So many golfers get this wrong and the rest of their golf swing becomes a series of compensations trying to save the swing. For years, there has been an crazy obsession over swing plane. Jul 23, 2017 shallow out your golf swing like a touring pro. Left side too high throughout transition and down swing. Aug 22, 2016 shoulder tilt in the followthrough is key to good ball striking. Part of a new skill pathways series added where i look at common swing flaws to give you a better understanding of the causes and effects in. Because if you are hitting lots of skyballs, you are too steep with your driver swing. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a high, upright swing is a lot harder to keep your arms and hands synced throughout the golf swing. Three main reasons you get steep in your downswing. Eliminate heel hits with a flatter golf swing plane video.
At golftec, our unprecedented swingtru motion study and exclusive series on golf channels the golf fix and school of golf featuring the studys findings, have brought a spotlight to datadriven swing analysis more than ever before. If you slice, ill bet your ball position is too far forward. Butch harmons best driver tips will get you hitting it straight and long. My tempo was off a bit, and i was way too steep with the driver. If i were to adjust the hula hoop so it reflected your clubs motion on the downswing, it. How to avoid coming in too steep with your driver posted by tournament on 072919.
Do you struggle to hit the centre of the clubface with most of your golf shots. The most common manipulation for the amateur golfer with a steep forward swing is the overthetop and casting combination, which i discuss on another page. Shallow out your angle of attack for longer drives to watch in a smaller size. My swing has become pretty steep and as a result with the driver i am getting too much launch and too much spin 14 and 3800rpm at 118mph. Once you understand why youre still slicing your driver, you realize the problem is actually easy to fix. While swinging left certainly does correlate with a steeper angle of attack, there are several other variables at play. I am a very good fairway wood and iron striker of the ball. Get the right shaft to hit your driver straight and long bombing and gouging. However, for many players, that is going to be either too upright or too flat. Too much positive attack angle swinging up on the ball with tee height too low or shaft butt section and tip section are too stiff. Golfers who get the club too steep, either during the backswing and. This should help prevent you from taking the club back too steep. Most amateurs get the golf club too steep, particularly in the transition.
Get the right shaft to hit your driver straight and long. There are multiple reasons that you are coming in too steep and over the top of the swing plane on your downswing. A swing speed of 80 mph will not create optimal distance if it is matched with the optimal launch angle and spin rate of someone swinging 120 mph, and vice versa. My scores have dropped consistently into the low 80s, but over the past few days, ive been realizing that my swing has become way too steep with my 46 irons. The key is to descend into the ball, but not as steep as you do with a short iron. With the driver the whole point is to maximize distance. The necessary fix is to inject some width into your swing to help shallow out the steep, descending blow. Having an angle of attack that is too steep or shallow can create issues such as an inability to strike ironshybrids consistently lack of distance with the driver. The angle of attack with the driver should be ascending, because driver ball contact should happen with the driver on the upswing for maximum distance. We also need to come down at the proper angle because if its too steep it will put too much spin on the ball. As you reach the top of your backswing, it is your lower body that should be doing most of the work to turn your body toward the target.
If you are suffering with toe strikes, your first check point should be your swing path. If you start the downswing with your upper body, as so many golfers do, you will have a steep swing that isnt consistent. At impact, their club tends to move across the target line. How to sweep the ball off the tee with your driver golf. Thats good with the irons because spin gives us control. Causes of the chicken wing in the golf swing video by pete styles so now if you are aware that the chicken wing is something thats in your game, its important we now understand well why is it there. Such a plane would be effective for a short iron, but not so much for a driver. This incline can cause fat shots, toe hits, weak slices and occasionally toe hooks. Many golfers struggle with a club shaft that is too steep during the downswing, but this exercise and drill can help you remove the steep shaft from. Golfers who slice the ball tend to swing down to the ball with a steep angle of attack at impact.
The angle of attack with irons should be descending, because irons are designed for golfers to hit down on the ball. Billy horschel shares the techniques he uses to shallow out his swing when it gets too steep. Many golfers struggle with a club shaft that is too. A backswing plane that is upright, or steep, can work very well as long as plane is flattened during the transition to the forward swing. Most amateurs fall somewhere between a 4 and 6 degrees down with the driver, which is entirely too s. Fix for steep angle with driver brian manzella golf academy. Too steep of swing negative attack angle or way too soft of butt section or tip section causing toe droop at impact. Billy horschels tips to shallow out a steep swing golf channel. How to fix an over the top golf swing golf club guru. Consequently, the ball flight wasnt so great either. Attack angle myths and misconceptions adam young golf.
