[Christian]

Glad to hear I at least got your brand of underwear right....I guess I'd better turn it over to Amen from here.

I've often wonderd if right hand low in hockey tends one towards Drive Loading for golf? No conclusions just food for thought.
Look at Al MaCinnis, owner one of the all time best slap shots........active right elbow thrusting against the aft of the shaft. And finally the great man himself Borje Salming in follow through he even has his forearm on plane , the equivalent of a Right Forearm Flying Wedge (if he was shooting right).


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Interesting that you mention this. I have thought about it aswell -(the reason why I mentioned "right hand down on a hockey stick) -, and it would be interesting to hear some theories.

I can say this much. I started playing golf as a hitter. Without knowing I was hitting. I went to a pro Late april this year, and thats when I changed to "swinging".

By that time I didn't know the terms as hitting, or swinging. My pro told me, that I should swing with my left side, and let the right arm basically come along for the ride. And he also stated that I can't play golf as I play hockey. (Right arm muscular thrust). "No low handicaper does that" (His words, not mine). Not knowing better, I blindly belived that was THE way.

And thats when I started trying to swing, and trust CF... I don't trust it because I can't control it. That might also add to my steering.. Ofcourse, I realise that, the reason I feel I can't control it, is very much because of my flawed fundamentals.

I started researching about the left side driving the swing. And eventually, I ended up with TGM. And later, I ended up here. And now I know, Right arm thrust is a perfectly sound way to hit a golf ball. I feel like a hitter. But I'm not sure I would want to mess up my swing even MORE by starting to hit. On te other hand, maybe it would be a good thing to try something different. Either way, I'm as usual talking too much, trying to understand things, that I dont understand/or that I am not qualified to analyse.

Christian,

You seem to understand your issue pretty well.

I believe you are creating the open clubface as you start taking the club back at address. If you look down at your club as you start your takeaway you should see a clubface that is slightly closed to the path you're taking the club back on. A club face that points slightly to the right of the target and a back swing that at doesn't even think about going to the outside of that line is a good start.

As you proceed back you need not be afraid to let the face open.

It is important that you start the back swing as a proper swing motion. Use your feet, hips and shoulders and not only your arms to get the path right. No cheating. You want a glitchfree back swing that sets you up to come down the way you went back. You may have to adjust your shoulders and head position at address before you're set to do a square takeaway and a drawish downswing.

There are a components and component variations and component compensations that goes straight to the heart of doing the geometric motion that I described above. And there are several here on LBG who can help you with the finer details of all components involved. I hope some of them will chime in, because your situation is very common.

And there are many possible paths to lasting improvements. A teaching pro might choose to address the symptoms directly or rebuild to a better stroke piece by piece. In which case you should go with the pro.

Being picky about the address and takeaway never hurts in any case, IMO

Thanks for taking your time to write this. Appriciated.

I put two things in bold.
For the first bold part, I can't say much more then THANK YOU! You explained this perfectly, and I think I can really take this in, and work on it.


For the second part. I have been very busy latley just trying to take the club back with my right fore arm. And trying not to do a "one piece takeaway" And probably leaving the syncing of the pivot out in the cold. (Uneducated hands...) And also, I think my right upper arm is losing it's connection with the right side, pretty early in the backswing..

Again. Thanks for taking the time reading, and replying.


As for my lengthy posts... I guess its because I don't have anyone to talk golf with.
I'll try to keep it shorter and more readable.