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You have seen Joey before, and what you find here is more or less a repeat of the last lesson I posted. Joey is a very good junior (he won the Optimist International Junior Championship this year at the Champions course in Palm Beach, Fla. against an international field) but his excellent play has come about fairly recently and his swing is prone to regressing to old habits when he plays in multiple tournaments without getting a check-up. Here he is back to pinching his right arm in the backswing, which sets a pattern for him that ends up with the club crossed at the top and his arms pulling the club down into a compromised approach position. It is fairly remarkable how much a simple change such as getting the right arm to bend and carry a bit more in the first part of the backswing can change the whole nature of the rest of his swing. It may seem fairly insignificant, but when you can hit a 3 wood 270 yards the smallest discrepancies in clubface angle make for large dispersions in ball flight and direction. Joey went from hitting random hooks and blocks (mostly hooks) to pretty much striping it in the course of the hour. We have been here before, and the more times we revisit the same problem the better handle he will have on the fix and the less likely he will be to fall into the same problem.
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