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My name is Scott Campbell from Wollongong Australia and this is my submission for an online lesson. I currently play off a handicap of 6 and have been as low as 3. I have been playing golf for about 8 years now and have come from a cricket back ground. I have a flat swing, and as you will see, it is something that I have always had as a golfer. I try to swing like Ben Hogan but as you can see I am nowhere near it. With my irons I struggle with contact quite a bit and generally hit it thin when I’m hitting it bad and my ball flight is usually a fade. With the driver I almost always hit a fade or a block fade to slice when it’s bad, and struggle to hit a draw if at all.
I have been measured on track man here also if that helps my averages and some info is here:
Driver:
Attack Angle -0.5
Club Path -1.5
Club Face 4.0
7iron
Attack Angle -7.1
Club Path -0.8
Face Angle 1.4
Hope that helps :-
Can’t wait for you to help me!
Cheers, Scotty
First of all, it is quite cool to be helping players from all over the world. In this lesson I focus mainly on Scott’s backswing, as it is his tendency to pull his trunk upward and back away from the ball in the takeaway that causes his arms, hands and club to swing back low to the ground, leading to an overly flat overall movement. As he pulls up and back to start the swing he flattens his shoulder turn significantly, and one important result of this is that his right upper arm stays very close to his side and gets to the top stretched way back behind his body. The arm can’t recover in transition and winds up in a pushing position (opposite of the right arm and elbow moving in front of the chest), leading to a weak impact and the erratic contact and ball flight that Scott describes in his email. Scott needs most of all to keep his head out over the ball in the beginning of the swing, which would go a long way toward steepening his upper trunk turn. That would allow him to swing the club up on plane and to keep the right arm higher and more in front of him as he gets to the top and changes direction. His strong suit is his forward swing, which exhibits nice lateral and rotational movement. It appears that if he revamps his backswing that he should be able to achieve better ball striking fairly quickly.
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