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Jay is a low handicap golfer (you can tell that his swing is already at a high level) but struggles with consistency of contact, curving the ball too much, and the ability to control the ball flight in the wind. It is difficult to see an overly inside approach at full speed when the player does a good job of keeping his hips deep as Jay does, but in slow motion we can see that at P6 his clubhead is well behind his hands, which will force the hands to rotate the face more at impact to square the club and make hitting a fade close to impossible, which for a good player is not a good thing. The feeling Jay had to incorporate to make his path more neutral is one of “over the top”, where the hands feel like they move more outward toward the ball and less down and behind the body, while his visualization of the shot needed to be less of a right to left draw and more of a left to right fade. You will see in the side by side of his first and last swings that those simple thoughts changed his approach pattern quite a bit for the better. When the club is less “stuck” behind the player it encourages the lower body to stay deep and open faster, and it follows that the right upper side can “cover” the shot better, leading to more consistent ball first contact and a greater ability to hit knock down shots that penetrate into the wind.
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