My Swing (Villafranca)

[villafranca]

I've been Playing Golf for: 2 years

My current handicap index or average score is: ~98-102 avg score

My typical ball flight is: mostly straight with irons, and hybrids mostly, Slice with driver/woods

The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is:  "Pull Slice / Slice with driver mostly and just hit solid shots more consistently with irons and hybrids

Two shots 4 videos, one in real time the other is slowed to .25 speed. This is my first post so I hope these are in the right format. I tried to go to a few links to show how to shoot the video for the swing post but they did not work.

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Videos:

[LI Hacker]

Relatively new to the game myself but in your driver videos you can see you're coming OTT which will absolutely cause your pull slice/slices. Your posture is also very upright, you should try to work in some more bend from the hips. This is probably priority one but something you can easily watch in a mirror.

You will need to work on your path coming more from the inside, a popular drill that is easy to do is to place a head cover maybe 6 inches behind and 6 inches to the right. Basically "behind" and "outside" the ball, in order to not hit the head cover you'll have to swing from the inside. This is a very basic drill and I'm sure some of the more experienced guys on here can offer up something more advanced.

[villafranca]

Thanks for the quick response Hacker, I can tell I am coming OTT on my shots also, when watching my club head come through on my practice swing, I see it coming from the outside of the ball across to the inside through and after contact. The biggest thing for me with that is I just cant seem to stop it and I do not know what exactly is causing it. Are there other causes of this?

I will also to get a little for bend at my hips and try this drill out.

[LI Hacker]

I am going to defer to some of the more advanced guys here on this but I will give it a shot. A lot of people like the idea of swinging more out towards "right field", like in baseball shooting the ball between 2nd and 1st.

Also, it looks like you're sucking the club in too far to the inside in the takeaway and then you come over the top. You could try to keep the club more "in front" of you on the backswing and combine that with the drills and thought of swinging to the right above.

Again, hopefully some of the more knowledgeable guys come in and add to/correct my tips.

P.S. I went from slicing over the top to now hitting some blocks/push slices, so fixing the path is only part of the solution however most people if they can fix the path can straighten it out nicely as they usually have no usually with the clubface

[villafranca]

So far with you advice I have seen improvement in my drive! Yesterday I went out and did 9 after work and I made sure to put more bend at my hips. This helped me hit it more consistently.

The shots we still going to the right but not as bad as normal. Most of the time I would hit a drive and it would go about 250 but end up almost out of play in the rough or in the woods ha! This time they were on the right edge of the fair way (if they dogleged right) or just of onto the rough by 10 yards or so, and it added about 20 yards to to the drive. Now Its only been one outing so I know the problem is not "fixed"  but I did notice just by putting the bend in my hips at least to me, it felt easier to not come from the outside in on the downswing and contact.Since the ball still goes right I know I am still doing this but Im not doing it as much as before I believe.

Next time at the range I will do that drill also i'm sure it will work out well.

[LI Hacker]

Well to be careful, you can hit the ball right and very far right coming from the inside as well. If the ball is starting straight or left and then curving right you are most likely still coming from the outside.

There are a bunch of threads here about ball flight laws, do a quick search and take a peek there's a lot of valuable stuff in there. I would prioritize getting your posture fixed first because without a good set up it's hard to do a lot of other things correctly. Also, at least for me I used to try to fix everything at once and it's best to focus on one thing at a time and work through things slowly. There are no overnight fixes in golf, to get changes to stick it takes a long long time.

Best of luck though, keep the videos coming