Hello. Kevin here again. I understand that making changes takes time. Especially when my habits are so woefully awful coupled with a pure lack of talent other than a remarkable ability to hit the hosel with profound precision. The drill regarding the take away. I get in position, I check the mirror and I appear to mimic Tom’s position. Arms straight, no hand action/rolling, lead shoulder down, less than a quarter swing nice and slow. Shank. I’ll go through an entire large bucket and maybe hit 2-3 that have any remote feel of crispy.
It‘s a real confidence killer when I spend hours on the range shanking, topping with such precision. I’m beginning to think I need to visit Tom for a live lesson. I may just be the most difficult student he’s ever had to teach. I apparently have no natural talent for this beautiful golf swing. Anyway, sorry for this rant. Just wanted to air it out.
It’s just difficult to learn when the results are so awful. I don’t mean a session. I got a video analysis with Tom a few months ago with drills to do. To this day after working so diligently I can’t do a simple chip shot. As you can see from my video in the Video Analysis section I’m profoundly untalented. It’s difficult to engrain a feel when I’m hitting nothing but shanks, tops and whiffs. It’s like asking someone to start swinging opposite handed with legs crossed and then say ‘don’t worry..it’ll come.’ Well maybe to moderately talented people. Which I am not when it comes to golf apparently.
I know the problem, even starting lesson one I expected to have good results. I had not ...
Overthinking my time in this school I thought that I should have learned the downswing first to avoid the frustration before. Also wrong.
Tom says very often: ignore the results
Thats it. It makes no sense to go to the driving range to learn the backswing.
Perhaps frustrating but true: Do all the drills and lessons step by step and at the end there it the time to bring all together, which is an other problem.
But struggling on this point Tom can help you with his V1 analysis.
@Vinsk - I agree with @Ronald Burkholder. If possible, post a video of your swing from both angles in the Forum's Video Analysis Room so your fellow members can have a look. Alternatively, you can submit them to me for a V1 swing video analysis and lesson.
Can you post a video of this?
A shank can be caused by several issues such as ball position, swing plane orientation, over extension, right hip moving closer to target line, and others. If you can video this, we can take a look and possibly find what the problem(s) are.