Fix your backswing with my deep takeaway move that sets up a perfect little over the top (OTT) move on the downswing for maximum power!
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Fix your backswing with my deep takeaway move that sets up a perfect little over the top (OTT) move on the downswing for maximum power!
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Bobby jones in how to break 90 describes the backswing as simple as turning the body and hips and lifting the arms with the cocking of the wrists. And the down swing was shift forward drop the right elbow as one piece and keep the left arm in the line of flight. Impact he said he felt like it was a back hand blow.
christo I am 16 yo and I've playing my hole life. I stopped playing for a year and when I came back I couldn't stop slicing it and my back hurt a lot. Since I started watching my back has stopped hurting and my game is the best it has ever been. Your swing is a true miracle
I really enjoy your videos. I have a question for you. On the backswing, is it necessary to transfer pressure to your trail foot? I have started setting up with about 55% -60% of my weight on my front (left foot) and I keep it there throughout the backswing. When I do this, it is easier for me to push off my front foot on the downswing to really clear my left hip and accelerate the club into the ball. Your thoughts?
Hi Christo what are your thoughts on this Gentleman’s OTT swing? https://youtube.com/shorts/iIGPM0o3XQ4?feature=share
I thought of Jackie Burke jr. right away when I saw Nick’s swing.
*Home plate, not home base! 😄 Also, how do you avoid snap hooks and big pushes with inside takeaway?
What if you get rid of the backswing all together and just load like a baseball swing?
Christo,
I think vehemently promoting the words…' Over The Top Swing' .. is probably the worst message you can send to the rank and file Golfers.
What needs to be clearly extrapolated is that the 'attack' plane of the golf swing is not as commonly understood by rank and file golfers as that of being .. 'outside'.. and over the top' at 'impact'… which is absolutely what a rank and file golfer assimilates to the term of .. 'Over The Top' swing process. Three of the greatest ball strikers in the history of Golf.. Sam Snead .. Bobby Jones.. and Moe Norman.. all swung the club over the top of their backswing plane on the downswing..but.. they 'all' swung the club from the ' inside' to the ball at impact.. they didn't swing the club 'outside' the target line to impact.. if they did do that they could have only hit two basic configurations of ball flight.. that being either a .. 'pull cut''.. being the result of an out to in swing path with an open clubface.. or a .. 'Pull Drag'.. which is the resultant of an out to in attack plane with a 'closed' clubface'
The basics of shot patterning and ball flight become totally reduced with an out-to-in (over-the-top swing understanding for rank-and-file golfers) attack plane.. it is geometrically impossible to hit a straight push shot.. or a push fade.. or any type of draw flight shot.. if the swing attack plane direction is from out to in .. just mechanically/geometrically impossible.
Even Lee Trevino whose stock shot was a power fade hit the ball from an in-to-out swing path at impact .. have a look at his swing from an above view.. he clearly is attacking the ball from inside the target line. .. he did hit a lot of 'cut shots' .. but only as specialty shots because of conditions hole shape configurations.. a cut shot ball flight is a weak flight shot.. his shots were never 'weak' of ball flight.
Bruce Leitski had the nickname ..'Leaky'.. because all his shots leaked to the right.. so many commentators said his stock shot was a 'cut shot'.. I played in a Pro-Am with him and hit shots beside him on the practice tee.. all his divots were ever so slightly in to out .. to dead straight .. his ball flight was a straight flight and the ball just leaked slightly to the right at the end of its flight.. the ball flight was super strong .. it had no cut spin on the shots … Bruce had a big over the top of his backswing plane movement in his downswing.. but he still hit the ball from 'inside.. not 'outside.
I think what you do in your practice swing demonstrations with the over-the-top swing process is precisely what you shouldn't be doing.. you are demonstrating an 'out to in' swing path attack .. which is the last thing a rank-and-file golfer needs to see… especially when you dont do that in your actual golf swing.. explain to them its ok to reroute the club in the downswing over the backswing plane.. but the attack plane must still be 'inside' at impact.
You should have asked Jack Nicklaus when you interviewed him what his attack path was at impact.. I know what it was.. and he hit power fades his whole career .. which you cannot do from an 'outside in' attack path. ..
I enjoy your channel content.. keep up the good work.
The way you're swinging, I bet you're teaming up with Hank Haney
Now shut at top like Arnie. Aiming to the right. Swing has changed again. OK thanks.
Great videos,Do you position the ball always forward in the stance like hogan?
Hi Christo I don’t understand at the transitional part of your downswing you say you are going OTT of your trail shoulder when I clearly see the head of your club looping on an inside path to bring itself down to its plane of action against your ball. All I can think is that you must have a faster rotation of your body then I could ever achieve.
My golf swing is simply twirling the handle counterclockwise for my back swing and then twirling the handle of my club clockwise looping my club on an inside path shallowing it towards my ball as my body rotates left. Cheers 😃👍⛳️🥂
Check out Guido Migliozzi golf swing
I said this months ago but don’t you think moe Norman did inside and than down the line
So.. Inside takeaway?