Dr Draw

Haha yeah, I probably should. It's fun to connect with fellow golfers and just talk about the game and what is going on within it. You can also learn a lot on here, some guys have some really special stuff to say about the golf swing, equipment, strategy, short game , etc.

Hello to everyone who is reading this. I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd give an update on my swing. This is just a little face on clip of me hitting a driver. This one was relatively straight, with a slight fade. Any constructive criticism is greatly appreciated!

Thanks for the advice. Haha finding my happy place sounds like a good idea, especially since whenever I have a bad hole I tend to get down on myself really easily.

Damn there's no way you're an 11 with a scorecard like that! That's a great round. Yeah I don't know it's a tricky thing and it might be just something mental. Sometimes we get too excited about what the score looks like it will be other than just thinking about what we're doing in that point in time.

Hey guys, For the past week or so, I've been having some trouble with getting past the blowup holes, and just overall coming down the stretch. I played a round today and I parred the first hole, and then the second hole was a shorter par 5. I hit it into the fairway, hit a pretty good lay-up to about 85 from the pin, and i took out my 56 degree wedge and wanted to hit about a 3/4 wedge. I skull it and the ball flies OB. I hit another shot from where I was and pulled it into the left rough. I then proceeded to duff the little chip shot and left myself about a 15 footer for double bogey, and two-putted for triple (heck it might have been a quad depending on if the rules differ and if I took the correct penalty). Through two holes, after making a pretty good sand save, I am already +3 on the round. I ended up the round shooting 87 with 2 triples and 2+ double bogeys I don't know how many of those I had but at least two. It's just those holes, it's hard diagnosing the problem because it's a compilation of things. Short game, approach game, (putting?). It's been my goal for a little while to break 80 for the first time this summer, and I have been so close so many times! Whenever I get on a good run, I always end up messing it up somehow. For example I was playing at my local course and I was +2 thru 5, and the 6th hole was a par 5 that I played pretty well and ended up birdieing it. The next hole I also birdied and was even with two to go.... 8th hole, par 3, I pull my tee shot left, and still have an opportunity for up and down, but didn't get the pitch close enough and had a 10 footer or so that I missed... the 9th I don't even remember what happened but I ended up double bogeying it to be +3 for nine... it seems that whenever I have the opportunity to shoot a number around par, I screw it up within the final stretch of 2-3 holes. How do I keep a good run going?

It really depends. Usually with my woods, it starts way left and hooks left more. However with my irons it varies but usually my ball flight is start left curve left

Thanks! Do you know what could be causing a hook? I see personally a really closed clubface at the top. Also, whenever I adjust my grip and feel like I have a less inside takeaway, I push-slice it... it's either hook or slice and I can't find the middle ground. whats weird is when I'm hooking it, I look on video and my downswing still seems to be more out-to-in

Here's my most recent recorded swing

Or, for those who have the time, practice for a few hours then go play some holes! :D

Hey @mvmac , recently I have been working on what you told me about the backswing, but I have some questions. In the last couple rounds I've played, I have had a lot of trouble getting the ball into the fairway. With my driver in particular, I tend to hit a massive block straight to right field. With my 3 wood, I hit a huge hook and occasionally a block as well. For the times that I do get it into the fairway, I have been pushing my irons terribly. The divots have some sort of trapezoidal look rather than a rectangle, which tells me the heel is coming into contact with the ground, then everything else follows which will push the ball to the right. I don't understand why that's happening... Or why there is such a difference between how I strike all my clubs and their ball flights

We'll see. I've got a lot of a work to do on my backswing. It's weird because with most golfers, I see a huge separation between their shoulders and below to their neck and head. Their body is moving rapidly, but their neck but more so the head stay perfectly still and stacked on the body all through the swing, and that's something I find very difficult to do. My head just kind of dips down, goes backwards, and just goes all over the place. I was thinking it might have something to do also with my shoulders because I sometimes tend to swing more level than I should on the golf swing due to 6 years of baseball. I don't know. :P @FooFader and @Abu3baid , thanks for the suggestion! I'll have to think about that and look more into it.

