Shifting my weight

I have very little weight shift in my swing. Does anyone know of a good drill to help me do this. Also my bad shot is a block to the right. Any ideas??

Lee,
2 points.
Firstly, Greg has an excellent drill for shifting weight during the swing. Its called the walking drill which you will find on this site. Well worth practising and is effective.
Second. Weight shift should occur naturally as you move your body weight to the right in the backswing ( if your right handed). If it doesnt you may be straightening your right leg forcing weight to the left creating a reverse pivot.
I would recommend that in addition to the walking drill, practise regularly two things. a. Pivot drill. b. Turning or coiling on backswing while focusing on keeping flex in your right knee all way to the top. Then you will definetly feel both weight shift and coil.

Hope this helps
Jimw ( Aus)

Here is another little drill that works well, make a swing and as you swing to the top move your left foot (assuming your right handed) next to your right, then as you get to the top of your swing, move it back to where is was, start down as you feel the weight begin to move and swing on through with your weight finishing on your left. This has several advantages, one it is almost impossible to come over the top with your swing, two if move to much weight or not enough, to the right foot, you fall down, three if you swing to hard, you fall down. The idea is to learn to swing in balance, this gives you a great feel of that motion.

thanks for the tips about my weight shift

Another problem that I have is that I release the club too early before impact. When I try to hold on to the release, I tend to block the shots to the right.

Any ideas??

Thanks.

Trying to hold or position anything in the swing is just another way to say tension. You don't want any tension in the swing. Early release is caused by trying to help the club head get through the ball, trying to hold off this, is just the reverse of helping, and results, are what you have seen. What you need to work on, is to relax and let the release happen by itself, the correct grip will ensure the clubface is square, your address setup and alignment will ensure the swing path is correct. Letting things happen according to physics and gravity will happen the same way every time, this is where consistancy come from, then golf becomes a game of setup and judgement, and you will stop thinking about swing positions and weather your elbows here or there or release is early or late, or the other five thousand things that can go wrong. Always go back to the basics, grip, stance, posture, alignment, balance those are the only thing you need to concern yourself with, and must be perfected for you.

Put another way, no one would ever consider taking a class in Calculus or trigonometry without learning basic math first, then algebra and so on, but for some reason all new golfers want to go straight to the advance stuff and skip over the basics, just can't be done.

Now you state your Hdycap is 17 so your not exactly new, but if you are having all these problems, I felt you might needed to be reminded that basics are where it is at, so you problem probably lies in there, not in the release.

[quote=GoNavy]Trying to hold or position anything in the swing is just another way to say tension. You don't want any tension in the swing. Early release is caused by trying to help the club head get through the ball, trying to hold off this, is just the reverse of helping, and results, are what you have seen. What you need to work on, is to relax and let the release happen by itself, the correct grip will ensure the clubface is square, your address setup and alignment will ensure the swing path is correct. Letting things happen according to physics and gravity will happen the same way every time, this is where consistancy come from, then golf becomes a game of setup and judgement, and you will stop thinking about swing positions and weather your elbows here or there or release is early or late, or the other five thousand things that can go wrong. Always go back to the basics, grip, stance, posture, alignment, balance those are the only thing you need to concern yourself with, and must be perfected for you.

Put another way, no one would ever consider taking a class in Calculus or trigonometry without learning basic math first, then algebra and so on, but for some reason all new golfers want to go straight to the advance stuff and skip over the basics, just can't be done.

Now you state your Hdycap is 17 so your not exactly new, but if you are having all these problems, I felt you might needed to be reminded that basics are where it is at, so you problem probably lies in there, not in the release.[/

remember, to get your weight to your front foot, you need to 1st get it back to your back foot. you should feel the pressure on the inside part of of the back foot. Don't rush the shift to the foward foot, should be a gradual uncoiling of the backswing.