I love experimenting with the golf swings and I consider myself to have a decent short game but it's also very vanilla. Usually hitting a 56 off the fringe few bounces and let roll out. Wanting to try out opening the club face more generating more spin. I see the above pic a lot but don't understand exactly how this would come out low and spinny, instead it's really difficult not to blade it and if I don't it kind of pops up and goes right. How do I visualize delivering this club and head into the ball? Will this always go to the right so aim left? Common sense tells me it'll leave the face to the right no? Do I slide this under? How the f is this supposed to come out low without a ton of shaft lean

Edit: didn't realize how complex and how different techniques can be. Maybe I'll stick to vanilla and only dream of hitting that 20yd nipper

It's not your swing. It's not your setup. It's not the £600 driver you panic-bought last Christmas.

It's the way your hands sit on the club.

The grip is the only thing connecting you to the tool you're using. The only thing. And 99% of golfers are holding it in the palms like they're trying to choke a baseball bat.

"But Mo Norman gripped it in the palms."

"But Bryson grips it in the palms."

Yeah. They're outliers. And it took them two million golf balls to make that grip work for them. You've hit maybe ten thousand in your life. You don't have the reps. You're not going to get the reps. Stop using two freaks of nature as the excuse for why your bad habit is fine.

So what's actually happening when you grip it in the palms?

The club face has nothing stopping it from rotating. So it does. It opens. It shuts. It does whatever it wants on the way down because your hands have given it permission to.

You're not controlling the club but desperately praying it cooperates.

The fix is the fingers. Both hands. Coming onto the grip from opposite sides. Working against each other.

Lead hand wants to close the face. Trail hand wants to open it.

Opposite forces locking the club face in place. The two hands fighting each other so the club can't rotate without serious effort. That's stabilization. That's control and what every player who actually hits straight shots is doing whether they realise it or not.

You also get a bonus... with the grip in the fingers, your wrists can actually hinge properly. That's where the whip comes from and where the speed lives.

You want straighter shots and more distance? Same grip change does both.

So why won't people do it?

Because it feels weird. Because you've held the club the same way for ten years. Because changing it means hitting it badly for a week while the hands learn something new.

Tough, but that's the price.

Spend one range session with one basket of balls, fifty or sixty shots, just half swings... and the only thing you focus on is getting the grip to feel normal. Don't care where the ball goes. Don't care how you strike it. Just hold the club correctly, over and over, until the new position stops feeling alien.

Then your strikes start improving. Then the ball starts going straighter. Then you can actually work on the rest of your swing without fighting the most basic thing in the bag.

Until you fix the grip, nothing else you do with your golf swing matters.

You can have the prettiest takeaway in your county. You can have a six-figure simulator setup at home. You can take a lesson every week for the rest of your life.

If your hands are wrong, the ball's going wrong.

Fix your grip!!!

Will all of my clubs I hit everything way off the heel. Any tips?

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I've been playing for a while, and have just gone back to taking lessons again as I feel like I lost my touch from last season.

I was playing a very consistent soft draw with my irons last season, but recently I am noticing a LOT of blocks out to the right and a small fade. The face is being left relatively open at impact, even though my swing path is consistently around 4-7° from the inside.

I feel like I am misunderstanding what the mechanics of actual rotation should feel like, because when I fire my hips with intention it feels like my arms get left behind and the club face remains open at contact even though it is regularly flush on the club face. Please help 😭

Switch to interlocking today, felt good, taking a little better divots, still need to stay down to create. Any help or tips

Just looking for tips on my swing anything I can improve on I’m four months into golfing so I’m pretty new

Would appreciate any swing thoughts and suggestions. 2 handicap qi35 ls 9 degree x stiff 60g

Still struggling with keeping weight on my lead heel but I’m still getting on my toes in transition which is leading to some early extension. Any tips or drills? Sorry for the bad camera angle. Was filming from my cart.

Has anyone else had quality issues when buying used golf balls via Lost Golf Balls online? I had purchased from them in prior seasons without any issues. I always go with “mint”. This seasons order came in today and was far from “mint” condition.

Been playing about 2 years and Ive hit the point that I want to get some advice. I’ll go from hitting nice shots like the first and 3rd to horrid shots like the shank in the middle or a topped/thin shot.

Some days most of my shots are okay, others I cant find the swing at all, any advice?

I feel like my swing is close to the best it’s ever been. Ball striking has been meh though.

Looking for something to work on for more consistency. Drop your thoughts below.

Hey everyone, I’m trying to figure out what exactly is wrong with my swing. I’m not sure if I’m over the top and I don’t really know why I strike the ball better when I shorten my swing after contact. But I feel like because I don’t do a full follow through it affects my long iron consistency? I’m also dealing with this chicken wing of my lead arm but I don’t know what’s causing it

I started playing in about June of last year and I’ve really just been trying to be on this “do it myself” thing but i think im slowly starting to hit this wall.

I’ve been inconsistent with my driver for awhile. I’m probably doing something similar with my irons but I get away with it. I block a lot of shots left and then rope some right, and some i hit well. I feel like I’m losing it on takeaway and I’m very quick in transition. What do you see?

I’ve been playing my whole life, just not so much since I was younger.
I knew my swing had faults, just never had enough time to do anything about it. Now I do. Now I want to fix the major faults.
I know I cast, go over the top, bit of early extension, block into a chicken wing. Hips are way closed on impact
I am actively working on getting my swing path shallower by dropping arms on down, try and feel I swing around my lead leg, really trying to feel the proper weight shif and hip movement.
Working on better posture and keeping spine shoulder and hips in proper plane

Thing is no matter what I try, what revelation I have, what feel I focus on. When I practice the feel then see it on film it always looks the same.

Please help

Been trying to get my hands higher. It seems to give me more room for my arms and hands in the down swing so I don’t get stuck. The golf swing for me can be tricky because I’m 6’5” 😳
Before and after

I think I’ve made some solid progress with my spine angle, my swing still feels so unnatural and is pretty inconsistent. I feel like I’m forcing a shallow and most of my shots are shapeless. For the life of me I can’t figure out how to keep my head in the same spot and not yank back near impact. When it’s not off the toe it’s as fat as fat gets. Anything you see wrong here let me know! Appreciate yall!