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Hi Wayne,
I’m looking forward to working with you.
I played high school and golf in college at a DIII school. I took 7-8 years off after college and have been back at it for 2-3 years.
I’m really struggling with consistency, especially with mid to long irons and my driver. My misses aren’t just small either…. I hit shots that are off the planet. Like 1-2 fairways over sometimes.
My driver miss is a mix of either a very fast snap hook or a huge block. My iron miss is a shot that starts WAY left and then goes further left. Like unplayable left. Then I will get the occasional straight block or fan right.
In college I always had a swing that relied on timing and had to hit a ton of balls. Now I don’t have that luxury with kids and work.
I’ve noticed I steepen the club a lot in transition, so I’ve been working on correcting that by getting a little deeper at the top and trying to get less across the line. It does seem to be helping some. I used to have a much longer swing and higher hands at the top.
Last thing, I’ve had a lot of local lessons, and everyone keeps saying my swing looks great. It clearly isn’t working on the course.
Hoping you can help.
Thanks in advance!
In the video you will see why “everyone keeps saying my (Darin’s) swing looks great”: it does, actually, at regular speed. Even the subtle possible flaws that I usually would focus on such as steepening the shaft in transition are not egregious enough to produce the type of off the world shots that Darin says plague him. As I kept looking at the swings I noticed that almost every shot was a pronounced toe hit, which would lend itself to having the face look quite open just after impact (a toe hit torques the toe backwards and twists the face to the right). I asked Darin the question I pose in the video, one I ask all my first-time students: “what do you think the club is supposed to do in the impact area?” It is amazing how many times the student will demonstrate a clubhead on the target line and a clubface square to the target well past impact. This idea of driving the club “down the line” while keeping the face “square” is destructive to all but the best players, who think they do this but don’t. I would like to see Darin’s follow up with him attempting to add left wrist flexion earlier in the downswing and an attempt to let the follow through arc immediately around to the left where the plane is. I would also like Darin to use face tape or powder to assess where the ball is being hit on the clubface.
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