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Nice shooting. I think your sequence is bit off tho, upper body starts the transition ahead of lower body and you don't shift balanced onto your front leg. It shows as your head diving towards the ball instead of straight up and down in down the line view and loosing balance in follow through falling back towards your rear leg especially on shots you really go after. Watch some pros footage in youtube and notice how they start the transition from the top of the backswing by turning their front ass cheek back while the rear cheek stays still. This gets them to really strong "squatty" position and shifts the lower spine balanced ontop of the front leg and you rarely see them loosing balance.

Corona has made practicing bit limited and been kinda lost with different swing thoughts. Mainly trying to dig the source of retracting from ball in the downswing without much light bulbs going on. Course I will play on this summer opens in Wednesday by the looks of it and really excited to play again after so long break. Expect some really high scores at the start at least, since the touch for short game can't be there right away. Irons feel pretty playable at the moment, driver and 3 wood I expect to be really wild since haven't had time to hit many of those. Found this awesome crass field at the nearby course that I recon is meant for practice, luckily not many seem to use it. I decided to see how my gaping with irons are at the moment so I would have idea what to hit on the course. After all having sense of distance you are hitting is such a big help even if balls end up left and right. Hit 3 balls with each club (full swings) using ProV1's (the practice ones, I'm poor after all :D) and took average of those (9 iron below): Results were: 52 degree wedge: 119m/130y PW: 126m/138y 9 iron: 140m/153y 8 iron: 148m/162y 7 iron: 158m/173y 6 iron: 169m/185y Couldn't hit anything longer since the field started to run out. Was kinda surprised with the results since those don't differ much from what I used to have with irons although I'm in far worse physical shape than I used to be. Plan on playing the clubs approx 5-10m shorter than those distances depending of case at least until I get rid of all this clothing...

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Not excactly best weather for golf, but getting to hit some once a week is better than nothing: To my untrained eye, rear hip seems to start moving off the wall too early in transition/downswing causing the early extension.

Absolutely golden video, thank you! I personally have my butt out at the address, coming from over ten years of ice skating in my youth. Would you say having your butt out can lead to early extension aswell, because your butt has to move off the wall to give freedom for your upper body to rotate?

Damn, that's some crazy long limbs you got, gonna be smashing the ball a country mile once you get body working better. Not expert on this subject, but you seem to be stuck with your weight on both legs/making the move from your rear leg instead of shifting fully to front leg and then swinging the club. If I were you, I'd probably go to this drill first, because it puts you on your front leg and gives you a feeling what it should be like:

Fun sport, played actively for 2-3 years and quite fast got "hang" of it. Worked alot on technique and could throw the disc relatively far. I think the components are pretty much the same as in ball golf and believe someone who is good at ball golf/understand the mechanics could get pretty good at it fast. Personally never could get the balance issues fixed to get the distances/force delivery to elite level, the rear leg balance is usually the biggest problem as for most the rear leg is the "weak/numb" leg. We have this full 18 hole course nearby that has lights on it, sadly quite wet during winter: Surely gonna play again in future, just now ball golf is closer to heart/more fun. 🙂

Had nice session, went back to drill footwork purely as this guy explains on the video: Basically what Mike Maves tried to say, but in different manner. I let the left knee break freely as many teachers seem to advice, feels little weird at first but really makes the move feel more of a "swing": There was crazy left to right/tail wind, which was kinda nice as it really showed the imbalances at times in manner of falling to right few times. Haven't figured out what causes me to retract from ball at impact or how to fix it, any ideas welcome! Thanks in advance!

At no point did I say you/or anyone here were teaching to keep your head still, sorry if my message came out to you that way, English ain't my native language. I just merely tried to provide a video that explains head movement to a thread that is talking about head movement during the swing. This was generally as not all people can afford/take lessons from a pro and this is easily misunderstood concept. Hell I actually saw a pro just couple weeks ago hold his students head still during the swing, which made me question from who do I want to take lessons once I can afford them...

I think the head position at address is important as he demonstrates at the beginning falling to direction where his head is tilted since vestibular system is located in ear. After that the head is indicator what happens under and in which order as the tittle says "Ground up, not head down", which is why I don't think focusing on keeping head still is gonna help.

I think this is really good video regarding head althought it is for disc golf: Thoughts?

