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I have the same problem and have seen through it. But i pull-hook my irons. It is an over the top swing, fells like right shoulder over left coming into the ball instead of right shoulder under left. Also the right arm working away from my body from top of down swing.

Doesn't seems like you r coming too far from the inside. With the driver looks like you are transfering late and pushing them a bit.

Obviolsy there are multiple things we can quote on your swing. The thing is that what you need is, know that all of this hev been identified, work on the fix of them. For me most of the quoted things are a result of tree things. 1.Taking your arms too far inside on an around swing in your back swing, getting them "behind" you. Try to feel the right position of the top of the back swing as holding a tray over your shoulder with your right arm. try to maintain a "no stress" triangle between your arms and your shoulder (as the v-harness training aid suggests) 2. Fail to start your swing from the hips with proper weight transfer. This is very diffucult to achieve just by thinking of it. I would recomend the step and hit drill 3. Flipping the club. For this Sean Foleys on foot drill. If you flip the ball you'll fall. You have to hit down on it. You can even do it with your right foot on your tip behind your left foot. Also i would get a smash bag and try this drill it will help with covering the ball and having the right tilt on impact. Remenber that flipping the ball is an active right hand, soft trailing and cupped right wrist is the feeling you should be looking for. Hope this helps.

I know that it is commonly used to choke on the club and it works!! But i think that it is a mental thing. You choke on it and mentally you swing slower, maybe because the different feel on the grip. Mathematically and generally speaking (it is a bit more complex than this) a one inch choke on a club will cause a (on a 37" 7 iron and a guy with a 24" arm) a 1.64% decrease in the radius of the swing thus equal decrease in club head speed. This, on a 155 yds shot, will decrease it to 152.46. If it works for you then do it, if anytime time it doesn't now you know why. Having a 3/4 swing shots mastered is a plus for the game, its like 14 more clubs in the bag and help with this in between shots. Another way is to open or close the face a bit, lets say 5* to vary the loft of the club hence the distance. Compensate a bit in your stance for a draw or fade, that is if you don't have this new super forgiving clubs on the market that will fight the draw/fade. As mentioned on other posts, moving the ball in your stance, will also vary your distance/release of the ball. Hope this helped.

Thanks for the scale!!! it will be very helpfull for me!! I'll try the 3/4 swing, i'm not too confident with these "feel"shots but i'm going to practice them more on the driving range. @ saevel25 : Thanks for the advice, but the flipping problem have been taken care of thanks to my "tour striker training aid club":). The problem is i'm playing a course with two 115 yds over water where a low shot won't have room for error. Just calculate the wind right. Thanks for the reply @ boogielicious :

I don't understand what is not to understand. I've had this advice before on shaping shots and, generally, that's an easy way of doing it. There are a lot of thigns that can be added to it but it is, for me, all spot on. I try it like that and it works for me just fine, some little adjustment on distance (perhaps a clup or two) and on the starting path of the ball if you use lets say a 15* closed-open face. "Advanced" golfers will change their "swing path" rather than the stance and play more of a "feel" shot. This won't work for us high hdcps. For now i shape them well (mostly from behind trees jaja!!) with this simple instructions. I don't see the problem.

Possible causes: Too quick with the hands rotation, disconnected from body on impact. Right hand flipping over left hand. Early uncasting of the club (usually combinated with no. 5 and 6 and with a loose of distance, not typical in a 7 to 1 swing as you'll hit it fat unless you compensate with something else)) Too strong grip Not transfering weight properly to your left side (properly meaning also in the right kinetic sequence) Right arm too separeted from body on downswing (disconnected) Right shoulder not going under left on downswing (usually a pull-hook combined with No. 6 and 5) etc I don't think an inside out swing is the problem, but it will magnify the results. Probably too quick with the hands and they get in front of your shoulder movement. Get some video of your swing to try to identify the problem. There are a lot of things than can be wrong as you can see and the "trial and error" method will fustrate you even more. First the problem and then a fixing drill. Good luck, as you will probably need it.

I'm a 20 hdcp. I play 135 yds with my pw, 165 with a 7i. When i'm playing against the wind my shots tend to balloon more than the rest of the players and seem to be much more affected in yardage form a head wind than down wind. Mostly when others hit one club in a head wind i'd be hitting two more with the short irons/wedges. Does head wind affect more yards a pw than an 8i? Does the +10 yds/10 mph wind apply to all shots or are wedges more likely to +15 yds/mph? How the heck do you know how many mph the wind is blowing? PD: i get a more than decent back spin with my shots for my hdcp. Sorry if I seem to be too modest :) Please help me calculate the wind!!!