I've been learning golf on my own for about a year now, and have been playing with a friend who has been into golf for a few years. I'm able to get to this point with guidance from my friend and I feel like the ranges for my 7 to 5 irons are way too narrow (7i – 110yd, 6i – 115yd, 5i – 130yd).
From this video I know I go over the top with my swings and I must say all of my swings are like this except for the driver. I cannot for the life of me, properly tuck my hands in to the hips like I see most players do. Please helpppp I want to improve but I can't afford coaches 🙁
by Flexz_37
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Not bad but you should go see a golf pro for guidance. Don’t trust Redditors for solid golf (or any other) advice.
The hand path from the top of your swing moves out towards the ball significantly from the top. Feel the hands drop towards your right pocket from the top of the backswing and hopefully this will improve the impact position and stop the raising of the handle through the hitting area
I say this to 90% of students and it apply to every activity in life.
You will constantly struggle with missing fundamentals.
The very first thing everyone should learn in the first 5 minutes into the game, and is the most important, is the proper grip.
This is what effects the way you set the club(cock the wrists ) and release the club. It’s the part that controls where the face is pointing. It doesn’t matter what feels good or bad or comfortable or not.
The second thing is the proper impact position.
Then then set up (stance) , then tempo/rhythm/timing, then balance
After all that , you can then ask about the direction of the swing.
You are working on step 6 and are missing everything before but the proper stance.
I’m lessons I fix 8/10 players with the first 5 things before the swing.
Most are missing crucial fundamentals and have built swing compensations around that. It then requires a relearning of a lot of stuff you just tried until something works. This isn’t the way and it’s the way most learn.
I’m life we read the instructions, we start the new language with simple words, we start at level 1 in a game, we do the first thing, engrained it and go to the next , revisit the first, do the second and honor to step 3 and repeat the revisit to the previous level. In class or in learning we review what we did and go on.
I see this in golf so much. Doing it wrong still allows us to have a good time and enjoy the game. We still hit shots occasionally that we like but it’s luck.
We accept that 90 is a decent score when it’s the equivalent of bowling a 50. This game is absurdity difficult. I’ve played every sport decently and this is 10 fold harder. I’ve been teaching 30+ years and I’m a +2 index and it’s still brutally hard.
Please keep practicing. But please, start from step one and learn the proper grip. I won’t work on a persons swing with a grip like this. Id have to stop and have a conversation about the grip and how hands dominanted the swing is. I’d be pissing into the wind if I left the grip alone. I’d show you the setting of the club super early, the hands first move from the top and the hands not releasing and then scooping with low body action through impact. It’s all hands and grip focused.
You have a lot of good parts going. They are in a decent swing with bad fundamentals.
Seeing loads of advice but none telling that your cupping your wrist at the top. If you don’t flatten it out, imagine the left hand revving a motorcycle at the top and carry that down through the swing then likely you can expect to slice the majority of shots