I am majorly over the top and I go too far in my backswing.
Regarding being over the top, I thing that I raise my arm to rotate my shoulder. But what I need to do is rotatey shoulder to raise my arm. I don't know if that makes sense.
Any basic insight for me?
In this session, I'd say 30 to 50% of my iron shot made good contact. My 10 driver shot sliced.
by PhilRattlehead
14 Comments
U need to rotate around your chest in backswing, so your hands go deeper by your heels. U have no upper body rotation in backswing
Generally speaking, being OTT is a function of the shoulder rotation being ahead of the hands/arms dropping from the top.
This can be from lack of rotation or from sequencing or from a combination of both.
You are decently rotated at the top. Chest looks to be facing a solid 90 degrees back. But your hands are high as you thrust the trail shoulder forward to start the downswing, returning it – arms can’t do anything but go OTT at that point really.
They have to go out and sweep across to get back to the ball. Can see you trying to hold it off and toss a flip… it is all to correct that shoulder leading the downswing to me.
Arms need to feel like they drop way sooner. Not push out. DROP. Back still to the target, drop your hands to your trail pocket. I bet it will feel like you cast the club out way behind you, like out towards that divider behind your ass behind you…
Look up Monte 8 o’clock and Monte no cast to see what I’m talking about.
You’re not rotating and you’re all arms
Save up get a lesson. You look similar to my issues.
1. You are chopping the ball not swinging. It’s so steep.
2. Cause by a sway and hardly any hip turn.
I’d say imagine your belt buckle turning to 3 o’clock(over correcting but get that feel). Engage your core and lats to lock you in place turn around that spine.
Not sure if you turned your wrist over or not. Someone better than me explain.
Keep your right elbow glued to your body for the whole swing.
It will solve many of the issues you are having.
I know this probably won’t hit you the same as me but what did it was this- if you don’t rotate your body at all the club head should hit the ground like 18″ to the right of your right foot. i know it sounds ridiculous but if you were swinging a good swing and absolutely no torso or hip rotation the club head hits the ground straight right of you. Now add the shoulders and hips but swing the same way and the rotation brings the point of impact to where the ball actually is. it was like a cheat code for me
All hail king OTT
And way behind-that was fat but you got mat bounce. That right flying baseball elbow is way up there. Imagine hitting a baseball between first base and the dugout. Thats how a golf swing feels at first.
You’re just standing up because your hips are moving toward the ball during your backswing and downswing. You need to ingrain rotating by gaining depth with your trail hip so the center of your hips stays the same distance from the ball throughout the swing.
Towel Drill
For me it’s hard not to be ott when standing that close and upright. Back up a bit bend more to bring the toe up. That’ll set you up to allow more inside out. I’m currently doing the same from my lessons. It felt like reaching pretty far and had to learn to keep my bend.
I feel like your a little to close with the 5 iron there you stand up on contact to
You have almost zero left side bend going back and zero right side bend on the downswing. My money says that if you work on that a lot of the other issues the comments are talking about will be addressed
The golf swing starts with the correct grip, stance and posture. Those need to be corrected before you start to fix your takeaway and backswing.
Imagine a giant 10 foot hula hoop starting at the ball and passing around the shoulders at about a 45 degree angle. That’s the swing plane your club should be traveling on.
Your backswing is much too vertical. Your hands should be behind the shoulders instead of above them at the top of the swing.
You’re teaching yourself bad habits. The very best thing you could do would be to take enough lessons to learn how to correctly grip a club and the proper stance and posture, and then enough to learn the proper basics of the swing itself.