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I am a mere 15 handicapper and not a teacher by any means, but I`ve just found an immediate cure for the over-the-top out to in move that is the death of any swing.
I`ve been trying to rid myself of this fatal flaw for the LAST 5 YEARS.
I`ve had lessons, I`ve posted many a question on this forum, bought the "inside approach" and a "momentus" swing trainer but it has ALWAYS come back on the course no matter what I do.
You know the results - you come down too steeply from the outside, your divots go left and even your good shots are short, too high and a bit fadey - but you don`t have many good shots because your margin for error is small, (and if the wind is blowing, you`re really in trouble) Your bad shots are slices, or pulls when you try and fix your problem with the grip alone.
I was near the end of a very average 94 yesterday when I tried something that got me so excited that I went straight down to the range to see if i could do it at will - I could, and I couldn`t wait to play again, so I was on the course at first light this morning to try it - and ran round before work in 2 hours 10 minutes and shot an 80 (the best I`ve done on this course was a 79 in the middle of last summer when playing 4 or 5 times a week) and I hit my 3 wood down the 18th further than I`ve ever hit my driver there.
I had to come to the conclusion that this is the single best thing I`ve discovered about golf in the last 10 years . . .
OK, sorry, this is REALLY going to make the pros wince (sorry chaps, but you don`t know what it`s like) - all you have to do (after you`ve taken dead aim) is watch the club go back, keep your head there and watch it come down again ON THE SAME PLANE, MAKE IT COME DOWN ON THE SAME PLANE, think of NOTHING else.
That`s it, just do that at the expense of EVERYTHING else. Your body will shift and clear on it`s own to let the club come down the right path, you don`t have to think about anything but swinging it down on the same plane.
May seem a little drastic, but you KNOW you can`t play with an over the top move and nobody has ever been able to stop me doing it.
You don`t need to repeat and repeat and ingrain this - you just do it every time you hit a ball starting from now - get down the range and give it a go, if you`ve never really felt a really solid hit, you`ll be amazed, don`t try and hit it hard, you`ll get more distance than you think anyway because the trajectory is lower and there is very little side spin taking forward momentum off the ball, even into a headwind.
It works with every club of course (hit a few wedges and see how accurate they are) and all the other advantages of a shallow on-line swing path are immediately apparent - much more consistent contact (more margin for error) and now all your mishits will still go straight and those sevens and eights and curve balls will be no more.
Now you can keep it on the course - go and practice you short game.
I`ve been trying to rid myself of this fatal flaw for the LAST 5 YEARS.
I`ve had lessons, I`ve posted many a question on this forum, bought the "inside approach" and a "momentus" swing trainer but it has ALWAYS come back on the course no matter what I do.
You know the results - you come down too steeply from the outside, your divots go left and even your good shots are short, too high and a bit fadey - but you don`t have many good shots because your margin for error is small, (and if the wind is blowing, you`re really in trouble) Your bad shots are slices, or pulls when you try and fix your problem with the grip alone.
I was near the end of a very average 94 yesterday when I tried something that got me so excited that I went straight down to the range to see if i could do it at will - I could, and I couldn`t wait to play again, so I was on the course at first light this morning to try it - and ran round before work in 2 hours 10 minutes and shot an 80 (the best I`ve done on this course was a 79 in the middle of last summer when playing 4 or 5 times a week) and I hit my 3 wood down the 18th further than I`ve ever hit my driver there.
I had to come to the conclusion that this is the single best thing I`ve discovered about golf in the last 10 years . . .
OK, sorry, this is REALLY going to make the pros wince (sorry chaps, but you don`t know what it`s like) - all you have to do (after you`ve taken dead aim) is watch the club go back, keep your head there and watch it come down again ON THE SAME PLANE, MAKE IT COME DOWN ON THE SAME PLANE, think of NOTHING else.
That`s it, just do that at the expense of EVERYTHING else. Your body will shift and clear on it`s own to let the club come down the right path, you don`t have to think about anything but swinging it down on the same plane.
May seem a little drastic, but you KNOW you can`t play with an over the top move and nobody has ever been able to stop me doing it.
You don`t need to repeat and repeat and ingrain this - you just do it every time you hit a ball starting from now - get down the range and give it a go, if you`ve never really felt a really solid hit, you`ll be amazed, don`t try and hit it hard, you`ll get more distance than you think anyway because the trajectory is lower and there is very little side spin taking forward momentum off the ball, even into a headwind.
It works with every club of course (hit a few wedges and see how accurate they are) and all the other advantages of a shallow on-line swing path are immediately apparent - much more consistent contact (more margin for error) and now all your mishits will still go straight and those sevens and eights and curve balls will be no more.
Now you can keep it on the course - go and practice you short game.
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