Is there a video or drill on this site that helps with creating the inside-out path in the downswing. Which is line with Tom's system. thanks in advance.
@samirbajaj2 - I agree with Russell that video should be very helpful in diagnosing the root cause of your downswing path issues. You may either post it in the Forum's Video Analysis Room for your fellow members to offer their thoughts, or we can arrange for a V1 Analysis s I can put my eyes on your swing, offer my observations, and provide a specific action plan for you.
Beyond that, here is the diagnostic video for a steep/over-the-top downswing path from Fixing Common Swing Problems, and it is followed by several drills designed to assist in resolving the issue and shallowing your path.
@samirbajaj2 swing path is nothing more than having the right intentions with your swing. However, there are several factors that can help to get the path correct.
Before getting to into the weeds, can you post a video of your swing from hand high, down the line?
With a video, we can give more prescriptive feedback and matching the right intention with desired result.
The back swing is nothing more than setting your arm and club into a position so that you can release freely with your desired swing path. However, you need video otherwise you are going off feel and unfortunately, feel rarely matches what you are actually doing.
@rcissell56 You have to be careful about that. There are several variables that really change swing path. If your arms stay connected AND in front of your body, then the swing can be as simple as turn-turn. If the ball is in the back half of the swing arc, you will swing inside out. If the ball is too far forward, your path through the ball will still be outside in.
If your arms are connected, but behind your body the entire swing arc gets tilted left. This happens to really good golfers sometimes. Basically, the downswing sequence gets messed up...always the arms have to get back in front of your body. That's one of the examples of really bad instruction that talks about leave your arms up and fire the body. In studies of how the swing works, all good players get the arms working down before the upper body turns forward (what actually happens). However, some people get the feeling of passive arms driven by the pivot for their swing (not real, but feel).
Further, even on a perfectly centered swing with arms connected, You swing inside out, until the zero point, then you swing outside in. That means simply by changing ball position, you change the club path through the ball.
Generally when I am helping the chronic slicers, I fix club path first. Then I fix club face (grip or release). It's super easy to fix the swing path, but without seeing the swing, it's hard to give the proper advice.
That being said, your advice could be spot on...but it won't work for everyone or in every situation. Just consider, if you swing around your body with arms connected AND the ball position is too far forward. You will have an out to in path and can either hit a pull, a pull draw/hook, or a pull face/slice. You can NEVER hit a ball that starts right of the target and draws back into the target (unless you lined up way right and hit some flavor of a pull).
The ball flight tells us everything. It tells us exactly where the clubface was at impact and the curvature tells us which direction the swing path was moving relative to that face.
This is just for discussion while we are waiting for the OP to post a video. :-)
@samirbajaj2 - I agree with Russell that video should be very helpful in diagnosing the root cause of your downswing path issues. You may either post it in the Forum's Video Analysis Room for your fellow members to offer their thoughts, or we can arrange for a V1 Analysis s I can put my eyes on your swing, offer my observations, and provide a specific action plan for you.
Beyond that, here is the diagnostic video for a steep/over-the-top downswing path from Fixing Common Swing Problems, and it is followed by several drills designed to assist in resolving the issue and shallowing your path.
@samirbajaj2 swing path is nothing more than having the right intentions with your swing. However, there are several factors that can help to get the path correct.
Before getting to into the weeds, can you post a video of your swing from hand high, down the line?
With a video, we can give more prescriptive feedback and matching the right intention with desired result.
The back swing is nothing more than setting your arm and club into a position so that you can release freely with your desired swing path. However, you need video otherwise you are going off feel and unfortunately, feel rarely matches what you are actually doing.
Keeping your upper arms connected to the body and swinging your hands in are keys to an inside out swing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXt9G0AHMo0 This is a good video on the topic if you are at either extreme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eOkns1nQtI