Gentlemen, I can use some help with this. I know that I have to swing "under the stick" on the downswing in order to eliminate the over-the-top move. As Brian and Mike know, I've been working on this for 2 years. My question is which method would be best and worst to accomplish this?
1. Re-planting my left heel, doing nothing in particular with the hands, and relying on this hip movement to lower my right shoulder and flatten the shaft. This would actually be my preferred method, but I simply have not been successful with this on the course. In my back yard, using the Plane stick, Inside Approach, Path Pro, etc. I'm fine when I'm just swinging at the grass. I never hit the obstacle. I've also placed a club box just outside the ball and never hit the box in my backyard. However, when I look at video of me actually hitting a ball without any of these aids present, my downswing is so over the top that it would frighten small children. I'm now officially frustrated, and am considering other ways to get under the stick.
2. Simply dropping the hands straight down to start the downswing. Truthfully, this option doesn't appeal to me that much because it's not how I throw a ball, hit a tennis ball, etc. I do know that many instructors advocate simply doing this. However,my concern is that when I try this, it feels as if I am making two different moves that look like a backwards "L" or using the two sides of a right triangle, when using the hypotenuse makes more sense to me. On the other hand, choice 1 hasn't worked for me.
3. Using Harvey Penick's "magic move" of re-planting the left heel and simultaneously bringing the right elbow into the right hip. Again, this makes my downswing feel like two separate moves, as in choice 2.
4. At the top, simply flattening the shaft by manipulating my hands to do so. If I push down on the shaft with my left hands, the shaft flattens considerably.
5. Simply going to the top of my backswing with a flattened shaft to begin with.
6. Any other option I haven't listed.
Sorry for the length of my post. Please weigh in on the best option and tell me if any of the choices would be a long-range disaster. Winter is here and I'd like to settle on one move and work on it indoors for two months. Thank you very much.
gumper
1. Re-planting my left heel, doing nothing in particular with the hands, and relying on this hip movement to lower my right shoulder and flatten the shaft. This would actually be my preferred method, but I simply have not been successful with this on the course. In my back yard, using the Plane stick, Inside Approach, Path Pro, etc. I'm fine when I'm just swinging at the grass. I never hit the obstacle. I've also placed a club box just outside the ball and never hit the box in my backyard. However, when I look at video of me actually hitting a ball without any of these aids present, my downswing is so over the top that it would frighten small children. I'm now officially frustrated, and am considering other ways to get under the stick.
2. Simply dropping the hands straight down to start the downswing. Truthfully, this option doesn't appeal to me that much because it's not how I throw a ball, hit a tennis ball, etc. I do know that many instructors advocate simply doing this. However,my concern is that when I try this, it feels as if I am making two different moves that look like a backwards "L" or using the two sides of a right triangle, when using the hypotenuse makes more sense to me. On the other hand, choice 1 hasn't worked for me.
3. Using Harvey Penick's "magic move" of re-planting the left heel and simultaneously bringing the right elbow into the right hip. Again, this makes my downswing feel like two separate moves, as in choice 2.
4. At the top, simply flattening the shaft by manipulating my hands to do so. If I push down on the shaft with my left hands, the shaft flattens considerably.
5. Simply going to the top of my backswing with a flattened shaft to begin with.
6. Any other option I haven't listed.
Sorry for the length of my post. Please weigh in on the best option and tell me if any of the choices would be a long-range disaster. Winter is here and I'd like to settle on one move and work on it indoors for two months. Thank you very much.
gumper
