Swing 1.1a: s & t

Stumbled upon Stack and Tilt a few weeks ago and had to try it out. Well it worked as advertised for a few sessions and the last time I tried it I got all confused and it stopped working. But it has done one really good thing for me in that it taught me how to hit down on the ball and to know what if feels like to hit the ball correctly. So I think I'm back to my old swing but with s&t influence.

I don't need to worry about my hands being closed at the top of my backswing. I get a really nice draw now and even hook too much. The slice is completely gone.

I keep my weight on my front foot and move even more weight through impact. This makes a lot of sense to me now and the ball flies a lot lower and further now. On my approaches I get more backspin since I'm hitting down on the ball.

My driver was awesome for about two sessions and then it completely went to hell. I still don't know what's going on but it's keeping me from playing on a long course. I even had to stick with my 5 wood off the tee that's how bad my swing is right now. The irons are ok and wedges are getting pretty good. I can hit off grass without hitting fat now thanks to s&t.

Swing 1.0: wrists closed at top of backswing part 2

Well tried it out yesterday at the range and it seemed to work!  I love the feeling when all of a sudden you feel like you've acheived another fundamental understanding of your swing and it seems like everything you hit is better.  Well yesterday it felt like I gained 10 to 20 yards on every drive.  Irons to Driver.  The wind also helped which was uncharacteristically at my back.  So that augmented the sensation of enlightenment.

Now I feel like I can really get way more lag and release which is now allowing me to be more arched in the C position at impact instead of upright.  

I'll go back after work and hit another bucket to see if it's still there.  If it's like it normally is it will be but won't be as incredible as the first time.

Thoughts on setup:

• feet shoulder width
• club angle just slightly resting on heel
• back straight chin tucked in
• stance like you're a middle linebacker (got that from somewhere)
• arms straight down and relaxed

Thoughts during backswing:

• wide backswing
• quiet wrists
• stay on swingplane
• adjust path inside out or outside in depending on if I'm slicing or pulling

Thoughts at top of backswing:

• point clubface to the sky
• start with pushing hips toward target

Thoughts during downswing:

• keep wrists closed and cocked for more lag
• push hips towards target

Thoughts at impact:

• push ball
• extend arms through impact to maintain triangle
• try to have nice C position

Thoughts after impact:

• keep extending!

Thoughts at finish:

• keep nice balanced position facing target
• watch how ball lands to see what the spin was

Swing 1.0: wrists closed at top of backswing

Just watched a youtube swing vision of Zack Johnson and the commentator said that his club face pointed up to the sky at the top of his backswing. In other words it was closed. I tried this on the practice net and it seems like it really closes my clubface at impact. Which allows me to have greater lag which is what I've been trying to have but every time I do that I push the ball way right. Then I would have to really think about releasing the club head to compensate which is not what I want to do. So this might help me. I'll have to try this out, look at other players and think about this.

Just another tiny thing to discover which can completely change your swing!