darthweasel
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I was humming along, very happy. Club path inside out varying from 1 to 3 degrees 80% of the time with club face within that same range. Consistently a reasonable, very playable miss.
Being an old man I then suffered a shoulder injury/ What was it? Nobody knows...woke up one morning with my arm bothering me, 4 days later went to urgent care, he checks it out, says "yep, you are hurting, come back in a month"
And he must have known what he was talking about because three weeks later it started feeling better, a month later I was back to swinging. Okay, whatever.
Except my old problem, my death move as it were, is to dive with the right shoulder first leading to a severely out to in path...like, I saw a 15.5 outside in the other night on a particularly miserable swing. On a completely unrelated note, I might hit 2 or 3 balls that land in a reasonable circle, then put one 50 yards left with a nine iron, make a minor correction and put it 50 yards right.
Before the injury my swing thought was to hit the third dimple left of center. Now to get a swing path that varies from about 2.6 outside in to 5.5 inside out, and generally a really closed clubface, I am looking at the nine o clock on a clock face...like, really exaggerated. .
I took a couple videos and I am back to that right shoulder dive I had worked so hard at. Gone back to the "ringing the bell" drill to not have the right shoulder dive first but something changed in that month.
Basically, anyone have any drills specifically to get the right shoulder to hang back and not start that death move? Golf is really, really hard when a 150 yard club has a 100 yard left to right miss...need to tighten it up a bit.
Being an old man I then suffered a shoulder injury/ What was it? Nobody knows...woke up one morning with my arm bothering me, 4 days later went to urgent care, he checks it out, says "yep, you are hurting, come back in a month"
And he must have known what he was talking about because three weeks later it started feeling better, a month later I was back to swinging. Okay, whatever.
Except my old problem, my death move as it were, is to dive with the right shoulder first leading to a severely out to in path...like, I saw a 15.5 outside in the other night on a particularly miserable swing. On a completely unrelated note, I might hit 2 or 3 balls that land in a reasonable circle, then put one 50 yards left with a nine iron, make a minor correction and put it 50 yards right.
Before the injury my swing thought was to hit the third dimple left of center. Now to get a swing path that varies from about 2.6 outside in to 5.5 inside out, and generally a really closed clubface, I am looking at the nine o clock on a clock face...like, really exaggerated. .
I took a couple videos and I am back to that right shoulder dive I had worked so hard at. Gone back to the "ringing the bell" drill to not have the right shoulder dive first but something changed in that month.
Basically, anyone have any drills specifically to get the right shoulder to hang back and not start that death move? Golf is really, really hard when a 150 yard club has a 100 yard left to right miss...need to tighten it up a bit.
