My Swing (Rhodri Spearing)

[Rhodri Spearing]

I've been Playing Golf for: 10 years (v. irregular)

My current handicap index or average score is: don't know

My typical ball flight is: at the moment? non-existant!

The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: The video says it all...

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Hi all. I've recently been rebuilding my swing from scratch using video lessons on Youtube. And after some initial progress, including last week when I was hitting good clean strikes with good distance about half the time, I've suddenly fallen to pieces and I'm not sure why...

I feel like I'm getting to grips with some of the fundamentals fairly well, but my last 2 range sessions consisted of me hitting about 90% of my shots along the ground like in the video. A fair number sliced like crazy too... (and I don't usually slice very often, I pull!)

Any ideas what the main culprit could be? My thoughts are as follows:

1. weight transferance: I don't look like I'm transferring my weight forward enough, and I'm perhaps leaning back slightly at impact?
2. grip: I just noticed for the first time today that I have a very strong grip, but I don't think I've changed that since I'm great session last week...
3. distance from ball: I usually try to keep the hand-width from the belly rule, but it looks like it's creeping a bit close. I guess that could explain why I divot to the right of the ball in shot 2 and nearly hit the shank...?

(just to clarify, I'm aiming between the 100-yard marker and the red flag)

Any advice would be hugely appreciated!

Thanks

Rhodri

[iacas]

You're standing very, very close to the ball and quite tall or upright: .

[Rhodri Spearing]

You're standing very, very close to the ball and quite tall or upright: ​ .

Ah yeh I can see that now. Thanks for that, hopefully that will steer me back on course!