no room for follow through

[daver1982]

Hi.

Recently ive been having a problem with my follow through and being able to complete my swing. Bascially i feel like a have no room whatsover at impact. I know somethings quite wrong as i my hips at the end of my swing are not facing the target. They only seem to get halfway.

any advice on how to fix this would be gratefully recieved.

thanks in advance

dave

[BrianW]

Re: no room for follow through

Keep turning so that your belt buckle faces the target and you are up on the toe of your right foot at the end of the swing.

[achandl1]

Re: no room for follow through

I don't post much and don't feel I have that much to offer as a guy that is happy to break 100 on a consistant basis. However, I had much your same problem (looking back on it). I bought a cheap slo-mo camera and took it out when playing with my son and some other relatives that I felt comfortable golfing with. After a few rounds and some swings from tee to green, I started looking at them when it hit me... no real follow through and not facing the target when my swing was done. I was always the shortest off the tee unless someone flat out screwed up. Well back to the matter at hand. I found my left elbow was almost always near my side at my finish (I am a right hander). So I went outside and began to swing without a ball and force myself to finish with my left elbow at least shoulder high. Funny thing was that also resulted in my belt buckle facing the target. After a couple of nights after work swinging until I didn't have to really think to make the swing, I had my wife come out and with the camera capture my swings. I was afraid if I really wasn't following through properly I didn't want to engrain another improper swing with more and more practice. I loaded up the footage and was happy with what I was doing. From that point on, I would go out after work and swing 25 to 50 times almost every night. I did that through the fall and even in winter at times with snow on the ground. Neat part of swinging with snow on the ground is that it shows you your swing path through the impact zone. I used a spare 3 fairway wood I have for this swinging. The reason I picked that club was I had very poor luck hitting my 3 and 5 fw and the swing was just about the same as using a driver (of course with the driver the ball would be further forward and on a tee and hit on the upswing, but the rest of the swing was close enough as far as I was concerned). Besides, swinging with irons that much in my yard would surely leave me with no lawn left to mow next year.

At any rate after months of just swinging at a weed, a leaf, a twig or whatever, I now had muscle memory and a somewhat balanced follow through without the disappointment of poor results from mis-hitting a real ball. I would go out really late at night with a bright moon and swing to keep practicing even though the days got really short. Remember the snow I talked about? I found that by that time I had a repeatable swing and with the addition of snow I could adjust my swing and stance to see I was getting a nice in-out-in swing. Now I didn't swing into a foot of snow, but an inch or so worked very nicely.

Well this year I have no trouble driving the ball 220 to 240 yards. My furthest to date is 270. Last year 200 would be a good strong drive for me. Now when I go out to a course by myself and join a twosome I don't feel like a fifth wheel. My drives are as good as most now except for big bombers and those guys know they bomb it and don't expect very many to be able to keep up with them anyway. The other great result of this practice is I can now hit my fairway woods. I rarely top them or hit fat anymore and that is a very good feeling.

Big long-winded story when I bet a couple of sentences would have done. But I am a believer in swinging without a ball. Once you get the follow through and can repeat the swing and hold the follow through in balance, you will be on your way to lowering your scores.

My next practice session without a ball is going to be using irons somewhere I don't have to worry about taking a divot. I will use one or two old irons I have (maybe a 5 and a 9) and will make many swings until I can do with those what I have done with the driver and fairway woods. Then next year I hope to see my game get even better next season. My putting is not too bad and I rarely putt more than 36 in 18 holes.

Sorry to write a novel, I hope this is useful and hope it makes some sense.

Andy

[rogue]

Re: no room for follow through

basically u are swinging the club left which throws your kinematic sequence out of whack and gives u the symptoms you describe. I will bet you suffer more often with pulls and slices with longer clubs. take your club and practice swinging it as if you are throwing it to the right. find out how it feels different and try to repeat with a ball. If the ball starts going straight right then rotate the clubface through imPACT - BUT YOU SHOULD FEEL MORE FLUID AND free in the swing