Published on aug, 2018 chris ryan shows you how to shallow the club shaft with your driver. In particular i want you to check if your swing is too steep and if you are cutting across. In this video, youll learn how to stop getting too steep in the downswing. When golfers tend to think about hitting down, we usually see it lead to poor swing plane issues where they get too steep and the airplane club comes crashing in to the ground taking huge divots, making it very difficult to perform a consistent strike. With a driver when you have a slicer and a puller, on the downswing the golf club is coming in too steep, it is coming in and cutting across the line and adding some cutspin to it. Another benefit to using a flat swing plane with your driver is the increased swing length you can achieve by taking this path. When we talk about being steep, people are often referring to the shaft pitch in the downswing. Now heres a swing that i saved that had a great ball. Only coming down on the right golf swing plane will produce the type of golf shots youre after. How to establish your golf swing plane the swing plane, at its most basic, is the path your golf clubs shaft follows when you swing. Were not necessarily going for the ultimate control. When shallowing out the downswing, the most critical element that many golfers neglect happens in how they come down on the swing.
To stop slicing your driver, you need to make some adjustments to correct your path. For amateurs, anxiety about playing the golf shot properly and trying to hit the ball farther often causes them to rush the swing or swing too hard, usually resulting in a lessthansatisfactory shot. Most steep swingers try to keep the left arm straight too long. If the butt end of the club is not pointed at the golf ball or the line of flight, it can be too vertical. If youre a golfer that struggles to hit the ball consistently, you might be coming down too steep in your downswing causing problems in your golf swing. And while your middle irons are designed to be swung steeper than your long irons, you should still swing them with a long, fluid motionnot a quick, steep motion better suited for a short iron or wedge shot. On the pga tour, history has shown pros can achieve success with a swing that is lightning fast or one that is leisurely. If you have sky marks on your driver, that will be your proof. However, we should caution against assuming that a slicer is too steep, or that a drawer is too shallow. So if you are too steep, you need to move your hips forward and turn them sooner through impact this will flatten out the bottom of the swing and keep the divot forward. To get the proper golf swing plane its vital that your golf swing begins the correct way. Another way to create a steep swing is to fail to use your lower body during the downswing. Deep divots a steep swing is traveling down too abruptly through the impact zone, which makes it difficult to. My driver swing has a completely different feel than my iron swing, and i mean that entirely separate from the fact that its a different club that generally gets swung on a slightly different plane.
Aug 04, 2015 to get the proper golf swing plane its vital that your golf swing begins the correct way. You dont want your swing to feel upanddown with the driver, but around. Eliminate heel hits with a flatter golf swing plane video by pete styles if we have established that the fault with the driver is a golf swing thats too steep, too much over the top and that can be one of the things that causes the heel strike, then surely. Swing speed is only one component of the puzzle, but it is still the most basic component when choosing your driver s loft. Im not sure if it looks any different, but it produces almost a baby fade. A slicers golf swing is inherently too steep relative to the ideal swing shape. Over the past month, my golf game and ball striking has been the best it has ever been. To hit your driver solid off the tee, you need to sweep the ball or hit it slightly on the upswing. This can lead to a lot of steep swings that will make it much more challenging to get the club square as you bottom out. Well, a swing thought i use with my driver and 3 wood is to try and sweepbrush the grass during my takeaway with the club head. Theres a lack of hip turn on coil up and generous slide coming back, things that lead to crashing right side into impact instead of turning, rotating through it. In this video tip, eddie young of classic swing golf school at legends golf resort in myrtle beach, s. Hitting the ground is not only bad for your golf stroke, but it is hard on your body.
I know this has been debated before, but i feel that my driver swing is a little steep on the downswing. This makes the swing path steep and across the ball from out to in. Oct 07, 2017 if i had a dollar for every time i heard a golfer say im too steep on my lesson tee but are you. This is where the golfer pushes the clubhead outside with arms and wrists at the beginning of the forward swing. When you tee up a 3 wood, you want it just slightly above the ground. What happens when golf shafts are not right for your swing. It thats too upright for you, the toe of the club is going to be up in the air at impact, while the heel digs into the turf. Here is how you fix it, round out your swing on the backswing or make it shallower, or swing the club more from the inside out. Meanwhile, your driver is catching the ball as your swing path ascends again, this time to the left. This should give you the best chance to hit the ball on the descent of the swing arc but not too steep. If the tee is breaking or popping out of the ground and spinning backwards that is a sign that you are coming in too steep and hitting down on the ball. Most likely another part of your swing is too steep such as your hand path club path or both and therefore you must stay excessively back with your weight through impact in order to not hit down on the driver.
The ideal solution depends on which problem we are trying to fix. Why did you start doing it, and more importantly how can. How to sweep the ball off the tee with your driver. The attack angle, a measurement of how steep or shallow the clubhead is moving relative to the ground through impact, plays a vital role in how much distance youre able to generate off the tee. Feb 22, 2017 so the result is a swing that is too steep, but an attack angle that is too shallow.
