Hi guys,

I'm laid off at the top of my swing after seeing my swing on a video (YIKES!). I can't really feel it. Can anyone recommend any drills that can eliminate this? I tried doing this in the mirror and everything checks out ok. But when I do it in motion, everything gets out of whack. Am I using my hands to much for the takeaway? Thanks.

Mike

I find that the longer my swing is, the more chance of this happening. Hit all your iron shots in practice at 3/4 backswing...maybe even do this for a round of golf.

My results improved greatly.

I think I kinda figured out what I'm doing. I used to never do this before but when I played my swing in slow motion, somewhere during the takeaway my spine angle changes more vertically (aka like baseball). It's kinda weird because I'm hitting the slot perfectly on the downswing. Something that I gotta fix.

There have been a lot of great ballstrikers that hit from that position.

Laid off at the top usually comes from a bad take-away and poor shoulder turn. Make sure you don't roll your wrists on the take-away and make you sure you don't turn your shoulders down while getting to the top [shoulder turn straight back - this should get rid of that vertical spine angle/reverse pivot]. These two things should keep the club head outside your chest which is really what your after [inside=laid off]. I'm pretty positive the majority of pros share these two traits even though they all have different swings.

If the swing is short it should look laid off when on plane.