Ever miss the ball from the inside?

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Anyone ever miss the ball from the inside? I haven't hit a real ball in 2 months but just picked up a club and have been hitting some orange foam balls in the living room. More than once I've literally missed the ball from the inside!! What the hell is that about? I've been focusing on really closing the face.

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(ball)
(miss)


(feet)
 
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I should clarify as my "diagram" isn't the best. I'm hitting the ground right by the ball, not fat or anything. It's just totally missing from the inside (between the ball and my feet). Downarching my left wrist and trying to close the clubface on the way down. Hope that helps.
 

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I should clarify as my "diagram" isn't the best. I'm hitting the ground right by the ball, not fat or anything. It's just totally missing from the inside (between the ball and my feet). Downarching my left wrist and trying to close the clubface on the way down. Hope that helps.

Curtisj76

You need to get off of your right side! Picture yourself as a tornado. Starting the downswing you need to move the entire tornado forward several inches(Right shoulder, Right hip, Right knee), w/out excessive spine tilting. We underplaners tend to get way too much spine and neck tilt on the downswing which puts our lower body out of sync with our upper body. We also tense up our arms (for me I tense the triceps) on the way down which holds them back.

excessive tilt + tensed arms = underplane

Work on pushing hard off of that back foot w/out any spine tilt and spagetti arms. See if that helps.


Jerad
 
Um, I don't think this is traditional "underplane" as that usually means dramatically in-to-out path, ie, the clubhead is outside the target line after impact, as there usually is some type of impact. He is saying that the club is passing between his feet and the ball, so this is quite a bit more sinister than too much from the inside.

His whole plane is displaced inward and not intersecting with the ball at all. The club hits the ground approx where the shaft is pointing on the downswing. So, the down-arching of the wrist/forearm is steepening it too much--the shaft is no longer pointing at the target line....enough so that it is completely missing the ball.

Curtis, try rotating your forearms to close the face instead of down-arching. Clearly this is an experiment that has gone hideously wrong.

PS: And in response to your thread title, no, I've never missed the ball from the inside, but I have gotten steep and toe'd the piss out of it....which would be a kind of Egor compared to the Frankenstein you've created.
 
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