Roast my Swing

dphatt

Over the weekend I was playing in a tournament and my partner said my ball was too far back. I moved it up and I hit it great on the second day. I finally got around to videoing it. At address this looks like it’s just inside my left foot but you can see on the video that it’s definitely not. I hit the ball either straight or an over draw right now. Does this look too far forward to you?

BTW this is a PW

dphatt

dphatt no clue who is yelling in the beginning of the video. Gotta ask @mhales10.

BTW @mhales10 asks for three holes on the back match play and shoots even. Don’t let this guy ever tell you he is an 8 😂

Moni_SLO

dphatt I play my ball up to....my swing doesn't look anywhere near as good as yours tho lol

Jaybananapantsarthur

I get told all the time that the ball is too far forward. I generally play everything forward. Swing your swing.

ckay

Sounds crispy

KDBeach

Looks damn good to me.

ckay

This is a humble brag post and we’ve been had.

mhales10

ckay Where’s the lie?!? 🤣😂🤣😂

Kirsch

As consistent as you are and as pure as you hit the ball why listen to others?! If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! I guess when you’re that $ you can critique things like this! Looks good to me!

titleistforged

So pure. What to roast? 😆

IToldAlthea

This is a joke right

mhales10

I think it was one of the the older guys in the group behind us who was enjoying watching you throw 🎯s all day.

Sucks your putting was as terrible as it was today 😐

Next round...3 on the front and 3
on the back. Auto press. You know the drill. 🤙⛳️🏌️‍♂️

huntingchris0000

Ball position looks good to me! And swing is pure 🔥

mljones99

I'd take that swing all day long.

OffTheDole

This is how your swing looks just before impact and you are capable of shooting under par.

Don't change a thing.

dphatt

OffTheDole it’s funny bc I hate my impact and post impact positions but I am too old to change. I am going to the range later to work on this ball position thing

OffTheDole

dphatt but I am too old to change.

This right here. Is it worth rebuilding your swing with no guarantee of better play?

It's very likely that ball position is the thing that's been vexing you. If you're playing a lot it's very easy for little changes to ball position or grip to sneak in and cause a series of cascading on-course compensations.

Jack Nicklaus would go back to Jack Grout every year and start from scratch, focusing on the fundamentals before getting into anything else.

https://www.pga.com/story/legendary-basics-from-jack-nicklaus-and-his-pga-professional

"Whether in golf or business, a strong grasp of the fundamentals will set you up for success Jack Nicklaus began every new season with lessons from Mr. Grout beginning with the very basic fundamentals of grip, alignment, stance, and takeaway.

He took a fresh set of lessons every winter to rehash the basics of his game."

DaHOF

dphatt funny you say this. I DESPISE how my swing looks. Literally, every aspect of it I hate because I was self taught and never had a lesson and it looks GOD AWFUL. At this point, my index fluctuates between a 2-6 and frankly, I feel like I'm TOO old to go through a swing change. Also, I'm not even sure it would benefit me. Maybe it would get me to scratch? Hell, I "should" be able to get to that if I just go play and practice more. At this point in life, I'll continue to look very ugly when swinging a club and hoping to win a couple more tournaments at the club while doing it 😆

bigjohntripod

Put this on Dude where’s my par Facebook page. I’m sure you’ll get some more critiques 🙃

Putterho

OffTheDole Spending 16 months to rebuild the swing once I found the right instructor who taught in a way that would mesh with my personality was worth the time and investment. The first 6 months were absolutely embarrassing and frustrating.

OffTheDole

Putterho It's definitely worth a full teardown and rebuild if your goal is to get down from a double digit handicap to a single digit.

I've seen so many really good players lose precious time and mess up a perfectly good swing capable of providing numerous birdie looks a round when they chase perfection.

It's even worse when these excellent players want to change something that works because they don't like how it looks on video. The scorecard doesn't care how it looks.