struggling...preparing for lesson with Brian

[Bill Miracle]

I am planning on a lesson with Brian in August or Sept. In preparation, I have been consummed by this site and trying to incorporate various aspects of the lessons in my game.

To this point, i have focused on the grip (very different than previous grip), proper set up, perfect pivot up and down.

The results have been very positive in the flight of the ball. Even with 5 irons, I am getting a high, long ball flight.

What I am struggling with is some accuracy. I am inconsistent with my miss. It seems with 5 iron, no matter how hard I try I am a bit right of the target. I'd say 50% would land the green and 50% just off the right. Ball flight is mostly straight so this miss would seem to be a slight push. Occasionally, I will block one way right

On 7-pw iron, ball flight is straight but off to left or right usually causing me to miss the green

On wedges (GW-SW-LW), I am either dead on target or pulling hard left.

Any suggestions???

 

[birdie_man]

I think that's what usually happens with an Angled Hinge...(as the ball is more forward in your stance)

Aim a little left if it's not a big bananna ball....that can be a good ballflight.

 

[dale47]

Have you had the lie angles checked ? Off the rack clubs sometime have varying lie angles. Before I did anything drastic,that would be my first look. Don't change a good swing to fit the clubs, change the clubs to fit the swing.

 

[rchang72]

Your ball flight sounds a bit like mine in the past. You might be not having enough spine tilt away from the target. Without the tilt, you can't successfully swing the clubhead out to the right and close the clubface simultaneously. Working on getting more axis tilt and Brian's wedding ring up move might help you.

 

[Bill Miracle]

Fortunately, no banana ball....

I think that's what usually happens with an Angled Hinge...(as the ball is more forward in your stance)

Aim a little left if it's not a big bananna ball....that can be a good ballflight.

I have two sets of irons. One is re-shafted Cally Fusions. Everything has been checked and adjusted. I just bought a set of MacGregor M585. They have the same shafts but I have not had lie checked. Will do that but....I get the same results with the Callys...and I know they are good.

 

[Bill Miracle]

To you mean...

Your ball flight sounds a bit like mine in the past. You might be not having enough spine tilt away from the target. Without the tilt, you can't successfully swing the clubhead out to the right and close the clubface simultaneously. Working on getting more axis tilt and Brian's wedding ring up move might help you.

Enough spine tilt at set-up or just before the top???? Will try to find info in "wedding ring up". Thanks!

 

[rchang72]

Enough spine tilt at set-up or just before the top???? Will try to find info in "wedding ring up". Thanks!

Actually most important is at impact, but setting up with a bit of tilt will help.

 

[rundmc]

Your ball flight sounds a bit like mine in the past. You might be not having enough spine tilt away from the target. Without the tilt, you can't successfully swing the clubhead out to the right and close the clubface simultaneously. Working on getting more axis tilt and Brian's wedding ring up move might help you.

How did you get more tilt?

 

[rchang72]

A couple things helped. My tendency was to reverse pivot a bit on the backswing. Learning to pivot around my spine helped put my head behind the ball without shifting my buttocks rightward (see Brian's Perfect Pivot 1).

Then on the downswing, I was keeping my arms and chest too connected. So I would lose tilt on the downswing as my arms swung forward. A drill that Brian had me do was to take a normal backswing, then bump my hips to the left and swing my arms to the swivel position while keeping my torso in place.

My pivot swing thought is to rotate hips to the right and then shift to the left without rotating.