My Swing (theDRC)

[theDRC]

I've been Playing Golf for: 10 years
My current handicap index or average score is: avg score 80-85
My typical ball flight is: straight medium trajectory, to slight fade
The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: weak short right misses and shanks (a lot of heel contact)

Just some quick background before the videos. I started playing ‘late’ but advanced pretty quickly (shooting occasional upper 70s after about 2-3 years). Once out of college and starting a full time job practice time fell off and so did a lot of the good characteristics of my swing. Just not feeling that compressing strike (mainly on my irons) like I used to so I’m trying to eliminate whatever is causing the loss in compression/distance and a lot of shanks. Here’s a mix of videos from this past weekend. Thanks for any insight!

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Videos: 

 

[iacas]

Welcome to the site. Just two comments…

1. Mind your camera angles: https://thesandtrap.com/b/playing_tips/filming_your_swing
2. You lay the shaft down a bit too much, then have to tumble it outward (roll the forearms over the top). Yeah, it lines up at A6, but you're sending the sweetspot (and the hosel) out quickly from there, and swinging left in the process.

[theDRC]

Thanks iacas, I appreciate your feedback. I’ll dedinitley try to improve the camera work, this was my first time filming my swing (at least for analysis purposes).

Yeah, I can now definitely see how much I’m laid off at the top- the club is pointing wayyy left of target. Anyone have suggestions on how to work on not being so laid off? 

Also, I’ve never noticed until seeing my swing on film but does anyone else see a good amount of lateral swaying of my hips (away from target) on the backswing? I feel like I see most good players actually having their right hip/glute moving back and TOWARDS target, never sliding away.

Anyone else feel free to chime in!

[iacas]

25 minutes ago, theDRC said:

Also, I’ve never noticed until seeing my swing on film but does anyone else see a good amount of lateral swaying of my hips (away from target) on the backswing?

I wouldn't worry too much about that right now.

But when you do:

 

[theDRC]

Thanks for the pointer to that thread! Right now I’ll maybe just try to work on getting less laid off. Could I accomplish this by trying things like:

- Feeling like the club shaft is above my right shoulder at the top of BS?

- Maybe even having the feeling that I’m trying to get ever so slightly across the line at the top, with hopes of in reality being somewhere closer to parallel to my target line?

[iacas]

20 minutes ago, theDRC said:

Thanks for the pointer to that thread! Right now I’ll maybe just try to work on getting less laid off. Could I accomplish this by trying things like:

- Feeling like the club shaft is above my right shoulder at the top of BS?

- Maybe even having the feeling that I’m trying to get ever so slightly across the line at the top, with hopes of in reality being somewhere closer to parallel to my target line?

Those might work. You're more on plane before you lay it down a little. Then it's under. So it may be better to feel as if you steepen it during transition.

Not something most people have to do, that's for sure.

And of course, please post elsewhere on the site.