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Driver Swing: YouTube - Need help on golf swing

Driver Swing (Down the line): YouTube - Need help on driver swing!

It was very windy...my hat flew right off!

5 Iron Swing: YouTube - Help with my 5 iron swing!

As you can tell from my reaction, this was a very poor shot. Shanked.




Comments and critiques are welcomed and appreciated!

Stance is very wide which causes a lot of lateral movement and restricts your ability to coil. Notice your shoulder width compared to your stance width. The general guide for driver is inside of heels no wider than shoulder width. If you make this adjustment, do so by moving the right foot in.

It would be really helpful to pinch your knees in toward each other in order to get on the insides of your feet. I know that would be a big "feel" change, but the longterm health of your swing will benefit. You are having to expend a lot of unecessary energy leveraging off the outside of your right foot in getting the knee to come toward the target.

I'm not sure what you are thinking with your right elbow holding it against your torso like that but it is causing your shoulders to rotate off plane and getting your hands ahead of everything early in the backswing, resulting in....

early release. This is true for your 5 iron too, and it represents power your are not using.

Depth of backswing is subjective. It is not necessary to swing as far back as you do to produce power. In my experience, it is far better to learn to leverage your swing properly with less of a backswing then increase it if you choose. It just opens up so many opportunities for error.

Check your weight distribution. It appears you may be just a tad on you heels, standing a little bit close to the ball; not much.

One swing thought which may help is to take everything away in one piece, and think of keeping your elbows in the same position relative to each other; maybe even doing some short iron practice with 3/4 swings this way to get a feel for it.

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Thank you so much! I will make sure to take note of your suggestions and apply them as best I can.

Your 5iron shots are starting well right of target off the club face. Dittos on crossgrains observation about your right elbow and stance. The 3/4 swing will let you achieve more precision with your shots and you may be able to detect your own flaws at this slower speed. It will all come down to getting the "feel" of good shots on the practice range so your swing gets in the groove it becomes repeatable on the course.