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Sounds like you are well under plane. Check with a flashlight by tracing a straight plane line, and/or take some slow motion backswings with your back up against a wall (or about a foot or two away at most). If you are indeed under plane, you would actually need to feel quite a roll to compensate for it. Once you get back on plane, the roll feel won't be as obvious, or as needed.

Hmm that may be the case as i've been working on getting rid of an over the top move (my old bad habit was shoulders spinning out slightly on the start down). Perhaps i'm over compensating now and coming in too much under plane.

I just want to bury that ball into the turf so the will is there it's just the fear of hitting a shank that needs to be gotten out of the system!