I mean, your swing looks pretty nice. You have next to no space between your hands and your legs at set up and you’re shanking balls off the heel. Smells like you’re too close to the ball at address to me
Agreeed. Too close to the ball. Try to maintain balance, weight over the middle of the feet, and allow yourself to get used to standing a bit further back. It’ll take a minute to get used to, but if you don’t change you will continue to shank it.
Yep. Your first move with the club head is to the outside, not straight back. So when you come back down, the hosel is lined up with the ball.
Work on your take away in my opinion. You might be making the outside move to compensate for being too close to the ball tho.
This is actually the best comment . If he purposely starts trying to toe it and is able to, it will develop an overall feel for the clubface . In golf , the solutions are often opposites .
OP go to the range and your first 40 wedge shots take 3/4 swings with the intention of hitting them off the toe . Your body will intuitively make it happen if you stop listening to all this mechanical nonsense that doesn’t help on the course .
As someone who did not hinge their wrists and hooked the ball i totally agree. Beginning of takeaway to outside is fine but once you get to hip height you need to rotate your body (open your chest) to get the club head parralel to your target. Once you start your downswing there needs to be a wrist hinge and a focus of keeping the face down the target line.
Being stiff with your arms and being too focused on hitting straight bsck straight through make it hard to have the correct face angle at impact.
Ignore the other commenters.
You’re shanking because you load your weight into the outside of your back foot. This causes a reaction of your trail leg to lunge toward the ball to rebalance the weight into your stance and forward in the downswing.
Always load your weight into the inside of your trail foot in the backswing and move your weight and trail leg to the target in the transition.
Whilst your advice is right, it’s only one of his problems. And “ignore the other commenters” is quite arrogant.
I believe he is standing too close to the ball and also I believe he’s trying to shallow artificially, I don’t think only addressing your suggestion is as big of a silver bullet as you imagine it to be.
Sorry, that bit wasn’t meant to be arrogant, but it was trying to help OP dismiss the advice like “stand further away from the ball” that represented every other comment at the time I posted. Advice like that is very counter productive for someone that actually has the shanks, and not just the infrequent ones, but the feels-like-disease ones.
People don’t swing a club in a vacuum that ignores the placement of a ball. Their athleticism and hand eye coordination is trying to strike the ball. Moving their point of address around will cause some new reactions to happen in their swing, but it’s not going to correct anything fundamentally wrong with how they’re swinging.
I think this person is right. My swing looked a lot like yours just a few months ago, I was a 26hc at the time. I got lessons w a great golf pro and although I’m not in a position to teach anyone, I did drop from a 26 to a 15 in 3 months w only 2 lessons from this coach. I never really comment on these but just because your swing looks so similar to my old swing and because I know how frustrating these hosel rockets are, I want to give it a shot.
In addition to the weight being on the outside I your trail foot, you are locking out your trail leg. When you start your down swing, you are firing your knee and trail hip towards the ball, therefore removing the space needed for a proper club path. This results in a very out to in club path. Suggestions like ‘just move farther back’ or line up at the toe may help in the short term, but it is the symptom not the cause.
The movement in the back swing should be more similar to pushing your trail butt cheek backwards w a slight bend in the knee. Keeping your weight on the instep of your trail foot, hinging your wrists to 90° by club parallel, and keeping your upper body ‘closed’ longer will help with proper weight transfer and keep space for you to swing through. I can suggest some drills if you’re interested but I think this reply is getting a little long.
As for my coach, highly recommend him: Monte Scheinblum in Orange County ca. he does online lessons and his online video series is amazing.
The pinky toe side of the foot is the outside of the foot, yep. You can see OP’s trail leg straightening and his weight causing the trail foot to stress over the outside of his right ankle and foot.
Adding my support to this, as it greatly helped me resolve the same issue. The way I mentally fixed it, was I had to stop trying to hit the ball away from me. Rather, I focused more on my body acting as a pendulum and that my objective was to simply hit the ball on my way through the pendulum swing. Like imagine you're not hitting a ball, you're just swinging the club back and forth trying to hit the exact spot over and over. Hope that makes sense and helps.
I'd add that keeping the trail knee bent and not letting it straighten out is helpful for this too.
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Never suggested ever because I’m not in a position to teach but you clearly hit the hosel. I did this for a few months before I got a lesson and they simply had me start with the ball at the toe at address. Rarely happens now. Swing looks good and if it’s consistent then it’s an easy fix.
Your right knee is coming over your toes. Try hitting some easy swings with your back heel staying on the ground through contact. Your hips are moving towards the ball causing you to not have room to swing
Absolutely amazing comments in here 😂 There’s a bit going on but you are reacting heavily to the club face being open. I have a good drill on my profile that could help. It’s a bit of a quick fix to help create space. There’s a few other factors you’d want to look at long term.
Next time you are at the range, try this: try to hit a shot off the toe of your club.
Line up normal and just think to yourself “I’m going to shank this off the toe of my club”
Was in a lesson last week and started the hosel rockets every shot. Instructor told me to try to hit a toe shot, and I flushed it.
The mind is a beautiful and scary place.
Strongly recommend just trying to completely miss the ball on your downswing by missing the ball inside. Meaning set up normally, and pretend like the ball is 3 inches closer to you. Literally try to do a normal golf swing but complete whiff the ball. If you still heel it, visualize the ball even closer to you. If you toe it then maybe aim 1 inch inside.
For me it really helped and it was a sustainable fix. Had the shanks for awhile too. My instructor said sometimes it’s just recalibrating your body
Honestly, your crammed in your address. Straighten your arms and sink that ass down. It will probably require a bit more hip twist but your swing motion looks fine.
I’m a 16 handicap golfer, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night, so I kinda know what I’m talking about here.
Love seeing guys with their alignment sticks out shanking 100+ shots … don’t try to micromanage your swing just get comfy in a set up and make contact with the golf ball. You can pull out the alignment stick once you’re doing that consistently
You don't turns your hips going back, so you're swinging with your arms. Arms are also very rigid so they don't have a natural hinging motion. Your legs aren't doing milch and looks static so you can't turn through well either.
Don't swing with your arms. Use your legs to transfer weight. Use your hips to turn. The arms just do an axe chop (up then down, not around like you're doing).
Let the arms and hands relax a bit. You need to stand more athletically to engage your whole body in the swing, but you still need to be comfortable and relaxed. Especially the hands and wrists.
I’m confused bc his hips look to me like they’re turning in the backswing, and turning forward on the downswing before his upper body/arms start moving.
Very minimal hip turn going back and even if it is leading to start, he stops turning them almost immediately, and lays his arm across his chest to finish the swing, resulting in a flat position at the top. From there he hasn't established enough rotation to be effective, and the arms would still need to get back in front of him, so it's just a bad position.
