Post Your Swing

[yungkory]

Gauss nailed it. Lately my miss has been pull hooks hitting the ball off the heel. A "good" shot is usually a block.

 

Any ideas for drills to help with coming over the top?

 

I also wonder a little bit if a different head/shaft combination would help me out. Would like to fix swing issues first though.

 

 

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I used to fight a pretty big fade that would slice if I compounded my swing with a heel strike --  part of it was swing, the other part was too soft of a shaft, which just compounded things even further. The way I helped myself to fix it was to make swings where I felt like I was going around my body more. Exaggerating it in my practice like a baseball swing almost, but keeping that feeling in actual shots. It also helped me keep my hands lower (watch Rory's swing, I always thought high hands = higher power). On the down swing, I would try to keep the feeling that my right elbow was going to clip my right hip almost. Maybe sticking a headcover in your right armpit would help you retain that feeling? Once you come over the top, your right arm will become "disconnected" from your body and fall out. You can see what I was working on a few weeks ago on the previous page. YouTube viewing tip - you can pause with spacebar and use , & . to go frame by frame when people don't upload slow motion shots.

 

Your swing is solid, and I like it. The video editing was solid as well!

[STUDque]

Thanks. Will give that a try and report back. Hope the corny music didn't put you to sleep

 

 

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[yungkory]

Thanks. Will give that a try and report back. Hope the corny music didn't put you to sleep

 

 

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For whatever reason it doesn't load on my computer, and I watched it on my phone instead - which was muted

[gaussman1]

So I took the advice from Plaid in another thread and got the Michael Breed book on video analysis. Haven't made it too far into it but I've got a few takeaways to apply.

 

1. Think I'm standing too close to the ball. My arm angle at address is way too wide.

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2. I'll try your other tip about moving the ball forward a scoche. Somehow it always works its way back in my stance and I have to pull my arms in to get to it.

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3. I fight this problem throughout the bag of taking it back too far. I should stop here:

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But end up here:

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Stud I don't know that your ball position is much of an issue. Yes it's back a little relative to your left foot, but we don't really care about the left foot as much as the left shoulder. You're basically under the left shoulder which is fine. It could move up a ball width from there to encourage swinging up a touch more but nothing drastic. Someone else in the thread recommend the head cover under the right armpit drill and I think that's spot on. Looks like the lifting of the right elbow at the end of the back swing is your culprit here. Getting that thing to stay in it's position better will move you into a more rounded turn at the top, which should put you in a better position to attack from the inside.

 

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[STUDque]

I made it a few more chapters into the book and it talked heavily about ball position in relation to your spine, not your feet. Then I received this comment on my Hudl video. While well intentioned, it did give me a little laugh since the information from Gauss, Shanks, Kory, and Breed made much more sense.

 

 

 

Ball stays put, arm pit needs to stay connected.

 

 

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[yungkory]

I made it a few more chapters into the book and it talked heavily about ball position in relation to your spine, not your feet. Then I received this comment on my Hudl video. While well intentioned, it did give me a little laugh since the information from Gauss, Shanks, Kory, and Breed made much more sense.

 

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Ball stays put, arm pit needs to stay connected.

 

 

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Yeah, as I mentioned before, I always thought high hands = more power (I think that was put into my head when I played little league). Then I started watching face-on videos of guys like Rory, and his hands go far back, but they aren't very high above his head. Once I started swinging more around my body and keeping my elbow in, I got a lot more consistency. 

[STUDque]

Yeah, as I mentioned before, I always thought high hands = more power (I think that was put into my head when I played little league). Then I started watching face-on videos of guys like Rory, and his hands go far back, but they aren't very high above his head. Once I started swinging more around my body and keeping my elbow in, I got a lot more consistency.

So I made it further in the book and took a lot more screenshots. I figure the best place for that level of detail would be its own thread since this thread is just "post your swing." While an analysis of my swing is mostly only valuable to me, there may be other spies with similar issues that could benefit.

 

I spent a good portion of yesterday reading a section then analyzing then collected screenshots. Now I'm getting to the downswing portion of the book and I'll post the full analysis once I finish.

 

 

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[DaveP043]

I've posted a few to YouTube, here are the most recent.  The slo-mo videos were too big to upload here directly

 

https://youtu.be/B1JQwxxxPJc

 

https://youtu.be/phHiIcRmW20

[gaussman1]

I've posted a few to YouTube, here are the most recent. The slo-mo videos were too big to upload here directly

 

https://youtu.be/B1JQwxxxPJc

 

https://youtu.be/phHiIcRmW20

Nice swing there Dave. I'm guessing you keep it in the short grass most of the time

 

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[DaveP043]

Nice swing there Dave. I'm guessing you keep it in the short grass most of the time

Thanks, I certainly try to hit em where I can find em, but its a work in progress.  I'm trying to make some tweaks, and its not easy breaking habits that are 20 years old.

[TSauer]

Hasn't been much action in here for a little while. Let's revive it! Show off your swing, peeps.

 

I've been working on mine lately, so I'll try and get a new one up sometime soon.

[yungkory]

Playing with Shot Tracer on my gf's new iPhone X. Don't know what the ding sound was, but with the plane flying overhead this ball was cleared for takeoff 

 

[STUDque]

Playing with Shot Tracer on my gf's new iPhone X. Don't know what the ding sound was, but with the plane flying overhead this ball was cleared for takeoff

 

https://youtu.be/NtnYqOT-iIs

Rickie, is that you?

