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Right-hander hitting irons often to far right field

Hi Saguto golfers. Tom's swing lessons have helped a bunch. I'm setting up correctly, and keeping my left arm traveling across my chest and as stick straight in the backswing as I could. And hitting my irons (e.g. 5, 6, 7, 8) often well, as the shots are traveling high and the distance they should.

But here's the problem: better than half the time, the ball is traveling too far right field; or in staying with the metaphor, sometimes even into the right field stands. This as opposed to flying into center field or even left-center or right-center field.

It's not a crazy hook or crazy slice I'm talking about here. It's just the ball is traveling to right field or far right field.

What gives here?

6 comments

6 Comments

Russell Hogue, PhD

Jan 27, 2022

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@srosenberg did you get this fixed? I would say, if ball flight is a push, we know club face is square to swing path. If you strengthen the grip, your ball will start a little left of your swing path and it will draw. The issue is, without seeing a video or some information about what the club is actually doing…it’s kind of random. However, assuming you want to hit a draw and you could change one variable, the club face relationship with your hands, by having a stronger grip, instead of coming in square to swing path, face will be more closed and produce a draw. The math is pretty simple, but need to see some swings to get real recommendations. :)

Russell Hogue, PhD

Jan 27, 2022

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100%. In his case, we know that both his club face and swing path are matched up to the right. With no video, other than that fact, everything else is an assumption. We do know for certain regardless of anything else he does, if his swing is repeatable, the club face needs to be more closed at impact. He could close it manually or he could close it with grip change. The problem with assuming ball position can be used to address, is that his release pattern is unknown to me. If he has a roll release, as an example, placing the ball back in stance makes path right and club face further right. It’s an interesting thing about grip, personally, when I shape the ball, it’s 100% change ball position and grip strength. My swing stays the same, my intent stays the same. I simply change ball position to influence swing path and I change grip to change face presentation at impact. However, I have several buddies, +handicap golfers, for them they use different release patterns instead of changing grip. To your point, grip is personal and I would suggest that the release pattern needs to match up.