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Dean has taken a couple of online lessons and has (according to Dean) improved quite a bit. Here we see that we are getting down to the major issue in his swing, which is that his swing pattern is arms away in the backswing, hands dropping back and down in transition while the legs work underneath him and out toward the ball. This would be a big change to accomplish without hands on work, but it is certainly worth a try. My suggestions include a deeper backswing so that an “out” move with the hands wouldn’t feel so “over the top”, then concentrating on the sidearm throw feeling with the legs working inside the shaft in the ground placed between the feet. The eventual goal is to simplify the release action by making the approach less from the inside-out so that the entire body along with the arms and hands can work around the body to the left where the forward swing plane lies. This is an especially key piece of instruction here as this pattern is prevalent among good players who find themselves at a plateau where more practice does not equal improvement. The technique is just too difficult to manage and will no hit enough good shots to get the scores consistently at par or better.
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