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Hi Bill,
Here are my comments. I am not a pro so its up to you if you want to listen to everything that I have written down.
First of all, nice posture at address. The major flaw in your swing is that you lose your level and go up and down in your swing. The main focus that you should work on is keeping your head level the same.
Pic A. Notice your arm hangs straight down? Try to reach out a bit moreat address and make the line more parallel to your thigh. At your takeaway, try to keep the club to follow the target line a bitmore to stop you from coming inside too quickly.
Pic B. The thing to look at here is the difference between red lines and the yellow lines. As you mentioned, you do straighten out your spine angle. You gradually begin to do this when you are halfway through your backswing (when the club is parallel to the ground). And then right at the top of your backswing before you start the downswing, you actually do a mini squat (look at how much your knee has bent).
Two things to fix with your back swing here is:
1 - Try to maintain the initial posture (red lines) through out the whole swing or at least until you are well passed impact. What you should try to feel is that your are turning the upper body with your waist. Get someone to hold a club on the clubhead end and put the grip end on top of your head while putting pressure slightly downwards. do practice swings while you try to maintain the intial posture and not come up. Your friend should notice right away if you are still doing it.
2 - As I mentioned on the downswing, you are doing a mini squat. make sure you are not bending your knees anymore. Keep them the same as your setup. When you swing, get your friend to go and sit behind your right leg and hold the right knee still to get used to the feeling.
One more thing that I think is causing your swing to be a little bit flat is that you try to keep your right elbow in. You do have to feel that you are doing this but try this. Feel that at the top of your backswing, your elbow is bent at 90degrees. Its like your right arm is supporting the club to stay up and probably feel like you are holding a tray like a waiter.
Pic C. Look at the greenline. As you can see your body is pretty much dead straight when you finish your swing. I am not saying that your spine angle have to stay on the red line here but it shouldnt be any higher than the yellow line. Again, by trying to maintain that spine angle through the swing should solve
Pic D. On your downswing, you do actually bring the club back to the correct plane. which allows you to make contact with the ball. Obviously, when you try the above, you will have completely changed how your club is on the plane.
The white line is the shaft line at setup. halfway down your swing, you have corrected your club to be kind of inline with the line. This is what you should also try to do when you have adjusted your swing.
Ok, thats all for now. Good luck.
Matt
Here are my comments. I am not a pro so its up to you if you want to listen to everything that I have written down.
First of all, nice posture at address. The major flaw in your swing is that you lose your level and go up and down in your swing. The main focus that you should work on is keeping your head level the same.
Pic A. Notice your arm hangs straight down? Try to reach out a bit moreat address and make the line more parallel to your thigh. At your takeaway, try to keep the club to follow the target line a bitmore to stop you from coming inside too quickly.
Pic B. The thing to look at here is the difference between red lines and the yellow lines. As you mentioned, you do straighten out your spine angle. You gradually begin to do this when you are halfway through your backswing (when the club is parallel to the ground). And then right at the top of your backswing before you start the downswing, you actually do a mini squat (look at how much your knee has bent).
Two things to fix with your back swing here is:
1 - Try to maintain the initial posture (red lines) through out the whole swing or at least until you are well passed impact. What you should try to feel is that your are turning the upper body with your waist. Get someone to hold a club on the clubhead end and put the grip end on top of your head while putting pressure slightly downwards. do practice swings while you try to maintain the intial posture and not come up. Your friend should notice right away if you are still doing it.
2 - As I mentioned on the downswing, you are doing a mini squat. make sure you are not bending your knees anymore. Keep them the same as your setup. When you swing, get your friend to go and sit behind your right leg and hold the right knee still to get used to the feeling.
One more thing that I think is causing your swing to be a little bit flat is that you try to keep your right elbow in. You do have to feel that you are doing this but try this. Feel that at the top of your backswing, your elbow is bent at 90degrees. Its like your right arm is supporting the club to stay up and probably feel like you are holding a tray like a waiter.
Pic C. Look at the greenline. As you can see your body is pretty much dead straight when you finish your swing. I am not saying that your spine angle have to stay on the red line here but it shouldnt be any higher than the yellow line. Again, by trying to maintain that spine angle through the swing should solve
Pic D. On your downswing, you do actually bring the club back to the correct plane. which allows you to make contact with the ball. Obviously, when you try the above, you will have completely changed how your club is on the plane.
The white line is the shaft line at setup. halfway down your swing, you have corrected your club to be kind of inline with the line. This is what you should also try to do when you have adjusted your swing.
Ok, thats all for now. Good luck.
Matt
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