit of power. But being 55% (or even a bit more) forward at address and at the top of your backswing, then driving through to the proper impact position of 90% forward won't lose you power.

I will defer to one of the more knowledgable posters regarding your hards with a driver, other than to say that with any club if you're going to err by having your hands either too far forward, or too far back at impact then you're much better off aiming to have them too far forward. Of the people who post their swings on here, nearly everyone has their hands too far back at impact and I can't remember seeing one where the advice was that they were too far forward.

[drewfus813]

Thanks for the advice. Looking forward to trying it out this weekend.