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[grapegoat]

Please bash and while you at it offer opinions on what comes next. I see a arching of the left wrist in the startup leaving the club underplane and causing the club to be in a shut alignment at the top. What else is there.

Any help is greatly appreciated and i will take any suggestion on how to eliminate that arching in startup.


Face on

Rear view

An old vid from about 4 years ago so everyone can see what i came from

Swing from last golf season looks alright and alignments are decent

[cjohnny_tai]

i think if your shoulder's turn is more until left shoulder pass chin.
it will be good for your swing.

[Toolish]

Not sure what it is, but something looks abit iffy with your pivot through the impact interval, bit of a hip stall.

Also the plane definately needs work, obviously an ongoing issue for you.

Have you always watched the club going back?

Overall a good motion though...what do you play off?

[grapegoat]

Hey guys, the pivot is definatly a problem, hopefully with the help of a better plane this can be corrected by itself and if not then i will tackle that then. The shoulder turn is something that Hunter and I worked on to simplify my stroke. I used to have that big turn away from the ball and fought problems way worse then i did now. Hopefully Rob can chime in on the shoulder turn and explain the logics behind it, thats one of the few things when I was instructed to do something I was actually able to accomplish it. Any pointers on how to maintain the left arm flying wedge a little better, this should fix the plane problems as the right is in pretty good shape from what i can see. Thanks for the time and hopefully the weather will clear up soon and we all can get back to the nice green grass and blue sky.

[O.B.Left]

Please bash and while you at it offer opinions on what comes next. I see a arching of the left wrist in the startup leaving the club underplane and causing the club to be in a shut alignment at the top. What else is there.

Any help is greatly appreciated and i will take any suggestion on how to eliminate that arching in startup.


Face on

Rear view

An old vid from about 4 years ago so everyone can see what i came from

Swing from last golf season looks alright and alignments are decent

No need to bash. I see a good athletic golfer with a great on plane right arm. Its your left wrist action that is maybe suspect.

From personal experience, I think there are a couple of things to consider:

From the down the line perspective.
-your left hand grip is super strong.
-you left hand at top is literally flat.

These two things suggest to me that you have lost your left arm flying wedge. The plane of your left hand cock and uncock is off, the club face closed, the left wrist arched. Check out Fred Couples left hand grip and its "flat" position at end. See Yoda's hammer drill video. Take the club in your left hand only, with your normal grip and the club opposite your left shoulder and hammer. Notice the increased bend in your left wrist at top......this for you, given your grip is "flat". The stronger the grip the more bend you should see. My "flat" at top is different than your flat because my left hand grip is different than yours. Flat in golf terms is relative not literal.

Another way to examine this is to look in a mirror at your down the line top position. You'll notice your left wrist is literally flat and your clubface is closed. Start cupping your left wrist until the club squares itself to the line of your left forearm. This is the amount of cup you need to be on plane given your grip. If it feels awkward consider weakening up your left hand grip.

You appear to be over swiveling under the plane and in the process arching your left wrist. This will be helped by the above new "flat" (but really bent for you position), extensor action, RFT and an understanding of keeping your left wrist (though turned and strong) perpendicular to the associated plane. For you, assuming you are a hitter, the angled plane. A no roll feel.

Oh yah another thing I see:
You've converted to a hitter. Nice.

You have a lot in common Trevino but if it aint work'n fix it.

[Mathew]

Im going to approach this from a simplistic practical perspective instead of my usual tone of discussion. There is good things about your stroke pattern but lets just concentrate on the areas needing improvement.

First thing you have got to get rid of is when you start back you are looking at your hands or clubhead... you should be looking at the ball. This is a terrible habit and one that you should get out of as quickly as possible. The habit is usually formed whilst doing practice swings at home...etc.

I also don't like the head movement on the downstroke either. It makes it alot easier to hit the ball when your actually looking at it.. Just think about the area you are standing in, not the target then "Hit the ball hard, it will land somewhere" - one of my favourite quotes.

It is hard to know for sure on video but just have a great sence that there is some grip 'slippage' in your stroke. You wrap your hands around the grip of the club and then they just 'hold'. The grip itself shouldn't change throughout the stroke.

You really don't have much of a pivot on the backstroke. Maybe a misconception is to blame about the hips resisting the shoulder turn which is incorrect. The shoulder turn drags the hip turn. Your pivot train on the backstroke is halted at the hip turn which restricts the shoulder turn. Your total inability to turn probably means your at the point where you may need to exaggerate the hip motion till you can learn to let the shoulder motion cause and 'drag' the hip motion again.

Your start-up is off plane. Learn that the pressure you make on the club at the initial moment you start to preform start-up will send the clubhead on an orbit... try and make that the correct orbit....