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[Mike O]

Two cents

Does anyone think they can fix my head from bobbing in the downstroke, without screwing my game up? I have worked extremely hard on this, and for long periods, but my game comes apart everytime I do. I tried many things including adjusting my setup, decreasing axis tilt, and just trying to 'keep it there'. So, if anyone has an innovative solution to this, I'm all ears.

7 iron swing- down the line
arched left wrist with over the top start down- you're dead half way down- you're body knows it - so the head bob- helps compensate for the over the top move i.e. flattens the plane or helps the club to get lower and more inside coming through. For every flaw - you've got another one that compensates. Understand one- you'll never make the change. Understand both and you've got a chance.

Also- you might look at the fact that since the arched wrist - opens the clubface- the over the top move helps to compensate or close the face.

Food for thought or not.

 

[puttmad]

tong,

thanks for the advice JM and puttmad, i will try my best to implement your advice, but not sure exactly how.

When you get the chance, watch Jim Furyk's swing..
Forget his positions going back, but especially look at how he holds his shoulders back until his right hip is firing...I chose him because it is very noticable in his swing...

The downswing starts from the ground up remember..the last this to get moving is the shoulders....get your weight moving on your left side and then fire your shoulders...

 

[self-mastery]

I always thought you were compda! My mistake.

 

[tongzilla]

7 iron swing- down the line
arched left wrist with over the top start down- you're dead half way down- you're body knows it - so the head bob- helps compensate for the over the top move i.e. flattens the plane or helps the club to get lower and more inside coming through. For every flaw - you've got another one that compensates. Understand one- you'll never make the change. Understand both and you've got a chance.

Also- you might look at the fact that since the arched wrist - opens the clubface- the over the top move helps to compensate or close the face.

Food for thought or not.

I see where you're coming here. But the head bob has existed since the beginning of my golfing career (way before my discovery of TGM). During this span, I have experimented for long and intense periods of time with at least 10 different patterns. From strong grips to weak grips, arch at the top to bent at the top, neck parallel to neck adam scott style, basically almost any variation you can think of I have tried it (but maybe not the desired combination of variations). And with all those patterns my head has inevitably and predictably bobbed. And from my experience this bobbing is a direct function of how hard I'm trying to mash the ball. I guess this is just an in-built characteristic in my swing that that my body (with its unusual spinal flexibility) has taken advantage of.

 

[tongzilla]

14 Feb 08

 

[birdie_man]

What you been working on?

 

[tongzilla]

What you been working on?

This:



and this:

 

[Jared Willerson]

Extensor action? That is what you look like you have more of.

 

[curtisj76]

I think it's his hips.

 

[birdie_man]

You hitting it good?