The dreaded...

Brewster

Hi all, I'm hitting everything off the heel. I've seen a video of my swing and Im way off where I need to be. I know what's wrong but I can't fix it. A pro told me to try and hit everything off toe, it worked during lesson. I thought I had it sorted on saturday only having one heel strike, I'd about 21 this evening! Worst feeling in golf!! It's like my arms grow on downswing and extend past the ball..!

dan_ep82

Had them the last few weeks up until last week. Happened after I hurt my leg mid round and changed my swing to accommodate.

Simply go back to basics. Stance,grip,posture and alignment. Then try to cut the arse of the ball and see where it hits the face or you can keep your arms straight back and forward to get the feeling of the right plane. It probably feels like your on the same plane but I'd say rather than pushing the club out your coming over the top from the outside to in and presenting the hosel first.

It's probably different for you, but basically I was letting either my right hand or left dominate the downswing and (more importantly) coming over the top.

Still trying to get rid of the OTT but getting there.

Its frustrating as hell, but you'll get there in the end.

GreeBo

If it happens during a round just move further from the ball

brav

For me when it starts happening consistently in a round I move a little further from the ball, but also make sure my stance/alignment is right as I have a bad habit of having my left foot closer/stance aiming to the right.

Norfolk Enchants_

GreeBo wrote: »

If it happens during a round just move further from the ball

Funnily enough, I've heard you should do the opposite i.e. move closer, as one of the main causes is an early extension.

GreeBo

Norfolk Enchants_ wrote: »

Funnily enough, I've heard you should do the opposite i.e. move closer, as one of the main causes is an early extension.

Depends on the cause I suppose, but subsconsciously moving away helps me, logically I feel I cant shank it from here.
Maybe I only get them from standing too close however

Norfolk Enchants_

GreeBo wrote: »

Depends on the cause I suppose, but subsconsciously moving away helps me, logically I feel I cant shank it from here.
Maybe I only get them from standing too close however

Yea it's counter intutitive, logically you would think standing closer would make it easier to hit a shank, but the opposite is true because you have to hugely overcorrect, another foolproof way along similar lines to the previous cure is to address the ball with the heel of the club.

GreeBo

Norfolk Enchants_ wrote: »

Yea it's counter intutitive, logically you would think standing closer would make it easier to hit a shank, but the opposite is true because you have to hugely overcorrect, another foolproof way along similar lines to the previous cure is to address the ball with the heel of the club.

I dont agree its counter-intuitive, it depends on the cause.
I tend to crowd the ball and thus am prone to the odd shank. moving away and feeling a stretch gives me more room to swing and avoids the shank.

Norfolk Enchants_

GreeBo wrote: »

I dont agree its counter-intuitive, it depends on the cause.
I tend to crowd the ball and thus am prone to the odd shank. moving away and feeling a stretch gives me more room to swing and avoids the shank.

Yes it gives you more room to swing but also increases the likely hood that you'll present the hozzle to the ball first, because you have created more room for that to happen and you are potentially now reaching for the ball at impact and possibly early extending, but other than that yes I agree it works (sometimes).
OP if you're serious about getting to the root of the problem, go and get lessons from a good pro, or resign yourself to a life of intermittent shank attacks, interspersed with times where you think a quick fix has it sorted.

Brewster

Norfolk Enchants_ wrote: »

Yes it gives you more room to swing but also increases the likely hood that you'll present the hozzle to the ball first, because you have created more room for that to happen and you are potentially now reaching for the ball at impact and possibly early extending, but other than that yes I agree it works (sometimes).
OP if you're serious about getting to the root of the problem, go and get lessons from a good pro, or resign yourself to a life of intermittent shank attacks, interspersed with times where you think a quick fix has it sorted.

Ah it's a temporary issue, I'll get it sorted! If i take slack out of arms I guess and have them nicely extended, but relaxed, as I address ball, these is less possibility of club moving two inches away from me on downswing.

agusta

A drill that might be usefull.During practice place a tee an 1" to 1 1/2" outside your golf ball and hit shots.For awhile you will keep knocking the tee.its a nice little reminder to keep your hands closer to the body on the downswing and after awhile you will stop knocking the tee.
After this you can use face tape and work on on center hits.the more on center the better your golf will be.
This may not apply in your case,a club that goes too much in and behind you on the backswing plane will tend to move out on the downswing through centrifugal force,so the better the plane of the backswing the easier to get the ball in the center of the club at impact

Rikand

Keep your weight on your heels. Works for me as my tommytanks are usually caused by me throwing my weight forward onto my toes.

good luck getting over them

SaveOurLyric

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