Re: The dreaded shanks

Hi Dave,

Like most golfing diseases, I have had this one!

A pro I went to see about it was confused when I said I had in-out divots but was shanking.

I'm not sure it was the absolute correct answer, but I fixed it by strengthening my grip a little, and not throwing my right shoulder out toward the ball in the downswing.

I had a weaker grip and was attacking the ball from the inside, but at the same time was working on creating lag to have my hands lead the shot. Consequently my clubface was coming in waaaaaaaaaaaaay too open, and because I was attacking it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay from the inside to try and not hit a shank, my hands would flip at the ball to make contact and so the first thing to meet the ball was the shank. It got so bad that sometimes I was hitting the ball with the outside of the hosel!!!!!

Nice.

I sincerely hope you find the right medicine.

A video posted on here may help.

Re: The dreaded shanks

Hi Dave,

I fully concur with Neil on this one. I suffered with this once and the problem was swinging too much in to out which encourages the hozel to strike the ball on the way through. I rectified it by working on a more inside to square to inside swing path. You may find that you are taking the club back too far inside in your take away.