Turns out that my 4.0 swing was a completely false. Basically I found out through extensive video analysis that swinging with and without a ball changes your swing completely. My no ball swing looked pretty good but I couldn't hit a ball that way. The clubface was way too open at impact. So the swing was fundamentally wrong. So I was out of ideas and took a lesson with Julien to look for new ideas.
Lesson
He told me that I was keeping my weight on the right side much at impact which is why my ball pushed to the right. I needed to shift my weight more to my left side. Well I was originally doing this to get in the right impact position, head back. He had me hit leaning downhill and just turn my shoulders. He had me look at Tom Watson’s DVD. This didn’t make too much sense to me at first but then eventually I saw my swing change for the better. I’m not sure how this worked but my impact position was better. The other big change he made was on my back swing and de activating my wrists. They were way too active. So my back swing is much shorter and larger. I almost feel like I’m not even breaking my wrists on the back swing but when I look at video I am even more than 90 degrees. Video just doesn’t lie. What this also did was force me to accelerate through my swing and get me my arms straight with the club during follow through. Chicken wing is disappearing! He also had my backswing more around my body instead of straight up. So swing changed for the better. A lesson really helped me with the breakthrough even though right after the lesson it didn’t seem like it.
Before After
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| wrists way too active and too close in to body | wrists less active and farther away from body |
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| Not too much difference here |
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| Impact | Also almost identical |
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| A little chicken wing | Little less chicken wing |
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| And even more chicken wing and weight on the right side | Less chicken wing and more on the left side |
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