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Originally Posted by Bob148
How many of you go so far past parallel that you can see the club head in the corner of your eye? It a bit distracting, but feels right to me. I think I maintain tension well with my legs. My left heel doesn’t lift, but my pinky toe lifts laterally slightly. My right leg straightens slightly to accommodate the weight shift, but the knee doesn’t move laterally. This puts the bulk of the rotation on my hips and shoulders.
With that in mind, My upper left quad is in need of strengthening, which will help with flexibility. (Many think that bigger muscles are inflexible, but it’s the opposite. Long story short is that I need to squat deadlift and powerclean some weight. The effect will be that my legs and hips will scoff at the challenge of playing 18 holes. “Muahahaha”. -my lower body.
Lol.
Not a problem if you are (1) keeping your lead arm relatively straight, (2) are not loosening your fingers in your grip at the top of the swing to achieve this, and (3) are making good contact with the clubface at impact.
I guess another one would be that you are not throwing away your lag and casting in your downswing.
I play with one guy that has very long swing because he is flexible and long-limbed, but he throws away all his lag in the downswing so his long swing is pretty much no advantage, and is probably costing him distance, and for sure is hurting his contact.
Another guy I play with only gets just short or parallel with his swing, but his transition to downswing is under control and he retains lag way better, thus hits it farther and straighter and with better contact because (imo) he has less things in his shorter swing that can go wrong, and his clubhead speed is peaking near impact.
I think it is a given that the length of a backswing is not nearly as important as the size of the angle between the lead arm and the shaft and the end of the backswing, and how far into the downswing that angle is retained. I wanted to say how that angle is held, but that be a bad word with respect to lag.
So, seeing your club out of the corner of your eye may not be bad at all, but it could be a bad sign if you are overswinging to get to that spot.
all just my opinion of course.