soSoJeffCC
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- Sep 8, 2006
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Hi everyone, just joined the forum a couple of days ago. I picked up golf when I was 12 with a full year of lessons, and played through high school on the team and such. Once college hit, I completely dropped the game, and now that I've graduated and joined the corporate world, I'm trying to pick up my game again.
My main gripe is this casting move I have at the top to start my downswing. I could not feel this at all, until I took some videos and looked at myself. You can see my before swing below. I then decided to take a lesson to get a couple pointers. The instructor's teaching philosopy wasn't based too much on mechanics, so my slight casting move wasn't touched upon. Instead, we worked on getting my hips firing better, increasing my swingspeed resulting in a much crisper and compressing impact on the ball.
While the results of the lesson were satisfying, I'd still like to see if I can eliminate my casting move. The second video is my swing after my lesson, and to my surprise, the casting move was still there. I could have sworn that I felt like I was dropping my arms into the "slot" with initiating the downswing with my hips. But I was wrong. As you can see, there is the initial cast, but I'm somehow able to make up for it and get the clubhead coming a little bit from the inside.
How do I work on eliminating this casting, especially if I can't feel it at all?? I'd really appreciate any help I can get with this frustrating flaw.
Swing before lesson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjahNc2m6pQ
Swing after lesson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJFXG9pUKyY
Slow motion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG6wQknnDlc
My main gripe is this casting move I have at the top to start my downswing. I could not feel this at all, until I took some videos and looked at myself. You can see my before swing below. I then decided to take a lesson to get a couple pointers. The instructor's teaching philosopy wasn't based too much on mechanics, so my slight casting move wasn't touched upon. Instead, we worked on getting my hips firing better, increasing my swingspeed resulting in a much crisper and compressing impact on the ball.
While the results of the lesson were satisfying, I'd still like to see if I can eliminate my casting move. The second video is my swing after my lesson, and to my surprise, the casting move was still there. I could have sworn that I felt like I was dropping my arms into the "slot" with initiating the downswing with my hips. But I was wrong. As you can see, there is the initial cast, but I'm somehow able to make up for it and get the clubhead coming a little bit from the inside.
How do I work on eliminating this casting, especially if I can't feel it at all?? I'd really appreciate any help I can get with this frustrating flaw.
Swing before lesson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjahNc2m6pQ
Swing after lesson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJFXG9pUKyY
Slow motion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG6wQknnDlc