New to posting, and have read a fair share of info on this site, but unsure still, if it is acceptable to setup with my right forearm inline with the clubs shaft, and swing rather than hit.
Set all alignments and take the grip in Impact Fix conditions including right forearm on plane with the shaft. (Think full-body participation forward press for Impact Fix.)
Then adjust the Address for startup wherever you like, but typically hands at mid-body, which has advantages for swingers. Resist the urge to change the Impact Fix clubface alignment, which is slightly open for swingers to allow for clubface closing rate between impact and separation. You don't swing toward the target. You swing toward low-point, which is under the left shoulder. The ball is up plane from low-point, which makes low-point around an inch outside the ball and forward.
Drag it away from mid-body hands Address tracing the plane line with the right index finger using a right forearm takeaway, up/back/in simultaneously. Allow the hands to naturally swivel 1/4 turn onto plane somewhere in the backswing, which will flatten the left wrist and bend the right to proper impact alignments. Maintain the bend in the right wrist all the rest of the stroke. Hip "bump" parallel to the plane line and trace the plane line with the right forearm, index finger, on the downswing. Quick startdown for swingers. The right shoulder spins the flywheel that is the left arm, right shoulder down plane toward the ball, not out towards the target line, a problem that afflicts 90% of the golfers, or at least a vast number of them. After that is failure to clear the right hip. Try to get a feel for the lagging clubhead and maintain it at all times.
That's only a start. Precision alignment golf requires a lot more detailed explanation, and work.
Look at the Jeff Hull - Yoda Address routine videos, the Collin Neeman series, and get the Lynn Blake - V.J. Trolio Alignment DVDs. Some videos are available on YouTube under LynnBlakeGolf.
Find an instructor or at least arrange for video recording plus analysis tools and learn what to look for.
Beating balls rarely helps. Feel is not real. Spend the most time in the short game area working on alignments until you get crisp, effective contact.
But in the full-swing arena those are not going to be very good without the pivot training to support the intent. Body, arms, hands in that order.
Loren; I dont quite grasp this part of what is being said in your reply to my original post.-
" Quick startdown for swingers. The right shoulder spins the flywheel that is the left arm, right shoulder down plane toward the ball, not out towards the target line, a problem that afflicts 90% of the golfers "
So, if my right shoulder goes down plane toward the ball, is it not it also going toward the target line?
Also, if my right shoulder is driving down toward the ball, is my left shoulder participating actively in the opposite direction?
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