Struggling with shaft lean and compression

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Struggling with shaft lean and compression  

  By: Alfred M on March 13, 2024, 1:03 p.m.

I've struggled with flipping at the ball for years now and I've never had any shaft lean and compression. It works okay with shorter irons but longer irons are impossible. I've also struggled being over-the-top but have fixed it by getting a feel of dropping the clubhead/club behind me in transition.

After watching GSA videos, I've diagnosed that it's my open club face that has been forcing me to flip through. so I've worked on "motorcycling" down as we get to impact to force the bowed wrist and not flip. I'm still not getting good contact and distance has dropped quite a bit without the feeling of me flipping through at impact for extra power. I'm looking at the front facing videos I'm not really seeing too much shaft lean even with this feeling.

What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Struggling with shaft lean and compression  

  By: Alfred M on March 13, 2024, 1:04 p.m.

I was also playing around with some of the feels you talk about, and when I supinate through entirely with my hands/arms, I can see pretty good shaft lean. But this completely stalls my rotation and the shot is usually really weak distance and left. If I add rotation with this hand supination through the hit, the ball pulls even harder.

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Re: Struggling with shaft lean and compression  

  By: Tyler F on March 17, 2024, 9:25 a.m.

Hi Alfred,

There are some good pieces, but I can see where you might be struggling a little bit. As you indicated, in the supination video you posted secondly, there's actually a good amount of shaft lean, especially considering how square your hips are at impact. The arms can only work as well as the body, so I think you're going to reach a plateau in your compression/shaft lean until you get your hips a little more open.

If you look at the DTL impact, your hands are quite low (not much ulnar deviation) and your shoulders are quite level and square to your hips. That's a hard position to compress the ball, which is why you find that if you do get shaft lean, your body has more of a stall pattern to it. I have a video coming out shortly on "hips open at impact" called hip rotation is spine rotation. In order to get your shoulders to be square, and your hips open, your spine has to have some rotation to it at impact. I'd go through a little body impact circuit. (merry-go-round, push ball, impact fix) something like that to get a better sense of the body position you want to get to.

Happy Golfing,
Tyler

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