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Hi Wayne,
“I’ve been hovering around a 1 or 2 handicap all year, but I can’t put a complete round together to go low. While trying to improve I messed something up and have been hitting the ball bad lately. I was hitting it off the heel of my irons, so I thought maybe they needed bent. So I recently had them bent to 2 degrees flat. Now I seem to be hitting it less off the heel but it still creeps in every now and then. I’m also worried maybe they are too flat. With my driver, (usually one of my strong suits) I feel like any time I try to play a draw it’s a 50/50 shot of it having a little draw or a big hook. This is what really kills my rounds when I hook 2-3 drives with trouble left. I have to go to a fade if I want to keep it in play but I tend to give up about 15-20 yards when I do.
I’m looking forward to any help you can provide.”
Thanks for your time,
Gary
Gary’s comments here are interesting in that his focus is primarily on how the club feels at impact and on the ball flight. In an online lesson I can neither feel his impact (can’t do that face to face either) nor can I watch the ball fly. I look at the swing mechanics, take whatever feedback I get from the student, and make recommendations based on what I think is making impact hard to manage. Here we see Gary making a fairly pronounced sequence mistake, as his upper body leans forward toward the target before the hips have a chance to pull the upper body into the forward swing. I have been using a stretch cord to help students feel the proper sequence in transition, with the left arm passive and responding to the 45 degree push of the lower body from inside the right foot toward the left heel. Gary has excellent rhythm and a powerful looking delivery, and it only makes sense that if he could fix this major issue he would improve.
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