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“Alright Wayne I am still struggling. Shooting anywhere from 78 to high 80s. Ball striking is my weakness. In my opinion my sequencing is still off. I know my backswing is a hair under the plane and wrist bowed a touch, also my hands drop straight down and my right arm gets behind me with a release way out to the right. I could be way off but to me it’s still my upper body lean that kills me. During my backswing I feel no weight on my right foot or leg, and actually feel more on my left foot. Thanks again keep up the good work with the website.”
Justin has actually done a nice job of improving his sequence in transition, but is still convinced that his tendency to lean his upper body forward to start the downswing is his major problem. I disagree, and in the video I focus more on how Justin locks his right leg at the knee in the middle of the backswing, and on the way he flattens his left wrist going back until it looks quite bowed with the face shut at the top. It is hard to get yourself to move the hands out toward the ball and to swing around to the left when the face is closed and a hook feels imminent, and here we see Jason drop his hands vertically and head toward the ball too much from the inside. With his right arm behind his side instead of in front of it Jason’s hands don’t make it up to the ball when the shaft is parallel to the ground on the approach to impact, and that combined with the shaft being behind the hands his path is in to out and overly shallow. My suggestions are fairly simple (though of course never easy to accomplish): add flex to the right leg instead of straightening it, and keep the left wrist bent (cupped) instead of flattening and bowing it. Then I think the idea will be to concentrate on moving the hands more outward toward the ball so that the upper right arm can get more in front of the chest as opposed to being trapped behind the side.
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