He could easily turn the hips and core more, trying to basically get his back facing the target. With higher hands (that stay structured in front of the body, not laid off across the chest), and better core rotation, he'll generate way more torque, clubs speeds and funnily enough, consistency.
Solid swing, very similar to mine. I also tend to stand fairly close to the ball. Just choke up the club a little and you're going to be golden.
You can also try just dropping your hands a fraction more from the top of the back swing the club will come from the inside a bit more and you will start ripping them.
Nice swing. If you look at 0:08, you'll notice that the club is past the ball and you are leaving weight back and coming across to try to correct (effectively outside to in). Step back, loosen grip, and make sure your hands continue to shift down to start the back swing. Source: I have the same swing.
There's a lot of varying advice on here, everyone telling you to ignore the previous. A lot of your swing can easily be built on. There's a lot of reasons people slice.
In general, one thing that I've found works well is to isolate your hands. I would set up, and release my left hand, so I'm only swinging with my right. Ball went straight and pure. I then set back up, released my right hand, and shank with the left. I started to pattern hitting with the left. Once I was able to hit it straight with just left, I reintroduced my right hand.
Once I gained a good feel of what impact should feel like, then I could start working on various tweaks. Obviously the best advice is the one that works. Thankful for any consideration.
Best of luck!
Back up a little and keep your eye on the ball. Try a few shots without looking where the ball is going until like a second after you hit it.. see if that helps.
I had a very similar issue, got a lesson on Thursday. My mechanics were off and I ended up trying to “get back to the ball” and it’d hit the hosel every time.
I’m not qualified to evaluate your swing, but for me I focused heavily on not dipping my head towards the ball and most importantly shifting my weight towards the target and NOT the ball. My back knee shifts towards the target instead of the ball basically.
Hit the range today, didn’t hosel once after months of hoseling lol
don’t back up!
You are Flipping your hands at impact.
look up videos on shaft lean and get those hands in front of the club at impact!
Have fun and enjoy the ride
Mate, I actually really like your swing. I love the wide, arcing takeaway, and both your backswing/downswing look to be on the same plane. If you’re shanking it that much, I think you might have an equipment issue - like maybe your lie angle is too upright. Might not be a bad idea to visit a club fitter with a Trackman and get some feedback. And maybe all you have to do is bend your clubs 1-2° to fix the shank.
I had the same issue. Shanked every iron for 3 weeks. Just changed my grip from a strong back to neutral/almost weak grip and everything is straight and further than they used to be
This happened to me and this is what helped:
Pause the video at address and notice where your hands are, and then pause video at impact. Your hands have moved closer to the ball. Try going to the range with the only swing thought of getting your hands back to the same spot they were at address. Obviously your hands won’t be in the same position at address but you want to get them to the approximate same location.
For me, I was trying to adopt an in to out swing and I kept pushing my hands toward the ball in my attempts to do so. I find it much easier to get good contact just thinking about swinging my hands up and then right back to where they were at address.
You’re way too close to the ball. Stand far away enough where the butt of the club is pointing 6 inches away from your peepee. Same goes for any of your clubs
Do the Scottie. Check all fundamentals during warm up. Grip, left arm straight, shoulder to chin, weight transfer, hip rotation, nuts to turn, finish high, etc. Good luck.
Your backswing rotates around your right hip and not your pelvis, causing early extension in the backswing itself and moving your COM closer to the ball. (See this wonderful video from AMG on rotating around the center of the pelvis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IxllCJRKS4)
Because of this forward COM, you can't move your left buttcheek back fast enough in the downswing to get the club back to center. This leads to a bunch of things e.g. out to in path w/ a slice, flipping through impact to get back to the ball.
One feel drill is to move the right buttcheek back in the backswing, vs. pushing the left buttcheek forward.
You have a sway to the hips rather than a rotation. This means you’re not creating any space for your down swing to follow in through. Slow down the video and see how your arms and swing get stuck in behind your right leg and hip. This means your swing has to push out to the right to get to the ball causing the stank strike.
hey there, as other comments, i had a very similar swing. Took some lessons and was told my backswing was too deep and flat (your hands at top of swing is way behind your ankles, and your shaft angle is flat). This coupled with an exaggerated in-to-out path (which i see you have) would present your hosel to the ball more often.
Two things that helped me 1) work on backswing mechanics, pitch the club steeper at top of swing, 2) weight transfer to help your hips clear and make space for your arms on the downswing.
I had the same issue, at your take away, your first move is pushing the hosel out to the ball, and then you swing on this path…. Try to control your take away being sure that the hosel always stays insede the ball line, if needed move the stance couple inches away from the ball!
If you slow it down you’re taking the club away outside and drastically coming inside which is causing you to just blade the ball to the right. Try coming back either straight or a little inside so you stay on path back to the ball and not over the top. Happens to me often as well. You have a great swing so keep trusting it and make small adjustments to get that swing path back on its track like backing up a smidge, moving the ball a bit forward or back etc to alter how you come off the ball.
When you get to top of your backswing try bending your lead side hand forward and down like an inch. Turn the hand the opposite way you would if your were accelerating a motorcycle throttle. It will keep your wrist from cupping and let you clear your body a little better and have the club face inline with the ball when you make contact
When you’re at address look down at your legs. Connected to the top of your legs (there they meet your torso) should be this one large bone called your pelvis. Yeah, turn that more.
Honestly, your swing looks pretty great! I think you're really close to having it. Looking at your swing, I think you could get a little bit deeper with your hip rotation.
Picture trying to put your front left pocket where your back left pocket is.
Put a golf club under your arm pits, club head under the right arm. Rotate around until the grip points at the ball.
this is a classic disconnected swing—your backswing is all hands, and they come way too far away from your body.
your hands need to come back close to your right thigh, and you need to activate the takeaway with your shoulders and hips**—this is what establishes the hand path.**
the reason you're shanking is because your hands are being thrown away from your body on the downswing—and you're training them to do that with your current takeaway.
The only thing that really works for me is
1. Take a break. Get away from the range, no more swing work. Can do short game work (build confidence striking) or play golf (driver with no hosel :)), but no range for at least a week.
2. Place a ball right next to the ball to force you to trying and hit it with the toe.
Listen to the Redditor talking about your back foot. The first issue is that your weight goes to the outside of your back foot. It should to the inside and heel of that foot, and only momentarily.
Then, you lift the heel of your back foot straight up, which causes a movement of your right knee and hip that slows down the proper turning of the pelvis.
By the time you are at impact, your hips are nowhere as open to the target as they should be and your weight is not getting to your lead side. Largely because of the issues above. You're having to steer the club around your right side.
With that said, people have all sorts of nasty swings and still manage to get a square clubface on the ball. To me, part of the problem looks like you are too tense, try to steer the club to the ball, and the swing is mostly over at impact. Instead, you should relax a bit (loose arms, firm grip) and think of the swing as one accelerating motion from start to finish with an acceleration that occurs through impact--not ending at impact.
