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Nick is an 8 handicap who is dissatisfied with his ball striking, suffering from general inconsistency with pull hooks and weak block fades being the most prevalent bad shots. We see here a solid set up and a pretty good looking move, but the first thing that jumps out is the slow backswing tempo. I count the swing out (to 40/8) and suggest using the metronome to add pace to the backswing. One of the reasons that the 3/1 rhythm is so common amongst good players is that it encourages an athletic transition, and that means that the lower body initiates the forward movement from the ground under the right foot and that as that movement (45 degrees diagonally to the left of target) engages the upper trunk the arms and hands are affected in such a way as to cause the shaft to shallow immediately in the first move forward instead of steepening as we see here. Nick is a classic case of going from steepening in transition to flattening late in the downswing, which almost always results in a high approach with the hands and the shaft getting stuck behind the hands. It is always difficult to manage impact alignments with such a complicated release action, and everything I suggest here is designed to allow Nick to flatten early and steepen late with the hands passing the body closer and the club entering the impact area closer to the angle of the original shaft plane.
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