[golfbulldog]

AB - thanks for posting your swing. What is it that you don't like about your swing?

My comments - taken as they should be - with a healthy dose of scepticism!

You are a swinger, really big rotor, so foreget about right triceps power. Ignore 4 barrel swinging until a few more TGM concepts are ingrained in your swing.

You have a few features that are different to Tiger but are arguably "intersting/helpful" for distance swingers. eg. head movement, bent left arm.

Head moves alot in the backswing but re-centres with your weight transfer in transition... some say TGM centred head is great for accuracy but less good for distance...almost all long hitters have a near-stationary head through release and impact...that bit is crucial...so it begs the question....is there a dynamic power reason to sacrifice stationary head in the rest of the swing ?...to get extra distance....i don't know the answer...

Bent left arm is something Jorgensen tinkered with in his book and suggested it can lead to extra distance...like Vardon...

I imagine that "people" may talk about weight shift...ball position ...driver loft...low point....extensor action...what are your thoughts on these topics? I would be slightly worried that incorporating all of these may inhibit your dynamic motion and give short term negative results...so you need really good advice...incorporating all of TGM into your motion is move away from the LD herd and what they do, trying something radically different...

Do you use low loft driver because you hit on the upswing....do you hit on the upswing because you use low loft driver? Do you fall back at mpact and follow through because you aim to hit so much on the upswing?

CHicken or egg...low loft MAKES you swing up...makes you fall back....

or

You have always swayed back at impact... so the only way you can get the ball on good trajectory is to use low loft..

If you moved to a 9 degree driver...how would you have to swing in order to get the same result as you get now - i suspect almost have to swing level at impact and not upwards...more TGM style swing rather than LD.

What is the best distance launch angle for a guy with your speed? that is probably the place to start...then work backwards from there...say it is 11-12 degrees at 130+mph... how can you get that launch angle... is it to swing on upswing with 6 degree driver...or swing at low point (level) with more loft....?? I don't know the answer but that is the way to solve the problem IMO... launching on upswing...does that keep your ball spin down? that is the other key factor? If guys know this stuff then that is cornestone to build your machine around.

Would you sacrifice clubhead speed at impact by swinging level rather than on the upswing? have you measured your clubhead speed at low point left shoulder...versus your clubhead speed at you current ball teed up height?

Homer said that if you hit on the upswing in a centred/uncompensated stroke then you are also hitting with a clubface that is closed beyond square and closing still further...so you need compensations... is your clubhead open at address or do you hold off on forearm rotation (accumultor 3)....??

see what the others have to say... but if you want to build a LDGM (Long Drive Golfing Machine) then you are going to have to select the right components....strip away the faulty ones and bolt on the right ones...but keep that massive rotor...that is literally your core! There are only 24 components...shouldn't take more than a week or two!!