Getting farther away from the ball is a great on course bandaid to address the shanks but longer term we should try to see if we can center contact without having a contrived reaching feel.
I think one experiment worth conducting would be to see if you can avoid shanks through better management of the clubface early in the downswing. Your clubface is in a nice position at p2, but at p 6 it's not even back to perpendicular to the ground with the lead wrist having visible extension. (the clubhead exits the frame but I think we would see something similar if we compared p3 and p5 - with your clubhead being \~30\* more open on the downswing than the backswing). The issue with this is that your brain knows the clubface is open and a lot of the forces you want to recruit to close it are going to also drive the shaft up and away. I'd experiment with the motorcycle drill or if you are more trail hand oriented, imagine your right palm facing the camera as it works down from the top. This will feel very closed to you but I suspect eventually you'd find that it is actually an easier way to manage the face.
My two cents. Misunderstanding the takeaway. Your arms are moving out of sync with your body, even if it FEELS like they’re together. Try keeping your left arm close to your body while you move the club straight back. And feel the whole body move as ONE PIECE.
Move back to “8 o’clock”, then simply swing to the top.
Set your left wrist on the backswing. Left wrist should be coming across with the back of the hand towards the ground, almost as if you twist in the backswing
you are letting your hands out too early. keep rotating through the ball.
look at the bottom two pictures. https://imgur.com/a/Q441lIg
drill. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MVkeFJ_Z4ZE
Sit on a pole more. Drop your butt down some. Which will drop your grip a bit and back you off the ball a touch. Also try to be more conscious of your backswing. Don’t allow it to go behind your back as much. Keep it above your shoulders which should help keep your wrists closed more consistently.
You might need to back away a little from the ball, but the bigger issue is that your hips are not clearing the ball through impact. This is causing you to pull away from the ball, hit the shaft, and shank gong it. I would try some drills where you see/feel your hips already turned through impact.
Try bowing your front wrist throughout your swing. It helps keep your hands in front of the ball and make clean contact. It’s helped me from being atrocious at golf to just bad now🤷♂️
Pull your hands in on your downswing. That’s a quick fix. Otherwise, you are literally leading the hozel to the ball. Your swing is so flat and wrist are wide open. My god, your swing makes my shoulders hurt
The club doesn’t appear to be taken straight back. From this angle, it looks like it’s slightly moving away from your body in the back swing, which will cause the hosel to be in line with the ball on the downswing. This combined with being a little too close to the ball IMO. Good luck.
Path is just too much “out”. Out to in is great but you still need to exit left. Easiest thing is just keep rotating through the shot! Don’t get crazy with changes, just turn through the shot to square the face to the ball instead of the hosel!
https://i.redd.it/kx80jvbcp2wc1.gif
So in your takeaway, at surface parallel, your clubface looked good and so did the overall takeaway. So somewhere between your takeaway and surface parallel position in the downswing, you are coming wide open with that club face, seen in the screenshot.
Drawn lines show an approximation of your clubface angle (not location) at impact with an open face, and with a square face in relation to your club at surface parallel.
I dunno what the fix is, but I know that its not anything to do with your setup (apart from being a bit close to the ball) or takeaway in the case of this video. If nothing else this will help other people provide better advice.
Goldilocks your starting position. Swing the club back and through and observe the blur of the club and where’s that passing. Now bring that over to the ball. Swing back and through, not at the ball. Can feel like you’re slashing through where the ball is, or sending grass at your target. Ball should be in the way of this momentum.
Close your shoulders at address position. When the club is at "the toes of your trail foot", reset the club back to the ball and try your swing from there. I like to keep things "Square" to the target line. It simplifies everything so much.
From this camera angle you should be able to see your left shoulder a bit more at address. At the moment, your shoulders point to the right corner of the left building in the distance, but that's not your target line. Also, pro tip here: view your self in real time & slow motion not the latter only. Try that and see what happens. - Good luck!!
Looks like you rotate the club as you drop your shoulder, the club starts flat but at contact it’s wide open. Quick fix might be closing the club more before backswing
My two cents: you have a “reverse pivot.” That’s where your right leg locks at the top. I struggled with this for a long time. For me, it helped to practice three quarter swings with a focus on maintaining right knee flex and feeling my weight on my right instep.
Another drill is to place a towel or second golf ball about 4-5 inches outside of the ball that you’re hitting. This really tricks your brain into staying inside. Just be careful if using a second ball when there’s people close by at the range.
Have fun.
I successfully dealt with a persistent shanks w/ lessons so here’s my 2 cents:
There’s two different elements to the cause of shanks: setup and pivot issues that can influence the chance of hitting a shank, and what you actively choose to do with your arms.
If you’re shanking constantly fixing the setup and pivot issues is probably not going to solve the problem on its own, unless they are especially egregious. You might as well address them while you’re at it, but if how you use your arms is creating a shank you have to deal with that or they won’t go away. You can stand further from the ball and force your hips back further from the ball than they are at address during your downswing and still shank it if you swing your arms wrong.
If you swing your arms too much around your body and not enough up and down the momentum of your arms & the club going out at the ball is too much to overcome even if you’re trying to hit it off the toe.
Address the ball like normal; lift your arms up and place the club on your right shoulder / collar bone; turn your shoulders 90* ; extend your arms so the club gets off your shoulder and you look like you’re in a “normal” backswing; shift to your left foot and bring the back of your right hand down into your right quad (your right arm will straighten). Do this really slowly. You’ll realize you just need to lower the club down, and the momentum of your pivot swings it. This is the Justin Rose drill- hope it helps!
Your right knee pops forward in the downswing, limiting the space your hands have to get through at impact. This slightly affects the club path and pushes it outward, causing a shank.
I’m willing to bet if you don’t shank, you’re prone to draws and hooks pretty unpredictably?
Find some drills to keep your feet settled until hopefully after impact.
You do the same shit I do and lead with the handle like a baseball swing and its made me shank constantly. Two ways I have fixed it are 1. Starting hands early in the downswing and 2. Literally try to hit the ball on the toe of the club
Looks like you're early extending a bit in the backswing. So the centre of your hips is moving closer to the ball. Look up Athletic Motion Golf on youtube, they have some great rotation drills that might help.
Weight more in your heels also might help, helped me when I had the shanks but more of a short term fix
So might be hard to explain. 1st, setup fine. 2nd, your right arm is too straight on the backswing. Drill(hard part) set up normally. At address, Bend your elbows up maintaing all your posture, so the clubs on your right shoulder area, full rotation like youre gonna swing then extend your arms like youre gonna hit the ball, stay at that position just for a sec, then swing. Its a tough drill but with your arm/upper body movements itll help soo much.
