I think the remedy to this is my right wrist hinge, I have very little at the top, but wanted to see what you guys thought. Hit everything straight today, I’m just barely chunking everything. Any other ideas? Or focus on the wrist hinge? I feel like I’m getting close to making major improvements
by affiiance
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Swaying, standing up, lack of rotation.
Chair drill to stay in posture and improve low point control.
Left knee should go forward (bend) and the right knee should go back (straighten). Neither should be going to your right. This causes you to move your low point of your swing farther behind the ball causing you to chunk. A coach gave me a drill of placing a ball underneath the right part of my right foot and practicing the hip rotation and knee bend. The ball helped me keep my weight forward and helped me straighten my right leg on the backswing. Combined it helped eliminate the swaying motion
It’s not your wrists. You are on your left toe at impact. You have to get your weight through to your left heel otherwise you’re going to be behind the ball 90% of the time. Slow down to 1/4 speed with a full swing and practice initiating your swing by shifting to your left heel. This will naturally clear your hips and drop your arms into the slot.
At address, imagine there’s a wall alongside the trail side of your face/cheek. As you takeaway the club, don’t let your head push (or sway) back past that wall. If you shift off that too much then your low point naturally goes further behind the ball and it’ll take a lot of sway back forward to recover. Difficult to time and it’s an absolute swing killer. If anything, feel yourself slightly shift your center mass toward to start the downswing, planting 90%+ of your weight to the inside of the lead foot. This should help get your club to bottom out after the ball.
You think the only issue is the chunks, but the bigger problem is that you are swaying off the ball and barely rotating your hips. The ball might look straight, but the motion itself is unstable and that is why the chunks keep showing up.
Right now the arms and shoulders are doing all the work because the hips never really turn. That makes every swing a timing exercise and explains why your contact is inconsistent. The chunks are not random misses, they are the natural outcome of a swing without a real pivot.
Get that trail hip turning behind you, stay centered instead of drifting, and then let the hips actually unwind through the ball. That will give you a stable low point and the contact will clean up fast.
Check out the arm swing illusion and hip rotation videos from my Deagle Swing Factor playlist, it is basically made for your move:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL79Lt-Rl9rWXqbdRyfFmuLWRFXOvpfViE&si=rqPUamsKdN3jHjgJ
If you draw a vertical line from your left hip down to your left foot, your hip should stay on this line. Your hip moves away from the target as you can see and this is definitely causing you problems.
Look up some hip sway drills