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I’ve been playing a lot, playing pretty well, shooting mid-70s. I don’t think my long game is currently the limiting factor. It’s wedges and pitches. However, I do want to get my full swing as good as possible. I think I’ve improved my takeaway, and mostly stopped tensing up my right arm. I’m trying for more depth, so I don’t have to over-retract my right shoulder. One thing that mystifies me is why I cannot get the club to shallow much from the top. I hope that if I could get more of a kick, I’d get a bit more lag and distance/compression.
There is nothing more frustrating than seeing a specific swing issue that you have decided you want to change stubbornly resist the effort. John considers his takeaway improved, but in these new swings that does not appear to be the case. There is no real mystery as to why John can’t get the club to shallow in transition: his right arm motion pattern is still being set by his takeaway, and when he tenses it prior to the first move back his left arm is forced to roll around it with the hands working up and away from the body. The upper right arm is effectively externally rotating in the first part of the backswing, which keeps it almost stuck to the right side of the body, then moving into internal rotation as it pulls back for added depth but without much space or width. Shallowing the shaft in transition is the result of the right arm adducting (moving down and forward), the right forearm supinating (moving from palm down to palm up) and the shoulder externally rotating (the right elbow nudging forward) in a side-arm throwing type motion. John cannot execute this movement due to what the right arm is doing as it reaches the change of direction. He has improved his control of the shaft in the downswing and has his lower body working quite well, so in my opinion he needs to simply keep working on the backswing and more specifically the takeaway.
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