One Planer
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I played 9 holes last night after work, more to experiment than actually play and just work through a few things.
Suffice to say I came a way happy, but with a question relating to ball position.
As I was the only person on the course last night, I'd sometimes hit 3 balls off the tee or drop 3-4 balls from 100 yards and in to the green and play different approaches.
Everything from driver down to my mid irons went really well, however not so with the shorter clubs (9 iron- thru - wedges).
With my mid irons, I play the ball, approximately, a ball forward of centre. From here I was getting a nice push draw.
With my long irons and fairway woods, again, approximately a ball forward of mid irons. Again, nice draw.
When I came to my short irons and wedges, Which I play around centre stance, I was hitting a consistent push. Even with a half swing from say 50 yards I was still missing the green to the right.
No shape to the ball, just a very slight push.
Now, our 14th is a 108 yard par 3. First ball I hit was from my stock centre stance position and, predictably, pitched in the right hand section of the green and rolled to the fringe.
Second shot I played was from a ball forward of centre. Similar to my mid irons, but with a narrower stance. In this case the ball flew much straighter than previous and landed centre of the green.
I repeated the above on approaches into greens throughout the round and found the playing a wedge (... or short iron) in the centre of my stance meant I always missed to the right. Playing the ball fractionally forward as described above straightened the flight.
As expected with the wedges and short irons, there was no shape to the ball. Either straight to target or a gentle push to the right.
This brings me, roundly, to my thread title.
I have a flat, or one plane swing which no doubt you may have seen posted on here before
When I got home, I began to look on the interweb for some sort of explanation. Low and behold the internet turned something up. In the video below, it is suggested that somebody with a one plane swing has a ball position fractionally further forward (... From about 3.45) as part of their set-up.
[video=youtube;pBcuoGC1tVk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBcuoGC1tVk[/video]
I'm trying to understand why this would be the case? I'm not disagreeing as what he says appears to be working for me, especially when it comes to wedges and short irons.
Can anyone help me to understand why a ball position would be different between a one and two plane swing?
Any thoughts appreciated :thup:
Suffice to say I came a way happy, but with a question relating to ball position.
As I was the only person on the course last night, I'd sometimes hit 3 balls off the tee or drop 3-4 balls from 100 yards and in to the green and play different approaches.
Everything from driver down to my mid irons went really well, however not so with the shorter clubs (9 iron- thru - wedges).
With my mid irons, I play the ball, approximately, a ball forward of centre. From here I was getting a nice push draw.
With my long irons and fairway woods, again, approximately a ball forward of mid irons. Again, nice draw.
When I came to my short irons and wedges, Which I play around centre stance, I was hitting a consistent push. Even with a half swing from say 50 yards I was still missing the green to the right.
No shape to the ball, just a very slight push.
Now, our 14th is a 108 yard par 3. First ball I hit was from my stock centre stance position and, predictably, pitched in the right hand section of the green and rolled to the fringe.
Second shot I played was from a ball forward of centre. Similar to my mid irons, but with a narrower stance. In this case the ball flew much straighter than previous and landed centre of the green.
I repeated the above on approaches into greens throughout the round and found the playing a wedge (... or short iron) in the centre of my stance meant I always missed to the right. Playing the ball fractionally forward as described above straightened the flight.
As expected with the wedges and short irons, there was no shape to the ball. Either straight to target or a gentle push to the right.
This brings me, roundly, to my thread title.
I have a flat, or one plane swing which no doubt you may have seen posted on here before
When I got home, I began to look on the interweb for some sort of explanation. Low and behold the internet turned something up. In the video below, it is suggested that somebody with a one plane swing has a ball position fractionally further forward (... From about 3.45) as part of their set-up.
[video=youtube;pBcuoGC1tVk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBcuoGC1tVk[/video]
I'm trying to understand why this would be the case? I'm not disagreeing as what he says appears to be working for me, especially when it comes to wedges and short irons.
Can anyone help me to understand why a ball position would be different between a one and two plane swing?
Any thoughts appreciated :thup: