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Hi Wayne, I recently became a member of the site and would like to get your thoughts on my golf swing. I’m an avid follower of your instruction and I really like a lot of your analysis and the way you communicate it. I’ve been playing since I was a junior, played Div. I in college and still try to play competitively as much as I can. I’ve had occasional success here and there. I have a pretty good knowledge of my swing and what I need to work on, but I think it’d be helpful for me to get another perspective. I’ve attached my videos and they can also be found on YouTube by searching either Kyle Parsons DTL or Kyle Parsons FO.
I’m just interested in a video analysis as a start for now.
Kyle’s swing is a great example of a technically sound, on plane motion that could be made to work better by improving his release action. Kyle straightens his right arm at impact, which in the irons causes the hands to “throw” the clubhead at the ball, resulting in some erratic contact due to the fast rate of clubface rotation through impact. With the driver this same release pattern has Kyle swinging well out to the right with again a loss of clubface stability. My suggestions here are for Kyle to focus on aiming his hands more forward as he approaches impact, which means he will have to drive his upper right arm more forward into the front of his ribcage and provide more pull with the pivot on the left arm. I show Kyle a series of impact drills that emphasize the visual aspect of the position of the arms, hands and club at shaft parallel in the downswing, as well as becoming familiar with the feeling of having the right wrist more bent, the left wrist more bent forward, and the right arm still bent at impact. I previously called this a “sustained” impact, which is still true, but my friend Jeffrey Mann has termed this release type a “drive/hold” release, one demonstrated by Ben Hogan in Power Golf and utilized by most great players before and since then.
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