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So I've been told by practically everyone I play with that I tend to over swing. I can definitely feel myself doing this. I don't have to tell you how many problems this causes for me. When I line up for a practice swing, I have no problem stopping earlier, and shortening it, but for some reason when I address the ball, I always seem to over swing so much to the point that sometimes I can't even see the ball at the top of my swing (very very bad I know). The problem I'm finding is that when I shorten my swing, I feel like I am tremendously lacking in wrist hinge. I think that I have to start setting my wrists a little earlier to prevent this, but nothing seems to be working. If I shorten the swing successfully, It seems like I'm lacking a lot of power due to the lack of wrist hinge. Are you supposed to be manually hinging your wrists in the back swing, or should they naturally hinge? I feel like I get way more power when I make it a point to manually hinge the wrists in my back swing, but again that causes over swinging and a whole new bag of issues for me. Any thoughts or advice? Thanks

Does keeping the head back also help prevent coming over the top? It seems like it does, but I'm just wondering.

So some of you may have read my other posts from the past few days. I've been posting a lot lately. I'm fairly new to the game and very determined to master it! Or at least work my way to a single digit handicap. My previous posts have been about my wrist hinge, and connection. I just came back from the range and tried early wrist setting to help shorten my backswing, and st ay on plane based on some of your suggestions. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to be working, and I felt extremely uncomfortable. After a number of shanks, pulls, slices, etc, I finally just slowed everything down tremendously, and made sure to keep my head behind the ball at impact. Surprisingly, my shots were crisp, had great ball flight, great contact, and most of all I was consistently hitting some nice solid shots by keeping my head behind the ball and still. I still hinged my wrist fairly early in the back swing (just before the club got to waste high) so not really pre-setting them at address, but definitely earlier than I was doing before. Does anyone have any thoughts/tips on the importance of keeping my head still and behind the ball at impact. It just seemed like I was hitting great shots so effortlessly if I just slowed my swing down and made sure to keep the head back. Thanks

mvmac, The top video you posted (Mickelson) is kind of what my swing resembles. I take the club back extremely far where it's over parallel. Obviously, I don't hit the ball like Mickelson. A lot of the time as I mentioned in my original post, I'll take it way to far back than even in that video, and get completely disconnected. That's why I'm considering the early wrist break, but only if it's a correct move. I"m not trying to pick up any bad habits this early in my golf game. I'm fairly new to the game.

So I've been having a lot of issues with my back swing lately. I feel like I take the club way too far back, and get completely off plane, get disconnected, among other big issues. I was told to try the early wrist set drill, which I've been practicing and I'm going to try it out at the range tomorrow. Generally speaking, is the early wrist hinge the proper way to start your back swing? I was always under the impression that you take the club back to waste high (one piece takeaway) and then hinge the wrists. My problem with doing this is (as I mentioned above) I take the club way too far when I do that, and hit horrible shots. Any advise on the early wrist hinge drill? And if I do master this early wrist hinge, how do I approach this move on the course? Just start my back swing with that early wrist set, and continue my back swing from there? Any information would be great. Thanks

When the club is at waste high on my back swing, I feel that is when and where everything falls apart for me. I take the club back with my shoulders, and arms in synch to waste high level, and then I either hinge my wrists way too much which causes the excessive back swing, and the disconnection with my right elbow. I was recently told to simply bend my right arm when the club is at waste high level, and that will keep me connected, but I find that I don't get nearly enough distance when I do that, most likely because there's little to no wrist hinge when I do that.

So I don't know what it is, but as of late, my swing has completely fallen apart. I'm a fairly new golfer (3rd year) and roughly a 20 handicap. I'm struggling heavily with my back swing. I can feel myself taking the club way too far back and getting completely off plain. I seem to be able to control this on the range, and hit fairly solid shots, but when I'm on the course, I don't know what it is, but I take the club way too far back to the point where I can see the club head on the other side of my head. I'm pretty certain that my right elbow is completely detaching from my body when I do this, and that's causing the terrible shots (I'm a right handed golfer). I've been focusing on keeping my right elbow tucked in throughout the swing, and although it helps a little, I'm still not hitting consistent, crisp shots. One thing that has helped me on my downswing, is making sure my right elbow is touching or in front of my right hip which causes me to hit from the inside, and I've definitely seen improvement when I do that. However, now I have so many things in my head regarding my poor backswing, that 75% of my shots are just awful. Poor contact, no distance, no ball flight. Just awful muffs, pulls, hooks, you name it. Any advice how to stay connect through the entire swing, keeping that right elbow tucked in, not swinging too far back, or anything else you think I should know? Please help!

Forepoints, thanks for the tip. I just got back from the range and definitely felt more comfortable and hit more solid shots with my longer clubs by slowing everything down. Something else that seemed to work out for me at the range was staying connected on my down swing. I tried making sure that my right elbow and bicep was touching my right rib cage throughout the entire down swing, Does that sound right? I definitely saw more consistency from that. Thanks again

So I am a 4th year golfer. I'm realistically a 20 handicap or so (average low 90s). Over years of tips, and moves to focus on, I've started focusing mainly on 2 aspects of my swing that I found if I do properly I will always have a solid shot. These 2 things are hinging my right wrist as much as possible once the club gets to about waist high in my back swing, and keeping my head behind the ball at impact. I'm pretty certain that keeping my head behind the ball is the correct thing to do, and I know that hinging the wrist is important. However, I'm sure that I hinge it too much. Regardless, when I do these 2 things I always have a great shot. With that being said, I consistently am able to do this for my wedges, and my short and even mid irons. My biggest problem are my hybrids, and driver/woods. I can't hit them to very well at all, and it is much harder for me to hinge my right wrist and keep my head behind the ball at impact for these longer clubs. I don't know why it is. It's probably in my head, and I just can't get it down. I'm incredibly uncomfortable when I'm at address about to hit these longer clubs. I'm assuming it has to do with these clubs weighing more, making it harder to hinge, and being longer, making it harder to stay on plain and keeping my head behind the ball. I've found that slowing down my swing even on my shorter clubs that I hit well, allows me to make that right wrist hinge, which enables a solid shot for me. Any tips or advise would be greatly appreciated. Also, it may be a problem staying connected on my downswing. I find that when I shorten the swing 50 % or so, and keep my right elbow (I'm a right handed player) close to the body, the solid impact is always there. I've tried exaggerating the downswing connection with my longer irons just to see if it helps, and I find that the contact is more solid, but I pull the ball like crazy, which may be causes from not keeping my head behind the ball. I don't know. At that point I just have so many things in my head, and I'm just all over the place, making the shots worse because I'm trying to do 10 different things at once. Long post I know and I'm sorry. I'm just very adamant about improving my game! Thanks!