Hitting up on driver

GreeBo

John Divney wrote: »

You don't change the swing, you change the setup.

ALL drives promote a slice, due to the ball position.

All swings have a weight shift, but you change the angle of attack by Starting with weight on one side, you don't try and stop shifting dynamically when you swing.

A wedge, weight on front foot at adress, a a Driver weight on back foot.

To stop a slice, you aim your feet closed, to zero out the swing path, or exaggerate for a draw.

None if that has anything to do with shaft lean, it's basic setup for golfers.

If you don't believe this, you shouldn't play a wedge with your weight on front foot either by the same logic

I dont have a weight shift.
Also, why does driver ball position promote a slice, surely the face is more closed the further you get from the bottom of the swing arc?
Also, the naturally more around than up and down swing will promote a draw.

John Divney

GreeBo wrote: »

I dont have a weight shift.
Also, why does driver ball position promote a slice, surely the face is more closed the further you get from the bottom of the swing arc?
Also, the naturally more around than up and down swing will promote a draw.

The turning if the body is all you need to transfer weight in the back swing. You can't stop it it.

The downswing is a shift onto the front foot, every golfer who hits the ball well does it. Do you mean you try and keep your weight on the front foot to promote good strikes?

The Driver is a slice because the ball being that forward means the path is out to in. A closing face just means the slice starts to varying degrees left or straight, then ends up in the next fairway on the right.

GreeBo

John Divney wrote: »

The turning if the body is all you need to transfer weight in the back swing. You can't stop it it.

The downswing is a shift onto the front foot, every golfer who hits the ball well does it. Do you mean you try and keep your weight on the front foot to promote good strikes?

The Driver is a slice because the ball being that forward means the path is out to in. A closing face just means the slice starts to varying degrees left or straight, then ends up in the next fairway on the right.

If I turn around my left/front foot then there is no shift, I can rotate while standing on one leg and I don't fall over, so no weight shift.

I disagree that the path is out to in just because of ball position. Perhaps you just have the ball too far away (not forward)?

John Divney

GreeBo wrote: »

If I turn around my left/front foot then there is no shift, I can rotate while standing on one leg and I don't fall over, so no weight shift.

I disagree that the path is out to in just because of ball position. Perhaps you just have the ball too far away (not forward)?

That's a feeling, you are keeping pressure on your lead foot, however you are turning over your right heel, shoulders and head all over that side if you have a full shoulder turn, even with a wedge, there has been a shift of weight into the right inner foot.

That's the Shawn Clement tilted spiral setup you are using?

Even he says the reason to do it is to not focus on weight shift to the right because happens naturally just by completing a shoulder turn.

I don 't shift my weight either, I turn over my right heel, weight moves naturally.

The driver is a slice club for anyone who sets up neutral and with the ball forward off the front foot, almost all players will catch it out to in, to varying degrees, if the are aiming straight.

Some close the club even more to start it further left, others try and swing left even more which makes the slice way worse.

That's why players can hit draw with irons but the Driver leaves them with right to left spin.

You just have to set up to get a neutral path or in to out, that means feet aim right, you have to set up right to hit straight with a driver.

Obviously some players drop the club massively and swing from the inside and ball position won't be a problem, but most amateurs are OTT to begin with, so the Driver is a slice machine.

alxmorgan

GreeBo wrote: »

If I turn around my left/front foot then there is no shift, I can rotate while standing on one leg and I don't fall over, so no weight shift.

I disagree that the path is out to in just because of ball position. Perhaps you just have the ball too far away (not forward)?

You will have weight shift...it will just be to the outside of your standing foot. Your lower body will move left to counter balance the weight of your arms/club going right.