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I've got a couple thoughts just looking at the still photo. Feel free to totally disregard as some stranger's opinion on the internet!

Some of this is caused by camera angle but I see a couple of stark differences

Your foot line is well to the right where Rors is more parallel left. A closed stance can encourage the club to go too much behind you.

Also that's what it looks like to me. Not necessarily that your hands/arms are flat, but that they are way behind your head whereas Rory is above his right shoulder.

It also looks as if you are missing some needed width in the backswing. Again hard to tell for sure from camera angle but I'm guessing a face on view would show hands all the way behind you. If you look at Rory face on, when his hands are set at the top they are still well to the rear of his head. To put it another way, if you look at him face on and drew a vertical line from the right side of his head to the ground, his hands do not pass that line. So he is both high and wide. Conversely yours looks as if your hands would travel well beyond that line, leading to a sagging and somewhat collapsed position at the top. Again, camera angle is making it a bit hard to say but I would be striving more for the idea of wide than trying to keep the left arm straight at all

 

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Yeah I'm trying to go straight back now vs. inside. It was helping a bit yesterday at the range. When I get the face square I like the results a lot, feels like where I was earlier in the year when I couldn't miss a fairway and was pushing 300.

 

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Personally, for me,  I find that golf should be an empty headed game.   When I start thinking, things ain't gonna be pretty.   People often discuss the importance of hand/eye coordination.  For me, its more of a matter of brain/body coordination.   If my brain sends too many signals to my body, my body gets totally confused, and most times, my body is just going to do what it wants to do any how, ignoring any instructions from the brain .  So most times, I find it best for my brain not to overload my body and just let it do what its going to do in hopes that the body is doing well that day.

Yep for me too much thinking can be dangerous when trying to actually hit the ball. Usually I think what club I want to use and what I want to attempt to do and get over it and hit and hope I am successful if not hope to find it and hit it again. Really simple for my simple mind

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Yep for me too much thinking can be dangerous when trying to actually hit the ball. Usually I think what club I want to use and what I want to attempt to do and get over it and hit and hope I am successful if not hope to find it and hit it again. Really simple for my simple mind

 

 

Same for me, once I envision my shot, pick a club and get set up, I go dumb, I just swing and don't think about anything. I'mm going to hit it again, good, bad, or ugly unless it's the final putt of the round.

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Timing/Rhythm thoughts:

 

Back and through with driver and hybrids.

 

Up and In with irons. 

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It's funny how your setup can cause all sorts of screwy inconsistent stuff to happen. My main swing thought today was feet position and I played some really solid golf. Simple but game changing good. 

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I don't know if it's even a correct piece of a good swing or not, but I always seem to go back to thinking about keeping a closed face on the backswing. I don't know why it works really, but when I do it, my ball striking is really crisp

 

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Gonna be thinking about/working on being way less flat for next season. Watched a video of my swing DTL and left arm was damn near horizontal

 

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That was my issue when I went to golf school in October.  My coach said it was a miracle that I could get the club back down to the ball.  He said I was perfect if I was trying to hit a fastball into the upper deck!!

 

I spend 2 days working on it; swing videos, and when I got home my ball striking was vastly improved.  I played the best golf ever the last month before GHIN shut down for the winter; went fro, 9.0 to 7.9 in 30 days.

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My biggest continual problem, bending my wrists. If I can get that under control I think I'll be able to add yards and accuracy to my shots. Hopefully then reducing strokes.

 

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I don't know if it's even a correct piece of a good swing or not, but I always seem to go back to thinking about keeping a closed face on the backswing. I don't know why it works really, but when I do it, my ball striking is really crisp

I tried that and don't understand how you do it. In my swing, I lay it open.

 

That could just be the difference between a drawer and a fader though.

 

 

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That was my issue when I went to golf school in October. My coach said it was a miracle that I could get the club back down to the ball. He said I was perfect if I was trying to hit a fastball into the upper deck!!

 

I spend 2 days working on it; swing videos, and when I got home my ball striking was vastly improved. I played the best golf ever the last month before GHIN shut down for the winter; went fro, 9.0 to 7.9 in 30 days.

Yeah I've been told I've got a pretty good baseball swing. Trouble is I've never played...

 

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I don't really have a swing thought on the course as far as mechanics go right now. On good days once I've set up at the start of my swing my sole thought is “attack”, it helps to keep other thoughts out, I guess that could count though.

 

 

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Time for a bit of comic relief. I mean: ya gotta scratch your head and wonder what (if any?) the swing thoughts of these golfers are........

 

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Time for a bit of comic relief. I mean: ya gotta scratch your head and wonder what (if any?) the swing thoughts of these golfers are........

 

https://twitter.com/HashtagChad/status/929116192064733185?s=09

The second one is pretty cool that he made good contact.

 

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I've played a lot of sports in my life and I don't really remember thinking about anything when playing... I've found while golfing, the more I think about how not to screw it up I screw it up. It hasn't become a natural thing for me like shooting a basketball or hitting a baseball. Which I must say is frustrating as hell. My one swing thought is always swing through the ball.

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