r/GolfSwing

If anybody has any tips as to how I can actually rotate through my swing please let me know. I struggle big time with consistency whether it’s distance or ball striking. Video is from my Rapsodo.

I'm researching how amateur golfers practice and building something to help. As part of that, I'm personally creating free custom weekly practice plans for 30 golfers.

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– Handicap roughly 10–30 (or shoot in the 80s–100s)
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Wanted to share something because I see it literally every single week and most golfers have no idea they're doing it.

The fault: lifting the club with the hands and arms in the takeaway.

You can spot it when the hands move first, the right elbow folds early, and by the time the lead arm gets to parallel the club is already laid off or across the line. From there the entire downswing is a rescue mission. You either come over the top, flip through impact, or both.

The cause is usually that nobody's ever told them what should be moving in the first 30cm of the backswing.

The fix:

Until the hands pass the trail leg, the arms and hands do nothing independently. The takeaway is driven by the shoulders and lats. Same motion as a putting stroke, just bigger.

The cue I use most is "rock it like you're rocking a baby." Yeah I know it sounds soft but it gets people out of the lifting pattern almost immediately because it makes them connect the arms to the torso.

Two checkpoints to make you hit:

1. Past the trail leg. Club still outside the hands, not sucked behind
2. Lead arm parallel to the ground. Have the shaft at roughly 45 degrees, trail elbow folded, trail wrist with a slight cup

If you can get to those two positions, the rest of the swing tends to organise itself. The club is on plane, the body has stayed connected, and they actually have something to deliver from.

How I drill it:

1. 10 reps with pauses. Hands past leg, pause, check. Lead arm parallel, pause, check. Then fire
2. 10 reps hitting half shots from the parallel position only. No full swing. Just feel the strike from there
3. Then a few full swings trying to keep the same connected feel.

I know this sounds basic but the pause work is what makes it stick. Most amateurs swing so fast they never actually feel what their body is doing in the takeaway... they're just hoping it works out.

Happy to answer questions on this if anyone's working through the same thing. Also please don't roast me if I used too many bullet points here :D

Comments and constructive criticism are welcomed!

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