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heres a link to a video of my swing, please if u can, give me any tips, criticism, and critique!!

i have a slight fade on my longer clubs, 3-4 irons, driver etc

YouTube - My Golf Swing

Three critiques:

In the 'face on' view, the combination of your arms and club should look like a 'y'. I.e. the left arm and club are ideally on the same sraight line.

You have a reverse pivot:



On the takeaway you immediately 'open' your club. It should face the target a while longer.

I hope this helps: Good luck!

thanks for the tips straightshooter, can u elaborate a little more on the "reverse pivot"? thanks

Here is the article I got the picture from:

Golf Digest - How to play, what to play, where to play

The web-page doesn't load properly, at least on my computer. Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of that page for the full text.

I think it is also helpful to think of how you would throw a golf ball under-handed if you wanted it to go far. You wouldn't want to lean to the left when you did that. You would want to shift your weight onto your right side when you 'load up', and shift your weight to your left side during the throw. Same applies to the golf swing.

PS: Do not worry if your head moves to the right a little bit during the backswing. That is OK. I think that the reverse pivot is often caused by the classic 'keep your head still' golftip. Indeed, you do not want a lot of head movement, but you do not need to be statue-esque either!

First.. Swing BACK. AWAY from the ball, NOT UP!

Second.. keep the right knee kicked in like you are bracing your right leg. Doing this and the first thing you will really feel strain in your right thigh. This is good.

From there you need to learn to DRIVE the right hip forward instead of LEANING forward. Right now your upper body is closer to the target than your lower body through the swing.

On your finish, gotta work on keeping that front foot on the ground and bracing over the top of it like you did over your right leg in the backswing. Also a good idea to get the left elbow out in front of your chest rather than pointing behind you.

thanks a lot guys, ill be putting these tips to work :)

Can you put the swings on swingacademy.com... Easier to see on that site

I agree that you should work on getting rid of the reverse pivot. That would be the first step. Once that is fixed, you can re-evaluate.

There are a few causes of a reverse pivot. You have a few.
1. Your hips slide laterally on your backswing. Ringer touched on this. Your right hip should not move to your right, but turn a little on your way back as if they were turning inside a barrel. A lot of great players right knee actually does not move at all from setup to top of backswing, but their hip becomes positioned to enable them to load and coil.

image: http://www.totalconceptgolf.com/images/sce/IMG_2808.JPG

notice how this persons knee is still bent, but their right hip has moved away from us, as the viewers of the image. You probably could have held a club right on his right knee cap and it probably would not have moved on the way back; not much anyways.

2. Shoulder rotation on the way back needs to feel more horizontal than vertical, you really pick the club up. Less arm lift and more horizontal upper body rotation.

Drill:

Lock your lower body in the same position as the person in the image, as if you were at the top. Do this with no club. Then, turn your upper body with your core so that your left shoulder is right under your chin, and turned over your right knee. I can post images within a few weeks if need be.

This one is perfect ! http://perfectgolfswingreview.net/AB-StretchedBS.jpg

read the article too: Backswing

I just found this, and this is probably the best breakdown of the golf swing I have ever seen; may be worth its own thread. Its Aaron Baddeley when he was being coached by leadbetter. I think he may be more flat now due to his Stack and tilt style, but this is quite good. You will notice it points out maintaining the right knee flex!

Actually, half way down the article they show the same kid making to swings: a good one and one where he has a reverse pivot. You will see the difference with the lines this person has drawn