After a nice period of having a swing I was happy about and hitting the ball better than ever I inevitably started to drift again. I'm really curious what this phenomenon of learning, then assimilating, then regressing is about. And is there a way to affect permanent change immediately of is it just about reps and myelin. I was looking at Sam Snead's swing and Ben Hogan's swing (again). And just really noticed that they maintain their spine angle and I just really lose mine in the finish which gives me a Jordan Speith like look to the finish.
So I just decided in my yard to really think about it and change it. And I came up with one solution which seems to be working. The swing thought is to really try to dip down my head after impact a la Natalie Gulbis. Doing this changes the focus of where I emphasize my swing to after impact which changes my whole rhythm. This is a good thing. And once again it's not a completely different swing feeling but it is on the finish for sure. I'm also really trying to turn my hips more, this also will be a lifelong work to change this. My ball flight with irons changed to more penetrating then rising so I assume I'm getting more backspin but my attack angle is still too high. This shows on video and in my ball flight in general being too high. It used to be so much lower with my previous swing. Here's the before and after.
before
after
I'm now slowly working on shifting my weight on to my left side as I still have a tendency to stay back. I'm hoping this will get my AoA down and thus ball flight down.
I did have a really nice day at the range yesterday and will hopefully continue this week.
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