Nov 12, 2016 this video is all about how to get rid of your steep downswing and perform a more consistent, repeatable golf swing that leads to lower scoring. Lets run through the three problems that golfers do to cause an over the top golf swing. The biggest mistake i see is golfers bending the right arm too quickly in the takeaway. Fat shots occur when you take a divot before you even touch the ball. Since you dont need to worry about hitting down, there is no need to use a steep swing plane. Malaska golf full swing tips too steep across the ball. Steep downswing with woods golf tips team titleist. You whip the club too far inside with your hands in the takeaway. Eighty percent of golfers hit slices, pulls and pull hooks because their downswing is too steep, according to dr. See right and wrong image below of where you should be in your downswing.
At impact, their club tends to move across the target line from the outside. That has lead to some massive ballooning and loss of distance. Understanding how lie angle affects your golf swing. Skyballs can happen when your swing is too much up and not enough around, as instructor roger gunn put it in our mishits page on skyballs. Likewise, it appears that you need a swing speed of 100 mph or more to benefit from a driver with 10 degrees of loft or less. A steep swing is traveling down too abruptly through the impact zone, which makes it difficult to pick the ball clean and avoid digging deep into the turf. Keep in mind that with modern driver heads the sweet spot is a bit higher in the face, so you dont really want to contact your drives near the bottom. You might be hitting the ball from high to low and the ball is rolling up the face at impact, which means youre putting backspin on the ball. Discussion ballstriking struggles, downswing too steep. You have a capable swing, and i say this humbly but theres body angles and geometry issues.
The why and how of shallowing your golf swing the left. Travis fulton shares why a steep angle of attack can cause you to miss hitting the fairway off the tee. Causes of the chicken wing in the golf swing video by. Players with a steep downswing bring the club down with the shaft almost perpendicular to the ground. A great way to add width is to widen your takeaway, much like jack nicklaus did in his heyday. Swing plane can get complicated especially if you want to cover all the possible variations in the plane from address to the end of the followthrough. I have found that a singular swing correction almost never works. When you do this with your driver, it makes it easier to cut across the ball. How to create an upward angle of attack for more driver. If you tend to break tees when hitting driver, your swing is most likely too steep, and that means youre leaving yards on the table by failing to ascend through impact. Does your golf swing come down very steep and results in a lot of inconsistent shots left and right of the target. The swing on the left may be just as shallow or even shallower than the swing on the right in terms of aoa. If you swing too steep, the common fault of players who slice the ball, you will most likely make a mark nearer the toe. The idea of correcting your golf swing is one that all of us entertain, and.
What id like to offer to golfwrx readers is a series of articles that deals with twopart adjustments called faults and fixes. Instead, at the top of your golf swing, you need to immediately shift the majority roughly 80% of your weight to your left or forward side. A common fault that i see a lot of players make is when they protrude the right arm too much from the body at address. How to stop getting too steep right arm in drill top. This onearm drill helps athletes intuitively swing the club on the proper plane and reconditions them to feel the role of both arms. Across the board, however, whats apparent is how much more driver distance golfers can create when they hit up on their driver rather than down. A good golf swing has both translation and rotation going on. Sep 15, 2016 changing swing direction often does change angle of attack in a way you would imagine swinging more left will often make the angle of attack steeper and vice versa. May 24, 2019 because if you are hitting lots of skyballs, you are too steep with your driver swing. Shallow your golf swing and club face with our easy. Aug 31, 2017 if you tend to break tees when hitting driver, your swing is most likely too steep, and that means youre leaving yards on the table by failing to ascend through impact.
I see just as many people swing left and be too shallow as i see players swing right and be too steep. Most golfers come down too steep in the downswing which puts the clubhead on the wrong angle exposing the toe and heel of the golf club. If that happens to be a good fit for your game and your swing, youll be in good shape. Stop slicing your driver once and for all usgolftv. Billy horschels tips to shallow out a steep swing golf.
Many amateurs swing the club down on a steep, out toin path with the face open. Jan 28, 2019 an angle of attack that is too steep or too shallow can cause poor golf shots. I can usually hit my 3 wood very consistently 250 with a slight draw. But we also know that getting 20 more yards off the tee can drop up to 3 strokes off your game. Most golfers are taking their downswings much too steep, placing their clubhead on the incorrect angle, with the toe and heel of the club visible. Sometimes a fat shot is the result of a new golfer being told keep your head down, or its the result of a toosteep swing. It doesnt need to be teed as low as an iron, but whatever you dodont tee it up high like a driver. The problem with bombing off the tee and gouging from the rough is that for us average golfers, it only works percent of the time, according to a study done by golf digest and trackman. If its pointing close to the horizon or to a spot on the ground on the target side of the ball, your turn was too flat and. However, many amateurs fall short on this point, instead using just their arms to throw the club down at the ball.