Still the same faults

Golf can be really testy at times. Still trying my best to get rid of the old faults.

1. Left shoulder opening too early. Have to add a few points to the earlier post. 2 more points that I find affect it. First being the head is not lateral shifting enough in the back swing, i.e. not loading the backswing properly and this results in a cast and left shoulder open to bring the club back in plane. The second is the alternative way of looking at the second. The hands on the down swing aren't inside out enough and it also results in the left arm pulling in too fast. Such that at the 9 o'clock position the club is too far left and pointing the left of the target. And this is in part affecting the shoulder.

2. Tempo still very bad. Need to slow my backswing at the top and not have that jerk. And also to delay the release of the club head. It's a weird feeling to describe but it feels like you have to slow down. But the body some how knows to speed up after that and you end up with a higher club head speed and hitting further. This is assisted by the hip turn.

3. Not turning the hips fast enough. Recently have been using more upper body, and you know it because you start to sweat more as more energy is required. So if the hips come into play earlier, there will be more power with less effort. Realised it thanks to this website Lock and Roll tennis. Check out the monkey drum video and also the lagging video. Very much like tennis is golf. But please note for golf the shoulders stay square until after contact, whereas the shoulder opens earlier in tennis. Maybe that's why I am opening my shoulders, too much tennis recently. So today on the range, just spinned the hips and it gave me more distance, less sweat and sort of improve the shoulder spin. Prevented the shoulder spin because the hips move out of the way so the arms and drop vertically then hit an in to out.

Such is Golf.