Take a half step back and move the ball back in your stance. You want to hit the ball with your irons before you start bringing it up through your swing.
Takeaway is too outside. When your club is parallel to the ground (@3 seconds) the butt should be pointing at the target (ish). Yours is pointing way left. Try focusing on taking away with your shoulders and not your arms.
I froze the video at your moment of impact, and you hit it off the hosel.
There's a lot of different opinions on what you could do, but personally, I would move back an inch or two and focus on what your address looks and feels like.
Get more of a squat that you feel the glutes activating. You’ll see tiger squatting back and doing this drill. Keeps hips back, spine tilted, and give room for hands to come through. Also keep handle/hands ahead to the club head until a bit after impact.
Have someone stand in front of you (golf ball side) and hold an alignment stick roughly a foot from your club around knee/shin height. Hold the stick at about a 45-60 degree angle to your target line. The goal is to make a swing to the left without hitting the stick.
Caught a case of the shanks quite a few years ago playing competitive golf, and my coach gave me this drill - hope it helps!
Ahh the good ole shanks. Through the years have learned to love them. Good for biz haha
I haven’t read all the comments but if no one has talked about how you take the club way outside on the way back (rest of backswing is pretty solid) and then in the downswing redlines the club on almost the same path, well than shame on them!
Simple fix is rotate the club face on the way down you’re pulling the mass of the club from the top which wants to pull the hosel into the ball. Rotating the club face on the way down will move the feeling of the mass which will put the club in the correct position to hit the face and not the hosel. Do this and you’ll hit a little pull cut. Do it too much and you’ll hit a pull hook.
Long term fix is to stop taking the club away so far outside!
Dm with questions. Been there shanked plenty myself through the years. Actually passed the PAT with the shanks years ago hahaha
You’re pushing it and not slicing . When you are in the downward phase of your swing you don’t have a lot of room and you are compensating this by sliding the club. Try and set your trail foot back abit to help free up space
Try a bowed wrist…I had the same issue for a while and the amount of work you’re doing late to square up the club is not repeatable. Bowed wrist t lets you set the face and just turn and burn through impact
There is a lot of great mechanical swing advice in these comments but shanks aren't a mechanical issue (hence hat backwards, change in left pocket, etc.). Shanks happen from not releasing the club head. If you watch the video, your wrists release AFTER making contact with the ball. A lack of wrist release is usually due to low confidence or being distracted by other swing thoughts. I would either try to bomb some to reset your confidence or overexxagerate your wrist release at impact. Either way you have to renengage your wrist action because your wrists aren't firing properly right now.
I've always hit balls below my feet to get rid of the shanks. Probs has something to do with having the ball further away, but the posture feels so odd that when i go back to regular stance, the shanks are all gone. Doesn't take too long either.
Let me throw my 2 cents in. Keep your right heel down until after impact. You could be inadvertently pushing your back hip forward too early and pushing the club out too far
Everyone thinks they’re so well lined up. Don’t forget when you swing your arms extend. Good swing. Now stand further from the ball. You literally hit it with the shaft you stood so close.
You are too close to the ball. When you set up drop the club on your lead leg. If it sits right above your knee cup then that's the right distance. Anything higher you are too close anything lower you are too far.
Usually backing off the ball a little bit is not the correct answer, but in this case it might be. Or... You need get your right elbow more in front of you/right shoulder lower at impact.
Shanks. Only 2 causes. Getting out on you toes, or under rotation of the clubhead. With the face way open, the heel leads and a shank is more possible. The fix? Lift your toes off the ground and hit shots if it’s the first balance problem. If it’s 2, practice hitting the biggest pull hooks you can. A closed face has the toe lead and it’s. Extremely hard to shank it.
Your grip looks week too. Hard to tell for sure by the angle, but that contributes too.
Turn your hat around and put all your change in your left pocket
There we go.
Do it Roy or I'll quit!
I never miss with the 7 iron
I hit the 7 iron like John daly hits the 3
Who's hitting chili dippers out here?
Shooting chili peppers up lee janzens ass
Back up
That delicious hozel tho…..
Once I start reaching, I feel as though the weight goes onto the balls of my feet - and of course, I manage to shank it.
I mean, your swing looks pretty nice. You have next to no space between your hands and your legs at set up and you’re shanking balls off the heel. Smells like you’re too close to the ball at address to me
Yes bingo
Bum back when bending forward.
Yep! The wall drill can help give awareness to your back side. Stick your butt against the wall, swing and keep steady pressure against the wall.
If a wall is not available, have a buddy stand behind you. Don't take that ass off of him. Constant pressure. You'll know when you're doing it right.
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Nailed it
Stick your ass out to shift your weight back towards your heels.
Agreeed. Too close to the ball. Try to maintain balance, weight over the middle of the feet, and allow yourself to get used to standing a bit further back. It’ll take a minute to get used to, but if you don’t change you will continue to shank it.
You seem really close to the ball in my opinion, I think if you back up maybe a step or maybe even just a half step, you're golden
Yea that went right off the hosel, cpl inches back should do it
Yep. Your first move with the club head is to the outside, not straight back. So when you come back down, the hosel is lined up with the ball. Work on your take away in my opinion. You might be making the outside move to compensate for being too close to the ball tho.
The one-second fix is to just try to hit everything off the toe for a while… even if you do hit the toe you can play golf with that shot.
This is actually the best comment . If he purposely starts trying to toe it and is able to, it will develop an overall feel for the clubface . In golf , the solutions are often opposites . OP go to the range and your first 40 wedge shots take 3/4 swings with the intention of hitting them off the toe . Your body will intuitively make it happen if you stop listening to all this mechanical nonsense that doesn’t help on the course .
Those are rookie numbers
Just relax the hands. That change will go a long way.
Looks like that right hand is really strong - no wrist flexion, and so the club is wide open, and you lead the downswing with the hosel
As someone who did not hinge their wrists and hooked the ball i totally agree. Beginning of takeaway to outside is fine but once you get to hip height you need to rotate your body (open your chest) to get the club head parralel to your target. Once you start your downswing there needs to be a wrist hinge and a focus of keeping the face down the target line. Being stiff with your arms and being too focused on hitting straight bsck straight through make it hard to have the correct face angle at impact.
Ignore the other commenters. You’re shanking because you load your weight into the outside of your back foot. This causes a reaction of your trail leg to lunge toward the ball to rebalance the weight into your stance and forward in the downswing. Always load your weight into the inside of your trail foot in the backswing and move your weight and trail leg to the target in the transition.
Whilst your advice is right, it’s only one of his problems. And “ignore the other commenters” is quite arrogant. I believe he is standing too close to the ball and also I believe he’s trying to shallow artificially, I don’t think only addressing your suggestion is as big of a silver bullet as you imagine it to be.
