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Wayne,
I would be grateful if my son, Angus Bradford, could have an online lesson. I am a long time member of the site and we both follow your teaching with a keen interest. Angus is 15 years old and has been playing golf for 3 or 4 years now. He has a handicap of 5.4 and strikes the ball pretty well but he often has a feeling that the club is flipped through impact with the clubhead turning over.
We look forward to your advice.
It is always nice to have an opportunity to help a talented young player, and you most definitely see one here in Angus. The things I point out are pretty common for juniors like Angus who have not filled out physically and thus have trouble with managing the amount and type of pivot movement they utilize in the backswing. Angus does a nice job getting the club back up to left arm parallel, but to my eye he overturns the right arm and shoulder and puts it in a position where he can’t quite get the upper right arm back in front of him in the impact area. I compare Angus here with Adam Scott, who I think does a brilliant job of maintaining width and right arm readiness in the backswing, even though he does it in what I would consider a more difficult manner by keeping his right arm well in front of him during the entire backswing. The key point in the swing for Angus is from left arm parallel to the top, and I would like him to feel that his hands end the backswing moving away from his head instead of behind it. As we get to the downswing the idea is going to be to keep the left knee bent until after impact, as the video shows it straightening and pulling back before impact, which kills the hip drive and usually causes a flippy impact.
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