Was mr. Woosnam a swinger or hitter? Does bending over more at hips mean turning on the shoulder plane/one plane?
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I don't know whether Woosie is a swinger or a hitter. It is not always something you can see. In fact, I suspect that most top golfers blend swinging and hitting quite well.
Bending more will steepen your shoulder turn somehow. But you will not be able to turn them on any swing plane. Not with a conventional stroke anyway. Moe Norman was pretty close though. With his single axis swing.
Moving the hips forward during transition is a bigger contributor to steepening the back shoulder. But the hips alone isn't all that's to it either.
Turning your torso away from the ball (compress the right side, stretch the left) also can do a lot to bring the hands and club down on the right path.
Thanks for the reply. Do you think what you are advocating could be accomplished with more waist bend/knee flex on the DS/through impact than at address/through the BS to the top? This seems to be a characteristic of many of the game's great ballstrikers of the past.
Thanks for the reply. Do you think what you are advocating could be accomplished with more waist bend/knee flex on the DS/through impact than at address/through the BS to the top? This seems to be a characteristic of many of the game's great ballstrikers of the past.
I am by no means a swing expert, but her's how I see it:
I think your pivot looks pretty good already. I don't think what happens from the hips and down prevents you from pureing the ball.
You need to pay attention to what your hands are doing with the club. I suspect that you have a steering tendency deep down somewhere in your brains; Small grey cells that are convinced that you will slice it big time unless you force the club to close. And that kind of thinking tends to have the opposite effect of the intended. And it's a swing speed waister as well. That's why a lot of slicers hit some of their biggest slices when there's disaster on the right side of the fairway.
There is also an element of rhythm involved in squaring the club face naturally. If you drive your hands too much forward in the down swing (like a hitter) it will tend towards a fade / slice. This is called angled hinging. What you should aim for is called "dual horizontal hinging". You'll find a lot about it here if you use the search function. But it basically deals with how the club face should move in in the swing - and the rhythm required to make it happen. There's an element of pivot & hands timing/synchronisation that can often make the difference between a slice and a hook.
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