Start and Finish Positions

12/30/2011
11/23/2011
11/19/2011

Screenshot 11/23 vs 10/22

Down the line Nov. 23, 2011

My own synopsis is that I am hitting the ball sooooo much better right now. I am making much more solid contact, the ball is going much further with less effort. I can see on the video and screenshot that I am doing much better on keeping my head behind the shot and propelling my arms and hips through the shot while maintaining the spine angle.

I am not really going after these shots, you can see I have a short backswing for a few reasons. 1. I am still getting this down and don't feel like I can really go after it yet. 2. From watching the other videos you can see that my head and body pop up at the top, I am trying to limit this as well.

I have a lot of work to do with my hips still. You can see that I don't get the thrust that I could and don't start the downswing as well as I could with my legs. Too bad its Thanksgiving and the season is nearing an end.

After getting some help, Face on Nov. 23, 2011

After sending the previous swings to a fellow golfwrx.com member I was able to make the following progress.
Here was his synopsis
Easy stuff. First thing you need to work on is getting the arms more in sync on the BS. Your arms are ahead of the shoulders, so the arms end up getting too deep. You need to feel like your left shoulder starts your backswing. Left shoulder moves the arm, arm moves your hand, hand moves the club. You should feel like you are leaving the clubhead behind. To get a feel you can setup with the back of the clubhead against a door frame and then start your BS with your left shoulder. It should feel very Ricky Fowler to you. When you do that you will get a really good feel for you to take to your real swing. Then from there it will just be learning to cut out the instinct of taking the club away first and reprogram the left shoulder to take its place.

Then you are going to need to work on getting your hips more lateral. Right now arms are deep, so you need to spin to get it back in front of you.

He included the following videos

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Down the line Nov. 19, 2011

Face on November 19, 2011

So overall not a whole lot of difference from a month ago, despite my thinking there was. I was doing a better job not slicing, and did post my 40(yes its a legit 40) with this swing. You will notice the how deep my hands are in the backswing making easy to come over the top, cause my body, arms, and hands are all out of sync. You will notice the real low finish and me spinning out at the top. No way to be consistent and hit it far.

UEA weekend 10/22/2011

July 2011 down the line