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First of al you must get that right hand on top of the grip.That is a motorcycle grip, rev,rev get it? Next you are losing your balance in the follow through. I thought you were going to step on the club on the ground. Thirdly, What are you doing with that back foot in your follow through?, Its wobbling all over the place. You must stay in control or you will be all over the place, You are not grounded

If I'm seeing correctly it looks like you are coming over the top. I fight this constantly. I don't want to confuse you with alot of the explanations of why this happens, but I will tell you that it's something that any good pro can help you with. Good Luck!

1. Okay, I'll try to help the best that I can. Your feet are lined up good. Looks like you're trying to line up toward the yardage marker the green line is pointed at, but your shoulder line is not so good. Your feet line and your shoulder line should be parallel to one another. In this case, your shoulders are aimed way left and your feet are aimed straight. You usually swing along your shoulder line, not your feet line (which is what you're doing). If you watch going back, your club almost follows that green line I made on your shoulders and then comes back down on that same path which is outside in. So, the reason for your sometimes good and sometimes bad is your clubface. You're swinging outside in everytime but if your clubface is a little open it will start a left and fade back to the middle. If your clubface is closed it's going to start straight (along your swing path/shoulder line) and it's going to hook. If your clubface is square relative to your shoulder line you're just going to get a straight pull left.

The reason for a lot of the confusion I think is that you 'think' you're aimed straight when in reality you're aimed pretty far left with your shoulders.




2. Second thing is your balance. Your smooth practice swings look good but when you swing at the ball you can see you are nearly falling over.

I could talk about some other things but I don't want to confuse you. I think it's best to just take it one step at a time and not get 15 things going around in your head. I can't really tell about your grip from that angle, but your alignment is the most important thing right now (assuming your grip is okay) If your always lined up left, you'll probably very inconsistantly hit it where you want.

You're left arm is disconnected. Simply put, your left arm should be touching your body until after impact. This is caused by your shoulders pointing left of the target line. Vijay makes sure to stay connected by stuffing a glove up his armpit. If it doesn't stay there until after impact, you have become disconnected. I do this drill on the range when I am slicing or pulling the ball excessively. It helps straighten out my shoulders.

Yea the thing is that your balance is everywhere....You should be able to hit almost a full golf shot, with your feet together..if you tried to do that, you would fall...Your shoulder are def pointed left of the target, and your feet down the line...that causes your over the top slice....Deron said it best when describing your club face and so on!

Your best swings were the practice swings between "scenes". On the first 2 swings look how your upper body "lunges" at the ball, while your lower body falls around, doing little. Then on those practice swings, look how nicely your lower body leads more, bringing the club to the inside with your upper body- this is much better- and look how balanced you are. Then when you attempted to hit the ball, you went back to your old habit, albeit a bit better, thus a bit straighter.

Your lack of balance after follow thru is telling you something. Look where your left toe is pointing after your swing (whoa). Deron is right- you must stay grounded and your shoulders should be parallel w/ your feet. If you can do this and concentrate on you lower body leading your downswing, this will help with your balance. Leading with your lower body will naturally bring your weight over to your front side and give you nice balance at the end. Start w/ small swings to get the feel, then very gradually move to fuller swings. My at least.

Try this drill... while set up over the ball, with that alignment aid down, either have yourself or your video friend come up with another alignment aid (club, whatever) and parallel the line on the ground with your upper thighs, and then with your shoulders. You will quickly see how open you are. Closing that up will be a chore - it's very hard to ingrain the feeling of looking down your left shoulder when you've been wide open and able facing the target. Once you get that feeling and you begin swinging, remember the last thing you want to start toward the target is your right shoulder - right now it's the first thing moving and that movement is causing the over the top move. Stand your driver up in front of you, left hand on top of the grip, as you take your stance. Take the right hand back to the top, then drop and throw as if you were skipping a stone, or throwing a baseball submarine style. That down and under feeling, with the right shoulder kind of staying back until the last moment (keeping your back toward the target as long as possible is another way to feel the same thought) is what you are trying to achieve.
We all fight this monster at one time or another so don't feel alone... Good luck fixing it.
I feel the loss of balance is due to the alignment and swing - once you correct your alignment and swing path, your balance will automatically be better.

Try and keep even balance and try to keep your body more steady.

Before doing anything, get into a good posture. You are too upright which causes many problems. Your grip looks to be in a weak position as well. By improving your posture and your grip, some of the other things will correct themselves and some will need to be reevaluated.

i agree with jcgolfpro, before you make corrections on anything, posture and grip come first. Deron also made a good point, feet are straight, but body and shoulders point left. also, firm up the right knee.(my trade mark)
take a look at these pros, especially their postures. click on profiles and to the right is some archives. tiger's posture is very good, if you can get yours anywhere close to that, your http://www.golftipsmag.com/content/index_videotips.html

your coming way over the top, you say when you aim to the right you hit hit left and straight, thats a pull, pulls ten to be straight not hooked, i'd get a little more athletic in your setup position and posture, and work on dropping the club to the inside, and really releasing it, you seem like your kinda holding on to it

Your alignment is left of your target and it looks like you are standing a mile from the ball. Work on your alignment, posture and grip.

As said before, you are very consistent at being inconsistent. Get your posture and alignment worked out. Can't really tell very well but it also seems your grip looks neutral to weak. Lastly, you are really coming over the top on all your swings. The 'straight' ones are just dead pulls.

Deron is right that your shoulders are way open to your target and you are over the top.

But the first thing you have to do is what jc said and get your posture and setup correct. You need a little less knee bend and bend FORWARD from the hips, not backwards. Make sure your back is relatively straight.