So now that spring is here and golf season has rolled around got out the camera and started to work on the swing. To my shock and horror this is what I saw.
It didn't feel like that but that's what the video says. Damn all those swing thoughts and feelings were wrong!
Of course I was trying to get my swing to look like my son's. How does he do that?
I'm just sick of the chicken wings. My son said just keep your arms straight in the follow through. So I tried that and it worked! At least for a while and I thought I had things figured out. Once again I was so exited to try out the new swing and this time I was sure it was it! About the 10 time I've told my wife that.
So this past weekend I busted out the old golf net and harassed everyone in my family to film me. They all dreaded this. I finally ended up setting up a table so that I could place the camera on it and film myself. But further video analysis with the net had me in good positions but I wasn't able to close the club face and everything was going way right. I was also trying to develop more lag and I was just fighting everything to get a swing to look good. My son says he doesn't think about it he just swings. arghh. So the straight arm thing wasn't working.
Then I stumbled upon this site when trying to figure out how to stop casting.
It talked about closing the clubface at the top of the backswing, supination, and rotating the left wrist up right after impact like how Tiger does. Well I tried it and it worked! And I had actually tried it two years ago as the
first post of this blog but I didn't know enoughabout golf swings back then and thought it was wrong because it felt weird. Well it was right. And that's what Kelvin says in the article. It feels weird creating supination and he even has a training device to help with that. I was just a huge flipper before. My golf pro with swing analysis didn't even catch that.
I've tried the new swing Monday 18 holes and today 18 holes on two different golf courses and it definitely works. I'm not embarrassed with my swing anymore and can actually hit driver pretty good now. I was even teeing off the far tees today and easily keeping up with the big boys. Here's the before and after.
Impact position
Follow through
The best part about it is that I don't have to think about swinging anymore. I just have to get my wrists in the right position and then the lag, closing of the clubface, power, extension, and divot after the ball all takes care of itself. And best of all I'm straighter no fade/slice and I easily added a club to my distance. And it even helped my chipping.
So I took a huge leap and I think I'm for sure at the next level and this will help me to break into the 80's consistently. These last two rounds have been high and low 80's. Will now work on more athleticism and power.
