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Originally Posted by aejones
So I should watch some Jim Furyk videos?
Actually, yes. He is way over exaggerated but that is the idea. try to mimmick him but not so exaggerated and see what happens for a few shots.
Your swing naturally will make a loop so if on the way back you are flat or the club is more behind you then on the way down it will naturally move out and turn into an out to in path that is hard to recover from.
I feel like your first move down is like you say to grip it tighter and then you pull down with your right shoulder. I'd like to see you relax the hands and let your right elbow get close to your side first and then start turning your hips and then shoulders last. Also, shorten your backswing. At least with irons.
I swear my swing looked very similar to yours not all that long ago and I had the same missed as you and this is the direction that fixed it for me.
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Originally Posted by aejones
Mine would start straight and have absurd amount of spin on them, just turn at like a 90 degree angle right. I don't think I've ever had a miss like you describe? One of my semi regular misses is starts left and stays left though (that one typically isn't that bad)
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Originally Posted by ntanygd760
Yeah that is on over the top out to in issue then. Same club path but you get the face closed more with cause the straight pull.
I agree. If your ball starts straight where you are aiming and then curves right this means your club face was square to the target at impact and your swing was out to in. If it takes almost a 90 degree turn right then you were more like 4 to 10 or 5 to 11.
If your ball starts to the left and stays relatively straight without curving then your club was closed to the target and your club path was still out to in like 5 to 11.
Ball flight laws simplified:
If your face is square to target and path is square or 6 to 12 as you put it then the ball will go dead straight at the target. We call this 0* face angle and 0* path.
If your face is open to the target 5* and your path is in to out 5* then your ball will start 5* to the right and not curve at all.
If your face is open to the target 5* and your path is in to out 8* then your ball will start ~5* to the right and curve back to the left.
If your face is open to the target 5* and your path is in to out 2* then your ball will start 5* to the right and curve even more to the right.
To figure out what will occur with a face that is closed to the target just take the opposite of the above.
Basically you can swing with an in to out path (7 to 1) and still hit a slice. Your face angle will determine the starting line of the ball. The path,
as it relates to the face angle, will determine the curve of the ball.