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This is one of the stranger swings I’ve analyzed because the backswing is almost perfect. I spend most of the first section of the video describing how good everything is, all the way through the transition. You can probably look at every lesson I’ve posted and not seen me make even a single suggestion up to left arm parallel in the forward swing. You would think that the rest of it would be cake; however, this case proves that nothing is automatic when it comes to hitting a golf ball. People ask me all the time “if I do this will it make that automatic”? I always answer “no”, nothing is guaranteed if you do the thing before it correctly”. That is a harsh but true statement. In this case Chuck doesn’t take advantage of all the great work he’s done up to this point in his swing and winds up approaching impact with his hands way behind the ball when the shaft is parallel to the ground, rather than having them up to or past the ball at that point like the vast majority of high level ball strikers. If I were face to face with Charlie I would ask him some specific questions about how he was picturing impact. A lot of times I’ll ask a student to take me very slowly through what they think should happen as the club moves through impact, and invariably they either haven’t thought about it or they just don’t know. What’s worse is that many people will come up with something they are trying to do that guarantees their failure, like “I’m trying to land the club behind the ball”. All my work with Charlie is going to be impact work, and on the video I go through my standard impact drills to get him going on the attempt to forward lean his iron shots and compress the ball. You could predict that with a release like this Charlie would be more confident with his driver than his irons, but when you see the approach to impact with the driver come in 10 degrees above his original shaft plane you know there is some specific work to be done there as well to get the hands to approach closer to the original shaft plane.
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