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gord962
Calendar & Links Manager
Registered: March 2003
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,643
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Mon December 20, 2004 12:49pm
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A few things quickly:
Set up:
Cons: You appear to have no knee flex at all and you are reaching for the ball - let your arms hang loosely.
Pros: You back is nice and straight and you are bending from the hips. Well done!
Swing:
Cons: pause at the top - you are aiming at about 2 o'clock - you club should be parallel to your target line.
Also, you have 2 tempos - 1 for hitting the ball and 1 for practice swings as we can see by having a view from behind and infront. The tempo for hitting the ball is rushed (2 seconds from takaway to impact) and the practice swing was a bit more relaxed (2 seconds from takeaway to top of the backswing, 3 seconds from takeaway to impact) - right where it should be!!
At the very top of your backswing you make a tiny slide away from the target. This makes you slide back to the target. Work on keeping your hips still as possible.
You appear to start your takeaway with your hands/arms - start with your shoulders.
Pros: nice full shoulder turn to 90*, hips at 45*. Your head is behind the ball in the impact position and your hands are infront of your clubhead. Nice finish position.
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Gord
Quote of the month:
"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall
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TeachingPro
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Registered: December 2004
Location: England
Posts: 730
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Tue December 21, 2004 9:53am
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My comments:
1. Your setup is not athletic enough. You need to increase the flex in your knees, push your bum out and move behind the ball far more than you do now.
2. Your spine angle at address is not steep enough for a driver. You need to tilt more to the right, your left shoulder and hip must be higher than the right, more than you are know.
3. On the take away, you immediately go inside instead of straight back and then inside. Your club does not stay parallel to the target when the club reaches hip height.
4. When the club reaches hip height, your wrists and hands should be at about 90* to the shaft. Yours are no where that. You need to increase the wrist cock.
5. Your shoulders need to tilt more as they turn. Your shoulders are very flat at the end of your backswing. Your left shoulder should be under your chin and your right shoulder should be significatly higher than the left.
6. Your clubface appears square at the top of the backswing, which is very good for a swing that goes so far accross the line.
7. Your club needs to go behind your back and shoulders, not your head. When you turn, try to point the club down the line over your right shoulder.
8. I think you might need to move your lower half a bit further behind the ball, but this might correct itself when you change your knee flex.
9. When you start the downswing, your first move is a slight (it is about 2 inches!) move left. The first move needs to the left hip turning back to where it was, followed by the shoulders, arms and then the hands. Think of it as 4 circles turning, first the inside and then the outside, etc.
10. You have an early release. By the time the your hands drop inside of the line, parallel to your hips you have lost almost all your pwer. The club should still be catching up, you should try to keep the club pointing at the sky until your hands reach your hips and then pull the club into the ball.
11. When you swing into the realese, I can't see very well because there are very few frames to work with, but it seems as though you "stand up" inside of staying down and accellerating through to impact and finish. Your head is way above where it should be.
13. Driving into impact the right side of your body lags. It needs to follow the club into impact, including the right knee, hip and shoulder. They have to drive through to increase power and take away that "C" finish of yours.
12. Taking your "ball" swing as the tempo - you're fine. I'd watch that practice swing of yours. It was about 10mph slower than the first. Your practice swing ins't a dress rehersal, it's a full bore, committed swing ...
There is lots to work on here, I know. To see an immediate improvement to your inconsisency, start by changing the address position, increase the knee flex, increase the spine angle and move the weight to the balls of your feet.
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Golf is easy ... once you know how.
Graham Arnott, teaching professional
Kelrosa Golf Studios
www.kelrosagolf.com
Class 'A' PGA Member
Full Member: World Golf Teachers Federation (GB&I)
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pgapro
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Registered: August 2001
Location: England
Posts: 252
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Wed December 22, 2004 4:45am
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Rating: 10.00
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Hi Ricky,
As the guys have pointed out your posture could be worked on, and there is a lesson on the posture in the "Golf Lessons" section of the site. It is well worth going through each of these sections one at a time. One piece of valuable advice that I would offer you is to work on one thing at a time. It can be very overwhelming and difficult to try and improve several aspects of your swing at the same time. Set yourself goals and keep a golf diary of the things that you are working on in your swing. For example devote a couple of weeks of your practice sessions to improving your posture, once you are happy that you have made the changes and that they are engrained in your swing then move on to the next area that you want to work on. You have a big advantage of having access to a video camera, make use of it. Keep a video record of your swing, this can be very useful for measuring your progress throughout the year. Your golf swing looks good, it just needs some fine tuning. Keep us up to date on your progress.
Good Luck
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Thanks
Greg Hutton
Head P.G.A. Professional
golftuitiononline.com
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rickyharris04
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Registered: October 2004
Location: wales
Posts: 489
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Wed December 22, 2004 8:08am
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Teachingpro said that i not staying in my spine angle through out the swing. Thats what i have had a little troubles with. Ive worked on that yesterday and today and im catching the ball alot more solid but feel a litle tense.
It doesent seem to be going good with my driver tho. I think its because i not having a straight enought back in my setup and the club is a bit to close to my body. So ill straighten my back a little and keep my new knee flex with all of my clubs.
Thanks
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RichieWinch
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Registered: November 2003
Location: UK
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Fri January 14, 2005 1:23pm
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noguano
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Location: USA
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different
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Registered: April 2008
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Wed April 23, 2008 3:05am
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I'd like to rate this a 10.00
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