Hi Tom - I have now been a member of your school for over 6 months and it has been life changing, thanks so much. The one flaw I haven't been able to fix properly though is topping the ball and thin shots. When I video tape myself on days where I have this problem (and these have plagued me massively in recent times), my diagnosis is that I am not getting my shoulders down enough and tilting as much as I should on the backswing. I wanted to check if that diagnosis is correct or if I should work on something else as a fix for this? I rarely chunk the ball but when I get the "tops" it pretty much kills a range session or a round if I'm out on the course. Please help!
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Hi Tom,
Hope you're well and staying safe. I just uploaded new videos to show you the progress I have been making since our last V1 lesson. Apologies for the mask in the video - Singapore has just heightened its safety measures here - golf is still allowed but with a mask! I followed all of your drills on takeaway, 90% weight forward and also the downswing drill and definitely feel an improvement. Just a few thoughts from when for you to have as background when analysing the video:
1. I don't know if my top of backswing position is where it needs to be. I have struggled with the wrist hinge and tried to focus on it through the videos in the school but not sure I get it right. Also, am I turning enough?
2. The videos have me hitting with an 8 iron. I have been trying to groove the drills with PW through to 8 iron but I just can't get consistency above the 8. I also find my ball flight isn't as high as it should be and when I get to 7i and above it feels as though they don't fly high enough so just wanted to check if there is something I'm doing wrong / not doing.
3. My misses now are hooks and when I have an off day, it's more topping than anything else for me. I don't chunk it but topping is problematic.
Sorry if I am overthinking this but I just wanted you to have the background when you analyse the videos.