Picture of draw setup

[curtisj76]

Ok, I snagged this from a previous thread. I must be setting up for a draw totally wrong. For some reason this picture looks to me that Adam is swinging way too right. In my head, if I did this I would hook it, hook it, hook it. But I have a feeling the reason I'm hooking/low shots is that I'm NOT swinging right enough. Is that correct????

I should really be banned from this site, you would think I would know this stuff by now!

This is a picture of my long-time student Adam Mallory playing the 10th hole at Pebble Beach last week with me.

It is an important picture for several reasons:

1. Showing HOW LITTLE to the right a good golfer actually swings.
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This is a swing where Adam swung down the yellow line (his plane line) and had the clubface basically at the white house in the distance. The drawn shot followed the pink dots 295 down the right center.

There are goofy ideas out there about swinging down sone silly imaginary line out to right field. The idea is SOOOOOoooooo over taught that golfers swing so far to the right they can't get the long irons and fairway woods AIRbourne.

2. On Plane Shoulders

3. Hip, Hands, Clubhead sequence through impact

4. Imagine how far left it would be for a 10 yard cut like yours truly! ​

 

[birdie_man]

With a path that is not very far to the right, your face needs to be pretty closed to hit a shot with a lot of draw curve.

Remember too that his ball knows the true path, not the plane line. (yellow line) Assuming he hit it on the way up (with little or no forward lean) his true path would be leftER than the plane line. (contact on the ball more towards the outside)

Having said that though, low shots could be from little axis tilt and lots of forward lean...which would scew your (true) path to the right some.

Ban Curt! (small brain!)

 

[Guitar Hero]

Great Picture!

Great picture!

Brian, can you show the back swing arc in the picture with a few club head positions as well as the start of the down swing arc with the club head position at the start of the down swing and the transition positions. I will paypal you cash for your time. Just let me know how much.

Thanks,
John W Rohan-Weaver

 

[jeffreycharris]

curtisj76, I am right there with you, that looks way too far to the right. Maybe I should be banned from here, I too am a slow learner, especially in all things golf.

 

[shortgamer]

Could it be that if the camera was placed lower the path would appear a little straighter? I think the high camera is just creating that illusion.

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

what you are missing is that he is more than likely AIMING down the yellow line and also swinging down that line as well too. Think of it this way, he aimed down the water and had the face at the house for a draw that went down the middle. Got it?

 

[curtisj76]

What happened to the "1 yard to the right"? The whole aiming thing with Soft Draw I think is the most confusing (not just for me either).

PS It looks like he's "20 yards to the right"

 

[birdie_man]

The wind's gotta be coming in off the ocean remember too.

Ban everyone! (just joking)

 

[lia41985]

What happened to the "1 yard to the right"? The whole aiming thing with Soft Draw I think is the most confusing (not just for me either).

PS It looks like he's "20 yards to the right"

My guess would be that the yellow line is his plane line, and there's about a one yard separation between that and where the face points, which is where the ball started. The result is a beautiful draw. Tell me if I'm wrong...

 

[tongzilla]

if you look at the real video, the ball doesn't follow those pink dots after the first two balls. The ball doesn't draw that soon in the video.

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

If yellow is the plane line and the aqua is the path of the club, you can see how not far right he is swinging.