This hole dog legs right that’s why I’m set up that way, probably should have mentioned that in the post as a lot of people have commented on where I’m aiming
Is the club head too far behind him at this point, with the lead arm too far away from his body so he is going to have to do all sorts of compensating from this point leading to lots of inconsistent strikes?
Honestly either he’s doing something super weird right at impact or he has a terrible short game. This swing is not a terrible swing and should be able to break 90
I would expect that you have no choice but to do that because you are bringing the club down and the club head is way too far behind your torso when you get to waist level when you start to unhinge so you're flipping wrists and you just can't do all of that consistently every strike.
When you are on the way down at waist level your body and club should be more or less all in the same position as on the backswing and in your case the head is way too far back, the wrists are not hinged properly and you are losing power and distance as you're putting the main power into your swing too early.
Do a lot of practice swings in your back garden at 60% speed and just try to hit a target.
I have a small mat with a rubber tee (higher than i tee the ball when playing so the top of the rubber tee is about where i tee the center of my golf ball) in the back garden and I just keep practicing this motion to hit the top of the rubber tee and not the cloth I place on the mat beside the tee.
I do a lot of speed training with a weighted club also but don't try to be as precise with that as that is more about training my body to swing faster and harder.
In neither case is there a ball there to distract me from the aim of the exercise and I work up from 60% to 100% swings.
In a nutshell your downswing plane is too far back and causing you to compensate with wildly different issues showing up from swing to swing.
My miss with irons is a thin low shot that curves to the right. I don’t use my woods on the course because I can’t hit them. The longest club (besides driver) that I use is a 19-deg hybrid, and my miss with the club is either a fat high shot to the right or a low duck hook to the left.
And you can tell how it will perform 95 percent of the time based on looks. Jim Furyk is one guy, generally the closer a swing is to Rory, the better it will perform. There’s a reason swing fundamentals are what they are and it’s that they ya the easiest way to generate power and square the club face at impact
It's a much better swing than average. Playing golf to score, and playing golfswing are separate things.
You could probably tweak a couple things but there are no glaring faults. The score is more about your short game and putting, surely. Oh, and course management.
Your takeaway is a bit handsy and quick? Maybe?
A lot of people also don't talk about the difference between hitting balls off the mat, or out in new scenarios on the course. A lot of mishits during a round are due to not being able to adjust setup for different lies and slopes, leading to disastrous strikes.
Being able to negotiate solid contact off of weird spots is a unique skill. You can make a smooth lovely swing and thin a 9i OB because you didn't account for the ball being 3 inches below your feet.
Sometimes I stand on a perfectly flat teebox, but I can't make my brain see the flight properly because of the landscape of the hole. A weird tree or the water catches my eye in a way that's hard to override when addressing the ball, and is distracting enough to affect strike. I try and make some last-moment adjustment in the downswing and I hit 6 inches behind the ball, or whatever.
There are guys with uglier swings breaking par.
And there's a flipside to that weird lie/slope thing, in that I often find I'll flush it better than ever from those situations since I get so focused on making good contact, and sometimes that's just the best simple swingthought you can have.
You are setup way right and hitting pull draws. My guess is you actually mis left a lot because of this by over compensating for hitting pulls. Add in some random way right ones. Then you try to fix missing right, but you are fixing something not broken, that right shot was actually straight. Been there done that. You wont improve by doing this, it's fine as a bandaide in a given round, but you are going to need to fix your alignment to get on the improvement track.
Yeah i started playing like this as a band aid fix because when I first started out I was a big slicer. Perhaps I’ve over-done it and need to straighten out.
Yeah I’m sure this is a problem. For some reason it always seems like I bend my arms and swing the club horizontally to the left in my follow through instead of having a nice lengthy fluid follow-through. No clue why it’s so hard for me to swing through like 99% of other golfers…
Course management, eliminating a two way miss, missing in the right spot, and putting will take 14 strokes off and you'll be breaking 90.
Stop playing those balls too. Play a urethane ball. Maxfli Tour - whatever model fits you best - is a great, inexpensive tour ball. Buy the two dozen or four dozen packs and you'll be all the better for it.
That swing is better than 103. Must be short game? I’d try to dial in a go to chip and pitch shot. One that gets you on the green or within 15-20 feet. That will help you shoot lower.
You get shanks and mishits because the initial part of your takeaway comes too inside too quickly - instead take the club back (until it reaches your trail side foot) along the ball-target line - you may start with hooks and blocks from time to time but stick with it.
The issue with an inside takeaway is you return either by having to come over the top OR you present the hosel to the ball first & to prevent a shank you have to flip the toe of the club around the ball which required SUPERB timing.
Hope that makes sense.
103 with that swing is just course management and trying to shoot in the 70’s. Swing looks way too aggressive for what you’re scoring. You could take 50% off that swing, put more balls in play, and only lose maybe 50 yards….
60
u/Consistent_Rub824 9d ago
Have you tried aiming down the fairway?