[bts]

A practice session with my driver and video camera (and my recent rounds) have revealed the following horrors:

1.My left shoulder and my head dipping towards the ball.
2.A steep ,over-the-top downswing.
3.A total loss of my spine angle at impact. I am practically standing at attention at impact.
4. Very poor contact, including many ground balls and several topped shots. Even the drives on which I made good contact made ball marks on the very bottom of the driver. I even whiffed over the ball one time.

I have never been good with the driver, but I've never been this bad. These ground balls felt like a sudden shank attack. My questions have to do with cause and effect:

1.Does it seem as if one of the symptoms that I have described would cause the others, or do these seem like separate problems? For example, am I likely doing something that *forces* me to bob?
2. What might be the best method and sequence to deal with these problems? Drills? Training aids?

Thank you very much.

teach

Isn't that amazing you did ("the following horrors") literally the least you would like to do.

To me, all the symptoms described are the "Effect" of your intent (the "Cause") of "hacking the ball hard with the club", which can be justified by taking the ball out of the way.

"1. My left shoulder and my head dipping towards the ball."-that "akward hitch" down, your style of "Pivot Action" for bringing the Power Accumulators toward the ball.

"2. A steep ,over-the-top downswing.", your style of "Arm and wrist Actions for accelerating and releasing the club toward the ball.

"3. A total loss of my spine angle at impact. I am practically standing at attention at impact.", that "akward hitch" up, your reaction or compensation to the "dipping" and balacing of your action.

"4. Very poor contact, including many ground balls and several topped shots. Even the drives on which I made good contact made ball marks on the very bottom of the driver. I even whiffed over the ball one time.", the anticipated outcome of multiple actions, which collectively do not quite comply with the "Laws of Geometry and Physics" of the swing.

"2. What might be the best method and sequence to deal with these problems? Drills? Training aids?"

It's a matter of, first, if you are aware of the "root Cause" and, second, for the real shot, if you can do exactly you do for your practicing swing, during which that "hacking" intent is not present.