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Watching Georgia’s swing at regular speed you can tell from her smooth, aggressive tempo that she is strong and athletic and has worked on her swing mechanics, especially in her backswing. When she hits it fat and thin with such a good looking action it would be no surprise to me to hear the random viewer comment that her poor ball-striking would indicate that she was somehow mentally deficient, more specifically that she was “thinking too much” or that she was trying to be “too mechanical” and wasn’t “keeping it simple”. Such nonsense is par for the course from people (both players and teachers) who avoid the harsh truth that the game is really hard, that a good swing does not just look good from a distance but shows up well under detailed analysis, and that nice rhythm and tempo guarantees nothing when it comes to putting the club on the ball and compressing it.
Georgia suffers from clubhead throwaway (also known variously as “casting” or “early release”), and her lack of ability to lean the club forward at impact causes her to hit the ball fat when she hits down, and thin when she tries to avoid hitting fat. I do make a few backswing suggestions, but the real meat of the lesson focuses on transition and impact, and I show a number of punch shot drills to give her something to practice on the range. What would really help as well would be some sidearm throwing practice, as it is my guess that, like most women, she never was taught to throw that way and was not lucky enough to sequence her swing correctly from the time she started. This idea that the forward swing starts before the backswing ends is foreign to people who don’t know how to throw sidearm or to swing a bat effectively, and is a skill that is an absolute must to learn if you are ever going to hit the ball with real quality.