interesting that this thread came back up...
I was practicing at a facility near my home when the owner (who is also thier lead instructor) happened to be there just chatting it up with the patrons. He and I usually get along pretty well; so what started as common conversation became a free 20 min lesson.
He did two moves (without saying anything) and it was like a switch went off in my head. He didn't even have to explain...he just did two movements: one was the correct one and one that I was doing incorrectly, and things became quite clear to me!
Basically, on the first move down should be the lower body right? Well, he was showing me that my first move down was the shoulders almost at the same time as my lower body....if not sooner than my lower body. When I do that, I have almost no chance of coming from the inside.....which is why all those swing thoughts that everyone keeps giving me was not working for me. Coming down with my shoulder first meant I started with the club already on the outside. And while I know well enough NOT to do that, I could not see/feel myself doing that because I was doing it at the same time as unwinding the lower body.
The next movement he showed me was what the proper one was. He flipped back and forth between the bad version and the good version rapidly a few times. That really helped me SEE the difference. I could see that if I focused more on starting with my lower body and then letting my shoulders UNCOIL/UNWIND due to the lower body move (as opposed to turn fist), there was almost no way to come from the outside (unless of course one does something really stupid).
So basically, no more swing thoughts about how to approach the ball....the only ONE swing thought in my head now is to make sure the lower body starts first for me; which pretty much takes care of everything else naturally. With enough ingraining of that, hopefully that will no longer be a "thought".
I guess there is a reason that he is the head instructor!
-DVS