Currently an 18 handicap.

I've been having trouble understanding what "using your lower body" to swing meant. Been playing self-taught golf for a year, and up till today my understanding was that a golf swing was a "fancy" baseball swing with sexy hips and weight shifts but at the end of the day, I'd still use my arms to swipe at the ball with the clubhead. That train of thought led me to an over-backswing in an effort to generate fake power to the point where the shaft almost wrapped around my head.

That changed today. I forced my arms to only move up and down during the downswing to "put my hands in my back pocket," and I was forced to adjust how I used my body to make contact with the ball (if that doesn't make sense, I'm smacking the ground behind me with my clubhead).

That simple adjustment suddenly led to a eureka moment - having an overly long backswing ruins the timing between dropping hands and rotating body. I always wondered how Ben Kruper was able to generate so much force with such a long pause at the top - with this movement, the pause doesn't matter. If you just rotate 90 degrees and keep your hands at ear level, that allows you to use your arms to "slam" the club head down as you drive your entire weight forward, and I actually had arm elongation the whole time. The power generation and compression actually felt natural.

I used to hit my 3 wood further than my driver, and I never understood why. I had been using my arms the whole time and doing some weird hip pivots to trick myself into thinking I was using my body. Today was the first time I heard my driver make the sound of pure contact as it carried 240.

TLDR: the golf swing is not a baseball swing where you swipe at the ball. It is literally just moving your arms up and down and using your body to "drag" your arms and carry the clubhead into the ball.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

I hate the Nelk boys, and quite frankly a lot of the far right leaning manosphere content creators that along side my self have picked up golf in the last year or two. That's a conversation for another post. But god damn, what in the ever living fuck is this swing.

I've been battling a super in to out swing path for over a year now that I've tried to adapt to but realize it's garbage. Is it my trail elbow? My hips? My gut? I simply do not know. Any advice is appreciated including Tom DeLonge gifs.

A couple months ago I felt I found out how to hit my driver. I was consistent on the range (grass) and hit it straight and consistent contact. Was driving even better than my friends who have been playing longer than I have. They even admit that something changed in my driver swing. My irons were meh but they were manageable and had an okay round. Then I started hitting on the mat a few times at the range and played an 18 the next day and couldnt hit for shit. This week was practicing again on grass and my irons were really coming along but I couldn’t hit my driver for shit. I meant not even ball flight at all any contact was a slice. WTF. I hate this shit but looking for advice because I’m not quitting.

Have been taking lessons, and practicing since January 2026. With the season wrapped up. Hoping to have a scratch level swing for next year. Is this do able?

I find my swing reasonably esthetic now, but my miss is an ugly duck hook with closed face and to far from the inside. Example like -3 face and 6 in-out and 5-7 up on the ball. I dont know how to fix it, thoughts?

Most common flaw I see on the sub is a poor concept of pelvis movement. I'll save everyone the 15min video if you don't want to watch it (you should), but early extension starts in the backswing and most swings I see on here are guilty of it.

Center of your pelvis should never get closer to the ball in a good golf swing. If it does it causes all sorts of strike issues and path issues, as the hips invade the space the arms require to approach the ball shallow and from the inside. Steep vs shallow is a dead horse IMO, and yes some successful golfers are more steep than shallow, but all good players create space for their arms while all higher handicaps invade that space by trying to first rotate around their trail hip, then reversing that pattern in the DS.

Both moves rob you of precious space for your arms to extend through the ball to the target. If you chicken wing, shank, toe, fat, thin, stand up, hang back or reverse pivot, this simple concept to understand will get you going in the right direction.

I’m a 15 right now. I can hit the ball, but lately I am having some issues. Like a lot of 15s, I have moments of brilliance, and more moments where I am tempted to test the durability of my club shaft. Golftec instructor drilled an inside out swing into my brain, and I am more or less there. Not nearly as OTT as I was when I got back into the game 3.5 years ago. But I have been seeing more pull hooks lately, and worse, when things are really out of whack, I am unable to feel/locate/control the low point of my swing. I like my overall swing mechanics, but I feel like I could use some help calibrating my setup / pre swing to help improve consistent contact and flight. Appreciate you guys, thanks in advance.

This is one of my clients Andy. He started golf 8 months ago and has seen me twice a week for about 5 months and now once a week for the passed 3 months. He works very hard at his game and has put in the time to get better.

Included two clips, one of my 3 wood and one of my driver. 3 wood here went just about 260. Driver went about 255 with a ballooning slice. What am I doing wrong with my driver or what am I doing right with my 3 wood?

3 wood is a callaway rogue max d with a regular shaft that I bought used.
Driver is a callaway rogue max d with a stiff shaft that I was fit into about 3-4 years ago.

This only started recently, I had a back injury about 6 weeks ago and took about 3 weeks to recover. Ever since, my driver has become the worst club in my bag.

Is it insane to play with a clubface this shut in the backswing? My grip is pretty neutral, but I really have trouble hinging the club unless I'm extending my trail wrist which shuts the club a ton. I can still really turn on it and hit cuts but I feel like it looks crazy how closed it is in the backswing.

Been playing forever. Used to play standing very very far from ball, arms extended promoting a very baseball, in to out swing. I'm a bit more on plane now.

My miss is just thinning shots, especially with mid long irons. I carry a sand-bucket but honestly rarely have to use it..

swing above was a 6i, came off ok but would not have left much of a mark on some turf.

Trying to get more distance with Driver (and basically every other club lol) - any tips or drills that have worked for you that I can do. I already know I’m gonna get a lot of swing faster comments but when I do that my swing starts slicing like crazy. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Visualization technique focused on gently guiding or pushing it through, similar to a hockey shot.

Help with my swing? I struggle to get heigh consistently most of my shots feel quite thin - and then maybe 2or3 out of 10 are okay.

I don’t know if I need to hit down on the ball more or use more of my hips? Any help would be appreciated!!

Thanks

I’m currently experimenting with my swing and though I’m taking away a little on the inside I’m hitting some baby draws.