 

 

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[Trout Bum]

I've posted a few to YouTube, here are the most recent.  The slo-mo videos were too big to upload here directly

 

https://youtu.be/B1JQwxxxPJc

 

https://youtu.be/phHiIcRmW20

 

Great swing, you get through the ball well Dave

[AH1980MN]

Do I detect a little Tom Lehman in that swing, Dave?

[KCLeo12]

https://instagram.com/p/BbH2hqjnKKE/' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'> https://instagram.com/p/BbH2hqjnKKE/

 

Here is a swing from this week

[DaveP043]

Do I detect a little Tom Lehman in that swing, Dave?

Probably a little more than I'd really like.  The deeper knee flex leads to my hips sliding, rather than rotating.  I'm continuing to work on standing a little taller, and allowing my hips to rotate better going forward.  

[AH1980MN]

Still- looks pretty good!

[bens197]

I️ do not know how to embed a video so I️ thought I'd throw it back golf digest style.

 

This is a 5 iron swing.

 

 

 

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[moosejaa]

Why am I getting this message "Oops! This forum has disabled media sharing."?

 

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[Rickp]

I would would pay $$$$ to have that kind of rhythm.

 

Very nice.

 

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And a lefty!

 

 

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[MGoBlue100]

Always a little afraid when someone says "I took a video of that swing". Afraid of what I might see. This is 3 wood off the deck, taken in AL in OCT this year. Didn't think it was too horrible. I hit a really nice shot, at least!

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[Jmikecpa]

Gauss nailed it. Lately my miss has been pull hooks hitting the ball off the heel. A "good" shot is usually a block.

 

Any ideas for drills to help with coming over the top?

 

I also wonder a little bit if a different head/shaft combination would help me out. Would like to fix swing issues first though.

 

 

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Swing into a mirror if you can. Slow and deliberate and work on flattening it out a bit. I struggle with getting long in the backswing and over the top. The mirror generally sorts it out for me.

 

 

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[STUDque]

Swing into a mirror if you can. Slow and deliberate and work on flattening it out a bit. I struggle with getting long in the backswing and over the top. The mirror generally sorts it out for me.

 

 

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So I've been working on that this winter in my basement. Between going super slow and posing at different positions throughout, I think I've got that loop at the top shrinking. Gonna take some more footage when it warms up to compare.

 

Unfortunately my mirrors are very narrow so I can't see a ton of my swing in them. May have to figure something out for that.

 

 

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[STUDque]

Here's a little after and before action. The winter shot is the after and summer is before. I purposefully let the timing unsync on the videos so they could be watched side by side easier.

 

Iron

Driver

 

 

 

Not a ton of differences but I'm starting to get that loop at the top under control. Little bit more work to do on that but I can see I'm already limiting the over-the-top move that it promoted. Biggest difference is I'm actually horizontal at the top vs going way past. I guess I hadn't noticed it before, but I actually used to have a bit of casting at the top as well.

 

 

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[gaussman1]

Here's a little after and before action. The winter shot is the after and summer is before. I purposefully let the timing unsync on the videos so they could be watched side by side easier.

 

Iron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7wUl4Lh_k&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Driver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99tXQOlFQK8&feature=youtu.be

 

 

 

Not a ton of differences but I'm starting to get that loop at the top under control. Little bit more work to do on that but I can see I'm already limiting the over-the-top move that it promoted. Biggest difference is I'm actually horizontal at the top vs going way past. I guess I hadn't noticed it before, but I actually used to have a bit of casting at the top as well.

 

 

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Looks like you're on the right track. Keep at it!

[TSauer]

Wanted to give this thread a bump, as well as post an update.

 

Went out and worked on my swing today. Saw a drill before I went out that consisted of placing one ball directly behind your ball and moving it out of the way on your back swing, it's supposed to help you from being so handsy. I'm not sure if my hands were too active previously, but I know I had a problem with a fast takeaway and I think this helped with that a lot. Made me slow it down. I was hitting everything so well, so I'd say it worked for me. It was either that or the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing through my headphones.

 

PS... I don't know how people set the camera up perfectly behind them and down the line. It's always crooked for me.

 

Anyway, here's my work in progress.

 

https://youtu.be/U1qBMSCTxhs

[bens197]

This is from last fall near season end. I've always felt most comfortable with driver in my hands. I play a 44.5” and have recently been considering moving to 45”. I am more than open to constructive feedback.

 

https://youtu.be/1jqhqllh5c8

 

 

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[bens197]

Wanted to give this thread a bump, as well as post an update.

 

Went out and worked on my swing today. Saw a drill before I went out that consisted of placing one ball directly behind your ball and moving it out of the way on your back swing, it's supposed to help you from being so handsy. I'm not sure if my hands were too active previously, but I know I had a problem with a fast takeaway and I think this helped with that a lot. Made me slow it down. I was hitting everything so well, so I'd say it worked for me. It was either that or the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing through my headphones.

 

PS... I don't know how people set the camera up perfectly behind them and down the line. It's always crooked for me.

 

Anyway, here's my work in progress.

 

https://youtu.be/U1qBMSCTxhs

Also a great drill for your short swings and putting. Looks good!!

 

 

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[TSauer]

This is from last fall near season end. I've always felt most comfortable with driver in my hands. I play a 44.5” and have recently been considering moving to 45”. I am more than open to constructive feedback.

 

https://youtu.be/1jqhqllh5c8

 

 

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Thats a spicy swing! Stripe show!