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I’ve been working with Austin for about a year and a half now and he has brought his stroke average playing for Marquette University down by almost 6 shots. He is a strong kid (121 mph clubhead speed and 180 ball speed) and is learning to control the ball better by improving his swing technique. His main struggle has been with the clubhead getting trapped behind his hands as he approaches impact, and in this lesson, you can see this issue clearly in his first batch of swings. I believe that crossing the line at the top is a big reason why players wind up with the club behind them in the downswing, as part of the pattern to uncross the club is to flatten the shaft for too long a period coming down. Here I have Austin try to move his arms more in front of him in the backswing while opening the clubface more aggressively, which as you will see pretty much cures the crossing problem and gets the shaft much more on plane at the top. From this position, Austin can flatten the shaft earlier and spend more time steepening the shaft back to the plane, which will allow the club to approach from the top of the right forearm as it approaches shaft parallel in the downswing instead of under the arms. This in turn will allow him to square the club with less face rotation through impact, while feeling like he can release the club aggressively without fearing the hook. We want to feel like he is going to hit the ball with his body more open and the club releasing left, more like a fade but with the ball going straight.
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