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Anybody have any tips or drills to help with the backswing? I am having a problem with swinging too flat...

1. Check your grip and make sure it is not rolled to far clockwise, or to the right for a right handed golfer.
2. If your posture is very erect from the hips up bend more forward as this will make your back swing more vertical.
3. Be sure that you are maintaining the "Y" formed by the two arms and the club shaft as you execute the back swing. This will keep the club head more in front of your chest at the top.
4.Lastly, at hip high, both elbows should point at the ground with the right slightly higher than the left.

If you make these adjustments, your flat swing will disappear.
Cheers,
Bob

Just make sure that you cock your wrists fully at some point...you can feel what this feels like by standing at address then raising the toe of the club straight up in the air while keeping your hands low...raise it up until it won't go up anymore...that's your full wrist cock...now turn to the right keeping the club up, stretching your left arm across your chest to your backswing position...now swing down and through...do this a bunch of times and you'll ingrain the feeling of being cocked in your backswing...

Give this a try:

YouTube - Quarter Turn Drill

Bump-n-run makes a great point. For some the wrist cock is automatic, but for those others, if you do not execute it, you will wrap your club right around you.

Count me in as one of those for whom the wrist cock is not automatic. I've been working the above drill I've posted to ensure I get the wrists set properly at the top and I think it is just going to become part of my normal swing in one form or another. When I get my wrists set early the shoulder turn and lift of the arms is so much easier for me.

Thanks for the tips guys, they are working

Your hands might just be too far forward at address; this will cause you to yank the club inside on your takeaway and get too flat.

Try the simple fixes first...

This is good to get your 3 phase swing sorted YouTube - 3phaseswing

This was realy helpful for me take the club about waist high. If the but of the club is pointed 2 inches behind the ball then you know your on plain

I found out that swinging more 'out' on the backswing, instead of towards the inside has helped a lot with contact. I don't know if it looks any better but the results are better

Yeah, that is kind of the feeling you want if you have been coming too much inside. It feels like you are holding the club off a bit from coming inside right away. Gives you a lot better chance of getting back to the ball with a square clubface and from having to come over the top.

First establish your swingplane by swinging back and forth continuously with a short swing that grows longer and longer until it is full. Momentum will carry your club almost exactly on plane, not upright or flat. You could be inside out or outside in depending on how you make the backward swing or on whether you loop, but it will be the right plane for that swing and it will be an otherwise good backswing. This exercise also helps you establish the top of the backswing, and you can then build a backswing that goes to that top.

To build a backswing that goes to that top position, do the above exercise and then transition into a new movement that takes you from the top position down to the address position and back up to the top, down to address, etc. If you lose the top position, find it again and then repeat the backswing exercise.

This gives you the possibility to have a new correct top position and a backswing to take you there--almost a complete swing.

Its way too easy to get bogged down with trying to cock your wrists, to the point where for some people it can be counter productive.

Whatever you do, its a case of not casting from the top & not cocking too much at the top of the swing, this being the main reason a lot of people talk about cocking the wrists as early as they do in the swing in order to try & prevent an overswing/overcock at the top.

But cocking the wrists too early has its own problems.

No time right now, got to go out onthe course, get some practice in.

Tarra for now chaps & chapesses.