oh my god i love this camera!



so much easier to see so many things in slow motion. the reverse pivot is very obvious now, well spotted dickpound! you can see my toes come up and my body fall away right at impact. can't wait to get back to the range and fix it!!

latest problem has been hitting it on the toe. as you can see in this video, i hit a pretty good shot (thanks to my new super-thick old man irons) but it's clearly right off the toe. happens a lot and all the tips i've found on google don't really seem to apply to me.

Well for me, and it kinda looks like for you also, I hit off the toe when I am trying to hold the club head off instead of releasing it enough. My swing thought to help with this is to push the ball out to the right and extend my arms in the follow through (ideally I play a small push draw, so this might not work if you hit mostly cuts)

couple things i noticed. first, what iron are you hitting? your set up seems a bit too bent over and your rear too far out past your heels. i would prefer a little more upright and maybe less knee bend. this should bring your hands closer to your body which seem a bit reaching. especially if this is a short iron.(you seem to be choking up a lot on this club) i would prefer your arms to make a line 90 degrees to the floor. if this is a wedge or other shorter iron i understand the more bend but your arms are reaching to far out then. this could be a factor in toe hits.

also i would like to see FO view to see your set up and shaft position.

next, in your take away to tend to bow your wrist and your club head gets below your right forearm when shaft is parallel to ground. if you pause it at the point of your shaft being parallel to the ground,(from dtl you should see no shaft at this point) you will notice the club head is below your hands and right forearm. this can cause you to get stuck and your general bowing of the left wrist causes you to flick your wrist through impact. in the takeaway you can try to keep your hands closer to your body while keeping the clubhead out.(rickie fowler is extreme example)

finally, on your downswing you drop the club alot and really shallow out your swing. as you unwind left your head moves backward a bit(behind you) causing you to pull out and stand up at impact. if you pause it at impact you have lost all spine angle and are more upright. great ball strikers lower more and increase their spine angle to the ground. it is very hard for you to compress the ball and it seems more of a sweeping blow. not sure from dtl but at impact it also seems your left leg is still bent and your weight is hanging back on your right foot. you should be posting up on your left leg sooner.

alot of stuff to digest!!! just work on your set up and the other things should start to fall into place. remember with your irons you want to compress the ball into the ground. you cant do that if you are standing up during impact. you want to keep your spine angle if not increase it.(lower into impact and then blasting up out of it after impact.)

if you get the golf v1 app(couple bucks on apple) you can draw lines into your video as markers to really see all the small movements during your swing. draw lines on your head and other spots to notice incorrect movements. after doing this myself it opened my eyes to "what you think you feel is not anything like what really is happening."

nih han, you were so right about the posture being too bent over. i tried a more upright stance and it was an instant cure for the toe hitting. now, a new problem is sometimes hitting it on the heel! gotta play around and find the perfect median.

well spotted.

i think i've finally got the takeaway figured out. now, next to work on is maintaining my spine angle. i'm still standing up on it a bit but it's slightly better than last video. at least now i know to work on it.

really excited about my progress. i'm playing golf on tuesday and i'll be disappointed if i don't break 80.

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looks pretty god damn smooth to me dude. Nice work.

Amazing f-ing progress. I'm done helping; I don't want to get beaten next time!

looks great, good job

what's your HCP?

why you never take a front view of your swing ?

New shorts! It's gotta be da shorts!

thanks all! yes, it's more than likely the shorts. maybe i should get some jorts for extra distance?

HCP is 9.3 but that's from only 6 rounds over the last 2 months. i practice a lot more than i play. and i'm hitting it so much better than i was in may, who knows what my "true" hcp is.

i'd like to get more front views but it's hard sometimes when there's other people at the range. people love to come up next to me even when the range is not crowded.

also most of the time i've been working on the backswing and keeping my right elbow down and the DTL view is most helpful there.

got a front view today

great work!! the shaft plane in the takeaway looks so much better. now if you could just work on staying down through the shot a little longer i think you will really begin to feel the compression of the galf ball. keep those hands forward (or ahead of clubhead) through impact, trying to keep that angle with wrist and shaft, so you can create real lag.

for me- that looks great

one Q for others- doesn't his club lean too much forward at the beginning of the swing ?

depends on what club he is hitting. however, i like some foward shaft lean on all clubs. obviously more as you get into the shorter clubs. at impact you want foward sharft lean, and since you tend to subconsciously try return to your address postion on downswing, its better to start with some. plus the clubhead is never square unless you have the shaft leaning foward. otherwise it will be slightly open and, or the bounce can affect the shot.

if you thin or scull your shots from time to time or are not taking divots after impact on shorter irons, i would add some more foward shaft lean at address.
i think error on the more "foward lean" side is better than to err on little or no lean.

holy ****, skipped from 1st page to here, takeaway, looks SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better.

EDIT 3econds later: lol how many shots have you shaved off your hcap siince OP, swing looks really good!