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Shanks occur when the club moves too close to the ball on the downswing, possible causes are 1) You are holding the lag angle too much and coming from the inside too much 2) You are coming over the top 3)You are casting from the top of the swing losing the lag too soon and flipping the club over on impact 4)You are moving your upper body closer to the ball on the back swing, not achieving a deep enough hip turn :)

sounds like your coming too much from into out either with a square face or a closed face in relation to that path

In my experience, having a cupped wrist at the top would typically be caused by a weak grip or a grip where the left thumb position was too pinched backwards where as a bowed left wrist at the top would be caused by a strong grip or a grip with a long left thumb. Are you fanning the club open on your takeaway as this can often lead to a cupped position at the top?

To implement and make changes to golf swings can take 1000's of balls for some, others can pick it up quicker. The average golfer probably plays and practices once a week at best, they'll obviously be exceptions to this. I think that unless you can commit to at least 3 hours of practice a week(at least one of these hours with a pro that knows what they're doing), you will find it difficult to make significant changes to your swing and you're better of going for a more intuitve, task lead, less technical style of coaching

Eureka, got it....finally!! Understood, makes sense, thanks!

It's been 4 years since I read this book but thought it was an informative read and even tried the techniques whilst coaching some of my clients with mixed success. I would personally say that having tried both the one and two plane swings, one was too steep and the other too flat. Also, if you look at most guys on tour these days they do a combination of the two, but certainly from the perspective of understanding what steepens and flattens the mechanics of the golf swing this was a good read.

Eureka, got it....finally!!

so with a pull draw the same could be said Club face to target - Closed Club face in relation to path - Closed Path into ball - out to in or in to out

Nicely explained, thanks!

Just a quicky on the push fade shot under the new ball flight laws If I understand correctly, the push fade could be caused by different swing paths into the ball Clubface in relation to target - open Clubface in relation to path - open Path into ball - could be in to out or out to in? Thanks

Not sure if your problems are technical or mental. I like to play the ball middle to back in the stance but not too far back and weight not too much on the left side as this could cause your chipping action to be too steep. Make sure your left hand isn't too tense and that the right hand is acellerating through the shot and not stalling, this can often lead to a thins and fats, heres a little mental video to change your approach to thinkinf if your problem is mental

If you have an overswing at the top of your backswing chances are, unless you are a very good player, you will be casting the club from the top of your backswing this will then be putting you over the top causing the shot to the left. Work out why you are overswinging would be my advice although it's hard to comment without seeing your swing. Quite often, people with big overswings don't have the club travelling fast enough through impact so they swing it longer to try and gain power, unfortunately this long swing is a waste of energy as they don't store the momentum down into impact with the correct lag. Try this drill to help you shorten your swing, good luck!!

Won't flattening your plane help to get the impact more central anyway?

Power in the golf swing comes through a few different things in my opinion Arm speed Wrist hinge (backswing) lag downswing Keeping posture angles on impact Here is a video of how to increase your club head speed using the wrists and although I would not advocate too much wrist action in the golf swing if you have no wrist action through impact at all then you may need to build some in first before you can control it. The first tip is how to build it in and then second is how to control it.

Clubs too short for you? Grip tightening before impact? Pulling arms into body around the impact area?