Swing thoughts

[SaintHacker]

This is kind of a follow on from my new driver thread. Took the driver down the range yestrerday, just to try a few things out. After a fair few rubbish and not quite as rubbish shots I noticed that the better shots happened when I swung through to a full finish. Might sound obvious but sometimes my swing can end a bit early for whatever reason. So once I noticed this I tried almost forgetting about the ball, or swinging inside, outside, over the top yada yada, and just concentrated on making a full backswing and going right through to a full on posing finish, and just sort of let the ball get in the way of the club. The results were quite frankly superb, long virtually straight drives with just a hint of fade, the ones I did lose were when I was consciously trying to leather it. Going back up there tomorrow to see if I can get the same feeling going with my short irons, if so this could be a game changer. Fingers crossed!:thup:

 

[HawkeyeMS]

You can't get to a good finish if your swing is out of sync or off balance. If I'm struggling I will take a few practice swings making sure I get to a good finish but without worrying about the rest of the swing.

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

This is kind of a follow on from my new driver thread. Took the driver down the range yestrerday, just to try a few things out. After a fair few rubbish and not quite as rubbish shots I noticed that the better shots happened when I swung through to a full finish. Might sound obvious but sometimes my swing can end a bit early for whatever reason. So once I noticed this I tried almost forgetting about the ball, or swinging inside, outside, over the top yada yada, and just concentrated on making a full backswing and going right through to a full on posing finish, and just sort of let the ball get in the way of the club. The results were quite frankly superb, long virtually straight drives with just a hint of fade, the ones I did lose were when I was consciously trying to leather it. Going back up there tomorrow to see if I can get the same feeling going with my short irons, if so this could be a game changer. Fingers crossed!:thup:

Just letting the ball get in the way of the club can only be a good thing.

 

[Curls]

My bad shot is a hideous duck hook, and when I hit it I always feel off-balance, like I've swung around myself in a really flat plane (almost like I've just swung a baseball bat rather than a club). If I do that then "posing finish" is a key swing thought for me on the next drive and usually results in a straight shot. You've had a lightbulb, long may it burn bright

 

[HomerJSimpson]

As someone who use to be famous on here for having 1,345 different swing thoughts every shot let me advice you that the best way I've found after the wise on heads on here got hold of me, is to stand there. pick a club, look at the target and trust what you've worked on in practice. Let the club find the ball and then find it and hit it again

 

[Foxholer]

As someone who use to be famous on here for having 1,345 different swing thoughts every shot let me advice you that the best way I've found after the wise on heads on here got hold of me, is to stand there. pick a club, look at the target and trust what you've worked on in practice. Let the club find the ball and then find it and hit it again

Progress at last!!! :clap:

Having said that, swinging through to a full finish does make you swing through the ball rather than at it - an issue I have more with irons - so that single thought is fine imo.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

This is kind of a follow on from my new driver thread. Took the driver down the range yestrerday, just to try a few things out. After a fair few rubbish and not quite as rubbish shots I noticed that the better shots happened when I swung through to a full finish. Might sound obvious but sometimes my swing can end a bit early for whatever reason. So once I noticed this I tried almost forgetting about the ball, or swinging inside, outside, over the top yada yada, and just concentrated on making a full backswing and going right through to a full on posing finish, and just sort of let the ball get in the way of the club. The results were quite frankly superb, long virtually straight drives with just a hint of fade, the ones I did lose were when I was consciously trying to leather it. Going back up there tomorrow to see if I can get the same feeling going with my short irons, if so this could be a game changer. Fingers crossed!:thup:

As a long standing advocate on here of keeping it simple, I'm really pleased it's working for you The golf swing isn't a complicated movement, get the basics right and work on a good rhythm.

 

[Region3]

I find that if I don't think about certain things when I swing, I fall back into bad habits very quickly.

I guess I don't practice enough to make them natural.

As for the finish, my best shots are when I end up in a good position and balanced enough to stay there and look like a poser!
Most of the time I finish off balance and have to pick the tee up quick to make it look like I just chose not to hold the finish.

 

[JustOne]

As someone who use to be famous on here for having 1,345 different swing thoughts every shot let me advice you that the best way I've found after the wise on heads on here got hold of me, is to stand there. pick a club, look at the target and trust what you've worked on in practice. Let the club find the ball and then find it and hit it again

You said in another post that you'd played crap this year

 

[HawkeyeMS]

You said in another post that you'd played crap this year

He didn't say this way was working

 

[Pin-seeker]

You said in another post that you'd played crap this year

Ssssshhhhhh he actually writ a post with out mentioning the L word:whoo:
Now that's progress

 

[HomerJSimpson]

You said in another post that you'd played crap this year

He didn't say this way was working

I played crap in a relative way. Ball striking better and not losing shots both left and right. Just unable to string a score together so handicap heading the wrong way hence the feeling it hasn't been a stellar year. Progress much slower than I'd hoped after winter work but small steps being taken in the right direction. Just going to be 2014 for single figures now instead