My swing has been pretty good for the last 2 weeks and I've been hitting quite a lot lately. For the first time the other day I got bored of hitting balls because they were all going good. I didn't see the point in just hitting more good balls going through all my clubs. I went chipping and the same thing happened I got bored since my chipping was good. So I went putting but they were sanding the greens so I just hit more balls and they were pretty much all striped and straight. This has never happened to me before!
Two things that helped me get to this place and the two swing thoughts that I go through every time. The first one comes from this video. It's Kelvin Miyahira analyzing Christo's swing. He talked about how on the backswing Ben Hogan rotated around the left leg. He started his backswing by moving his right hip back. What this does is take the club behind and then allows you to come from inside out. This has greatly affected my ball flight and my natural outside in path and subsequent fade has now been replaced by a basically straight ball flight. I also feel like my weight is more on my heels which sometimes leads to me falling over on the follow through. Hopefully this will work itself out over time.
The second move is from Bradley Hughes which I knew already but had to go through again. It has to do with the follow through and just turning through the ball. Getting my right shoulder toward the ground and past the ball and getting my hands and torso all in one piece turning together. It's turning around my body and getting the club to the left side. I've saw that Luke Donald is going through swing changes and he's doing the turn through now also here's a video. Holding off the release as they say in the video. Now that's Kuchar and Donald who are moving to a Hogan swing.
You can see the difference in the follow through. Here's the before of my follow through. Arms collapse and left shoulder is pulling up after impact. Just horrible looking and something I've been battling in my natural swing. Lots of golfers have this chicken wing like collapsing of the arms who hit the ball really good.
And the after where the arms are more extended after impact. There's some things to clean up like how my right foot is not moving until pretty late in the follow through so I think that's preventing or discouraging my hips to turn. But overall my impact position and wrists I like a lot. My right elbow is tucked in and that's thanks to the pulling on the chain power move. A completely different way of achieving a position but not at all in an intuitive way.
And from down the line.
I still have that little move where my hands are high at the top and then drop back. My club is not really laid off but it's a much better swing path than the choppy steep path from before.
Two things that helped me get to this place and the two swing thoughts that I go through every time. The first one comes from this video. It's Kelvin Miyahira analyzing Christo's swing. He talked about how on the backswing Ben Hogan rotated around the left leg. He started his backswing by moving his right hip back. What this does is take the club behind and then allows you to come from inside out. This has greatly affected my ball flight and my natural outside in path and subsequent fade has now been replaced by a basically straight ball flight. I also feel like my weight is more on my heels which sometimes leads to me falling over on the follow through. Hopefully this will work itself out over time.
The second move is from Bradley Hughes which I knew already but had to go through again. It has to do with the follow through and just turning through the ball. Getting my right shoulder toward the ground and past the ball and getting my hands and torso all in one piece turning together. It's turning around my body and getting the club to the left side. I've saw that Luke Donald is going through swing changes and he's doing the turn through now also here's a video. Holding off the release as they say in the video. Now that's Kuchar and Donald who are moving to a Hogan swing.
You can see the difference in the follow through. Here's the before of my follow through. Arms collapse and left shoulder is pulling up after impact. Just horrible looking and something I've been battling in my natural swing. Lots of golfers have this chicken wing like collapsing of the arms who hit the ball really good.
And the after where the arms are more extended after impact. There's some things to clean up like how my right foot is not moving until pretty late in the follow through so I think that's preventing or discouraging my hips to turn. But overall my impact position and wrists I like a lot. My right elbow is tucked in and that's thanks to the pulling on the chain power move. A completely different way of achieving a position but not at all in an intuitive way.
