Ball Flight Variances by Club

[3puttbogeyman]

Michael:
I bought your videos and have been working hard on the "Nuclear Golf Swing". Feel like I am making a lot of progress (i.e. getting more consistent ball striking throughout the bag). I have a couple questions:
First - I tend to hit my more lofted clubs (8 iron on down) left and drawing farther left. That would be fine if it was consistent throughout the bag. My problem is - my less lofted clubs (5 and 4 irons, and 5 and 3 woods hit off the deck) tend to bend to the right. Any ideas why this would be? One other piece of information - I tend to hit my 3-wood off a tee to the left with a hook further left. Any thought?
Second - in your 10 Things video, Brian talks about dropping the right foot back a little (from parallel to the target line) in the Driver Swing. I have been trying that and it seems to help. The question I have is - help me understand why that would make a difference (i.e. what is it causing to body mechanics that makes it work)? I want to believe that this is the right thing - so that I am willing to stick with it through "good times and bad".
Thanks!

[Michael Jacobs]

Michael:
I bought your videos and have been working hard on the "Nuclear Golf Swing". Feel like I am making a lot of progress (i.e. getting more consistent ball striking throughout the bag). I have a couple questions:
First - I tend to hit my more lofted clubs (8 iron on down) left and drawing farther left. That would be fine if it was consistent throughout the bag. My problem is - my less lofted clubs (5 and 4 irons, and 5 and 3 woods hit off the deck) tend to bend to the right. Any ideas why this would be? One other piece of information - I tend to hit my 3-wood off a tee to the left with a hook further left. Any thought?
Second - in your 10 Things video, Brian talks about dropping the right foot back a little (from parallel to the target line) in the Driver Swing. I have been trying that and it seems to help. The question I have is - help me understand why that would make a difference (i.e. what is it causing to body mechanics that makes it work)? I want to believe that this is the right thing - so that I am willing to stick with it through "good times and bad".
Thanks!

Great set of questions,

I would first investigate how much your striking DOWN on the shot.. have you made a conscious effort to drive the ball down ?? Also tell me a little more about your grip and club face control??

Anytime we discuss ball flight variances we need to look at club face variances and club path variances. Keep in mind that striking downward with the head of the club excessive will skew the path of the club.

As for your question on the driver, standing a bit more closed helps promote an upward strike with a matching inside path to the ball.

As always, you are welcome to send me your swing or post up a video here and we can better give you feedback!