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Steve has a very nice swing, but he was complaining of unsolid contact, blocks and hooks. When you hear “blocks and hooks” you can pretty much figure that the path is from the inside, because you can’t start the ball left with an in to out path unless the face is dead shut, which usually produces a pull hook, and would never produce a block that wasn’t a huge slice. Also, the clue of poor contact, especially with the irons, can easily be caused by having too shallow of an approach angle, which means, again, in to out. That’s just me guessing about Steve’s swing after his email, and it only took one shot in person for me to see that he was set up way right, even though there was an alignment stick right in front of him, which was making his downswing path way from the inside. His perception of plane was way to the right, and he had not paid attention to his alignment. His takeaway was surprisingly not sucked to the inside, which was a bonus, but he dropped his hands behind him and swung into the ball like he was trying to hit a 30-yard hook. Once he squared up, with toe line slightly open (due to the flaring out of the left foot while the right foot was now more pointed straight ahead), his pattern had a chance to change. We talked about how to be more on plane his club had to point more to the left at the top, how he had to stop using his right shoulder so much to facilitate the upper body turn, and how his downswing motion would now feel much more from the side, he produced a quite different swing.
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