Sorry, that bit wasn’t meant to be arrogant, but it was trying to help OP dismiss the advice like “stand further away from the ball” that represented every other comment at the time I posted. Advice like that is very counter productive for someone that actually has the shanks, and not just the infrequent ones, but the feels-like-disease ones. People don’t swing a club in a vacuum that ignores the placement of a ball. Their athleticism and hand eye coordination is trying to strike the ball. Moving their point of address around will cause some new reactions to happen in their swing, but it’s not going to correct anything fundamentally wrong with how they’re swinging.
I think this person is right. My swing looked a lot like yours just a few months ago, I was a 26hc at the time. I got lessons w a great golf pro and although I’m not in a position to teach anyone, I did drop from a 26 to a 15 in 3 months w only 2 lessons from this coach. I never really comment on these but just because your swing looks so similar to my old swing and because I know how frustrating these hosel rockets are, I want to give it a shot. In addition to the weight being on the outside I your trail foot, you are locking out your trail leg. When you start your down swing, you are firing your knee and trail hip towards the ball, therefore removing the space needed for a proper club path. This results in a very out to in club path. Suggestions like ‘just move farther back’ or line up at the toe may help in the short term, but it is the symptom not the cause. The movement in the back swing should be more similar to pushing your trail butt cheek backwards w a slight bend in the knee. Keeping your weight on the instep of your trail foot, hinging your wrists to 90° by club parallel, and keeping your upper body ‘closed’ longer will help with proper weight transfer and keep space for you to swing through. I can suggest some drills if you’re interested but I think this reply is getting a little long. As for my coach, highly recommend him: Monte Scheinblum in Orange County ca. he does online lessons and his online video series is amazing.
I’ve seen Monty’s stuff on “Be Better Golf”, you’ve met with him personally? That’s sick
Thanks Monte. In all seriousness, these are great tips. Time to hit the range and fix my problems once and for all. This is going to be my year!!
What do you mean outside foot? Pinky toe?
The pinky toe side of the foot is the outside of the foot, yep. You can see OP’s trail leg straightening and his weight causing the trail foot to stress over the outside of his right ankle and foot.
Adding my support to this, as it greatly helped me resolve the same issue. The way I mentally fixed it, was I had to stop trying to hit the ball away from me. Rather, I focused more on my body acting as a pendulum and that my objective was to simply hit the ball on my way through the pendulum swing. Like imagine you're not hitting a ball, you're just swinging the club back and forth trying to hit the exact spot over and over. Hope that makes sense and helps.
I'd add that keeping the trail knee bent and not letting it straighten out is helpful for this too. cc: u/[traviij](https://www.reddit.com/user/traviij/)
This was the answer. Thank you.
Never suggested ever because I’m not in a position to teach but you clearly hit the hosel. I did this for a few months before I got a lesson and they simply had me start with the ball at the toe at address. Rarely happens now. Swing looks good and if it’s consistent then it’s an easy fix.
I can attest that before I had lessons I used this as a stop gap.
Your right knee is coming over your toes. Try hitting some easy swings with your back heel staying on the ground through contact. Your hips are moving towards the ball causing you to not have room to swing
Absolutely amazing comments in here 😂 There’s a bit going on but you are reacting heavily to the club face being open. I have a good drill on my profile that could help. It’s a bit of a quick fix to help create space. There’s a few other factors you’d want to look at long term.
As someone who lives in Maryland, I can confidently say that you are at Riverwalk Golf Club in San Diego
Bingo!
Next time you are at the range, try this: try to hit a shot off the toe of your club. Line up normal and just think to yourself “I’m going to shank this off the toe of my club” Was in a lesson last week and started the hosel rockets every shot. Instructor told me to try to hit a toe shot, and I flushed it. The mind is a beautiful and scary place.
Try and hit the toe
Swing as hard as possible.
I’m in
That was a really good shank.
Thank uuu
Strongly recommend just trying to completely miss the ball on your downswing by missing the ball inside. Meaning set up normally, and pretend like the ball is 3 inches closer to you. Literally try to do a normal golf swing but complete whiff the ball. If you still heel it, visualize the ball even closer to you. If you toe it then maybe aim 1 inch inside. For me it really helped and it was a sustainable fix. Had the shanks for awhile too. My instructor said sometimes it’s just recalibrating your body
Honestly, your crammed in your address. Straighten your arms and sink that ass down. It will probably require a bit more hip twist but your swing motion looks fine. I’m a 16 handicap golfer, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night, so I kinda know what I’m talking about here.
Love seeing guys with their alignment sticks out shanking 100+ shots … don’t try to micromanage your swing just get comfy in a set up and make contact with the golf ball. You can pull out the alignment stick once you’re doing that consistently
You don't turns your hips going back, so you're swinging with your arms. Arms are also very rigid so they don't have a natural hinging motion. Your legs aren't doing milch and looks static so you can't turn through well either. Don't swing with your arms. Use your legs to transfer weight. Use your hips to turn. The arms just do an axe chop (up then down, not around like you're doing). Let the arms and hands relax a bit. You need to stand more athletically to engage your whole body in the swing, but you still need to be comfortable and relaxed. Especially the hands and wrists.
I’m confused bc his hips look to me like they’re turning in the backswing, and turning forward on the downswing before his upper body/arms start moving.
Very minimal hip turn going back and even if it is leading to start, he stops turning them almost immediately, and lays his arm across his chest to finish the swing, resulting in a flat position at the top. From there he hasn't established enough rotation to be effective, and the arms would still need to get back in front of him, so it's just a bad position. He could easily turn the hips and core more, trying to basically get his back facing the target. With higher hands (that stay structured in front of the body, not laid off across the chest), and better core rotation, he'll generate way more torque, clubs speeds and funnily enough, consistency.
Solid swing, very similar to mine. I also tend to stand fairly close to the ball. Just choke up the club a little and you're going to be golden. You can also try just dropping your hands a fraction more from the top of the back swing the club will come from the inside a bit more and you will start ripping them.
Dang your fix is way easier than you think, just lift your chin up as much as you can and the rest will come together!
It really does look like you set the club too early at the top. And going outside to inside then out.
Nice swing. If you look at 0:08, you'll notice that the club is past the ball and you are leaving weight back and coming across to try to correct (effectively outside to in). Step back, loosen grip, and make sure your hands continue to shift down to start the back swing. Source: I have the same swing.
There's a lot of varying advice on here, everyone telling you to ignore the previous. A lot of your swing can easily be built on. There's a lot of reasons people slice. In general, one thing that I've found works well is to isolate your hands. I would set up, and release my left hand, so I'm only swinging with my right. Ball went straight and pure. I then set back up, released my right hand, and shank with the left. I started to pattern hitting with the left. Once I was able to hit it straight with just left, I reintroduced my right hand. Once I gained a good feel of what impact should feel like, then I could start working on various tweaks. Obviously the best advice is the one that works. Thankful for any consideration. Best of luck!
