Keep your right foot a bit more planted with the natural twist on the follow through.. think that sturdiness really helps plant the shot a lot better.. it can rotate but the position can being steady really helps.. unless you’re scottie!
Sn00ker123
I’m not a pro and not qualified to help but I see you can afford lessons so I’ll do my best.
Looks like you have the wrong concepts about speed. Your shoulder plane is very flat, you need to turn with tilt so your shoulders point more at the ground. Also you seem to be a ‘handle puller’ on the way down. Speed comes from being passive with the hands and arms and whipping the body through more. I’d recommend looking at some Danny Maude on YouTube as I think his coaching style will help you with your faults.
zFreeZeD
In case it helps, I think reason for many people defaulting to advising to take a lesson is because most of the swing here has problems.
This isn’t to demotivate you but rather to contextualise; it will be somewhat overwhelming for someone to explain everything that’s happening there, when the good news is that most likely you’ll get to fix lots of issues in just one hour with someone who knows.
No big deal because huge part of this is easily fixable, but the most important part is that you will also get to know what to work on next.
To me, I’d start by getting the upswing right which in your case would require, among many other things, to straighten your left arm, go to up while keeping your right elbow in your ribs (this is a way to train), and move it up until your left shoulder almost aligns between your face and the ball.
In your case, you gotta bear in mind that you need to put the work of rotation in your hips and not in your arms. This is a hip focused shot!
Practise by upswinging slowly, and then try to downswing while keeping your right elbow still touching your right ribs.
That’d be a start!
WreckNTexan48
Work on other shorter swings to better help the timing and body placement (11 Ps), a pitch shot would help, more of a half swing. When the overall body mechanics improve, then work more on the full swing.
Honestly, I’d work more on pitch, chip and putt anyway. That’s the more important aspect to the game.
The_Holy_Pope
If you can’t afford a lesson, take a group lesson. You’re going to need a human to physically adjust you so you know what you should be feeling.
I recently took a 30 min individual lesson with a pga guy at golf galaxy for 80 bucks. I’ve been practicing his tips at the driving range and the value is just shining through.
Using YouTube I tried to correct a slice in so many ways, but the dude reset me back to fundamentals and stripped away all of my over corrections, pulled my body to specific points through the swing, and had me hitting pure. Reviewing it all on the trackman from properly dialed in angle was amazing.
There’s always a birthday or something!
_my_other_side_
Get some golf shoes for more stability. Ditch the jacket. Work on turning your shoulders vs swinging your arms. Slow down everything. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. .
D-Train0000
You are swinging with a jacket on and your swing is all arms. Take a lesson please. There are virtually no fundamentals here.
ThrowinSm0ke
There’s no real advice anyone can give you here. I know you stated you can’t afford a lesson. However if your hitting the range and asking for advice I can only assume your playing rounds. Skip a few rounds put it towards a lesson. Buy foam balls and practice what you learn at a park or in the backyard. I live in a VHCOL area and can get a one on one hour lesson for under $100.
Sabahel
If you can’t afford a lesson then you need to really dive deep on YouTube and focus on adjusting a portion of your swing at a time. Also that jacket looks super hard to swing while wearing so that’s probably half your issues…
I’m not gonna tell you I’m a great golfer, but I started a year and a half ago at 40+ handicap and now I’m fluctuating between 16-18. I haven’t taken a single lesson but I was OCD on fixing my game and practice almost daily. I just watched a shit ton of YouTube and instagram videos. You’ll find tons of varying advice and basically some will work for you and some will be meh. But Reddit isn’t going to help you in this case.
taylortot55
Start by taking off winter jacket
xabc8910
You have several major swing faults. Without instruction it will be difficult to self-correct all of them.
Start with working on a strong lower body setup and understanding upper body rotation.
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Take a lesson
Yeh both very valid.
Keep your right foot a bit more planted with the natural twist on the follow through.. think that sturdiness really helps plant the shot a lot better.. it can rotate but the position can being steady really helps.. unless you’re scottie!
I’m not a pro and not qualified to help but I see you can afford lessons so I’ll do my best.
Looks like you have the wrong concepts about speed. Your shoulder plane is very flat, you need to turn with tilt so your shoulders point more at the ground. Also you seem to be a ‘handle puller’ on the way down. Speed comes from being passive with the hands and arms and whipping the body through more. I’d recommend looking at some Danny Maude on YouTube as I think his coaching style will help you with your faults.
In case it helps, I think reason for many people defaulting to advising to take a lesson is because most of the swing here has problems.
This isn’t to demotivate you but rather to contextualise; it will be somewhat overwhelming for someone to explain everything that’s happening there, when the good news is that most likely you’ll get to fix lots of issues in just one hour with someone who knows.
No big deal because huge part of this is easily fixable, but the most important part is that you will also get to know what to work on next.
To me, I’d start by getting the upswing right which in your case would require, among many other things, to straighten your left arm, go to up while keeping your right elbow in your ribs (this is a way to train), and move it up until your left shoulder almost aligns between your face and the ball.
In your case, you gotta bear in mind that you need to put the work of rotation in your hips and not in your arms. This is a hip focused shot!
Practise by upswinging slowly, and then try to downswing while keeping your right elbow still touching your right ribs.
That’d be a start!
Work on other shorter swings to better help the timing and body placement (11 Ps), a pitch shot would help, more of a half swing. When the overall body mechanics improve, then work more on the full swing.
Honestly, I’d work more on pitch, chip and putt anyway. That’s the more important aspect to the game.
If you can’t afford a lesson, take a group lesson. You’re going to need a human to physically adjust you so you know what you should be feeling.
I recently took a 30 min individual lesson with a pga guy at golf galaxy for 80 bucks. I’ve been practicing his tips at the driving range and the value is just shining through.
Using YouTube I tried to correct a slice in so many ways, but the dude reset me back to fundamentals and stripped away all of my over corrections, pulled my body to specific points through the swing, and had me hitting pure. Reviewing it all on the trackman from properly dialed in angle was amazing.
There’s always a birthday or something!
Get some golf shoes for more stability. Ditch the jacket. Work on turning your shoulders vs swinging your arms. Slow down everything. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. .
You are swinging with a jacket on and your swing is all arms. Take a lesson please. There are virtually no fundamentals here.
There’s no real advice anyone can give you here. I know you stated you can’t afford a lesson. However if your hitting the range and asking for advice I can only assume your playing rounds. Skip a few rounds put it towards a lesson. Buy foam balls and practice what you learn at a park or in the backyard. I live in a VHCOL area and can get a one on one hour lesson for under $100.
If you can’t afford a lesson then you need to really dive deep on YouTube and focus on adjusting a portion of your swing at a time. Also that jacket looks super hard to swing while wearing so that’s probably half your issues…
I’m not gonna tell you I’m a great golfer, but I started a year and a half ago at 40+ handicap and now I’m fluctuating between 16-18. I haven’t taken a single lesson but I was OCD on fixing my game and practice almost daily. I just watched a shit ton of YouTube and instagram videos. You’ll find tons of varying advice and basically some will work for you and some will be meh.
But Reddit isn’t going to help you in this case.
Start by taking off winter jacket
You have several major swing faults. Without instruction it will be difficult to self-correct all of them.
Start with working on a strong lower body setup and understanding upper body rotation.