alexking.org » My Golf Swing

My Golf Swing, Early 2012

Alex — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:36:36 +0000

I haven’t been able to really work on my game in about 3-4 years. My swing has been all over the place and my scoring, etc. has fallen off as you’d expect. About 5 years ago I was hitting the ball a ton, but struggling to control it – lots of snap hooks and high pushes. In “fixing” this, I stopped releasing with my hands and lost about 20-40 yards of distance as a result. I also started casting more, and a variety of other issues crept in, while I was still too flat with my swing plane and collapsing my wrists at the top of my backswing.

When I looked at video of my swing last year, I was pretty amazed I was shooting the scores I was.

I haven’t been able to really work on my swing much this year either, but having looked at some video I took earlier in the year I have been working on making a few adjustments. The biggest one is to get my hands out in front and release them better, but I’m also trying to get the club more vertical in the backswing and avoid collapsing my wrists. It’s pretty amazing, my practice swings are perfect, but when the ball is there I fall back into my bad habits – and I can’t feel it at all.

Hopefully by this fall I’ll see some improvement.

Narrow Your Stance

Alex — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:50:18 +0000

The biggest change in my golf game last year was the ability to consistently be in play, and often in the fairway, off the tee. I made a subtle change to narrow my stance a little and I attribute that as a key to my new driving consistency.

My stance was too wide before, and as a result I would often be hanging back on my back foot (pulls, hooks) or lunging at the ball (pushes, slices). My narrowing my stance, I am keeping centered over the ball better with less lateral motion.

If you’re fighting a two-way miss, you might take a look at the width of your stance.

My Golf Swing, Mid 2007

Alex — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:33:23 +0000

I’ve been making some good progress on my swing this year, but I’ve still got some big things to work on:

Now that I’m more upright, I need to make my swing plane more vertical – it’s still down where it was when I was leaned over too far.
I’m getting too much wrist cock/early set – really need to work on that.
I’m bringing the club inside too much.
Need to work on not dipping into the ball – stay tall through the swing.

Gotta love golf, never run out of things that need improvement.

My Golf Swing, Early 2007

Alex — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:39:46 +0000

I’ve been working on tightening up my swing, still quite a bit to do. One area I’m getting better in is swinging to a balanced finish.

These videos are from a trip to Arizona at the beginning of the month. I wasn’t hitting the ball well at all, and was rusty from 2 months of snow:

This video is from yesterday, when I swung out of my shoes on the 18th hole enroute to an easy 85.

Current Swing (Video)

Alex — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:20:02 +0000

I videoed my swing this weekend for the first time this year. I’m over-cocking my wrists again, setting my feet too wide and diving at the ball a bit, but I’m hitting it really solid.

Definitely some stuff to work on here.