What's happened to my swing

[Conman85]

When I started playing golf a few years ago I had a bad habit of hitting under the ball with my driver and getting big high shots with no distance.......this also lead to the dreaded skymarks. Recently I've been compressing my irons well and hitting driver a lot better, but the middle of last week I went out for a round and couldn't swing the club. I thought one off maybe things going on in my head, went to play Friday and was the same. I decided to hit the range Saturday and I've totally lost my swing. hybrid going dead high and no distance, yet it sounds like a sweet connection, it makes the ping. the driver was the same high no distance, it seemed to be the more I tried the worse it got. I managed to get the hybrid to go a couple of times, but nothing with the driver. Any thoughts, I must have reverted back to an old habit

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Simple answer, and the boring one, get a pro to look at it. If you have been compressing down then you sound like you've been striking well and I'm sure it'll be a quick fix. Self diagnosing is tough and I've found that fixing one thing myself is usually at the sake of something else which is why I prefer to get a pro to look at my swing

 

[pokerjoke]

Sounds like 2 things to me.
Leaning back at impact.
Or coming in too steep at impact.
I find a wide takeaway helps.

 

[Conman85]

Noted guys thanks, I hate always going to a pro when I have difficulties though. Like to try and work things out myself, even though it can be frustrating at times.

 

[the_coach]

When I started playing golf a few years ago I had a bad habit of hitting under the ball with my driver and getting big high shots with no distance.......this also lead to the dreaded skymarks. Recently I've been compressing my irons well and hitting driver a lot better, but the middle of last week I went out for a round and couldn't swing the club. I thought one off maybe things going on in my head, went to play Friday and was the same. I decided to hit the range Saturday and I've totally lost my swing. hybrid going dead high and no distance, yet it sounds like a sweet connection, it makes the ping. the driver was the same high no distance, it seemed to be the more I tried the worse it got. I managed to get the hybrid to go a couple of times, but nothing with the driver. Any thoughts, I must have reverted back to an old habit

PGA Pro will put you back on the right path.

Can give you a general thought, sounds indeed that you've developed/gone back to coming into the ball a good ways to steep, chopping down into.

Maybe because you've developed a sway going back, then compensating this by swaying overly forwards so your upper body gets a good bit to far in front at impact so you're then unable to turn through upper body behind the ball against a firm left side to deliver any real speed with the club head through the ball, only use the arms to 'chop' through.
Sometimes this even makes you flip the hands through so you can't get a solid strike.
Eventually this makes you lose all sense of rhythm & timing.

On the range next, instead of bashing the long stuff in an effort to hope to work through it.

Go back to a short iron off a small tee, & just start making 3/4, 75% swings making sure you turn back, don't sway off the ball. When you get to the left arm parallel to the ground make sure the shaft is at 90º (the reverse L shape) swing through impact make sure when the right arm is parallel to the ground in the forward swing you have the same 90º (reverse L shape).

You should start to see you're getting much better solid contact & the ball is flying well from even this smallish, less effort swing.

Just incorporate the feeling of 'setting' the shaft (as described above), & 'swinging' through impact hands leading & then 'resetting' the shaft in the through swing back into a full swing with whatever club you use.

 

[Foxholer]

Go back to a short iron off a small tee, & just start making 3/4, 75% swings making sure you turn back, don't sway off the ball. When you get to the left arm parallel to the ground make sure the shaft is at 90º (the reverse L shape) swing through impact make sure when the right arm is parallel to the ground in the forward swing you have the same 90º (reverse L shape).

You should start to see you're getting much better solid contact & the ball is flying well from even this smallish, less effort swing.

Just incorporate the feeling of 'setting' the shaft (as described above), & 'swinging' through impact hands leading & then 'resetting' the shaft in the through swing back into a full swing with whatever club you use.

The SliceFixer (et al) 9-to-3 drill!