I have another post after this that will talk about my debut with my swing caddie but first I want to speak about this part of the /my swing. Let's use Saguto as an example. When Tom goes into the backswing and tilts that should to the ground,
(Here is the full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWIIuzxj6l4
It's a great video.
He makes it look so effortless. When I get the shoulder down on that backswing and have that hinge at the top, I hit the ball the way it was meant to be.
Look how easily Tom can do it over and over (my edit) https://youtu.be/3gsNMe5rsXw look at our Sensei go!
SORRY, FAST FORWARD TO 124. I AINT DOING IT AGAIN😁
Now while Tom makes it look effortless, I take into account he's still a young lad and I am on my way to geezerdom, but I can still get it down there and when I do, it is the crispy goodness that you can't get in any drive through. Unfortunately for whatever reason I do not do it all the time. I will say that I had a wonderful outing at the range today and my swing caddie was all the rage. I am learning as I go but it is giving me wonderful feedback for my mind to ponder and work on making needed adjustments that I think it is trying to tell me. I think if it had the ability to tell me to slow down that swing, it would.
I will be posting about that later or maybe tomorrow..
There's a couple of things I would look at. And before that, this is a very common problem, at least in my opinion because it's SUPER easy to move off the ball (and/or folks were taught this for decades) at the start of the backswing with flattened shoulders. So here's my checks that I think will help you:
1). As you take the club back you should feel a build-up of tension on the inside of your trail foot heel. If so, it's likely your lead shoulder went down, or down "enough", meaning. you didn't move off the ball.
2). Alternately, if you move your lead shoulder down, you should feel the same build-up of tension on the inside of your trail heel. Therefore you can choose either method. This is because there are certain body movements that will, or will not, create tension on the inside of the trail heel.
3). Next, get into address position and purposely move off the ball, or move your lead shoulder to the right (laterally) about 2 inches, then turn to the top, and STOP. I guarantee your weight will be on top of, or even pushing to the outside of your trail foot, causing a right-sided swing.
On the course, and during actual shots, if I don't feel a build-up of tension on the inside of my trail heel early in the backswing, I will stop my swing and start over. I can do this because my backswing is slow.