RE: ShopTalk: Tips for out to in swing

[Mark A Patton]

Hello Jen, I hope all else is well.   Could it be that you are not really coming from the outside, but you are pulling to the inside too hard  (IE: what I call spinning out)? Hard to explain but:   If you were to visualize the correct path on the ground, your swing starts out on that path then moves inside it.           Mark A Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Jen Kuntz Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 8:33 AM To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Tips for out to in swing Tom, you're breakin' my heart.... congrats on the grandson... what am I going to do with all my spare time??  ; )) Re: square stance... are you saying I must be open or closed to accomplish this poor swing?  Honestly... if I had a camera I'd take a video.  I don't know when this started but I swear I am square to my line according to the video I've seen of my swing during lessons.   To make your head shake a little more... I seemed to start doing this last year some time, at the beginning of the year my index was 10.3 and at the end of the year it was 7.3... all the while losing a lot of distance and accuracy with this.  Lowest handicap of my life, but it felt like the most frustrating golf year of my life.  Go figure.  I was taking lessons this winter indoors to work on it and the instructor just kept saying I'm getting away with it because I'm athletic.  I interpret that as "I can't figure out how the h*** you are hitting the damn ball with that swing"!!  Jen TOM FLANAGAN wrote: Jen, my once and only; You may recall I had a long give and take about this very subject a couple years ago. Briefly, the point was this; unless you adopt a particularly awkward stance, it's physically impossible to drive the clubhead through the hitting zone with an inside path with even mediocre results. As I recall, another one of my idols, Professor Tutelman, agreed, as did several others. Quite simply, ya can't do it from a square stance. Nope. No can do. TFlan BTW: I guess it's over between us, romantically. JanFlan and I became grandparents for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Now, Nolan Gibson Flanagan is "He Who Must Be Obeyed". Son Mike and his SWMBO, Missy, finally came through! So, it's been fun. Try to remember the good times. --- Jen Kuntz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey gang, I've been fighting an out to in swing path for a little over a year now and having trouble with ways to practise to get rid of it. I tried the "inside approach" thing this winter and it was ok but I don't want to buy one. I've also tried just using a couple sticks/shafts parallel to the swing path on the ground and trying to not hit them. I find I keep hitting the damn inside stick and it just reinforces the problem instead of helping me work through it. Anyone have any drills they've tried that worked for them to get rid of this? Thanks in advance, Jen