Help me out here

[pld]

I remember reading or watching that Brian stated that he had a magazine with a picture of Jhonny Miller at impact and his trail elbow was lower than his lead elbow and he decided to try it and he got 4 or 5 strokes better immediately. I have been doing this over the last week and my ball striking has improved greatly. I always had problems with long irons and my hybrid not any more solid and accurate. I am having problems with the driver(low hook) where as before I hit the driver very well. So my question is why low hooks with the driver. I am apparently doing something a little different with the driver but can't put my finger on it. Any suggestions. I finally feel like I am making the club act like a club. I finally found that I can now aim correctly instead of way left of the target(I'm a lefty) to play my little pull draw. I just feel like it got me to do a lot of things so much better.

Thanks Brian for a great website.
PLD

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

What you did is learn how to get the right shoulder down plane by providing axis tilt. This allows one to hit very high and powerful long iron shots. However you also have the potential to "over do it" and swing a bit too far right and "hang back."

Make sure you aren't swinging too far right and that your face is open enough for the path you're swinging on.

 

[pecky987]

What you did is learn how to get the right shoulder down plane by providing axis tilt. This allows one to hit very high and powerful long iron shots. However you also have the potential to "over do it" and swing a bit too far right and "hang back."

Make sure you aren't swinging too far right and that your face is open enough for the path you're swinging on.

when he says 'too far right' he means, for you, to the left

 

[pld]

Thanks for the reply Jim and I think you are right because I can feel myself flip at it at the last second and a playing partner said it looked like I still had a lot of weight on my back foot. I guess I was flipping at it to keep it from going left and it would go right. I finally feel I can hit the inside part of the ball. This past weekend I shot a 44 on the front nine because of the driver problems(penalty strokes) and then turned around and shot a 38 on the back had it at even par until the 18th hole and realized I could shoot even on the back with a par on the 18th and guess what duck hooked OB and ended up making double. But still the driver was no better on the back just kept it in play until the 18th.

Jim do you think that some drivers off the deck while trying to do the same thing with my trail elbow will help.

thanks
pld

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

Sure, driver off the deck can help but don't do it too much.

 

[niblick1]

I remember reading or watching that Brian stated that he had a magazine with a picture of Jhonny Miller at impact and his trail elbow was lower than his lead elbow and he decided to try it and he got 4 or 5 strokes better immediately. I have been doing this over the last week and my ball striking has improved greatly.

Interesting reminder. The thing that really made a sudden change for me was also the thought of getting my trail elbow much lower as I worked on pitch versus punch elbow. The change was immediate and drastic. It was huge.

The issue that I thought was more pivot related turned out to be cured by more axis tilt.

You'd think reading Jim K. say "more axis tilt" a hundred times would have put that idea in my head!

 

[pld]

Jim, I will alternate between a tee and off the ground going from 150 yard drivers on up to full power. Let me know if you think this the best course of action.

Niblick1, I here what you are saying. This trail elbow thing for me seems to be a key swing thought. I get so much for free like Jim said my shoulder is moving down plane, I feel a heavy club, a lot better snap, full extension after impact instead of before impact. But I'm sure all this does is get me to trace a straighter plane line.