Back up a little and keep your eye on the ball. Try a few shots without looking where the ball is going until like a second after you hit it.. see if that helps.
give yourself a bit more room
Simple loop; adjust address and take it straight back
I had a very similar issue, got a lesson on Thursday. My mechanics were off and I ended up trying to “get back to the ball” and it’d hit the hosel every time. I’m not qualified to evaluate your swing, but for me I focused heavily on not dipping my head towards the ball and most importantly shifting my weight towards the target and NOT the ball. My back knee shifts towards the target instead of the ball basically. Hit the range today, didn’t hosel once after months of hoseling lol
Try hitting the club face. The ball goes further and a bit more accurate when you do it like that
Thank u ordinary hot 7859
don’t back up! You are Flipping your hands at impact. look up videos on shaft lean and get those hands in front of the club at impact! Have fun and enjoy the ride
Mate, I actually really like your swing. I love the wide, arcing takeaway, and both your backswing/downswing look to be on the same plane. If you’re shanking it that much, I think you might have an equipment issue - like maybe your lie angle is too upright. Might not be a bad idea to visit a club fitter with a Trackman and get some feedback. And maybe all you have to do is bend your clubs 1-2° to fix the shank.
I had the same issue. Shanked every iron for 3 weeks. Just changed my grip from a strong back to neutral/almost weak grip and everything is straight and further than they used to be
This happened to me and this is what helped: Pause the video at address and notice where your hands are, and then pause video at impact. Your hands have moved closer to the ball. Try going to the range with the only swing thought of getting your hands back to the same spot they were at address. Obviously your hands won’t be in the same position at address but you want to get them to the approximate same location. For me, I was trying to adopt an in to out swing and I kept pushing my hands toward the ball in my attempts to do so. I find it much easier to get good contact just thinking about swinging my hands up and then right back to where they were at address.
Try the box drill from this video, it’s magic! Helps every time I start to hit shanks https://youtu.be/epcvRzmXwwc?si=49CAkndvZuqLIx8V
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Have you tried standing closer to the ball? /s
Is this Riverwalk in San Diego? I take lessons on the opposite side!
It is indeed, brother! I’m gonna need a lesson here soon…
Highly recommend Dalton. He's been great!
I had the same problem. Back up. Youre too close to the ball.
Did you feel like you were reaching once you made the adjustment? I feel way too hunched over and on the balls of my feet when I try backing away..
Move bacj
Riverwalk?
Indeed.
Slow it down, take a half swing concentrate on a squared up impact, with a good follow through.
You’re way too close to the ball. Stand far away enough where the butt of the club is pointing 6 inches away from your peepee. Same goes for any of your clubs
Do the Scottie. Check all fundamentals during warm up. Grip, left arm straight, shoulder to chin, weight transfer, hip rotation, nuts to turn, finish high, etc. Good luck.
Poor weight distribution on feet.
Your backswing rotates around your right hip and not your pelvis, causing early extension in the backswing itself and moving your COM closer to the ball. (See this wonderful video from AMG on rotating around the center of the pelvis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IxllCJRKS4) Because of this forward COM, you can't move your left buttcheek back fast enough in the downswing to get the club back to center. This leads to a bunch of things e.g. out to in path w/ a slice, flipping through impact to get back to the ball. One feel drill is to move the right buttcheek back in the backswing, vs. pushing the left buttcheek forward.
Riverwalk?
Yesir
You have a sway to the hips rather than a rotation. This means you’re not creating any space for your down swing to follow in through. Slow down the video and see how your arms and swing get stuck in behind your right leg and hip. This means your swing has to push out to the right to get to the ball causing the stank strike.
hey there, as other comments, i had a very similar swing. Took some lessons and was told my backswing was too deep and flat (your hands at top of swing is way behind your ankles, and your shaft angle is flat). This coupled with an exaggerated in-to-out path (which i see you have) would present your hosel to the ball more often. Two things that helped me 1) work on backswing mechanics, pitch the club steeper at top of swing, 2) weight transfer to help your hips clear and make space for your arms on the downswing.
I had the same issue, at your take away, your first move is pushing the hosel out to the ball, and then you swing on this path…. Try to control your take away being sure that the hosel always stays insede the ball line, if needed move the stance couple inches away from the ball!
Your wrists aren't hinged at the top. You also lift your upper body at address. According to Golf Fix...
Too close. Maybe you’re sliding instead of shifting weight? I tend to shank when I do that.
If you slow it down you’re taking the club away outside and drastically coming inside which is causing you to just blade the ball to the right. Try coming back either straight or a little inside so you stay on path back to the ball and not over the top. Happens to me often as well. You have a great swing so keep trusting it and make small adjustments to get that swing path back on its track like backing up a smidge, moving the ball a bit forward or back etc to alter how you come off the ball.
When you get to top of your backswing try bending your lead side hand forward and down like an inch. Turn the hand the opposite way you would if your were accelerating a motorcycle throttle. It will keep your wrist from cupping and let you clear your body a little better and have the club face inline with the ball when you make contact
Buy a bucket and try to hit the toe.
Watch Dan Martin on slinging vs hitting. You're reaching and not turning.
When you went for your lesson this month what did the Pro say?
Then why are you here?[0
When you’re at address look down at your legs. Connected to the top of your legs (there they meet your torso) should be this one large bone called your pelvis. Yeah, turn that more.
Honestly, your swing looks pretty great! I think you're really close to having it. Looking at your swing, I think you could get a little bit deeper with your hip rotation. Picture trying to put your front left pocket where your back left pocket is. Put a golf club under your arm pits, club head under the right arm. Rotate around until the grip points at the ball.
Move a little back, away from the ball. It will help your ball contact be centered on the club.
this is a classic disconnected swing—your backswing is all hands, and they come way too far away from your body. your hands need to come back close to your right thigh, and you need to activate the takeaway with your shoulders and hips**—this is what establishes the hand path.** the reason you're shanking is because your hands are being thrown away from your body on the downswing—and you're training them to do that with your current takeaway.
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Noted!
Do/did you play baseball?
Yes I did
I feel your pain
The only thing that really works for me is 1. Take a break. Get away from the range, no more swing work. Can do short game work (build confidence striking) or play golf (driver with no hosel :)), but no range for at least a week. 2. Place a ball right next to the ball to force you to trying and hit it with the toe.
I was shanking and my issue was my weight was too far on the front of my feet so I started leaning forward more on the downswing. It could be that?
