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How far is your spine tilted forward at address? Kevin Carter gave me a lesson yesterday and all of a sudden on short pitches the shanks came on. He told me it looked like I was crowding the ball and I thought about it all morning. Hit balls again later and realized I was too close and standing too upright. Bend over, clear the right hip, less chance of collision and the hump the goat. Stand straight, raise right hand and let fall. It hits the right pocket. bend over, now it does'nt. The swing needs space.

Nice. The Delivery Path of the Hands like the Delivery Line of the Clubhead approaches Impact from the inside........inside to out as it must assuming they are traveling down an inclined Plane. Think about it from a down the line perspective. To go DOWN plane is to go OUT for all but perfectly vertical planes. This in to out path of the Hands needs a lane way cleared by the right hip or the brain will re direct the Hands out and around the "stuck right hip"......"roundhousing" resulting, divots pointed to the left , shanks etc. All due to the loss of the correct Angle of Approach and the proper Line of Compression. Read 2-C-0 to see how you need to take the ball DOWN and OUT not just FORWARD to hit it straight and long. Impact is ideally Three Dimensional. Down, Out and Forward. It'll seem cross line to the newly initiated but it will/should produce a straight divot. Keep thrusting down and out till the divots stop pointing to the left. If you dont feel like you are thrusting down and out , assume you arent.

The blur of the clubhead does not point at the target! No Sir!