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Bill is a low handicap player at my club who has started the year with some ball striking inconsistencies. Slowing down Bill’s swing reveals a few issues that would be difficult to address all at once, which is why I like to set up a station using headless shafts to create a pattern and shape change as opposed to simply trying to fix one item. Bill’s takeaway has gotten inside with the face closed, which leads to the right shoulder getting bunched up at the top with the shaft across the line. As he shallows the club his left arm ventures out too far away from him, giving him a steep, slightly out to in approach which produces pulls and weak cuts. The station I set up gets his takeaway more on plane (we also discussed using forearm and hand rotation to get the toe of the club more upward at P2), then keeps his left arm closer to his body on the forward swing so the club can head toward the ball from a deeper position. Bill was amazed at how his ball flight changed to a nice gentle draw, and if he works in and out of the station, he will try to replicate the feeling that he gets when the obstacles are in the way.
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