[bjdrivers]

Hello! I'm going to post a few vids of my swing on here. I'm looking for some help. I have 2 main problems I'd like to address:

1. I have way too much wrist break at the top of my swing.
2. On short irons I'm cutting across the ball through impact rather than swinging DTL through the ball on plane. This causes me to miss toward the toe a lot. I don't seem to do this as much on long irons. (flatter swing plane)

About me. I'm an 8-10 handicap, fairly long off the tee (265-280). Decent driver of the ball, slightly better than avg. short game, avg iron game, decent putter.

Any advice or tips would be appreciated. One thing I saw about problem #1 on The Golf Fix was to put a kids "floatie" on my right forearm to prevent the wrist from over-cocking.

I apologize for the video quality. It's cell phone. I rarely hit shots fat or thin, but i do miss on the toe a lot.

[bobbyp]

Nice sound effects with the mower! ;-)

Couldn't view the second one - something about protected video.

You could tighten up your backswing a bit with a fuller shoulder turn. It seems like you stop the shoulders but your hands keep going. Very tough to remedy but it can be done with practice. It doesn't seem like your right arm collapses going back so I'm not sure if the floaty will help. From personal experience with overswing...the transition down from that far back caused me to "lift" or else the club would hit several inches behind the ball. When I lifted I changed my path (more inside) which caused the toe hits you are experiencing especially with short irons. I worked hard on a fuller (and slower) turn back and now I come into the ball more on plane without losing my spine angle.

Hope this helps!

[bjdrivers]

thanks bobby i'll work on that. i made the second video public so it should be viewable now. it's a face-on shot.

[bobbyp]

second video confirms it. you lose resistance by rolling to the outside of your back leg (6 seconds into the second video). turn "into" your right heel and let the shoulders continue to turn as they resist the right side. you'll definitely feel tension up your right side and with your left shoulder. That should stop the overswing (imo, of course!).