Swing Flaw 2014

[virtuocity]

So what is your 'bad shot' this year and is this a new thing or a battle you've had for a long time.

Last year, I was just learning the game and happy as long as I made a decent connection on the ball. This year it's a bit different.

However, pulling wedges has become my bug-bear. I'm taking the club away on the outside (another swing flaw unless I slow down my backswing) and cutting across it with a closed face.

So where does your problem lie so far this year, and what are you doing to fix it?

 

[DannyOT]

Definitely a case of the shermans for me. I'm not even talking about 1 or 2 a round; I had a whole round of them a few weeks ago. I need a lesson really but haven't found the time.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Snap hooks off the tee. Tempo too quick, too many moving parts and a jiggy left knee. Back at the range this week working on posture and chest position at impact

 

[Foxholer]

Snap hooks off the tee. Tempo too quick, too many moving parts and a jiggy left knee. Back at the range this week working on posture and chest position at impact

So working on something that is nothing to do with the problem?

Nothing changes for me - balance, (not) finishing and 'checking the result too soon' are my bugbears!

 

[Twire]

I'm the same as you, my destructive shot is a pull. It's when I try to hit it a little hard and come over the top, but still manage to keep the club square to path.

Definitely a case of the shermans for me. I'm not even talking about 1 or 2 a round; I had a whole round of them a few weeks ago. I need a lesson really but haven't found the time.

I had these a few weeks ago and a top tip someone gave me was to make sure I could wiggle my toes before playing the shot. It works a treat.

 

[chrisd]

Pitching and chipping.

I had lessons before Christmas on the linear method which works well, but, when I get to the top of the swing I keep feeling I've gone too far and then decelerate, I havnt actually gone too far as my club face far more open by try telling my brain that!

I have gone back to my old, hands forward method with a closed face and the results are better. I will reserve the linear method for when I need a real flopshot.

 

[Beezerk]

Pull left with longer clubs (out to in with closed face) and I've thinned a couple of wedges through the green recently as well which is a worry.

 

[Foxholer]

...a top tip someone gave me was to make sure I could wiggle my toes before playing the shot. It works a treat.

Excellent way to help eliminate bad tension! :thup:

 

[patricks148]

Squeeky bum on puts... 5, 3 puts on Sat

 

[IanG]

Flappy left heel on the backswing which seems to have a life of its own and never go back down where it came from, and finishing through the stroke properly (and hopefully on balance ).

 

[Deleted member 15717]

shermans for me at the moment. about 7 weeks of them so far. soul destroying!

 

[garyinderry]

turning the face over and hitting low hooky drives. cost me a double bogey at the first last 2 comps.

 

[Oxfordcomma]

Mine is a wild slice off the tee that has replaced the nasty hook that I had with my old driver. Virtuocity, you may have noticed me demonstrating this at Hillside once or twice? It's costing me dearly at the moment, I've been in the buffer zone 2 weeks running in comps and that's the part of my game costing me the most shots.

When work allows, I'm off to the range to compare the old and new drivers side by side and try to work out what it is I'm doing differently.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

So working on something that is nothing to do with the problem?

Nothing changes for me - balance, (not) finishing and 'checking the result too soon' are my bugbears!

And you've seen my swing when??????? I know what the issues are and what to do to fix them. The weekend was full of low hooked drives but for the most part got it round, enough for a cut. Left knee has been collapsing for few weeks, posture too rounded and swing too fast and sliding. All old errors that has issues for the way I swing the club. Been doing a lot of drills to be taller, more stable and get the shirt buttons over the ball at impact

Thanks for the concerned smiley though but all is fine. I have it under control thank you! :thup::whoo:

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I currently have several. I have absolutely no idea where the ball is going at the moment, absolutely no trust in my swing and I have no idea what the problem is. I went back to hitting my old fade on the back nine on Monday and hit more good shots doing that in 9 holes than I have in months. Where do I go from here though? Well, I'm giving the fade a few more weeks and if that doesn't show signs of improvement it's back for lessons which I hate doing mid-season but desperate times need desperate measures!!!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

First strike of a ball in first lesson I've ever had (three weeks ago) pro identified a major flaw in my swing. I was taking club away outside of the line. So much so that when he put a line of tees down that I had to swing 'inside' I hit the first tee. Now I think I have had this swing flaw for 30+ years but I played so much that I grooved a swing that successfully compensated for that flaw. But I have dropped out of that groove and so have come out all the shanks and myriad other striking issues that I have suffered from time to time over the last 10 yrs, And gradually over these years I fell off more regularly and more painfully until in the last couple of years my falls became more regualr - and then in the last few months - almost continuous - and almost continuous despair.

But now I know what I was doing and I know how to stop. Oh Brave New World - oh happy day!

 

[Alex1975]

Same as always for me, too right handed, have to pay close attention to my right shoulder or it will go OTT and I will react and pull it or slice it.

The key is grip for me, the stronger I go the better the strike and the more under control the pesky right shoulder but go to far and I will hook. Nice to have the fix though, just have to remember it under pressure.

 

[Scrindle]

I'm pulling the ball off the tee and the deck (which may as well be the tee because I don't use tees anymore) with a heavy draw (I wouldn't say it is severe enough to call it a hook? Is the difference just one of ego protection? :lol with my longer irons. I think this might be down to an overrotation of the upper body at impact, though this could be completely incorrect (obviously I'm no expert!!) and I won't know until I have had a lesson after payday.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I currently have several. I have absolutely no idea where the ball is going at the moment, absolutely no trust in my swing and I have no idea what the problem is. I went back to hitting my old fade on the back nine on Monday and hit more good shots doing that in 9 holes than I have in months. Where do I go from here though? Well, I'm giving the fade a few more weeks and if that doesn't show signs of improvement it's back for lessons which I hate doing mid-season but desperate times need desperate measures!!!

You drove it much better on the back 9 even though you did look short of confidence and undecided which way you wanted it to move. I think you feel more comfy with a fade and always seem to commit more. I thought you looked a little "armsy" as though you were scared to hit through it. For me though, you never really get it into any trouble either way, but the issues seem to be more on and around the green. Your chipping looks a little bit like it did before you went to see Jamie (our assistant pro) and you seemed tentative on the short putts and from 15-20 feet to give it a run. When you did on the 12th you made birdie.

Having said all that, bearing in mind you didn't feel you played that well, you didn't look to be that far away. Stick with the fade, trust it and I'm sure it'll click back into place. Just don't be so hard on yourself.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

You drove it much better on the back 9 even though you did look short of confidence and undecided which way you wanted it to move. I think you feel more comfy with a fade and always seem to commit more. I thought you looked a little "armsy" as though you were scared to hit through it. For me though, you never really get it into any trouble either way, but the issues seem to be more on and around the green. Your chipping looks a little bit like it did before you went to see Jamie (our assistant pro) and you seemed tentative on the short putts and from 15-20 feet to give it a run. When you did on the 12th you made birdie.

Having said all that, bearing in mind you didn't feel you played that well, you didn't look to be that far away. Stick with the fade, trust it and I'm sure it'll click back into place. Just don't be so hard on yourself.

It think I am so shocked to be anywhere near the green at the moment I'm scared of messing it up...so I mess it up.