I see a couple of things here:
1. Watch your right leg and see how your knee completely loses its flex. In fact, it actually moves backwards as the club reaches the top of the backswing. This is a major power loss, as you lose the possibility of creating any torque with your body. You believe that you are "winding up", when it fact you are just rotating. Bend those knees. Work on keeping the right knee stable throughout the backswing. Have a friend watch you swing and give you some feedback about that one thing. If you look at the shot from behind, you will see that the shaft goes well across the line (head points well right of the target line) at the top of the backswing. The ideal is to have the shaft pointing right down the line. At this point, you should be feeling maximum torque in your right thigh and lateral abdominal muscles. You don't have any torque in your right thigh (because the knee dissipates it), and you overswing to get to the "top". Work on this, and I think you will have no problem swinging a stiff shaft.
2. Your address posture could use some work. It looks like the head of the club is nailed into the ground, and you are leaning backwards, holding onto the shaft to keep from falling on your butt. Stand up a bit straighter from the hips and relax a little. Let your spine be just a little less rigid. Keep your weight flexed a bit more on the balls of your feet. You want to feel like a second baseman, waiting for the pitch. You hands are a bit far from your body - that should get better when you stand up some.
Things I like:
You turn your shoulders back and through quite nicely - even if you are over-rotating and relying on that shoulder turn a bit too much.
The follow-through looks pretty good. I like the way the club lays across your shoulders.
Hope this helps - and please keep in mind that I'm just offering observations. I'm not a teaching pro, like some of the guys on this forum. But those who who know me here know that sometimes I think I am...:laugh:
Last edited by Eracer; 04-23-2007 at 07:41 AM.
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