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**malishka1025** · 02-13-2011, 02:26 AM

No worries about bringing it up. I didn't see sh**ks, but everything was starting way right (and often off the toe). I was having to try to "save" almost everything with the hands. Lost a decent chunk of distance and height.

Interlooper, obviously I can't see your swing, but I can tell you that I'm trying to shorten my swing as well. My swing now is a bit different from you in that my hands are pretty high, but I'm also past parallel with just about everything...envision Bubba Watson or John Daly, and you know what I'm talking about. Part of that is flexibility, but part of that is letting the arms "run off" after finishing my turn.

Anyways, it sounds like you're trying to get a little flatter with your swing. I actually made the mistake of thinking that getting flatter would shorten my swing, and I had the issue where I was taking the club back too far to the inside and then I was under the plane on my downswing. All I could do is hit blocks or flip with my hands and hit hooks. For me, the fix was that I had to make sure I was still taking the club back on the correct plane on the backswing and feeling like the club was in front of me.

Incidentally, my coach is mainly having me work this winter on getting the feel of a 9-o'clock backswing and where that really is. The first time he told me to take it back to what I felt like was 9 o'clock, my hands were at about 11 o'clock. So it's lots of mirror work this winter. The big thing that we're also doing is going slow on the backswing, taking the club back to the 9 o'clock position, stopping there for a second or two, then finishing your swing. You could adapt that drill to get into a "top of the backswing" position with lower hands but still a full turn, hold there to ingrain the feel, then go to a full finish. Don't worry about ballflight all that much, focus on the feel of that position. Just my 2 cents, hope that helps in some way.

02-13-2011, 02:26 AM	#6
malishka1025 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 413 Senior Member	No worries about bringing it up. I didn't see sh**ks, but everything was starting way right (and often off the toe). I was having to try to "save" almost everything with the hands. Lost a decent chunk of distance and height. Interlooper, obviously I can't see your swing, but I can tell you that I'm trying to shorten my swing as well. My swing now is a bit different from you in that my hands are pretty high, but I'm also past parallel with just about everything...envision Bubba Watson or John Daly, and you know what I'm talking about. Part of that is flexibility, but part of that is letting the arms "run off" after finishing my turn. Anyways, it sounds like you're trying to get a little flatter with your swing. I actually made the mistake of thinking that getting flatter would shorten my swing, and I had the issue where I was taking the club back too far to the inside and then I was under the plane on my downswing. All I could do is hit blocks or flip with my hands and hit hooks. For me, the fix was that I had to make sure I was still taking the club back on the correct plane on the backswing and feeling like the club was in front of me. Incidentally, my coach is mainly having me work this winter on getting the feel of a 9-o'clock backswing and where that really is. The first time he told me to take it back to what I felt like was 9 o'clock, my hands were at about 11 o'clock. So it's lots of mirror work this winter. The big thing that we're also doing is going slow on the backswing, taking the club back to the 9 o'clock position, stopping there for a second or two, then finishing your swing. You could adapt that drill to get into a "top of the backswing" position with lower hands but still a full turn, hold there to ingrain the feel, then go to a full finish. Don't worry about ballflight all that much, focus on the feel of that position. Just my 2 cents, hope that helps in some way.
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