Gotcha. Another question; on the downswing, it looks as if my head is jerking backwards and on the dtl view it is also jerking downwards. With a lot of the tour pros, the majority of the time it is steady all through and has a smooth forward movement through the swing. I look like I'm looking far to the right until my body pulls my head towards the target. Do you see anything on the downswing that could be causing it?

So, I should feel like I'm tilting towards the target on the backswing? Also, along with that, should I feel like my weight is moreso on the left side on the top? Because when I try that, that's the feel I'm getting.

Here's my face on swing with a driver... I don't know about you, but my top position of the backswing looks really awkward.

Sure, I'll take one as soon as I get on the range. It's kind of difficult in my garage with the garbage cans on the side, and it doesn't get the entire swing.

I did and I've been working on it recently. I have the feeling that's pretty different, as if it is actually completely straight on the backswing but it really isn't, and still maintains a little flex. However, I see it straightening, and I feel it, but I still have an over-the-top movement that gets me stuck after impact and causes my head to bobble.. when i try to feel I'm swinging more outward to the right, i fat it or thin it really badly. Here's a vid of one my recent swings:

Been working on this and I don't really understand what you guys mean to not keep my right leg so flexed. I've been looking at the swings of Tiger, Rory, etc. and they don't really straighten their right leg either around the top of the backswing. When you say stop getting my leg so flexed, do you mean particularly on the downswing? Because it does kick towards the ball a lot. However whenever I try to do the forward motion, I thin the ball really badly.

Will do. By the way about the feet flare thing I've been doing that it's just the camera angle that probably makes it look like I'm not flaring them out. Sometimes when I flare the right foot out too much it feels a little bit too unbalanced like most of my weight is caving in on the inside of my feet so I try to keep the left a little more flared than the right. Do you think it's a good idea?

I'm not sure what you mean... because if you're talking about on the backswing, I heard that the right knee needs to keep a little flex on the backswing so it has something to push off of in the weight transfer in the downswing.

This is a swing I recorded today before I went to shoot 9 holes... The backswing to me looks alright and on a better plane, but one thing I've noticed is that whenever I try to get a more on plane backswing, my downswing become more so over the top-ish... It looks like I'm really cutting through the ball from out to in and I don't extend really well. Do you know what could be causing this?

This is a video I took today in my backyard... As you can tell by my reaction and the ball flight, I thinned this one pretty bad and this has been my consistent misshit. More specifically on the toe of the club and on the bottom. Lately I've been working on is my follow through and at impact when you're supposed to flip the left arm and have your hand facing the target to square the face up, and it worked fine for a day, but then I've just been starting to thin the ball really badly and also occasionally hit a fat one. Sorry I'm jumping around issues lol this is the most recent and destroyed my round of golf today.

Yeah, that's probably it. I do transfer my weight forward on the downswing, but probably not enough. I was unaware that about 90% of the weight should be on the front at impact! That's crazy! I was putting like 60-70% in which I'd be able to hit the ball solid probably 1/5 times, but pretty inconsistently. How can I do this though without feeling like I'll fall forward and be off balance in the downswing?

Sorry for the late reply, but I was getting solid contact, however I was hooking the ball really bad. One thing I have been noticing in my swing is that weird head jerk around impact that I see with no other golfers other than myself, and I don't like it. On the front view of my swing, my head goes backwards a lot and gets way to far behind the ball on the down swing, and this causes so many inconsistencies. Do you know what could be causing my head jerk movement?

Is this better?

I personally think Reed's a tool. He's never even been in a major and he is considering himself to be of the top 5 players in the entire world. You're kidding right? He disrespected Tiger, Phil, Scott, and Rory for his comment. Winning a couple tournaments does not make you one of the 5 best players in the world. Hell, Spieth is a couple years younger than him and he has already won one, and who knows what he will produce this year as he continues.