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: Dear Wayne:
I have been following you for a few years. My daughter is 16 years old and aspires to receive a college scholarship. She is currently a sophomore in high school. She has been playing golf since she was eight.
She is a competitive golfer. She is currently ranked
175 on junior golf scoreboard.
We have been working on fundamentals that you teach on your website for the last couple years. Every winter we work hard to get in shape for the new season. For many years she had an “over-the-top” move that we have corrected in the last couple of years, but now I am having trouble getting her to stay deep in the hips during the backswing and keeping the lower body deep.
The “take away “plane has also been an issue; we have been trying to keep the club on plane during the backswing but she consistently wants to come under the line.
I am very interested in your assistance with Taylor’s golf swing. I hope that we can get some good results being on board with Wayne DeFrancesco. Thank you. Below are the links to her swing.
Sincerely,
Alex BeDell
As you will see in the video Taylor’s issues with her takeaway and in keeping her hips deep are both a product of her overly flat upper body coil, which is in my opinion a direct result of her keeping her right upper arm glued to her side all through the backswing. I have seen this many times over the years as players are taught to keep the right arm pinned in going back, and the result is almost always a nearly level to the ground shoulder turn. The only way to get the arms back in front of the body in the downswing from this position is to over accentuate the “hands out” move, and if this is viewed as “over the top” and corrected while leaving the shoulders level the club is bound to get stuck behind the body. Another byproduct of the need to extricate the hands from so far behind the body in the backswing is to throw the club from the outside, and thus the lower body is recruited to help the shaft not tip out and cut across the ball, thus the “early extension”, where the legs push toward the ball to help flatten the shaft. The fix here, at least at first, is going to be to create space between the right arm and the body at address and throughout the backswing, while radically steepening the upper body turn. If that is accomplished we will wait and see what happens in the downswing, although it will be a good idea to use the stick between the feet to try to get the lower body feeling like it’s pushing 45 degrees left and staying deeper.
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