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Josh has a nice, fluid move that would appear to the naked eye to have little to fix. However, upon closer analysis with slow motion video it becomes apparent that Josh suffers from the same pattern tendencies we see all the time with good players who aren’t hitting the ball as well as they need to in order to compete at a high level. The end problem is flippiness at impact, with lots of face rotation due to an early throw release; the beginning of the problem starts at address and progresses into the backswing, and by the time the one second window is closed the approach to impact is so compromised that it is not possible to save consistently. This is a classic right arm problem, and Josh would help himself immeasurably by bending his elbows a bit at address and allowing the right arm to have space away from his side. Then, by starting the swing with his entire upper body, he can keep the upper arm spaced away from his body for width in the takeaway and then add some bend to the elbow and concentrate on getting the right forearm higher than the left at left arm parallel. While he is doing this he must still open the face, but instead of rolling his left arm to do so he should do it from the wrists down into the hands. When the hands and wrist open the face the upper left arm is not affected, so if the shoulder turn is steep enough the left arm can stay connected to the chest and feel like the shoulder is pinned under the chin with the left upper arm firmly against the chest. This should get the shaft more on plane at left arm parallel instead of 20 degrees flat like Josh has it, and then the shaft can stay on plane instead of crossing the line and flatten so that the shaft can lay back while the hands and arms get more in front of the chest in the downswing. Pattern changes have to be affected from the beginning, so Josh needs to really work on his backswing first and move his thoughts into the forward swing and impact gradually.
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