Issues: Here are mine, what do you suggest???

[300Drive]

12 handicap with these issues (not in any order)

-My miss is a pull (short clubs)
-or slice (long clubs)
-I over swing (yes, I am a swinger)
-I hit the driver on average</u> 265. For the lengh I typically play (6,600), that is plenty.
-My friends than laugh because I will have a short iron into the green and they know I will likely miss (pull), thus I screw up the hole after a great drive
-My pitching sucks (pulls, chunks)
-My chipping is great
-My bunker play is decent
-Putting is good


What should be my focus for the season???? With so many good tips on this site, you can easily focus on the wrong stuff. With the info above, what should by my top 3 priorities (drills please) for the season? Thanks

 

[Erik_K]

I could be wrong here, put have a path and/or club face issue. If your miss with the short irons is a pull, then you are coming in a bit too steep, and assuming your ball flight is going right to left with the short irons-the face is OK.

But for the long irons, you still might be steep AND now the face is open. With the longer clubs you have less loft and more spin imparted on the ball resulting in a slice.

If you are overswinging (I battle this too) that can lead to lots of problems. The club is getting stuck somewhere behind you and lots of things can go wrong. I would slow down the MPH and maybe hit some shots with your feet together, or with just your left foot on the ground. Do something to eliminate the tension and need to overpower the ball. You'd be amazed how far the ball can go when you are relaxed.

In other words, start small. Do some 3/4 swings with the 9 iron until you hit draws to the target consistently. Then build up to the longer clubs.

 

[Brian Manzella]

300....

I will film a segment on your question for all to see on Monday.

 

[revert]

I've suffered from this a lot in the past. It's amazing how you can hit great long irons then get a wedge in your hands and you can pull it 20 yards left. I always thought it was swing path. I tried hard to swing more inside but the result was still the same. For me it was nothing more than i was squaring the clubface too early. I worked on making sure the clubface was open at impact, now i hit pretty straight wedge irons. Never had a pull in months.

 

[bts]

quote:Originally posted by 300Drive

12 handicap with these issues (not in any order)

-My miss is a pull (short clubs)

An outside-in clubhead path (for 99.9 % of the golfers, including myself every once in a while) with square (to the target line) clubface at impact and closed at separation.

quoter slice (long clubs)

An outside-in clubhead path with less opened clubface at impact and more opened at separation.

quote:-I over swing (yes, I am a swinger)

which not only gets your club cross the swing plane (over-the-top) coming down and creates that outside-in clubhead path during impact, but also tenses up your grip and wrists and blocks the clubface rotation during impact more seriously for your long clubs than the short ones, as a swinger. Or you "throwaway" into impact.

quote:-My pitching sucks (pulls, chunks)

outside-in again with throwaway.

quote:-My chipping is great
-Putting is good

due to less wrist motion.

quote:-My bunker play is decent

firm grip with vertical hinge, I believe.

quote:What should be my focus for the season???? With so many good tips on this site, you can easily focus on the wrong stuff. With the info above, what should by my top 3 priorities (drills please) for the season? Thanks

My suggestion:

1. check your swing plane and swing "down" first rather than "out" coming down regardless of your procedures.

2. learn to hit (which accommodates "over-swing" and is merely an expansive version of the chipping and putting with angled hinge, which you seem to do well), if you can't "let-go" the club through impact (horizontal hinge) with that swinging precedures.

 

[300Drive]

quote:Originally posted by bts

quote:Originally posted by 300Drive

12 handicap with these issues (not in any order)

-My miss is a pull (short clubs)

An outside-in clubhead path (for 99.9 % of the golfers, including myself every once in a while) with square (to the target line) clubface at impact and closed at separation.

quoter slice (long clubs)

An outside-in clubhead path with less opened clubface at impact and more opened at separation.

quote:-I over swing (yes, I am a swinger)

which not only gets your club cross the swing plane (over-the-top) coming down and creates that outside-in clubhead path during impact, but also tenses up your grip and wrists and blocks the clubface rotation during impact more seriously for your long clubs than the short ones, as a swinger. Or you "throwaway" into impact.

quote:-My pitching sucks (pulls, chunks)

outside-in again with throwaway.

quote:-My chipping is great
-Putting is good

due to less wrist motion.

quote:-My bunker play is decent

firm grip with vertical hinge, I believe.

quote:What should be my focus for the season???? With so many good tips on this site, you can easily focus on the wrong stuff. With the info above, what should by my top 3 priorities (drills please) for the season? Thanks

My suggestion:

1. check your swing plane and swing "down" first rather than "out" coming down regardless of your procedures.

2. learn to hit (which accommodates "over-swing" and is merely an expansive version of the chipping and putting with angled hinge, which you seem to do well), if you can't "let-go" the club through impact (horizontal hinge) with that swinging precedures.

thanks bts, good info.

 

[300Drive]

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[Brian Manzella]

300....you have a lot of LEAKAGE, the clip I did for the Manzella Show deals with this, but it won't be ready until the whole show is 'up.'

What you need to learn to do is square the club up WITHOUT bending the left wrist.

The place to start is PITCH shots.

Preferably with ALL three Hinge Actions.....like in Manzella Video Short #2