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Here we see a very good golf swing that produces a high level impact from the face on view, with a nice amount of forward shaft lean and sustain well into the follow through. However, when going over it with the slow motion camera and lines there are a few things that we can work on to clean it up and make it better. The idea is to make the delivery of the face more consistent, and when we look at the approach angle of the hands they are coming in somewhat high and exiting somewhat lower, thus a down and left strike through. This can be a workable combination but since I am being asked for advice I would try to get the hands to approach from a position closer to the body, which means that the right arm would need to be less bent as the hands reached parallel to the ground in the forward swing.
Right arm movement functions as a pattern that is generated from the very beginning of the swing, and here Adam can work on getting rid of some of the triggering body movement that happens before the club moves. I generally look for a fairly quiet takeaway initiated by the upper trunk, so the appearance of the order of movement will either be everything moving together or of the upper trunk and grip moving before the clubhead. In Adam’s case the upper trunk moves to the right before the arms, hands and club moves, the end result being that the hands, which were somewhat lower than pointing the shaft at the belt buckle at address, move slightly away from the body. This may seem insignificant but it has repercussions at the top. The progression from shaft plane to left arm parallel is 12 degrees, and as the club gets to the top and looks for some depth it crosses the line a hair. From here the movement is more downward with the grip than outward, and the shaft steepens slightly in transition. We have seen this pattern before, and almost every time the right arm fails to unbend as it shallows the shaft later in the downswing than we would want. This brings the hands in fairly high, and the release is down and left. My idea would be to raise the hands at address and deepen the backswing, then focusing on moving the hands more outward while kicking the shaft more backwards into a sidearm throwing motion. The right arm could thus unbend earlier and the approach could be more uniformly on the original shaft plane, which would make the wrist action needed to square the face less complicated.
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