Went to golfinparis to have my swing analyzed with Rina on the trackman.
He corrected a few key things which I have forgotten to do when I try to change my swing to do other stuff.
1. My wrist have become inactive. I have no lag whatsoever and my body is doing all the work and it feels that way. Need to let my arms relax as well. To correct this he changed my address position.
- Wrists need to be more bent so on takeaway they can hinge more freely. So club is resting more on heel.
- More weight on toes.
- Basically I'm bent over more
For putting this is the opposite where we don't want any wrist action.
2. Grip. My left hand was gripping the club too much in the palm and not enough in the fingers. It should just be the fingers gripping the club. This really helped and I feel the release in my wrists a lot more.
3. Feel. The last part was trying to get me to release my wrists. By not turning my body as much and using my wrists to get the club back all the way.
So this worked and I expend much less effort and hit the ball a little farther. And also my lag is back. I could have corrected this on my own by looking at video but I didn't.
So three exercises five balls each:
1. Address position and then hit 5 balls
2. feet together slightly pointing back 5 balls
3. normal swing same feet position hit right, left, center 5 balls.
Change clubs do it again.
Went to the range today and tried it out and of course it worked. We'll see how things hold up over the long term but I have enough control over my swing now that I can change pretty quickly my habits. It was nice to be able to hit the driver consistently and have some say over which direction the ball is going!
