yorkshirelad
New
Hi all,
I have been lurking on this forum for sometime now and have decided to bite the bullet and post my problem as it has been with me from when I first started playing about 14 months ago, and is really spoiling the game for me. The problem is my OTT move and steep downswing causing me pulls with my irons and slices with the woods and driver. As you can see from the video my practice downswing the club is more on the forearm plane but as soon as I get a ball in front of me the downswing becomes much steeper. I have tried standing more upright, bending over more, keeping my back to the target, dropping my arms first, steepening the backswing and takeing the club outside of the line and even swing with my eyes shut! nothing changes the steepness, yet take away the ball and it becomes much better. I can play to anything between 10 and 20 handicap due to my inconsistencies and my stock shot is a draw and my misses are usually pulls. Any suggestions or things I should be working would be greatly appreciated as I think this is really holding me back. I have uploaded a video of my swing below.
Thanks
Mark
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I have been lurking on this forum for sometime now and have decided to bite the bullet and post my problem as it has been with me from when I first started playing about 14 months ago, and is really spoiling the game for me. The problem is my OTT move and steep downswing causing me pulls with my irons and slices with the woods and driver. As you can see from the video my practice downswing the club is more on the forearm plane but as soon as I get a ball in front of me the downswing becomes much steeper. I have tried standing more upright, bending over more, keeping my back to the target, dropping my arms first, steepening the backswing and takeing the club outside of the line and even swing with my eyes shut! nothing changes the steepness, yet take away the ball and it becomes much better. I can play to anything between 10 and 20 handicap due to my inconsistencies and my stock shot is a draw and my misses are usually pulls. Any suggestions or things I should be working would be greatly appreciated as I think this is really holding me back. I have uploaded a video of my swing below.
Thanks
Mark
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