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“Outside Inside” loop feeling?

I think I’m finally on the right trac. I was hitting heel shots, getting stuck and all kind of messy stuff.. then decided to take the club more “outside“ deliberately and drop it back in and boom. Solid strike. When I checked this move in the mirror my arms are connected, club head is outside the hands on the takeaway.. but the feeling is like I’m looping it way out and then in and under?! I can feel the club sort of re-route??. Is this correct or something that is a compensation likely to cause issues later on?

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Tom Saguto

Apr 29, 2021

@garybarber1981 - I'm glad to learn of your self-discovery. Impact and ball flight will tell you all you need to know...

Since your connections are intact, what you are feeling is likely the differentiation between a past move of rolling/snatching/sucking the club to the inside with the hands vs. the proper hands-in/club-out takeaway. The unique overhead perspective in this YT channel video may provide a good visual of what I am referring to.

GREAT job!!

Tom

garybarber1981

Apr 29, 2021

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@Tom Saguto

exactly that I think.

I had quit golf for about a year or so until a couple of weeks ago..

I was sure about two things in my golf swing.. first, I never rolled the hands/clubface in the takeaway and I routed the club inside to out (which I believed was the cause of every issue.) friend of mine has recently become a teaching pro invites me to go to his new studio , try out the trackman, video my golf swing and test it all out, so I thought “why not”.. To say it was an eye opener would be an understatement. I was clearly taking the club away toe up and slightly inside and I also had a little hidden over the top move in my downswing. My friend looked at the numbers and I essentially had a drawers club face with a faders path. That combination does not work in any way, which explains why I was spraying it all over the golf course before !! So, this last couple of weeks I’ve come back to studying the Saguto golf school. The “loop” I’m feeling is not actually a “loop”, it’s simply the feeling of taking the club away outside of the hands and dropping into the slot correctly from the inside coming down. It feels weird because it’s correct!!

Practice for me now but I’m on to something and it’s exciting to work on my game again.

i‘m massively grateful to you for the information.

Tom Saguto

Apr 30, 2021

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@garybarber1981 It definitely is a different feeling, and I can vouch for that from previous personal experience when I finally learned how to take the club back properly!

I'm very glad to have you onboard in the school, and I hope to see you participating here in this Forum regularly as there are a lot of great folks in this nice community that we've built!

Embrace the process and have fun out there!

Tom

Nocona Colt Abernathy

Apr 29, 2021

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It's all about feel vs real. As longs as you're not really looping the club, then I don't see an issue. I would suggest videoing yourself and actually watching the club path. Unfortunately, our swings are always a working progress, so it's important that we are able to properly identify swing faults and what REALLY causing our issues. As someone who is a former shifter and lifter, I can tell you that one of my faults is taking the club back on plane and then dropping my hands further causing a big push to the right. My swing thought when this happens is actually trying to feel like I swing over the top, but what I REALLY do is deliver the club on plane.