Lazy Hands With Driver

[Shankster]

So I think I have an issues with my driver. It's the only club I had problems with yesterday. I felt like I was holding off the shot, and I probably was. But on the range they were doing exactly what I told them to do: draw, fade, low, moon...

 

So what gives? Why do I feel the need to leave the club face wide open with my driver?

 

Anyone else lazy with their hands?

 

I feel like if I go 95% or better with the driver the results are better. Smacked one 326 with a 10 yard fade "on purpose" the fade is my go to shot. Should I just hit that shot with it, and keep the 2 Wood for draws off the tee when needed?

 

Why are my hands lazy? Or could it be something else? I'm working on clearing my hips more.

 

Grip? Face alignment?

 

Help...!

 

 

 

 

- Al

[scooducks]

It could be one of a hundred things.

 

When your neck hurts, it could be your hips are out of alignment, or maybe the lumbar spine is off, possibly a bulging disk or twist vertebrae in the mid spine. Maybe it really is all just in the neck. Chances are you won't find out until you get in front of a professional.

 

Similar situation here with your hands. Maybe your hands are leaving it open, maybe you focusing on clearing your hips is really just causing you to bump the hips in stead of clear, causing the hands to drop and face to open. Maybe your pulling over the top and not realizing when you're "feeling lazy". Tough to gauge without video to analyze.

 

If it's a big pervasive issue, I would suggest getting a lesson or two. A good teaching pro is worth every penny if you're serious about the game.

 

I would be wary of swing advice via text posts only. Too many moving parts in a swing.

 

 

 

 

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[Shankster]

Yeah. I was mostly venting. I'm taking the Bubba route, no lessons. Maybe I shoulda put this in the Rant Thread.

 

 

- Al

[Smalls1588]

If anything it could just be a lack of focus on the tee. Maybe look at your pre-shot routine and try to incorporate an over exaggerated swing that makes you feel like the club is doing what you want it to. I started noticing Rickie really over exaggerating his practice swings and gave it a shot. No matter what my swing thought is, I really stress it in my pre-shot. Then its just stepping up to the tee and committing. Sounds easy enough but gives you a lot of confidence and I've noticed the big miss really being eliminated for me. Hope that made sense. 

[null]

If you hit a fade over 300 yards, why the hell would you ever try to hit anything else?

[Shankster]

If you hit a fade over 300 yards, why the hell would you ever try to hit anything else?

It's when I don't want it to happen it happens... I have the worst problem with dead straight holes. I'd rather have to craft shots. All the par 5's on my course are dead straight, and at 300+ I should be able to get there in 2. But I end up OB or somewhere else just as fun. Throw a dog leg on it and I'm all set. Either way.

 

And that's way long for me. I'm around 280 average. But I did hit one 380 last year with a little wind help. That was frickin cool. Turned a 570 yard hole into manageable real quick.

 

 

- Al

[null]

You need to learn how embrace/play to your fade rather than trying to fight it.  It is your natural ball flight, so you should work with it unless you want to overhaul your entire swing to hit a draw - which could take months depending on how good your teacher is and how much range time you can put in.

[Shankster]

I like playing the fade. It's just those pesky left hand turns..

 

 

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[mrsmith123]

Al, that's a focus thing. Most players will say a straight hole is the hardest. Here's the thing though, play away from trouble. If you have a straight hole though, set your club face at the middle of the fairway, or left center. Then set your feet and shoulders at about 5 yards into the rough. Swing at 85-90% and it will fade bro (it has to).

 

Work on it on the practice tee too. Force yourself to learn to hit it on command.

 

Cheers

Burk

 

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[Eseay32]

If your club face is wide open at impact and your hitting a right ball it's not really because your hands are just lazy. Other than at impact your hands aren't really turning/twisting the club.

 

I have this problem with the driver too. My bad miss is wide open face with a huge spinning block push slice cut. It's so far off the course. I have two issues that cause this. I'm clearing out too soon and then my hands are way behind my body or my hands get very vertical at impact. Both leave the face wide open. I hit the hell out of it on the range and and then it shows up on the course. No telling how many times I've hit 20 drivers dead straight on the range before walking up to the first tee and blocking one dead right.

 

 

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[The Dansome]

You need to learn how embrace/play to your fade rather than trying to fight it. It is your natural ball flight, so you should work with it unless you want to overhaul your entire swing to hit a draw - which could take months depending on how good your teacher is and how much range time you can put in.

This

 

I was working on this with my buddy who's a 2 cap today. He gets to 3 holes (straight ones) on our course and always sets up on right side of box (lefty) and blocks em while trying to hit straight down the middle. Today I put him as far left on tee as possible and aiming right rough across hole (at a bunker or tree) and he was putting his natural fade middle of the fairway. Embrace what you know.

[Shankster]

This

 

I was working on this with my buddy who's a 2 cap today. He gets to 3 holes (straight ones) on our course and always sets up on right side of box (lefty) and blocks em while trying to hit straight down the middle. Today I put him as far left on tee as possible and aiming right rough across hole (at a bunker or tree) and he was putting his natural fade middle of the fairway. Embrace what you know.

I "usually" set up for my fade. I'm forgetful some times. Going out again on Tuesday. We'll see how it goes.

 

 

- Al

[Shankster]

Just going to have to drop the loft to 9 or lower. It comes in open so, I'm probably presenting 15° at impact.

 

 

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[Shankster]

Can't wait to demo the new stuff on Tuesday. Going get fit up for a Ping Driver, see what happens. Going to hit all of the brands, but mostly looking forward to the Ping. Going to be hard to explain to the wife that "I gotta have that!"

 

Lots of going to's. Need a thesaurus.

 

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[ole gray]

Can't wait to demo the new stuff on Tuesday. Going get fit up for a Ping Driver, see what happens. Going to hit all of the brands, but mostly looking forward to the Ping. Going to be hard to explain to the wife that "I gotta have that!"

 

Lots of going to's. Need a thesaurus.

 

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My wife stole my Ping driver! I think we may be sporting two in the family before long..

 

Update: A snake crawled into my bag

 

 

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[Shankster]

Snow storm.. are you EF'ing kidding me?! This is getting old.

 

 

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[Shankster]

Not so lazy. It was operator error.

 

 

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