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[JPeacockGolf]

+1 on the hips golow.

[carldawgh]

golow, on 15 August 2012 - 07:01 PM, said:

MadGolfer76, on 15 August 2012 - 06:26 PM, said:

I hope people can get back on track and help this kid (OP) like he asked.

Agreed. Here goes. You are young and trying to maximize speed. When you get stronger your dynamics will quiet. You are on your way.

In the first two vids your weight at address is over your toes. At impact you are early extension city. Set up with the ball in line with the center of a wedge face with the over the toes set up. Slowly move into and impact position. Slowly stand up with hip and thoracic extension. Tell me - does the toe dig, heel raise and leading edge slide closer to your feet ? The answer is yes every time. There's your toe hit.

The update vid when your are hitting it better: Much better weight distribution at address. Still with early extension.

Even if you don't use a Slicefixer method adhere to one of his teachings ... back hip is lower than the lead all the way thru the swing. Watch the Mcilroy swings. He does it even with his odd hip stall/direction change.

Hopefully Monte et al will see this thread soon and clear things up for you.

golow™

Not sure if I get that part, but what you're saying is that I should have my weight more to the heels ? Obviously not too much but I might tend to get too much on my toes?

[golow]

Don't set up on your heels, just more centered. The first video you looked like you were going to fall forward at address.

My point is with early extension the shaft goes more vertical at impact and slides toward you (everyone for that matter). That's why you hit it off the toe.

golow™

[carldawgh]

Here's a very recent swing compilation. Check it out, I feel like the move is much better now than for a few months ago.

[1player]

You got great tempo, and the movement is ok for now
These are the keys to POWER especially on a driver
a. swing as HIGH as you can, look at hands position of JB Holmes and Daly, very very high
b. big wrist break at top (see daly)
c. FAST HIPS, that is your current problem, you should be belt buckle at the target at your age at impact, so FAST TURN OF HIPS
d. hold the clubs mostly in fingers, like sling shoting a rock you know skipping it on a pond, that's the 'feel' of the club through impact, throw the club at the ball

You start to do them in that order

Guaranteed you see huge increase in DRIVER

That's the only club you want to go after

Your swing is fine for now on irons, when you grow up a little, the easier iron swings will produce more distance, but you want to go after a driver

So change the plane to more upright, when you see more pop, then work on big wristcock at top where your shaft goes way past parallel

Then work on the hips

Turn them FAST and try to have your belt buckle facing target at impact

Look at young Tiger pics when he first came on tour
He had very very fast hips

Oh the fingers thing, do that first

Nice swing for a young guy

But that's how you generate SS, higher arch, go way past parallel and have fast hips and keep it loose in fingers

PS Just looked at most recent video of you, noticed hand position, your hands are a little more forward than ideal, the pro I work with made that change with me recently, and he's in the PGA hall of fame for instruction with a huge list of tour pros on his resume, he had me point the shaft at my belly button on setup for 'ideal' position

PSS just grab a pic of you at impact, and see how your hips are only starting to turn at impact, by then, a young fast swinger would be fully rotated toward target in lower hips, that's your MAIN FAULT for the distance leak, you're kinda stuck at impact, no where near a 'loose release'

Edited by 1player, 08 September 2012 - 01:15 PM.

[golow]

Nice work. You seem to have better weight distribution at address - balls of feet. That should minimize weak toe hits and minimize early extension.

Very fast hips may lead to blocks as club approaches from the inside and shallow. When this happens to me I swing 80% feeling as if I'm unwinding shoulders at the same rate as my hips. It's just a feel but it gets me connected again. Disregard if you don't have this miss.

Or hit some like Mahan in this vid. It's like a long to long 9 to 3 drill ---->

Your swing (especially thru impact to finish) reminds me of Geoff Ogilvy. He crushes the ball - very high with no spin.

G.O. -->

Edited by golow, 25 November 2012 - 03:17 PM.

[carldawgh]

Here's an update on my swing if anyone should stumble upon this thread

[rickbgolfer]

A few setup issues i see...

1. Get your chin up.
2. Put some alignment sticks down.

On your down swing your left hip needs to feel as if your sucking it more inwards. Try thinking more of your belt buckle crunching inwards on the downswing. This will help your hip from coming out of the shot. This should help those blocks your hitting.

[Invert99]

Just a thought that has worked for me. To fight early extension try feeling your lead hip (right) move back out of the way while your rear foot stays on the ground. Then as you move through impact feel your rear hip (left) follow the club through into the space your lead hip cleared. This will keep you from early extending hopefully. Just try the hip feel at low speeds in practice swings to get a feel for it.

[carldawgh]

Invert99, on 02 December 2012 - 08:12 PM, said:

Just a thought that has worked for me. To fight early extension try feeling your lead hip (right) move back out of the way while your rear foot stays on the ground. Then as you move through impact feel your rear hip (left) follow the club through into the space your lead hip cleared. This will keep you from early extending hopefully. Just try the hip feel at low speeds in practice swings to get a feel for it.

thanks for the tip!

[ChrisBouriat]

thesponge, on 15 August 2012 - 10:06 AM, said:

Check out his rear foot here. I'm on mobile so not sure how to embed, if someone else can do the honor.

http://m.youtube.com...h?v=cCAgoHfrxao

Rory does keep his feet quiet in that swing. I've noticed a lot of pros will have there feet quiet in scoring iron swings, but not when looking for distance, i.e. the driver or longer clubs. For instance, Zach Johnson doesn't look like he moves his feet at all when he's trying to knock down a pin 150 and in, but he has that heel picking up with tee shots.

With that being said, OP you do seem to get your heel up pretty early.

Edited by ChrisBouriat, 08 December 2012 - 11:51 AM.

[carldawgh]

ChrisBouriat, on 08 December 2012 - 11:45 AM, said:

thesponge, on 15 August 2012 - 10:06 AM, said:

Check out his rear foot here. I'm on mobile so not sure how to embed, if someone else can do the honor.

http://m.youtube.com...h?v=cCAgoHfrxao

Rory does keep his feet quiet in that swing. I've noticed a lot of pros will have there feet quiet in scoring iron swings, but not when looking for distance, i.e. the driver or longer clubs. For instance, Zach Johnson doesn't look like he moves his feet at all when he's trying to knock down a pin 150 and in, but he has that heel picking up with tee shots.

With that being said, OP you do seem to get your heel up pretty early.

Check out this video of me from maybe a month earlier.