Maintaining body plane

YES! Thank you for this. I’ve been struggling with my driver for this reason. When I go weight forward and tilt, my brain keeps telling me “WAIT BUFORD YOUR TOO CLOSE TO THE BALL, DO SOMETHING QUICK OR YOUR GONNA BLOCK IT!” So my body puts my weight on my trail foot and I hit low ugly pushes and slices. Really trying to work on this one. It’s particularly vexing.

@Buford T Ogletree Yep - As I just said in reply to a great post by @Alan Studnicky , "This is how the body is designed to swing the club if we can just allow it to do so; unfortunately, the longest distance in golf - those six inches between our ears - always seems to think it knows better."

So, Buford's brain.... shut the heck up and let Buford's body do its job on autopilot and in accordance with the laws of physics, geometry, and human physiology!! 🤣

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I did, but when I started paying more attention to this, I also noticed I started feeling like my left shoulder (I’m lefty) was tuning back and up. Then I noticed I wasn’t dipping as bad. I also heard a great illustration that Ben Hogan (I think) made that helps as a visualisation. He said to imagine a giant spike running through the Center of your torso (it’s kinda creepy but I imagine it going through the top of my head, out my rear and in the ground behind me) and you have to rotate around it. That visualisation really helped me a lot.

The shoulder thing; to be more clear, it almost feels like when my left shoulder turns up and around, it pulls the rest if my body up and keeps it from dipping. Also let me add now I get the same feeling from my trail hip. So it feels like my trail hip is moving up instead of my lead hip goes down. Hope that makes more sense