My Swing (DutchGolf)

[DutchGolf]

Hi Everyone,

After three years of golfing, I feel like my level of play is not improving, I am stuck. I was playing at a handicap of 22 for a while, but last few months I played worse. I am struggeling with a fade/slice, especially with the driver. Furthermore I feel I lack distance for someone my age (24), my 5 iron goes around 160 yards for example, I would love to see some higher numbers. I tend to look up to many instructional videos on Youtube, which leads to confusion what I should improve. There is so much information out there..

That is why I posted a thread hear, to hear opinions from experienced teacher/good golfers on my swing.

My bad shots are mainly a pull or a push fade. I cannot hit a draw, when i set up for a hook, I can maybe draw it a few yards, but thats it.

Can you guys please help me out with some tips? Thanks!

I've been Playing Golf for: 3 years
My current handicap index or average score is: 22, but playing closer to 28 lately
My typical ball flight is: Fade or pull
The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: Slice to the right or Straight pull

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Videos: 

7 iron down the line

7 iron Face on

Driver down the line. I am sorry for the poor quality, didn't note until i got home.

Driver face on

[HJJ003]

Welcome to TST. I am no swing expert, but there are quite a few things here that I see. You have quite a bit of head movement throughout the swing, It looks like you over-shallow in the backswing and compensate by coming way OTT (which results in the straight pull or the nasty slice). Also, you don't get the majority of your weight forward at and throughout impact. 

Few things I recommend: 

There is a lot of other good information on the site. Take a look around, and take some advice from guys who know quite a lot about golf instruction. 

Edited August 9, 2018 by HJJ003

[Grizvok]

There is a ton to work on here so that’s good. I agree with @HJJ003 about the head movement and you have a lot of sway away from the target as well. The first thing I would look into is the thread about creating a centered hip turn and get yourself creating a centered turn with a steady head. Then look into fixing the rest of the backswing so that your right arm doesn’t get stuck behind you so badly because that’s definitely a huge problem.

[Grizvok]

  On 8/9/2018 at 9:05 PM, Grizvok said:

There is a ton to work on here so that’s good. I agree with @HJJ003 about the head movement and you have a lot of sway away from the target as well. The first thing I would look into is the thread about creating a centered hip turn and get yourself creating a centered turn with a steady head. Then look into fixing the rest of the backswing so that your right arm doesn’t get stuck behind you so badly because that’s definitely a huge problem.

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Not sure why I said centered hip turn. I meant making a “centered pivot”.

Here’s also a video about getting that trail elbow “unstuck”.

 

[DutchGolf]

  On 8/9/2018 at 8:38 PM, HJJ003 said:

Welcome to TST. I am no swing expert, but there are quite a few things here that I see. You have quite a bit of head movement throughout the swing, It looks like you over-shallow in the backswing and compensate by coming way OTT (which results in the straight pull or the nasty slice). Also, you don't get the majority of your weight forward at and throughout impact. 

Few things I recommend: 

There is a lot of other good information on the site. Take a look around, and take some advice from guys who know quite a lot about golf instruction. 

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Thanks for your feedback. I agree, when you see most golfers on the television, club and hands are above their head at top of backswing, I feel for me it is far too low.  Do you think I should move my hands more upward?

  On 8/10/2018 at 12:06 AM, Grizvok said:

Not sure why I said centered hip turn. I meant making a “centered pivot”.

Here’s also a video about getting that trail elbow “unstuck”.

 

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Thanks! Do you know some drill to work at a centered Pivot, should I focus on straightening the right leg?

The wrong swing by Erik in that video looks like me, definitely something I should change!

 

I really appreciate your feedback guys. In fact it motivates me to head to the course to make some better swings!

[Northwoods88]

I am just a beginner so take my comments with a grain of salt. I was struggling with my driver, I found I was trying to take to big of a back swing (like you see pros do) I tried to shorten my back swing a bit and it has helped. My reason for this, I was having a hard time getting my body to come back to the right position after really winding up my back swing. With a shorter back swing it is easier to get back into the right position. I don't crush my drives I hit around 230 average sometimes get it out to 250.