Also, check your distance from the ball. At address let your right hang straight down. If it hangs on the ball side of the club, back up until it falls on the club as this is where the hands will want to naturally return. Good luck!
MasterpieceMain8252
U are casting
Braddarban
Stand further away.
That’s literally it.
_ScotchOnRocks_
Aim for the left side of the ball. Literally aim center, to the side closest to you.
TheKingInTheNorth
Lots of reasonable ideas in the thread, other than the people that tell you to step back from the ball. Those folks are all wrong and don’t know how hand eye coordination works.
The root cause is because you roll your trail foot out in the backswing, which is a sign you’re letting weight/pressure get outside your stance.
When you do this and start the downswing before shifting all that weight inside the stance and to the lead side, your brain pushes the trail hip and leg forward to keep balanced while the club is coming forward.
Load weight into the inside of your trail foot and shift weight before the downswing, shanks will vanish for good.
Odd_Relative1418
You’re firing your hips too fast and getting stuck so your brain tries to compensate last second and get the hands through so it’s shanking. Put an alignment stick in your belt loop and practice so you keep your arms in front of you. You’re also casting and losing wrist angles so that’s probably also part of your brain compensating last second to try and fix. I’d suggest taking a lesson to go over it with an actual pro.
Grandmaster-Ji
At the top of the swing, keep that wrist hinge. Club and arm at 90 degrees and less as you hammer down. You’re releasing the hinge as soon as you go down much greater than 90 degrees resulting in casting.
Too close, keep weight in middle of feet, leaning over a little, good news is you recognize it.
justanother-eboy
Hands should be moving slightly left at impact and not down the line
Fostersox86
This happens to me all the time. The drill that works for me. Line up to the ball out of the heel. Then try and miss the ball inside. There are a ton of reasons you could be early. The only way I have found to fix it, is self organizing. You already know what the issue is.
Whenever my swing starts going wrong, if I can see the issue. I can just do the opposite. I will get the feel of what needs to be done. It’s the only way I’ve made lasting changes. Otherwise you will have a million swing thoughts, and never get anywhere.
Remote_Context_6608
Your back hip gets in the way of your hands. Shift 70% weight into your front leg. Don’t turn your back hip forward, turn your front hip back. You’re welcome.
8amteetime
Watch the trail knee on the downswing move towards the ball instead of the target. That move tells the brain to move the hands away from the knee so out you go.
The drill is to make a 1/2 or 3/4 swing and touch the lead knee with the trail knee on the follow through. The knee should be moving laterally on the downswing, not towards the ball.
Hefty_Efficiency_328
Plenty of flexibility which is a great attribute. You’re just missing the shallowing part of the downswing. Try to bring shaft down thru lower back area and bent right elbow closer to right hip. This also helps to maintain spine angle, stop early release of wrist hinge and prevents standing up near impact.
Mr_Larsons_Foot
Right hip coming forward, and your hips in total from top of the backswing down to contact move closer to the ball. Lookup drills to get lead hip back vs. trail hip forward on downswing. It is HARD, I know, but that’s what is happening. Swing ain’t awful, and you have some decent flexibility to work on this.
If you could stake an alignment stick behind your left hip (I realize you can’t on a mat), and push that left hip back to the stick, you would start really forcing a better path.
Good luck!
DrPat1967
You hit it off the inside of the club, not the hosel. Your stance is too close, tge clubs are not sized, ball placement is wrong, weight transfer is unbalance…. Your shoes…. Get golf shoes or play barefoot. Most importantly…. Get a lesson from a pro, this was hard to watch.
Appropriate-Food1757
Stand further back boom there to you
medium-rare-steaks
You hips are moving toward the ball, not your hands.
Excellent-Lunch-7575
You’re really issue is your spinning out as your first move on the downswing and all your weight is on your back foot.
First move on the downswing is a lateral move to your lead side, arms drop and then rotate through.
I think a face on view is going to help you a lot more here than a dtl view. I wouldn’t normally point this out because it’s the result of another problem in the backswing that others have mentioned, but you have almost zero pivot, no load into the lead leg. You essentially are trying to use your body to square the face (which works for guys that have a lot of wrist flexion and flexibility to maintain spine angle & posture) but you sir do not have either of those things.
You need to get your hands deeper (at top of backswing have them left on camera of where they are now). You achieve this be keeping your hands and arms more in front of your chest on your takeaway (try to keep the face aimed at the ball for as far back as you can)
You can work on the pivot by doing freezers.. get to the top of your backswing, load to the left side and swing.
Otherwise I like the foundation you’ve built… just a few tweaks
BigShaker1177
Stand a little further back and get off your toes! I can tell your weight distribution is bad! More in the toes and less in the arch’s! This makes you lunge forward in the downswing thus moving your hands
Strong-Low6623
Hips move towards ball reduces space to swing need to swing left and clear left hip back and away
Tom_the_Fudgepacker
There is so much more wrong with your swing… Like stop twisting your hips so much man.
loophole64
– Get your hand moving toward your trail hip from the top. They should be closer to your body. – you aren’t shifting your weight at all, which will also contribute. The movement is shift, rotate, shift, rotate. – Get your weight moving toward your lead heel when you shift. That will give you more space.
askingforafriend1045
Looks like you’re casting substantially from the top, and/or you have a lack of wrist hinge. Hard to really tell from this angle
I would double check your grip and make sure it’s not in your palm too much
Buy-The-Dip-1979
Get your right elbow pinned to your body in the downswing
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I suffered from the same thing. Basically get a little farther from the ball, deeper backswing, and hands exiting left rather than down target line.
At a certain point the hands need to stay inside as the clubhead swing outside the hands.
