Thoughts on my swing?

[RyanB]

Other than my posture, which i probably could be a little taller and my right foot being all over at impact, what else would be good for me to work on? Do i flip? is my swing "tour caliber"? if no, what should i work on?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsssVVc4M4[/media] 5 iron down the line

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgmX5OHP4DA[/media] same club face on

 

[gmbtempe]

sweet swing, I will let the pro's dissect it.

 

[lookingtolearn]

What are your common misses?

 

[birdie_man]

Great swing. PGA Tour!

 

[RyanB]

Mostly my misses are blocks, or shots that dont carry as far as others, on the high side

 

[lookingtolearn]

I suggest trying a little more hip slide in the backswing to keep the hips from reversing and to get more "pullback" with the lower body.

 

[spktho]

As others have said, excellent looking swing. How's your scoring?

 

[RyanB]

I score ok, im like a 2 handicap. I'd like to knock off a few more strokes.

 

[jcb]

swing may be "tour caliber" but the shorts are not!

 

[Kevin Shields]

i think the lower body fires a bit much, you tend to yank on the handle to keep up and it may get a little flippy through impact. A softer transition with a slower lower body could help match up your impact alignments more.

 

[RyanB]

Could you explain how to do that? like keep my right foot down?what do you mean by yank on the handle to keep up? I am interested in Mr. Manzella take also.....

 

[RyanB]

Brian? Anyone?

 

[lookingtolearn]

What I see and what I think Kevin is saying is that your hips are opening too much in the early part of the downswing, bringing the hands with them. You then dump the clubhead underneath and maybe even add a tiny flip.

To fix this, you need to retain some of your backswing hip turn into your downswing, before you open them up. As I stated in a previous post, I believe adding some pullback in the backswing (getting the left hip farther away from its address position) would help with this move.

 

[RyanB]

I guess i dont understand what you mean by that exactly....when should my hips start to open up?

 

[RyanB]

anybody.......

 

[lookingtolearn]

Try to store enough turn so that your hips are square to slightly closed when your left arm reaches parallel to the ground in the downswing. You can then open your hips as much as you want.

 

[RyanB]

When i look at in slo-mo, when my arm is level w ground on downswing, it looks like my hips are square....or am I way off?

 

[Matt 4-L]

Looks like a sweet swing to me Ryan....Stepping on the right foot back, nice little counterfall, put the club back into the slot with a little hip bump, fully release the hips, very nice release of the club. Ya, I like it.

 

[RyanB]

So, you dont think i should try to fix anything with it?

 

[Matt 4-L]

If your making good contact and the ball is flying how you want it the majority of the time, what's to fix? Maybe some trackman time to see what your numbers are would be good.