Hello golfers, I’m back with more driver questions. Here is a swing that was actually very good; it hit a little fade on target and had a 40-yard pitch onto the green. However, when I slowed the video down, I definitely hit pretty close to the heel. Heel strikes leading to slices are my most common miss right now, so I was wondering if anyone saw something in my setup/swing that could be causing this? Thanks in advance…
You’re literally rocking forward during your swing. Like your center of mass is rocking back and forward during your swing.
This causes your arms to have to correct, and you’re all over the place.
Slow down a second, and take a swing where you focus on keeping your weight on the center of your feet. As soon as you start trying to power from your toes, it pushes your hips slightly back, and you lean forward to compensate. If you power from the heels too much, you do the opposite.
In this swing, you power from your heels and roll up on to your toes. You should be powering straight down through the center of your feet instead.
If you have to, get a 2x4 and take practice swings where half of your foot is off the board to get a feel for the balance.
Once you correct this, you’ll be able to just check how you extend your arms to correct any lingering issues.
Uhhh you’re not hitting the heel?..
Try to hit the ball on the toe.
Addison said:
Try to hit the ball on the toe.
This. It could sound sarcastic but if you actively try to do it, it really helps.
You’re standing on the wrong side of the ball.
Slowwww dowwwwwn.
Take a quarter step back.
Where do people find these golf courses? I understand it’s December but you’re in a t-shirt so it must be decent outside. The shittiest bare minimum $15 golf courses in my area don’t look like this.
Ren said:
Where do people find these golf courses? I understand it’s December but you’re in a t-shirt so it must be decent outside. The shittiest bare minimum $15 golf courses in my area don’t look like this.
Cheap Desert Texas courses haha, I’m not good enough to complain. The greens are green!
Line up on toe… Hit toe.
Where is the heel?
Speed up your frames on your video and feel the feedback of the club… this looks like a toe hit…
Davin said:
Speed up your frames on your video and feel the feedback of the club… this looks like a toe hit…
I was gonna say… This looks like the opposite of a heel.
Drop your trail foot back, get the ball back a bit and set up off the toe. Just releasing early from the top… pre-jack helps nobody. Wait on it.
Caden said:
Drop your trail foot back, get the ball back a bit and set up off the toe. Just releasing early from the top… pre-jack helps nobody. Wait on it.
Thanks!
You’re welcome.
Get a shorter shaft.
Set up with the toe of the driver even with the ball. You’ll have to back up a bit.
Stand further away. Weight on your balls of your feet. Reach for the ball.
Yup…
You can draw a fairly straight line from club head, to club shaft, through your arms. That’s a no-go. You want that club head level with the ground. The shaft of the club should be a different angle with your arms.
Also, you’re way out on the toes and balls of your feet. Been there done that. I used to find the heel of the club no matter how nice my swing was at the time. Shit, I quit golf for fuckin’ 15 years because every shot I hit was a heel shank. I came back to the game 15 years later, and still found a heel shank off the rip.
You want to put your body weight in the arches of your feet, your butt behind your feet. I used to put all my weight in the balls of my feet too, because that’s how I grew up playing all my sports. Weight in the balls and toes of your feet, ready to pop and make a play. Well, it’s the opposite with golf, no matter how natural it feels.
When you put the weight out on your toes, everything else follows, everything else moves toward the ball with it. You’ll introduce the heel of the club to the ball extremely easily.
Make the two moves I mentioned, and you’ll be in business. No doubt in my mind. I had the same issue. Made the adjustments I mentioned, and fairly quickly got myself down to a single digit with really clean ball contact.