Had fun hitting the ball yesterday, just tried to feel my left side work more instead of hanging. Looks the same tho: The move is probably too linear that I'm trying to do. This causes me to flip at the ball since left shoulder doesnt rotate out of the way. Instead it goes up and behind. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!

Was pretty much all over the place in todays session again, think I figured out that the way to achieve the key number 3 is not to push with the right arm. When you do the key number 3 drill, should it feel like the left arm is pulling? The pace was probably only good thing today, took me little over 2 hours to hit 100 balls. Was little low on light so couldn't take slow motion video, only took couple in normal speed, one face on and one down the line. Failed the DTL one again tho, by having the camera way too forward this time... The face on view really shows the flipping of wrists. Worked on drill that I once got from former PGA tour pro Bobby Mitchell (RIP) when I had opportunity to play 9 holes with him. Told me to do 2 "pumps" and then release. These were pretty much full out 3 irons, have to work on slowing things down. Imgur Post with 1 views. Would you advice me to work on key number 3, or is there some other fundamental that is preventing me from getting hands forward? Thanks in advance!

Haven't been able to hit the ball at all due to work, been trying to feel things and try to figure out the cause of flipping my wrists. Went to practise hall yesterday and they had it reserved for private use. Luckily got chance to do short game practise (putting mostly) for 2-3 hours. Putting has always been the weakest part of my game. Out of nowhere I decided to use the line on my ball to line up the putts. Results were shocking as I realised I've lined myself miles right of the hole. When I started to line with the ball it felt like I'm gonna miss left really badly. After I managed to trust the line, I actually started to expect making the putts, will stick to this. I did some feel work of keeping the right foot pressure between the heel and toes all the way to dowswing to get that right foot eversion. Also tried to feel my upper body and lower connected, instead of firing the lower body and trying to catch with the upper half. This really shortened my backswing and I don't know is the thought of sequence right, but it felt more connected. Thanks in advance!

Crazy people, but so are the ones watching rally...

Stupid question: Why not preturn the head at address to the position it wants to go at the top of backswing?

Great place for wintertime practise 👌🇫🇮

Well this was unexpected. We had probably warmest day whole winter ~+8 degrees celsius and decided to escape from work out to range. Was really weird hitting outside after long while and I was pretty much all over the place at the beginning, had couple so bad duffs that I wonder how that matt survived them... Things got bit better towards end and I worked on two things. First being having a intermediate point like 20cm infront of my ball to line my shot. I have never used this and it feels really great although weird, but I recon most good players use it? Second I focused on what this guy said on the video: I tried to line up the phone parallel to my toe line, its maybe still bit too much forward? Also realised I had it set up way too close, my hands get cut out at the top. Hope to get it set up right next time. What comes to my swing, I have no idea what is the thing to focus on, all I know i don't hit very consistently. Thanks in advance!

Will do, hopefully get to hit some by the end of this week. 🤗

I went to golf tradeshow today where they had trackman in some spots. Got to try few diffrent brands 7 irons with diffrent shafts. I didn't understand most of the numbers, but remember that 7i swing speed was 92 mph, spin 7200, dynamic loft 21 degrees and carry around 170 yards. The guy in the station said my ball flight is way too high and will cause trouble in headwinds, which I remember being the case back when I played. I was hitting my normal swings tho and believe I can get them to fly lower by focusing on it, but this got me curious. What things affect the height on shots? He got the trajectory in his words good by putting in dynamic gold x100 shaft, but I believe in my normal swing I'm flipping my wrists that cause this high ball flight. Don't remember the height I was hitting sadly.

I've been Playing Golf for: 6 years My current handicap index or average score is: 5,4 My typical ball flight is: Straight fade The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: Fat/thin Videos: Hey all, I'm from Finland and been playing ball golf as my secondary hobby in a couple year streaks a few times. Finally managed to afford the payments to play again next summer after 4-5 year break. Been hitting in a nearby golf hall few times now during winter and hopefully getting to hit outside on range in 1-2 months. Truth be told I don't know much at all about how to hit golf ball properly, been just hitting them without much thought to it. Recently been watching youtube videos and that feels like a place to get really confused. Really hoping you guys could aid me in my journey to become a better ball striker and hopefully achieve less straining golf swing to keep playing this amazing sport later in my life. There's one video of me hitting a 2 iron and realised the camera aligment wasn't really good after reading the instructions on how to film. Will try to get better aligment next time. Thanks in advance!