My Swing (AvidHacker)

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Long time lurker, though I have posted once before on the topic of bad practice sessions and received some excellent feedback.

So, took up golf about 2 years ago but for the last year taken it seriously, lesson, trackman, fitted clubs, twice weekly range and playing every other week (have  one and three year old boys, and I cant get out much more to play). Yet to join a club as frankly I am not good enough, go around my local 9 hole course anything from 45-53 on average but can be a lot higher sometimes!

Anyhow, thought I was making progress with my swing, but only irons and hybrid. Could hit my driver for toffee. So, went for a lesson Sunday to check progress. Last few weeks I have been working on getting weight behind the ball, which I thought I had been doing. Turns out I was swaying, torso, massively outside my right foot (I am RH'nded). So my pro had me working on stopping that and coiling up (if that's the right expression) rather than swaying.

Which has led me to this. I hit the range today, after working on drills re the sway, decided to hit some free shots (just hitting targets, rather than any drills etc) and I could not hit the ball truly at all: tops, fat, slices etc, only one shot would have been playable out of 25.

My thinking is that correcting the sway fault has opened up the door to another fault\compensation. So, I took a video (hopefully attached\linked) and noticed that I lift my right foot up high almost as soon as I start my downswing which I feel could be causing the horrible strikes? In lessons its been noticed before but I have always got away with it, maybe my removing the sway now doesn't let me?  What do you guys think?

Please be kind to my swing, its a work in progress! Also, I do have a chicken wing going on but have yet to start the fix as my pro believes its a compensation for any number of pre existing faults, which I should get rid off first.

Thanks in advance.

AV

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[video]https://youtu.be/1gzzgTGlE70[/video]

[mvmac]

I'd clean up the posture first. It'll help you turn more and move your left shoulder under your chin. Right now your back is too straight and your chin is up in the air.

Then do a bunch of these drills.

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Thanks, that's actually the drill i am working on from my pro. No one has ever mentioned the posture to me, which actually makes sense as I do seem to have a bit of lower back pain from the S detailed in the article. So I will definitely look to change that if only to stop any damage to my back. Cheers for the info.