Your Lifelong Swing Fault

[virtuocity]

What fault have you had creep back into your swing time and time again since you started playing regular golf?

Have you got a fix for it and have to reach for this fix when you realise you've crept back into bad habits?

Maybe you've spent tonnes of time and money trying to fix it and have given up fighting it? How have you adapted your game / swing to deal with it?



I started playing regularly about a year ago and have struggled with an overswing since then. It has really prevented me from improving at a rate that I'm satisfied with as it caused misses left, right and short. Although it has got a little better over time, a lesson today has given me a big fix, personal to me which I'm excited about.

 

[KJT123]

Not so much a swing fault, but I am always trying to battle the strong right hand grip. Always find it keep slipping downwards.

 

[Khamelion]

Mine is a slice, but I've been working on curing the slice, well the many things in my swing that caused it, for 18months and more now and only just recently, as my swing epiphany post says, got to the happy place where I'm hitting straight shots.

I had that many bad areas, it's not been one thing to fix but many and it's taken me a long time to erase them, I've got a long way to go yet, but I'll get there.

 

[Garush34]

Coming over the top for me, esecially with the driver. Im working on it the now and its slowly getting there.

 

[Deleted member 18121]

Not so much a swing fault, but I am always trying to battle the strong right hand grip. Always find it keep slipping downwards.

This.

I go through periods of it being quite neutral but find it turns open/strong more and more. To be fair I play better golf with it strong.

this is a perfect example for me....left hand side is how I play my better golf

 

[bladeplayer]

this is a perfect example for me....left hand side is how I play my better golf

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L/H side would be my grip aswell

My main swing fault (if its classed as a fault, im not sure) is when i swing too fast ..

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Lifting on the downswing. Never really cured it and doubt it will ever go now. It varies from very noticeable which can lead to a host of issues to barely there (after a lot of work) when the ball striking tends to be more consistent.

 

[One Planer]

The pull.

I know exactly what causes it. I get quick at transition and start down with my arms (... Trying to 'hit' the ball), come over the top and go straight left.

I now tell myself to start with getting my weight forward (moving hips to target) and let my hands follow.

It's not perfect, but it's better

 

[Mav281]

Cutting down on the ball causing it to slice. Did a lot of work last winter to flatten my swing as much as I could and for the most part I hit much straighter now. I still have a natural fade but it's manageable. A missed shot is still a slice for me though.

 

[AMcC]

Flicking my wrists open on the way back, meaning lots of adjustment to compensate for that

 

[JustOne]

Never had one that I could identify as always having had it, probably had them all at one time or another.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Ball too far back in the stances combined with aiming right (apparently the first causes or contributes to the second).

 

[palindromicbob]

Got loads but one of the most damaging is possession by the ghost of Elvis.
Sometimes I manage to subdue him but every now and again I go proper blue swede shoes!

(To translate a very "noisy" lower body)

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Does turning up to play count?

 

[Foxholer]

(Not) finishing the swing is mine!

30+years of hockey is the cause!

 

[the hammer]

just into my 3rd year of golfing, my consistant problem is too steep on the back swing, around the belt im told.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Low Hands

 

[Pin-seeker]

Lifting my head too early.
Trying to hit the ball too hard.

 

[m9wst]

Swing too fast then hands get flippy at impact.
Roll the wrists on takeaway
Come down over the top too

Working on all the above, its getting there, slowly.

 

[macca64]

Main one is coming over the top and not completing the backswing .