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Eyad, you are clearly in great hands. But, I would be happy to take a look. Just let me know when would work for you. - Joe

The red circle is where your head is at address. Your upper body shouldn't move forward with your lower body. By keeping your head steady, you will add some upper body tilt (secondary axis tilt) when your lower body shifts forward. This may help lessen the amount you swing from outside to in. I would also think about moving your body and ball position slightly more forward. It looks like the ball position is in the middle of your stance, which is back for what looks like a mid iron and your head is further behind that. Probably why you feel the need to move your upper body forward during the swing.

Camera angles are tough to get too specific. If possible, try to get it a little higher and inline with your hands. I would start by checking out this thread regarding your set-up... http://thesandtrap.com/t/56069/good-golf-posture-how-to-address-the-golf-ball This may clean up some things without thinking about them.

Should post a video in the Member Swings forum.

iacas is correct re: getting your arms down faster. You also need to get your shoulders rotating more around your spine angle in the downswing. In other words, the trail shoulder works down and out during the downswing. You have too much down and not enough out. This leads to attacking the ball too much from the inside and fat shots, pushes, & hooks.To work on this, you may need to feel like you are swinging "over the top." Compare shoulder alignments and levels.

I think A7 would be up there.

Something is causing your head to raise. A video would be good.

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I assume you mean Key #2. For OP, you do need to feel a forward lateral shifting of the hips towards the target before you feel the rotation kick in. When I hear fire the hips, I think rotation. Maybe its just me. If this happens without the lateral, your weight won't get far enough forward and may even fall back.

It is tough with the lighting. It looks like your weight is toward your heels at address. This may lead to your head moving down and toward the ball on your backswing. Then on your downswing, you have to create room and pull your head away from the ball. Check out the above link and look at Key #1 for starters. Looks good for just starting.

Spin Axis will be larger than it would be with the same face/path numbers on a "centered" strike.

Most shots, especially with the driver, will have some gear effect. The center of gravity location is small. Also, the cog isn't necessarily in the exact center of the head. So, as you said, only if you know where on the face impact occurred, do you have a chance to diagnose by ball flight. Also, with TrackMan, the face angle readings are going to be more negative on heel side impact and more positive on toe impact than it would be on the same swing with center impact due to face bulge and gearing.

Having trouble with the link, but apparently flightscope and swingbyte are going to partner up. Could be interesting.

Ok. Never mind. I'm late to the response as usual.

Iacas, I agree. I'm not arguing for my wrong answer. Just thought it was an interesting tidbit and, unfortunately, where my mind was at the time. Birly, I've gone over it a few times and agree that it has more to do with friction than the spin loft. All I can figure is there ideal angle of the club face at impact to generate the most friction, as Iacas said around 45*. And, this is easiest to attain for most people by using a less lofted wedge vs a lob wedge.

Have you seen Andrew Rice's findings with chipping and pitching where more spin is generated by actually narrowing the spin loft? Thanks for posting this quiz. Always good to think about certain information that you might take for granted or assume you know when you might not.

When the golf club hits the golf ball, what's required for the ball to go up in the air? Positive loft applied at or below the ball's CoG. In a properly struck golf shot, what does the divot tell you? Not much. You can have a divot going to the left and still hit a push draw (for a righty). What primarily determines the starting direction of the golf ball? Face angle. Can you actually compress a golf ball? By definition, possibly slightly. Deformation is probably more accurate. Why is it easier to curve a 4-iron than a sand wedge? When the spin loft is lower, it is easier to tilt the spin axis. Hence, easier to curve less lofted clubs. What makes a golf ball break? Gravity. How do you increase backspin on a shot? What has to actually happen? Lessen spin loft. Lessen the difference between the dynamic loft of the club and the angle of attack. Usually done by maintaining loft and shallowing AoA. This also increases the friction between the ball and club, adding backspin.This is why hitting down more usually doesn't increase spin. Generally, the increased AoA is offset by a decreased dynamic loft when hitting down, keeping the spin loft the same. If you look at any PGA Tour range, almost everyone has a different style of grip, posture, alignment, etc. How are they fundamentals? They are fundamentals to the point where to hit the ball solidly, consistently at your target, and far enough, everyone needs to grip the club, set up to the ball, and align themselves in a way that will allow this. Although, there can be great varitions of each fundamental that will allow this to happen. At what point in the swing do the hands reach their lowest point? They reach their low point around the back leg/close to the center of the sternum. They then rise to and through impact. With a driver, why does hitting up actually make the ball go farther? It increases the launch angle and lessens the amount of spin.

Some factors would be swing speed, angle of attack, type of shaft and where on the face you hit it. If you hit down on it slighly and/or have a slower swing speed, more loft would be better.

You should post both swings for comparison. And, its either a TrackMan or it isn't. There are a lot of launch monitors that can give screwy readings, especially clubhead speed. Also, even if you both swing at the same speed, there are a number of factors that can allow him to hit it much farther than you.

http://thesandtrap.com/t/57191/poor-mans-trackman-swingbyte-what-do-you-think/30

How about feeling like your head is slighlty moving backwards in the downswing?

I think it is a very good aid. Just make sure you know how to set it at the correct angle and how to align yourself for your preferred pattern.

I've used it a few times. I haven't done any scientific testing. But what I've found is: the path and face numbers aren't accurate enough to make swing changes based on them. Angle of attack is off quite a bit. Tends to be too steep in my case. Also, when attaching the device to the club, if it isn't aligned pefectly, the numbers will be way off. It does tend to spin on the club after a few well struck shots and after every mishit. Now, the tempo reading seems good. The swing speed seems close, although it does seem to be slightly high. The animated swing path visual is very good. The overall data seems to work better with the putter. I don't know whether it is the slower swing speed or maybe it's easier to align with the putter. You are obviously not getting Trackman/Flightscope accuracy. But for $149, the swing path visual, tempo, swing speed, and the fact that it seems to work ok with the putter, I would think it could be worth a try. I haven't tried out the other similar devices on the market, so I don't know how it compares with others at this price point.

With your swing changes, you've narrowed your spin loft which generates more spin. Given a persons swing, by swing down more, they will decrease loft but spin loft will generally remain the same. This leads to a lower flight but no additional spin.