start of throughswing. help!

[pnearn]

Re: start of throughswing. help!

I tend to struggle most with the fairway woods/driver too and I find it's because these clubs need a flatter swing plane. On the backswing try and feel like your shoulder turn is a little flatter (more inside) going back and see if this helps. Again as you do this make sure its your shoulders turning the club inside and stay connected. If like me your natural instinct is to take the club away in a wide straight line you'll be going back too steep and losing that body connection on the way back. I think it's harder to 'fight' this instinct with the longer clubs but as always do this with half swings first to learn and feel where the optimum swing plane point is for that club halfway back. Once you know where it is you can do what I do (and Di Marco, Weir etc) and in your pre shot routine actually take the club back to this point half way back so your body knows where it should go

Glad to hear the other advice worked for you though. I would rather be a few yards out with my driver and bang on with my scoring clubs if I had to make that choice

[pnearn]

Re: start of throughswing. help!

Another good checkpoint for yourself with the driver (and any club) is to make sure that halfway back the toe of the club is pointing to the sky and the wrists have already hinged

For this to happen you must have kept your lower body quiet and stable and simply turned your shoulders around your spine. The club has hinged already as it has already passed its widest arc point from address. If you find halfway back that the club is still pointing behind you it's likely you have either swayed to the right or overly used your hands and arms in an attempt to artificially build width. You should not then delibrately try and cock the wrists to get in this position as thats just a false move. They should go there naturally


This is illistrated really well in these sequences of Ernie and Michelle Wie

http://www.golfdigest.com/instructio...owerswing.html

See how the right hip just rotates into the right side and the left hip moves forward giving an artitifical look of some lateral movement when in fact there is very very little. Its all turn and its the shoulders that force this motion

[slater170]

Re: start of throughswing. help!

Slater

Thats the $64k question mate! I wish now in hindsight that I had stayed off the course a little more while i nailed down the swing changes but thats just my experience. I found when my new swing changes werent working out on the course i would go back to my long arms/hands type swing just to get me round in the mid-high 80's. It kind of shoots your confidence in the foot and i found myself asking did i want to play for fun and be happy playing off 20 odd or did I want to get better. I wanted to get better so thats the road i took

You'll have days on the range when you want to give up as you cant get it down at all. You'll buy more buckets of balls in the hope of hitting some good ones before you go home. You'll then come back refreshed and find it clicks. Also have a plan and stick to it. Only work on a few things at a time. For example only do that halfswing drill for 2 or 3 sessions. Dont do what i did and read something about your left wrists and then get bogged down in that as well

It will all be worth it in the end when you find effortless power. Its magical when you get it and understand how

hi pnearn,
took all your advice on board and have spent more time at the range specifically using your swingpath drill so far having a lot of success not hit one slice in the last 36 holes!
thaks for the tip mate
be lucky

[Mike420]

Re: start of throughswing. help!

Was reading through my Tiger Woods book and it mentions that he initiates the throughswing by easily shifting his weight back on to his left side and letting gravity play it's part by dropping his arms in front of his chest, thus his arms have a little head start and work in concert with his shoulders.

[pnearn]

Re: start of throughswing. help!

hi pnearn,
took all your advice on board and have spent more time at the range specifically using your swingpath drill so far having a lot of success not hit one slice in the last 36 holes!
thaks for the tip mate
be lucky

Greate stuff mate, its worth it in the end