Im Ott every swing—This swing in particular I was trying to keep my back to the target as long as possible. I feel like my elbow and hand are dropping but I cannot envision nor create a downswing motion where the club shallows and somehow connects with the ball from the top of my swing. Please tell me what looks wrong in my backswing or in general.
I’ve tried to think about rolling my wrist, dropping my elbow towards my lead thigh, going inside to out, swinging right, etc. can’t seem to grasp how to swing shallow
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Rancho park?
Standing to close to the ball
Lead with the hips and the rest will clean it self up.
It looks like your hips start turning back to the target until after you’ve made contact. That’s not what you want
Shallowing requires arriving at the top of the backswing more vertically. Here’s where you currently are at one of the swing checkpoints. Red is where your shaft points and blue is where it should point.
https://preview.redd.it/r72pfhykjanf1.png?width=1098&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d1f2c43ec80023fa22c7522484929761add4b67
Hard to tell from this angle, but I’d start by checking to make sure the grip isn’t overly strong. It’s hard to get the club vertical on the backswing if your grip is strong.
Then next you can work on feeling the vertical wrist hinge by imagining your thumbs are pointing straight up thru the backswing. They won’t actually be 90° to the floor, but initially it’ll feel that way.
Once you get to the top vertically, momentum will help to allow you to bring the club flatter exiting transition so that the red line becomes the club path coming down instead of going up.
Bit loopy at the top no pause, hips should drive the down swing, your all arms at the moment. Slight pause at the top (not talking Cam Young) then drive the hips and arms.