GolfLivesMatter
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I found this video to be one of the best videos in terms of explaining the physics of the golf swing. After seeing his demonstration of the left and right side swing arcs, and after he reviewed dominant vs. supporting roles, the following dawned on me:
- My swing was more right side dominant.
- I would hit drivers thin and more right when I tried to speed-up my swing. Of course, my right side dominant swing sent the club upward faster because the bottom of that swing arc is at the inside of my right foot, and the arc is naturally OTT.
- Migration of the ball farther back in my stance with irons. Subliminal IMO. My brain was adjusting to right side dominance.
- Shallow or no divots with irons.
- Right hand "flipping" (but the video explains it's not a defect but the natural bottom of a right dominant swing.
- Slightly bladed irons - not crisp.
- Bladed pitch / sand shots.
- Hitting up on putts vs. through.
- Why trying to swing faster was never going to work because it just made the right side more confused, and any OTT move was simply amplified.
- Finding out that no matter how much I tried to manipulate my left wrist to be slightly bowed at impact, it was never going to happen due to the right side.
- Why any left side slide resulted in some of the oddest, most off-balance shots. My left side was "out here", while my right side was "back there". Impossible.
- Why my swing would "go AWOL". My right side is lousy at hitting the ball efficiently, some days it was more or less dominant, but dominant.
- Pre-setting to a closed shoulder position to make the left side dominant does work, and after a few hundred balls the left side starts learning to be dominant.
- Right middle back muscles on fire after a few rounds. Right upper neck feels pinched. Shoulders pulled up / tense.