Jason is just over a year out of college and has been struggling mightily with his ball striking, even though his swing would look great to just about anybody watching it. I was wondering myself what could be so wrong with something that looked so appealing, which just goes to show you that it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been looking at the stuff, if it’s too fast you can’t see it. If I had said “gee, the club must be coming in underneath your hands which is causing a complicated release action that you aren’t able to handle” then it may have been an experienced guess, but a guess nonetheless. Jason really does have excellent action, but when a quick-tempo, hard catch swing gets stuck it is difficult to time the release consistently. I thought that the leftward head movement at the start might have something to do with the overall picture by affecting the sequence of back and forth movement in the upper trunk, so I suggested that he work towards a slight right load with the upper body. After that it was all about trying to route the hands and the club differently so that the shaft would reach parallel to the ground and always be on or above the right forearm. I figured that the way to do this would be to force his hands to exit more left with the shafts stuck in the ground, and then explain how the outward hand movement with the shallowing shaft allows the club to move from a decidedly flat position momentarily at the start of the downswing to a progressively steeper position all the way to an on-plane approach and a left exit that is built into the movement instead of being manufactured with a sawing off action through impact. I know that there is hope when I see a swing with the club right out on the hands at shaft parallel in the downswing instead of well inside the hands like the first batch of swings. The ball stopped hooking so much and what felt like a cut to Jason went dead straight.