Posts Tagged ‘swing plane’

Head Dipping

The definition of frustration is knowing what you’re doing wrong, but not being able to fix it.  Case in point – my spine angle.  Here’s a video of a drive I hit about a month ago:

Here, I tried to show this in a side by side.  The picture on the left is my backswing.  The picture on the right is my downswing.  I drew in the red line at my head and the yellow line on my shoulders.  When I start my downswing, my head comes down, I bring the club up, and my shoulders come in.

That causes a number of things explained in this video:

During my practice sessions I’m trying to concentrate on keeping my spine angle consistent and my head up.  It seems to work.  The problem is when I am in the middle of a round and it happens.  It’s not just on my full swings either.  The head bob/shoulder dip pops its ugly head during chips and pitches too, causing either super fat shots or sculls.

Guess I’m going to research how to fix this and see what I have to do.  Damn, how can hitting a little white ball be so tough!