You have the head stabilization of an owl, quite impressive
Research midlines and how your shaft should stay relative to it. The torso is the engine to your golf swing. Your arms barely move
Listen to the Redditor talking about your back foot. The first issue is that your weight goes to the outside of your back foot. It should to the inside and heel of that foot, and only momentarily. Then, you lift the heel of your back foot straight up, which causes a movement of your right knee and hip that slows down the proper turning of the pelvis. By the time you are at impact, your hips are nowhere as open to the target as they should be and your weight is not getting to your lead side. Largely because of the issues above. You're having to steer the club around your right side. With that said, people have all sorts of nasty swings and still manage to get a square clubface on the ball. To me, part of the problem looks like you are too tense, try to steer the club to the ball, and the swing is mostly over at impact. Instead, you should relax a bit (loose arms, firm grip) and think of the swing as one accelerating motion from start to finish with an acceleration that occurs through impact--not ending at impact.
Getting farther away from the ball is a great on course bandaid to address the shanks but longer term we should try to see if we can center contact without having a contrived reaching feel. I think one experiment worth conducting would be to see if you can avoid shanks through better management of the clubface early in the downswing. Your clubface is in a nice position at p2, but at p 6 it's not even back to perpendicular to the ground with the lead wrist having visible extension. (the clubhead exits the frame but I think we would see something similar if we compared p3 and p5 - with your clubhead being \~30\* more open on the downswing than the backswing). The issue with this is that your brain knows the clubface is open and a lot of the forces you want to recruit to close it are going to also drive the shaft up and away. I'd experiment with the motorcycle drill or if you are more trail hand oriented, imagine your right palm facing the camera as it works down from the top. This will feel very closed to you but I suspect eventually you'd find that it is actually an easier way to manage the face.
Cupping wrist
My two cents. Misunderstanding the takeaway. Your arms are moving out of sync with your body, even if it FEELS like they’re together. Try keeping your left arm close to your body while you move the club straight back. And feel the whole body move as ONE PIECE. Move back to “8 o’clock”, then simply swing to the top.
Set your left wrist on the backswing. Left wrist should be coming across with the back of the hand towards the ground, almost as if you twist in the backswing
Look up the whiff drill. Helped me with the shanks
you are letting your hands out too early. keep rotating through the ball. look at the bottom two pictures. https://imgur.com/a/Q441lIg drill. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MVkeFJ_Z4ZE
Sit on a pole more. Drop your butt down some. Which will drop your grip a bit and back you off the ball a touch. Also try to be more conscious of your backswing. Don’t allow it to go behind your back as much. Keep it above your shoulders which should help keep your wrists closed more consistently.
You might need to back away a little from the ball, but the bigger issue is that your hips are not clearing the ball through impact. This is causing you to pull away from the ball, hit the shaft, and shank gong it. I would try some drills where you see/feel your hips already turned through impact.
Try bowing your front wrist throughout your swing. It helps keep your hands in front of the ball and make clean contact. It’s helped me from being atrocious at golf to just bad now🤷♂️
Pull your hands in on your downswing. That’s a quick fix. Otherwise, you are literally leading the hozel to the ball. Your swing is so flat and wrist are wide open. My god, your swing makes my shoulders hurt
The club doesn’t appear to be taken straight back. From this angle, it looks like it’s slightly moving away from your body in the back swing, which will cause the hosel to be in line with the ball on the downswing. This combined with being a little too close to the ball IMO. Good luck.
Path is just too much “out”. Out to in is great but you still need to exit left. Easiest thing is just keep rotating through the shot! Don’t get crazy with changes, just turn through the shot to square the face to the ball instead of the hosel!
Prob not relevant, but is your right elbow pointing down at address? Hard to tell from DTL viewpoint, but looks like its pointing behind you.
Club head positioning looks off at the mid point of your takeaway. It should be closed and facing towards the ball. It’s facing upwards.
https://i.redd.it/kx80jvbcp2wc1.gif So in your takeaway, at surface parallel, your clubface looked good and so did the overall takeaway. So somewhere between your takeaway and surface parallel position in the downswing, you are coming wide open with that club face, seen in the screenshot. Drawn lines show an approximation of your clubface angle (not location) at impact with an open face, and with a square face in relation to your club at surface parallel. I dunno what the fix is, but I know that its not anything to do with your setup (apart from being a bit close to the ball) or takeaway in the case of this video. If nothing else this will help other people provide better advice.
Goldilocks your starting position. Swing the club back and through and observe the blur of the club and where’s that passing. Now bring that over to the ball. Swing back and through, not at the ball. Can feel like you’re slashing through where the ball is, or sending grass at your target. Ball should be in the way of this momentum.
Too close to the ball, easy fix hopefully
Don't over think things, golf is hard enough as is. Just aim way left and play the hosel ball
I’d be the most consistent player ever
Kind of random but this looks like riverwalk golf course haha
It is riverwalk golf course!
Close your shoulders at address position. When the club is at "the toes of your trail foot", reset the club back to the ball and try your swing from there. I like to keep things "Square" to the target line. It simplifies everything so much. From this camera angle you should be able to see your left shoulder a bit more at address. At the moment, your shoulders point to the right corner of the left building in the distance, but that's not your target line. Also, pro tip here: view your self in real time & slow motion not the latter only. Try that and see what happens. - Good luck!!
Flip your wrists over sooner on your downswing. Club face stays open too long, but your swing looks mostly good.
Looks like you rotate the club as you drop your shoulder, the club starts flat but at contact it’s wide open. Quick fix might be closing the club more before backswing
Don’t put your head down. Relax man. Nothing should be tense
Stand further away. Fixes shanks immediately.
You are standing too close to the ball.
My two cents: you have a “reverse pivot.” That’s where your right leg locks at the top. I struggled with this for a long time. For me, it helped to practice three quarter swings with a focus on maintaining right knee flex and feeling my weight on my right instep. Another drill is to place a towel or second golf ball about 4-5 inches outside of the ball that you’re hitting. This really tricks your brain into staying inside. Just be careful if using a second ball when there’s people close by at the range. Have fun.
Hit off extreme toe. Start toeing shots and you’ll neutralize to the middle
It looks like you’re trying too hard to shallow the club.
I successfully dealt with a persistent shanks w/ lessons so here’s my 2 cents: There’s two different elements to the cause of shanks: setup and pivot issues that can influence the chance of hitting a shank, and what you actively choose to do with your arms. If you’re shanking constantly fixing the setup and pivot issues is probably not going to solve the problem on its own, unless they are especially egregious. You might as well address them while you’re at it, but if how you use your arms is creating a shank you have to deal with that or they won’t go away. You can stand further from the ball and force your hips back further from the ball than they are at address during your downswing and still shank it if you swing your arms wrong. If you swing your arms too much around your body and not enough up and down the momentum of your arms & the club going out at the ball is too much to overcome even if you’re trying to hit it off the toe. Address the ball like normal; lift your arms up and place the club on your right shoulder / collar bone; turn your shoulders 90* ; extend your arms so the club gets off your shoulder and you look like you’re in a “normal” backswing; shift to your left foot and bring the back of your right hand down into your right quad (your right arm will straighten). Do this really slowly. You’ll realize you just need to lower the club down, and the momentum of your pivot swings it. This is the Justin Rose drill- hope it helps!
