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There are two major items in Tommy’s swing that, if improved, will provide an opportunity for massive, rapid improvement. They are major issues in any swing, and for Tommy to make them better he has to change the entire motion pattern of his swing. The two are tied together: in the backswing, from the face on view, we see Tommy slide his hips almost 3 inches to the right while keeping his head relatively still (except for upward movement, which is never good). He has put himself into a difficult position from which to properly initiate his downswing, and as he can’t push off from the inside of his right foot over towards his left heel, he has to include his upper body in the initial weight shift starting down. Of course, this is bad sequence, and the hands are going to release the club early as a result. Switching over to the down the line view we see why the hips have to slide instead of staying against the box wall and deepening. Tommy starts his swing with his weight at address well back into his heels, and with a lot of knee flex and waist bend. He starts moving toward his toes as soon as the swing gets underway, and there is no way for a hip that’s moving forward to move backward. The hips move sideways because they simply can’t rotate while the weight is moving from the heels to the toes. Tommy’s body is filling up the space his arms need to have in order to come down closer to him and bring the shaft to the ball from the proper plane, and as a result his arms and hands move well out away from him and eventually bring the club to the ball from out to in and released early. If Tommy fixes his set up and then stabilizes his right side so that he stays in the face on box with his hips in the backswing he will have gone a long way toward improving his action.
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