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Steve is an excellent senior amateur from Kentucky who is also a member at the wonderful Colusa Pines Golf Club in Fort Myers, Florida. I’ve been working with Steve since the summer of 2014 (though not that often) and his main complaint is always with his ability to make solid contact with his irons. As you will see his swing looks great (the kind of swing that people always comment on and wonder why in the world he would ever be complaining), but it has a major flaw in that his trunk rotation in the forward swing is slow and tends to shift laterally toward the target more than around, which leaves his upper right side hanging back and unable to deliver a “covering” or “trapping” type of strike into the ball. He tends to hit his shots a bit thin or fat, and when he tries to drive his hands more forward to compress the ball he can even start hitting the dreaded hosel rocket. In this lesson, I try to get his overall swing motion and shape to feel more rounded, or flat, instead of so up and down, by opening the clubface more in the takeaway and throughout the backswing. We see the shaft get to left arm parallel more on plane instead of vertical, while the more rotary feeling encourages his lower body to open faster in the forward swing, which in turn allows his right side to advance more toward impact with his hands more forward to provide a more bent right wrist at impact and a more compressed strike.
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