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Originally Posted by TwillDog
My current thoughts are to shorten my backswing (which would eliminate at least 75% of my problems), and get my right side more involved with my swing. When I played baseball, and later softball in a men's league, I was a lot better swinging through the ball. My swing was still long, but my timing was better. Between no more softball and likely the 40-50 extra pounds I have since I last played, I don't get through the ball as well as I used to. And I can't have a swing that relies so heavily on timing - I need a shorter backswing so I can get the meat of the club on the ball more often. I have played 3 consecutive rounds at an executive course (12 par 3's) and have not hit more than 3 greens in any round. That's pitiful, and miserable...
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Hi Twill,
I have discovered the hard way that when I start my downswing with hips BEFORE my backswing gets too high, I can make a pretty decent swing.
I do the "OTT Chop" exercise to ingrain a hips-first move--to separate my hips from my shoulders. That is necessary if we are going to keep the clubhead inside the target line--hit from the inside and avoid slice. It was interesting to learn that several touring pros did that--Corey Pavin, et. al.
This youtube clip made yesterday is a typical range session for me-- in which I drill to ingrain the transition weight shift, separation, hips before shoulders. I regret that I played for 5 years ingraining just the opposite, the typical high handicappers OTT shoulders first swing--
I see that my front leg "post" is faulty (I am on my front foot toe with knee bent instead of on my front foot heel with knee almost straight). I will fix that today.
But these drills are the way --if there is a way! I am not sure someone my age can ever replace bad habits that were ingrained, but I intend to try. In fact now that I really understand this too common swing fault, I refuse to swing OTT again and risk erasing all this hard work!!
YouTube - Transition drills 5-22-08
Larry