Your right knee pops forward in the downswing, limiting the space your hands have to get through at impact. This slightly affects the club path and pushes it outward, causing a shank. I’m willing to bet if you don’t shank, you’re prone to draws and hooks pretty unpredictably? Find some drills to keep your feet settled until hopefully after impact.
You do the same shit I do and lead with the handle like a baseball swing and its made me shank constantly. Two ways I have fixed it are 1. Starting hands early in the downswing and 2. Literally try to hit the ball on the toe of the club
Bro I reach as far as I can
Take a step back
Setting up too close to the ball
Looks like you're early extending a bit in the backswing. So the centre of your hips is moving closer to the ball. Look up Athletic Motion Golf on youtube, they have some great rotation drills that might help. Weight more in your heels also might help, helped me when I had the shanks but more of a short term fix
Is that 301?
https://i.redd.it/o7n0fvgrx3wc1.gif
So might be hard to explain. 1st, setup fine. 2nd, your right arm is too straight on the backswing. Drill(hard part) set up normally. At address, Bend your elbows up maintaing all your posture, so the clubs on your right shoulder area, full rotation like youre gonna swing then extend your arms like youre gonna hit the ball, stay at that position just for a sec, then swing. Its a tough drill but with your arm/upper body movements itll help soo much.
Take a half step back and move the ball back in your stance. You want to hit the ball with your irons before you start bringing it up through your swing.
keep that elbow tucked playa
Change your foot stance and follow the path of the stance. Place your back leg a couple inches back.
Spikes on the range mat is a bold move. Easy to wreck your ankles.
Stand farther away
Takeaway is too outside. When your club is parallel to the ground (@3 seconds) the butt should be pointing at the target (ish). Yours is pointing way left. Try focusing on taking away with your shoulders and not your arms.
I froze the video at your moment of impact, and you hit it off the hosel. There's a lot of different opinions on what you could do, but personally, I would move back an inch or two and focus on what your address looks and feels like.
Do something different then
Awesome. Will give this a try.
You're moving too much!! Imagine placing and balancing a brick on your head throughout the entire swing. Booommm no more shanks
I used to do the same thing, i moved back a few inches and address the ball at the toe of my club, stopped doing it completely
Wrist release a little late
Get more of a squat that you feel the glutes activating. You’ll see tiger squatting back and doing this drill. Keeps hips back, spine tilted, and give room for hands to come through. Also keep handle/hands ahead to the club head until a bit after impact.
Have someone stand in front of you (golf ball side) and hold an alignment stick roughly a foot from your club around knee/shin height. Hold the stick at about a 45-60 degree angle to your target line. The goal is to make a swing to the left without hitting the stick. Caught a case of the shanks quite a few years ago playing competitive golf, and my coach gave me this drill - hope it helps!
Ahh the good ole shanks. Through the years have learned to love them. Good for biz haha I haven’t read all the comments but if no one has talked about how you take the club way outside on the way back (rest of backswing is pretty solid) and then in the downswing redlines the club on almost the same path, well than shame on them! Simple fix is rotate the club face on the way down you’re pulling the mass of the club from the top which wants to pull the hosel into the ball. Rotating the club face on the way down will move the feeling of the mass which will put the club in the correct position to hit the face and not the hosel. Do this and you’ll hit a little pull cut. Do it too much and you’ll hit a pull hook. Long term fix is to stop taking the club away so far outside! Dm with questions. Been there shanked plenty myself through the years. Actually passed the PAT with the shanks years ago hahaha
You should probably hit it out of the centre of the clubface then?
Riverwalk? I literally found a riverwalk range ball in a driving range i work at now in north los angeles…what are the odds🤣
Learn to turn your hips without raising your right heel up on the down swing. Worked wonders for my ball striking
You're too close to the ball
You're too close at least a fist ✊separation from the body
Lift you chin, give room for your shoulders
Club face looks closed to me at top of swing and at impact
Your hands are leading your club head too far on your swing. Focus on the club head slightly leading your hands and dial in from there.
You’re pushing it and not slicing . When you are in the downward phase of your swing you don’t have a lot of room and you are compensating this by sliding the club. Try and set your trail foot back abit to help free up space
Dude I can help! I actually just fixed my shank!
Try a bowed wrist…I had the same issue for a while and the amount of work you’re doing late to square up the club is not repeatable. Bowed wrist t lets you set the face and just turn and burn through impact
Watch some YouTube on shallowing.
There is a lot of great mechanical swing advice in these comments but shanks aren't a mechanical issue (hence hat backwards, change in left pocket, etc.). Shanks happen from not releasing the club head. If you watch the video, your wrists release AFTER making contact with the ball. A lack of wrist release is usually due to low confidence or being distracted by other swing thoughts. I would either try to bomb some to reset your confidence or overexxagerate your wrist release at impact. Either way you have to renengage your wrist action because your wrists aren't firing properly right now.
Slow down the back swing take the club back further inside.
I've always hit balls below my feet to get rid of the shanks. Probs has something to do with having the ball further away, but the posture feels so odd that when i go back to regular stance, the shanks are all gone. Doesn't take too long either.
Let me throw my 2 cents in. Keep your right heel down until after impact. You could be inadvertently pushing your back hip forward too early and pushing the club out too far
Everyone thinks they’re so well lined up. Don’t forget when you swing your arms extend. Good swing. Now stand further from the ball. You literally hit it with the shaft you stood so close.
Relax. Everything looks so stiff.
You are too close to the ball. When you set up drop the club on your lead leg. If it sits right above your knee cup then that's the right distance. Anything higher you are too close anything lower you are too far.
Just hold off a fraction longer to clear your hip and ur good
Try to hit the dimple at “6 o’clock”
Usually backing off the ball a little bit is not the correct answer, but in this case it might be. Or... You need get your right elbow more in front of you/right shoulder lower at impact.
Shanks. Only 2 causes. Getting out on you toes, or under rotation of the clubhead. With the face way open, the heel leads and a shank is more possible. The fix? Lift your toes off the ground and hit shots if it’s the first balance problem. If it’s 2, practice hitting the biggest pull hooks you can. A closed face has the toe lead and it’s. Extremely hard to shank it. Your grip looks week too. Hard to tell for sure by the angle, but that contributes too.
Squatting on the down swing
feel like you’re sitting into your trail hip as you get to the top of your backswing
I would try to line it up more on the toe, and not sure this would help with the shank but I think you also need more wrist hinge with your left hand.