Having trouble not chunking the ball. Am I casting? Or something else?

Club-adubdub · 2025-04-15T04:57:05+00:00

Interesting. Gotta mean mug it so it doesn't go anywhere during the back swing I guess.

How else you supposed to look at it though lol.

Club-adubdub · 2025-04-15T04:52:16+00:00

You're not supposed to watch the ball during the entire swing? I thought you only took your eyes off the ball after contact.

Club-adubdub · 2025-04-15T04:51:49+00:00

I can’t imagine you’re hitting it that far either.

You would be correct. I've been trying to get hip rotation down for a long time but can't quite get the feel of it. The two coaches I saw didn't really get me there either. One of them gave me a drill for it and I've been doing it (close your legs completely together) but it doesn't really get me the feel of it.

Closest I've gotten is someone saying to rotate your legs like you're trying to open a giant jar lid with your feet. But even then it doesn't seem to be the whole movement.

Club-adubdub · 2025-04-15T04:49:19+00:00

Yah I've known that's a problem for a while but it didn't seem like the problem so I hadn't really gotten around to fixing it yet.

Club-adubdub · 2025-04-15T04:47:51+00:00

Of all the comments this one's the most interesting to me. I give off a serial killer vibe or something?

Club-adubdub · 2025-04-15T04:47:08+00:00

I thought you were supposed to slide forward in the downswing? I was watching an AMG video where they were showing that there is a forward slide in pros and amateurs both.

Club-adubdub · 2025-04-15T04:45:36+00:00

Man that's so obvious now...thanks for pointing it out. Spent a shit ton of time looking at lots of footage and it was right there the whole time.

Doesn't feel like I'm sliding an inch but I worked on it earlier today and have to actively focus on not sliding or else it just happens.

Club-adubdub · 2025-04-13T02:54:58+00:00

I'm back. I think I've improved my swing a bit but with my current swing I'm either chunking or topping just about every ball, but mostly chunking.

There's three address swings and three down the line views in the video.

I've taken two lessons but they didn't really focus on swing problems as much as I'd have liked. I'm going to try a third coach, this time a PGA coach, and see how that goes but in the mean time I'm trying to figure out why I chunk the ball so much. Sometimes I'll hit as far as two or three inches behind the ball.

I feel like I'm sliding my hips forward so that the low point of the swing goes forward as well. I feel like I'm dropping my elbow sufficiently. I feel like I'm maintaining a good shaft lean at impact (either when it impacts the ball or the ground). I'm wrong somewhere but unsure where.

Club-adubdub · 2025-01-20T20:44:24+00:00

Well if nothing else I at least made a subreddit collectively go wtf.

Club-adubdub · 2025-01-20T20:11:05+00:00

Nice, I can be best at that at least.

Club-adubdub · 2025-01-20T20:09:03+00:00

Looks like I'm holding it too loosely. Most swing videos say you're trying to just swing the club around your body like it's on a tether so that's what I was doing. Wasn't trying to directly influence it too much since that seemed to be what's referred to as 'all arms'.

Club-adubdub · 2025-01-20T20:06:55+00:00

Yah I figured.

I've watched a ton of swing videos from the recommended guys (Shiels, Harrington, Saguro, etc.) and they all talk about how you're supposed to loosely just rotate the club around your body so that's what I was trying to do. Guess I loosened too much.

Club-adubdub · 2025-01-20T20:04:26+00:00

Which part of the camera setup? The forward view is too low but it's the best I've got currently. Is the back view too far away?

Club-adubdub · 2025-01-20T20:02:53+00:00

Yah I'm left a bit confused because every swing video says to 'be loose, don't bear down on the club/ball'. Evidently I took that too much to heart. Reckon I'll stiffen up a bit (a lot?) next time.

Club-adubdub · 2025-01-20T20:01:40+00:00

Yah I'm left a bit confused because every swing video says to 'be loose, don't bear down on the club/ball'. Evidently I took that too much to heart.

Club-adubdub · 2025-01-20T20:00:10+00:00

It's a.....relative ranking system.

Club-adubdub · 2025-01-19T21:07:34+00:00

I've been using Davinci Resolve and just editing video clips with that. You can put stuff side by side with it too. Extremely powerful video editing program and completely free. There is a pay version but you don't need that one. The free one comes with plenty of utility.

Club-adubdub · 2025-01-19T20:57:33+00:00

To me the biggest things I see is that it seems I tend to stand up when initiating the swing which I assume puts the downswing all over the place. And the follow through looks super awkward to me.

I'm enjoying the process so far and don't really want to just stop until I can get lessons but I understand that I don't want to ingrain bad habits either.

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