Video and changes

(June 2009)

After that pivotal lesson I downloaded some swing analyser soft wear and started to take a video camera to the range.

I learned one thing from this that was also important in my swing development, almost all pro golfers start the down swing from the ground up, using the swing soft wear I was able to see this in frame by frame slow mo.

By contrast my down swing started with a lurch of my shoulders.

At impact most pro golfers have open hip and some even have open shoulders, my hips and shoulders were pretty square at impact.

My swing was a typical out to in high handicappers swing. I set out to change it.

Over three painful weeks I started making myself initiate the down swing by rotating my left hip back away from the ball. At first the disconnect between my hips and shoulders made me hit awful duffs. Eventually I got the beginnings of a synchronised hip then shoulder turn and for the first time my swing started coming form in to in and occasionally in to out.

Once again my yardage went up and my consistency got a touch better.

I count this as one of the most important changes in my swing, combined with my release I now became a drawer or a pull hooker of the ball and the right side was all but eliminated apart from the odd push shot.

At this stage I went back to the golf academy for another lesson.