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Originally Posted by tilter29
I see a couple things that you need to change. It starts with your set-up and you are aimed too far to the right, especially with the driver. You need to aim parallel left of your target. Imagine railroad tracks going from the ball to the target. The track on the right (looking from behind) will run at your target and you want to aim your body parallel to that line. This will make it easier to swing the club on plane. This will feel akward at first but won't last long.
Now that you are set up correctly, it will make this next step easier. Halfway back position of your backswing when your left arm is parallel to the ground, the club should be pointing between your feet and the ball. Your club is pointing right of the ball which is too flat and the club needs to be more vertical. When you practice this, notice how the club becomes lighter when the club is more up and down and not horizontal.
https://imgur.com/a/94MGQPY
Looking at that image you can see where you are and where you need to be. To do this, take your normal set up and start your backswing by moving your arms and hands straight up. Let's say the ball is North, your left foot is west and your right foot is east. You want to take the clubhead and move it straight north with your arms and hands. This along with turning your shoulders will get the club on plane.
Just focus on this part for now, I don't want to give you too much information and have your brain explode. Let me know if you have any questions but this will get you on a good start.
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Originally Posted by rayfox111
The most noticable thing about your swing is that its very flat.
Your hands at the top of your swing are too low.
Steepen your takeaway and dont drop your hands to a lower position on the downswing.
Other than that I cant see too much wrong with your swing.
Your adress position is good also you have a good smooth rhythm to your swing.
The alignment comment helped me a ton, I used to address this on every shot but I guess I got lazy with it and went into a bad habit. Felt like I could swing towards the target a bit better and more freely.
In regards to the being flat, I tried some of what you said and it started very well almost to well, I think I was gaining a little more distance by doing this. Ball flight changed as well to a more lower more penetrating ball compared to what I am used to. I did however run into some problems, I started shanking it, I'm not going to try this until after the Charity event I have on Friday.
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Originally Posted by Zimmer4141
IMO the number one reason you lack distance is your front shoulder. The backswing is all about loading tension between the upper body and lower body through shoulder turn. Focus on turning as far as you can with your shoulders while keeping your left arm mostly straight and just bending your wrists a bit.
The main thing is that you go way past parallel with the club but you stop turning your shoulders too early.
Then once you have that tension loaded, hold it as long as possible by keeping that left shoulder tucked even as the hips start turning through the ball.
This has been quite a common theme with me even back like 6 or 7 years ago I was like this. I remember I didn't really even turn at all and because of this basically my left arm would just crash into my body and bend giving me 0 width.
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Originally Posted by bwslim69
So you need to see an instructor. Please don't take the advice on an internet forum.
There is a lot going on here and that's totally to be expected given your index. There are two ways to get longer:
1) Improve your mechanics such that you hit the ball more consistently and solidly
2) Increase your club head speed and thus the ball speed
There is a ton of low hanging fruit with the mechanics in almost any player's case. For you specifically I think you can improve: your takeaway/backswing, your transition and your downswing. Basically everything can be cleaned up. My hunch is that if you worked with an instructor you could add considerable distance relatively quickly.
Good luck. Update this thread as you go through the improvement process.
Thanks, I do take things with a pinch of salt when it comes to getting advice when it comes to the golf swing. So much stuff out there the worst thing is you'll try and assess yourself without looking at the swing and going by feel then people including me in the past go down the YouTube rabbit hole and try and find a fix, When the problem your having isn't even related to what you think.
I am looking to get lessons I'm just trying to figure out who with. Not many coaches around me that have a launch monitor, I'm pretty sure I want to go down that route. My previous lessons have been without them and I didn't find I learnt much this was probably before Launch monitors were readily available though so no fault of the coaches.
Thanks guys I'll update once I have one. I've got to say though I'm hitting the ball the best I've hit it. Again not far as I'd like and any long course is going to rip me a new one but I'm consistently striking the ball well.