I read this thread with great interest as I've struggled getting the club to "lay on the line" for years. Lynn and I have worked quite a bit on this, and during our school at Pine Tree last week, another contributor to being "under plane" in startup/backstroke came into view.
The golfer can have EA, minimal pivot (acquired motion) and still have trouble maintaining the clubshaft's alignment to the plane line; wrist conditions (Mechanical Checklist, Section 4/5, #16) also play a role. Remember the left wrist cock is a vertical motion. Go to impact fix - then cock the left wrist vertically. This gives you the wrist alignments at top (and at finish)
I found my left wrist arched as I moved from startup into backstroke. This caused the need for a compensating move at top. Life got much simpler lately when I corrected this error.
Moral to the story: Use 12-3 Mechanical checklist. The answers are there!
I read this thread with great interest as I've struggled getting the club to "lay on the line" for years. Lynn and I have worked quite a bit on this, and during our school at Pine Tree last week, another contributor to being "under plane" in startup/backstroke came into view.
The golfer can have EA, minimal pivot (acquired motion) and still have trouble maintaining the clubshaft's alignment to the plane line; wrist conditions (Mechanical Checklist, Section 4/5, #16) also play a role. Remember the left wrist cock is a vertical motion. Go to impact fix - then cock the left wrist vertically. This gives you the wrist alignments at top (and at finish)
I found my left wrist arched as I moved from startup into backstroke. This caused the need for a compensating move at top. Life got much simpler lately when I corrected this error.
Moral to the story: Use 12-3 Mechanical checklist. The answers are there!
funny that you mentioned this. somehow the exact problem that i had when i saw lynn a couple of weeks back in atlanta...
after worked a little bit on it the pushes and left hocks seem to have no chance ..
but sure have to work on it for quite a while so the old habits don´t creep in again...
thx again for having me play your wonderful course there in florida
all the best to you and to you lynn of course
michael
Glad you made it back to Munich safe and sound, Michael*. Long way to travel for some Yoda-time!
Interesting and coincidental that your five-day trip to Cuscowilla was followed by more time in South Florida. Glad Dan Malizia, PGA and Head Professional, Pinetree GC, could arrange for you to play the course. It really is a terrific layout -- perennially a Florida 'Top Five' -- and I knew you would enjoy it.
Thanks, Dan, for making it happen!
* Michael Wirth is a German PGA teaching professional in Munich, Germany. He has made several trips to the U.S. in the past few years to train under some of the best known 'names' in golf. He also has earned the designation, Golf Stroke Engineering Master (GSEM) from The Golfing Machine, LLC.
The golfer can have EA, minimal pivot (acquired motion) and still have trouble maintaining the clubshaft's alignment to the plane line; wrist conditions (Mechanical Checklist, Section 4/5, #16) also play a role. Remember the left wrist cock is a vertical motion. Go to impact fix - then cock the left wrist vertically. This gives you the wrist alignments at top (and at finish)
I found my left wrist arched as I moved from startup into backstroke. This caused the need for a compensating move at top. Life got much simpler lately when I corrected this error.
I have some questions, sir, if you don't mind, for my own struggles.
If you start at Impact Fix, are you staying there to start the swing or simply rehearsing that positon?
Does your RFT vertically cock your left wrist or were you consciously trying to stand the club up vertically, or were you dragging it with hip motion?
I'm not trying to insult you, just discover my own answers to stupid things I try to do from time to time.
As you come down to the ball and to Both Arms Straight and to Finish, how are you aiming your shot? Are you Tracing the BLP? Sighting down your forearm or covering your front toes?
Thanks.
ICT
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