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I like your athletic posture at setup. Eliminating movement off the ball in the backswing is something that has personally helped my swing become a lot more consistent so I can vouch for its effectiveness. I'm a believer in minimal moving parts in grooving a golf swing. On another note - Nothing wrong with a fade, much easier to control and prettier to look at. I think the ball flight patterns evolve when a player develops e.g. start with a slice desiring the draw, obtaining the draw to only fear hooking and the left side and finally coming back to love the gentle fade. Nicklaus knew it, Tiger is starting to realise it too.

Hi MattM, Just my 2c looking at the Front On videos - I read and heard a while ago that as soon as the shoulders stop moving so should the arms. In your case it appears that the shoulders have stopped rotating but your arms are still going up and around. You have good timing and coordination to return to a good impact position, if it were me I would be spraying hooks quite a lot due to flipping to save the shot. I can imagine that if the movement was more compact, you would find the centre of the clubface a whole lot more but that is just speculation on my end. Perhaps the experts can chime in here. Please take the above as my mere observation and not dispensation of swing advice. Other than that, I really like your impact position.

I used to suffer from the flips thanks to conventional golf wisdom which I received from magazines etc. Being a beginner golfer (10 months since I started) it was very frustrating to see fat shots, weak fades and inconsistent contact all around. Thanks to principles in S&T; I now hit with divots in front of my ball for all my short irons and boy the compression I'm getting in my mid irons is just oh so good. The "Thwacckkk!!" sound speaks volumes, pun intended. Most of my shots are coming out with no spin (straight) so shaping shots is getting easier with my mid irons and hybrid. Although I don't use all principles in S&T;, staying centred, weight forward and go left (hip slide thread), removing forearm rotation in takeaway and hitting down out and through with FLW is certainly helping all my shots. Now if only S&T; could improve my putting! The only downside to this is I hit the occasional 10 yard pull, but I blame myself as I am still young and have plenty to learn in this game. I'm thinking that I lose the steepness in my shoulder as I enter impact but I will slowly tweak this over the next 6 months. Upside? I used to hit my 8 iron 125-130m (thats like 135-140 yards). Now I hit it straighter with a much more forward flight to 145m consistently (~160 yds). All hail hands forward and weight forward! Thanks TST (especially Iacas and Mvmac!!!)