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And this video, we're going to talk about what to do when you've lost your swing, because

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it happens to all of us.

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You want to have a process of how to analyze your swing and what to go back to.

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First, you got to understand some of the subtle differences between the driver and the iron

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swing.

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But to tie it all together, we're going to start from impacted backward.

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So one of the best ways to analyze your swing and to kind of find it when it's off is

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to look at where the club is basically right down it impact or at the low point.

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So when the club is, you know, a six inches past the ball, something like that.

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When the club is about six inches past the ball, this low point line, you want the club,

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your hands roughly your left hip and your left shoulder to be in line with an iron.

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If I had a driver, you would see more the left hip, the hands, the club in line, but the

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shoulder almost about a hands-width back.

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So if we start there as far as this is where we're trying to get to, we're going to be able

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to see a lot of the reasons why our swing might have gotten off.

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Maybe we've slid a lot, maybe we've early extended and as a result, the hands-back.

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But we can quickly break it down to, is the body out of position or are the hands-out

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of position.

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Once we have that simple distinction, then we're going to look backward to where the

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release started.

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So I call this the delivering position where basically we're coming from somewhere right

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around here and we're looking at how the body and the arms are releasing down into impact.

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I'm going to use the same criteria.

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I'm going to look, is my body off.

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So as my body coming way up is my body, you know, stuck on the back foot.

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If I slid way past the ball, have I spun out.

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There's lots of different things that your swing will probably, you know, fit into a couple

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different patterns and your swing will consistently get off in the same way.

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So you can do that little checkpoint and look at the body or you can look at the arms

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and club.

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So at this waist height checkpoint, this is a great place to start looking at what am I doing

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with the clubface.

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If the clubface is really wide open or if the clubface is really shut, maybe my body

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movement on the way through is a compensation for the club being out of position.

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Or if the club path, I would want the roughly the handle of the club or sorry, the club

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head just inside the handle kind of like this.

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If the club head is way out here, then perhaps my body movement or my release is a compensation

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or if the club is way inside here, it's going to tend to want to swing out my body movement

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or my release maybe a compensation.

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So I'm going to start down at the important area and then work backward.

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Once I know what's going on here, I'm going to look back at the top of the swing.

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I'm going to look at the back swing to see how that influence the top of the swing.

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But I'm going to always relate it to what I'm doing down here at the bottom.

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Because ultimately, no matter what, if I get into a really good low point or impact position

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and the club is pretty much on plane and the clubface is pretty square, I'm going to hit

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lots of good shots.

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So always having a goal towards working on will help you whenever your swing gets off.

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I find this especially important when you've taken a weekend off, a week off, or when

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you get stuck trying to work on a new move and suddenly you start to lose one area of

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your game.

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So you want to have a system, you want to have some type of model that you can go back

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to.

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This is a great place to start when your swing gets off.