Help with taking to much divot.
 

I've recently developed a bad habit of taking to much divot during my swing. My practice swing seems perfect but when it comes to striking the ball I have a tendency to take a very large divot, sometimes to the point where the ball only travles half the intended distance.

I thought that practicing using only acquired motion would help however i still same to have the same problem.
Someone else noticed that my hips seem to drive downwards as i swing the club which is probably helping feed the issue.

Any thoughts on how to reverse this? My game has suffered by 5 strokes or more in the last three weeks.

Thanks in advance,

Rich

Bobbity Bob...
 

Without the benefit of a video of your swing, the first thing that comes to mind is that you could be bobbing...

Per 3-F-7-C, "BOBBING is raising and/or lowering the Head by faulty movement of the back or knees, and disrupts the Shoulder-to-ball radius."

I would also recommend you focus your attention on 7-8, Fix, 7-9, Address and 2-J-1, Impact Alignments.

2-J-1, the second paragraph shows you the geometrically proper procedure to establish the proper shoulder-to-ball-radius i.e, you may be too close to the ball.

In 7-8, read it with 3-F-7-C and 2-J-1 in mind.

You especially want to pay attention to the second paragraph, "Secondly, the Left Shoulder is higher at Impact so the player must be positioned accordingly for proper Shoulder-to-ball distance."

7-9 tells us that "It is easier to control the rotation of a straight rod than a bent one" in reference to the back. I bring your attention back to 3-F-7-C...faulty back movement.

The question here...Is your Machine set up correctly?

Took a few minutes to glance through he book (at work), your probably right on the bobbing. More than likely your right about the setup too. I say that because I can't remember programming the computer for almost a three weeks now. I know the dang fundamentals yet somehow I just threw them out the window this past month. :naughty: Time to hit the book and the range.

Thanks so much for the reply,

Rich

Sounds like a Plane thing to me. What kind of ball flight do y ou have with your driver and 3 wood?

Bucket, 3 and 7 wood flight are actually pretty good. I can both fairly long (175-225) and flight has good height.
I plan on spending half a day looking at my entire setup a little closer then taking it to the range.
If you any thoughts or suggestions let me know.


Thanks for the reply,

Rich

Plane too upright??
 

I'm personally working on this issue & it may be something to consider. If you get to upright or outside of the swing plane, it makes it almost impossible to get back to the true plane and impossoble to hit the inside/aft part of the ball.

Another thing to consider is the right elbow. I swing, but have some right hand hitting tendencies. Just before impact I want to hit it and my right elbow extends completely "a pre-mature both arms straight condition" and it will dig deep behind the ball & will close the club face.

What is your ball flight with short, medium, & long clubs? Good luck!!!

#2 & #3!!!
 

The light bulb has come on for me....so if this is what you have too, then properly utilzing the #2 & #3 accumulators will prevent early extension of the right elbow.

By the way, your angle of attack will not be too steep as long as you have a correct angle of approach.