I’m a low handicap player, but my hands are further out from my body near impact vs the best players. My misses are hooks and blocks, but when I’m synched up, I hit a reliable draw. Am I not using enough lower body movement?
by Annual-Guide-3831
I’m a low handicap player, but my hands are further out from my body near impact vs the best players. My misses are hooks and blocks, but when I’m synched up, I hit a reliable draw. Am I not using enough lower body movement?
by Annual-Guide-3831
7 Comments
Hard to tell without a video of your swing
You can clearly see how much more open pic 1 hips are vs pic 2, not that just opening your hips is the fix, there’s stuff you need to do before that to allow it to happen and just fixating on getting into pic 1s position might be tough. You can try to start there with your hips open and work back from there as a drill though. They don’t need to be as open as pic 1. ~45 degrees open, with shoulders square is fine.
Try and get them closer to body. The closer your hands are to body the better the contact.
Your body has stalled, so likely your clubface is way more open coming down so you have to use the arms to throw the club square. This stalls the body.
That’s a major difference. The body rotation of a pro makes their hands closer.
I just got a lesson recently due to the exact same problem. Swing path is in to out, knees look locked out at impact, nowhere for your hands to go after impact unless you artificially flip them around and up.
I am strong enough with my upper body to generate enough power to swing almost entirely with my arms and get 100mph club head speed with driver. I thought that was fine, and never really felt the desire to chase higher numbers. Turns out this thinking is entirely incorrect, will lead to poor sequencing, timing issues, post-impact issues.
Your lower body is your power basis, and you need to be using the ground to generate your power, not your body. Squat into the downswing. A good feeling for this is to do a couple 50% swings, and let your lead leg jump out and around your body (hips should be completely open to target, lead leg should finish behind your trail leg) think of a shortstop fielding a ground ball position. Do a butt against the wall drill to get the feeling of how to your hips should operate through the swing.
Once you start to fire your hips to initiate down swing, rather than your hands, your mind will be blown at how much more consistently your contact will be, how much tighter your dispersion will be, and how much more clubhead speed you can generate without feeling like you’re doing much work.
Doing this will likely achieve your desired impact position (like you pictured).
I have a similar problem and struggle to get the hands ahead of the ball at impact with good shaft lean. One characteristic that I have and maybe what I am seeing in your swing compared to players who do get into the right position like in the photo, is spine tilt at address and through impact. I’m too upright compared to that photo you are too. The arms are forced to come out and around to make contact compared to down and through. At least that’s what I’m thinking.
Noticed this in my swing for awhile and it’s usually due to an early release or poor sequence – body rotate to quick / arms haven’t lowered enough