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You are not a one planer unless you are a contortionist. "One planer" means you swing on one plane. Here are two pics of VJ who is supposedly a "one planer"; As you can see in the second pic he swings to a second plane. This one plane and two plane stuff is marketing hype. One thing I've noticed is how a so called "guru" can say something and the golfing public buys it hook, line and sinker without question and ignoring obvious fact. But I know some are going to look at that second pic and still want to argue VJ is using a one plane swing.

You have 3 options; 1) try keeping your right arm fully extended. This will push your left arm straight and give structure to the triangle assembly. Some some odd reason some golfers have been taught to keep their right elbow tucked to their side. All this does is pull in the elbow pulling in the right hand causing the left arm to bend and collapse the triangle assembly. Can this be your problem? 2) turn your shoulders more. 3) stop your backswing when your left arm gets parallel to the ground. This is close to a 3/4 swing and even though you wont be playing at maximum distance you're probably gain a lot more control.

The proper terminology is clubhead throwaway and I don't want to be insulting but it's used by high handicap golfers. It's substituting a hand motion for a wrist motion. What happens is the right wrist straightens and the left wrist bends back. This causes the clubhead to flip past your hands through impact with a up, back and in motion. It does close the clubface but it also leads you down a road to disaster. What you should be doing is keeping the left wrist straight and the right wrist bent through impact. This will allow you to keep the clubhead on-plane through impact with a down, out and forward motion. Compare a up and in impact to a down and out impact and which one would you rather logically have? I mentioned you're substituting a hand motion for a wrist motion. We want to close the clubface with a wrist roll not a wrist bend. Through impact we roll the clubface closed by swinging the left hand palm up to the plane in the follow through. As a drill hold a club below the grip in your left hand with the grip touching the inside of your forearm. Your left wrist should be flat. Swing the club back and forth about 3 feet in both directions keeping the grip against the inside of your forearm. At the end of your 3 foot follow through have the toe of the club pointing at the target. This is how you swing a club through impact. Notice; 1) you've rotated the clubface closed 2) you've kept a flat left wrist 3) you've swung your left hand palm up to the plane and 4) you've allowed the left arm and clubshaft to work as a lever without it breaking down in the middle. David Laville, G.S.E.M. The Golfing Machine Authorized Instructor

This is what happens when you try to do what the pros do. Luke Donald has a quite lower body. Vijay has a more active lower body. So if you're going to emulate the pros which one of the two since they have different lower body motions and have success with each one? What you need to do is adhere to PRINCIPLE and how YOU execute that principle is the right way for you. Start by swinging your lead arm back across your chest. When it gets about 45 degrees it will connect with your chest and start pulling your torso back. Keep swinging it back and your torso will pull your hips back. See how much your hips have turned? This is the proper amount of backswing hip turn for YOU . What you have just done is coiled the upper part of your swing against the lower and your body parts have moved enough in compliance. You have also kept your swing in structure, you didn't take it beyond where it needed to go losing that structure. David Laville, G.S.E.M. The Golfing Machine Authorized Instructor

Stop trying to hit up on the ball. Topped shots and fat shots are caused by the same thing, hitting up. Hopefully your woods have enough loft to get the ball airborne without you needing to help it. Todays woods are available in less lofts and golfers are buying these less lofted woods thinking they're going to hit the ball further. When they look down at address they see little loft on the clubface and then swing up trying to add loft leading to what causes topped shots. Fact is recent test have shown most amateurs will get better distance using higher lofted woods, 11-12 degrees in the case of a driver. One way to stop topped shots (and fat shots) is to image a park bench about 5 feet in front of your ball. Try to hit the ball under the bench. You'll come into impact with your hands leading and the shaft leaning forward, two vital elements of proper impact geometry. David Laville, G.S.E.M. The Golfing Machine Authorized Instructor