Good Old Deep Heat. Brings me back to the days of Gaelic football and the Deep Heat aroma from the dressing room. If you weren't careful it could be applied on open wounds....

wildwilly911 - on my old swing I was bending the left arm, that was one of the reasons I pushed beyond parallel - but because this robbed me of power, if/when I hit the ground there was no real impact.

However, with the shorter backswing, I do sometimes hit it too hard, but to be honest a lot my problem is that I'm getting a lot more coil from my swing, when I swing well I have little or no involvement in the downswing, it just happens. By the way it doesn't hurt from hitting the grass, fairways etc. This is coming from hitting on a mat that is sitting on a cement floor....

At the moment I don't have access at home to post the swing (I post at work during the day - but it doesn't allow media applications on the computer).

Basically you think it's okay to play through the pain - that the rewards will be worth it in the long run. To be honest I don't mind the discomfort, I just didn't want to do long term damage.