Standing too close, the reason why you’re casting. That and there’s no separation of your upper and lower body on downswing.
You are on your toes at impact,
It’s your right hip moving to the ball pushing your hands out.
This is for early extension but the concept is the same:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17GUpcGyLc/?
Also, check your distance from the ball. At address let your right hang straight down. If it hangs on the ball side of the club, back up until it falls on the club as this is where the hands will want to naturally return. Good luck!
U are casting
Stand further away.
That’s literally it.
Aim for the left side of the ball. Literally aim center, to the side closest to you.
Lots of reasonable ideas in the thread, other than the people that tell you to step back from the ball. Those folks are all wrong and don’t know how hand eye coordination works.
The root cause is because you roll your trail foot out in the backswing, which is a sign you’re letting weight/pressure get outside your stance.
When you do this and start the downswing before shifting all that weight inside the stance and to the lead side, your brain pushes the trail hip and leg forward to keep balanced while the club is coming forward.
Load weight into the inside of your trail foot and shift weight before the downswing, shanks will vanish for good.
You’re firing your hips too fast and getting stuck so your brain tries to compensate last second and get the hands through so it’s shanking. Put an alignment stick in your belt loop and practice so you keep your arms in front of you. You’re also casting and losing wrist angles so that’s probably also part of your brain compensating last second to try and fix. I’d suggest taking a lesson to go over it with an actual pro.
At the top of the swing, keep that wrist hinge. Club and arm at 90 degrees and less as you hammer down. You’re releasing the hinge as soon as you go down much greater than 90 degrees resulting in casting.
[Trail Side Impact](https://youtu.be/xIgaWMcCOYw?si=7u5vSmLb4nNMWezL)
[Hands and Arms in the Downswing](https://youtu.be/TKrY7PlKZgc?si=KdSJQBKehnflA3W0)
Reverse pivot and stuck af
https://youtu.be/JXGSFxOf-Iw?si=Ou8CZvo0s-7Ry4W6
Too close, keep weight in middle of feet, leaning over a little, good news is you recognize it.
Hands should be moving slightly left at impact and not down the line
This happens to me all the time. The drill that works for me. Line up to the ball out of the heel. Then try and miss the ball inside. There are a ton of reasons you could be early. The only way I have found to fix it, is self organizing. You already know what the issue is.
Whenever my swing starts going wrong, if I can see the issue. I can just do the opposite. I will get the feel of what needs to be done. It’s the only way I’ve made lasting changes. Otherwise you will have a million swing thoughts, and never get anywhere.
Your back hip gets in the way of your hands. Shift 70% weight into your front leg. Don’t turn your back hip forward, turn your front hip back. You’re welcome.
Watch the trail knee on the downswing move towards the ball instead of the target. That move tells the brain to move the hands away from the knee so out you go.
The drill is to make a 1/2 or 3/4 swing and touch the lead knee with the trail knee on the follow through. The knee should be moving laterally on the downswing, not towards the ball.
Plenty of flexibility which is a great attribute. You’re just missing the shallowing part of the downswing. Try to bring shaft down thru lower back area and bent right elbow closer to right hip. This also helps to maintain spine angle, stop early release of wrist hinge and prevents standing up near impact.
Right hip coming forward, and your hips in total from top of the backswing down to contact move closer to the ball. Lookup drills to get lead hip back vs. trail hip forward on downswing. It is HARD, I know, but that’s what is happening. Swing ain’t awful, and you have some decent flexibility to work on this.
If you could stake an alignment stick behind your left hip (I realize you can’t on a mat), and push that left hip back to the stick, you would start really forcing a better path.
Good luck!
You hit it off the inside of the club, not the hosel. Your stance is too close, tge clubs are not sized, ball placement is wrong, weight transfer is unbalance…. Your shoes…. Get golf shoes or play barefoot. Most importantly…. Get a lesson from a pro, this was hard to watch.
Stand further back boom there to you
You hips are moving toward the ball, not your hands.
You’re really issue is your spinning out as your first move on the downswing and all your weight is on your back foot.
First move on the downswing is a lateral move to your lead side, arms drop and then rotate through.
https://youtu.be/_9lgx-C9CPo?si=iTUq0MHzzT-QihEt
I think a face on view is going to help you a lot more here than a dtl view. I wouldn’t normally point this out because it’s the result of another problem in the backswing that others have mentioned, but you have almost zero pivot, no load into the lead leg. You essentially are trying to use your body to square the face (which works for guys that have a lot of wrist flexion and flexibility to maintain spine angle & posture) but you sir do not have either of those things.
You need to get your hands deeper (at top of backswing have them left on camera of where they are now). You achieve this be keeping your hands and arms more in front of your chest on your takeaway (try to keep the face aimed at the ball for as far back as you can)
You can work on the pivot by doing freezers.. get to the top of your backswing, load to the left side and swing.
Otherwise I like the foundation you’ve built… just a few tweaks
Stand a little further back and get off your toes! I can tell your weight distribution is bad! More in the toes and less in the arch’s! This makes you lunge forward in the downswing thus moving your hands
Hips move towards ball reduces space to swing need to swing left and clear left hip back and away
There is so much more wrong with your swing…
Like stop twisting your hips so much man.
– Get your hand moving toward your trail hip from the top. They should be closer to your body.
– you aren’t shifting your weight at all, which will also contribute. The movement is shift, rotate, shift, rotate.
– Get your weight moving toward your lead heel when you shift. That will give you more space.
Looks like you’re casting substantially from the top, and/or you have a lack of wrist hinge. Hard to really tell from this angle
I would double check your grip and make sure it’s not in your palm too much
Get your right elbow pinned to your body in the downswing
My mans got the yips