cartierbresson

I'm looking for someone who can teach me using Skype/FaceTime. I've been working on my golf swing for the last five months, spending about 10-12 hours a week on the driving range. I've had limited success, however, and I want someone who can work closely with me to provide online lessons, answer questions etc.

I've been Playing Golf for: ~30 years on and off; every day in the last 5 months My current handicap index or average score is: ?? My typical ball flight is: High and right The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: Slice What I know I'm doing wrong: Downswing too steep Spine angle changes slightly during the swing (increases w.r.t the ground) What I don't know how to fix: Shallow the swing. Should I: Keeps my hands back more (hand path wrong?) Lay off the club at the top Roll my wrists (i.e. suppinate my left wrist while increasing the right wrist break) Externally rotate my right arm so the club is shallowed Do all of the above Videos:

Got it, thanks. I had a pretty hard time talking and keeping that position! Ok. Thanks. I tried feeling like I was hitting a baseball too and transferring my weight that way but I found that I could do that in quite a few different but similar ways -- and it leads to very different swings -- so I'm hoping I can really understand what I should be doing. Maybe those small differences don't matter a whole lot, but in that case I want to know for sure.

Got it. Thanks for the tip. I found it. Sounds like a great drill, I'll try it today. I understand what you mean, but "learning by doing" isn't working for me. I've been working full-time on my swing for five months spending about 30 hours a week on the driving range. All of it has been deep and deliberate practice. The biggest problem by far is that I can get my body to basically do so many things -- a lot of which produce results -- that I don't know what the right moves are. For example, I know about four different ways I can shallow my swing -- they all produce a draw with compression -- but I know that at least one of them is wrong because it involves deliberately moving my arms down and keeping my shoulders closed. Someone else may have better results, but I can't stress this more: simply trying different things and waiting for things to fall in place can be very confusing and ultimately, extremely frustrating. That's why I'm here discussing this on a forum and not hacking away on the range! Here's a video explaining my confusion with the transition:

I read all the pages of this thread and have a few of questions about hip slide and rotation. Three very different ways I can start a hip slide at the top of my backswing. Which one is correct? Slide hip towards the target while keeping the back toward the target. Basically the whole body feels like it's moving in one piece towards the target. In reality, the knees end up about where they started while the rest of the body looks about the same (just shifted). Kick the right knee towards the target. The makes the left knee move towards the target, but little else in the swing changes. Kick the left knee towards the target as much as you can while shifting weight on it. This tends to straighten the right knee. My second question is -- when do I know I've slid too much? My third question is -- do I continue to slide in the downswing till impact? If I stop earlier, when? Finally, how much hip rotation is too much? I compared my positions to Hogan's and my hips rotate more than his at various points in the transition (relative to the same amount of shoulder turn).