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I do get mine mostly with the shorter clubs, pitch, sand, even a 9, what about toeing down my club a couple degrees, would that HELP a little bit? I think even mentally it may help, sometime I just feel like I can't miss and others, like with shorter clubs, i just can't get comfortable over the ball. Make it flatter to get rid of that lie angle? This video was fantastic, looks like you covered it all on the causes and fixes, thanks, you really are great at conveying by words and illustration. Keep up the great work!!!! One more thing, I sometimes will hit 2 or 3 straight drives dead straight, but grounders, like a hard ground ball in baseball right at that pitcher, but deadly straight. Should I hit more towards the toe when I get in that rut? It usually goes away after some tinkering but i really don't know how I get out of because my swing '"feels" the same as when I'm hitting the driver well. Tnx again.
This video is for me! I’ve really been working on my driver the past few months. Never had an issue with iron’s especially shanks. Obviously the odd chunk or skull. But now I’m hitting driver 320 and can’t seem to hit a straight iron , and chunking or shanking them. So my question is have I done something to my swing? Or is a driver swing and iron swing the same?
Great insights! I’m a better player that had periods of shanking last season. My cure was to try to stand up straighter. Your explanation of the head dipping and the low backswing explains why it was happening. I see it clearly now. Thank you sir!
I am 71, play to a 12 HC. Play from the SR tees these days but I do occasionally play the whites and results are the same. I have been using this box drill for a while and I also paint out a white line to make sure I am not hitting behind the ball. I kill 2 birds at once, shanks and hitting behind the ball. I will admit however it happens now and then. It's golf, if the pros can do it ametuers certainly can. Great video.
Sharing this for my fellow shank sufferers. A few things that have helped me. 1) Be very precise in your setup with distance to the ball when practicing. Write down your preferred distance in inches from toes (or heels) to ball for a specific club (perhaps the 7 iron) and set up a practice station. Modify it in small increments if needed. That will reinforce consistency as you work through the shank by minimizing other compensations. 2) Make sure you aren't leaning forward on to your toes and reaching for the ball at setup. This was a last minute habit of mine that I only finally caught by taking video of my swing. Now I just think "relax and where the arms drop the club, the ball must go." 3) A shoe box works just as well if you can't find a club box. A rolled up beach towel also can work. 4) Focus on keeping your balance throughout the swing and watch on video if you are lurching forward on the downswing (early hip extension). This limits the space you have to return the clubhead to the ball and hosel strikes can be the result. You may need to allow your arms to swing more in front of and past your body. 5) Finally, if you learned at one point to pull down with the hands to lag the club head (toll the bell or pump drill) and/or if you are used to driving your hands out at the ball, consider instead trying to work your hands more between the ball and your body. Think of feeling your hands as passing closer to your thighs and let the club work around you on its own circle. Combined with working on my setup and takeaway, this feeling helped me the most to stop swinging so much in-out and not hit the box. Disclaimer: I'm not a golf pro. These tips / feels have simply helped me get out of the shanks and I just hope they can help someone else get back to better golf.
Great analysis; thankfully my shanks have been far and few in between. It would come out of nowhere during a round, but not be repeated. I would simply laugh at the awful thing and consider it an anomaly. Usually it resulted from a momentary lack of concentration, but sometimes as you pointed out, it resulted from lowering my head or changing my spine angle. Thanks for the box tip!
i hit shanks from coming too far inside to out and would close the club face which also causes the club head to move further away from you … my fix was simply to feel like the butt of the club was pointing inside the ball in the downswing
I had my worst case of shanks ever in my life yesterday. This is immediately after coming off the best 3 weeks of long and mid irons in my entire life. 😂 I'm talking sticking greens from 130 to 210 yards, Pitch to 4 Iron. 4 iron shots that were sticking. Anyways, I am a 47 year old man with broad shoulders and 52 inch chest. I ended up going to the range immediately after my game and taking my right elbow and tucking it really hard to get out of the shanks. I will use your box method and check for shallow from now on.
When I occasionally shank it happens with a wedge chipping near the green like 10 or 20 yards from the hole. Yet with driver and middle-to-long irons, I often I hit the ball off the toe. Then I start wondering with middle irons should I worry about the shank or the toe. Wonderful game. Lol.
The unmentionables. I've found when I've done it a couple of times I've been too close to the ball. This would mean an over the top to create space tying in with your explanation.
I actually used the box method last summer. When I used the box I would hit the ball solid. Then I’d take the box away and start shanking again. Must be a mental thing?
It can be mental for sure, it can be helpful to switch to practicing something else - use fairway woods, practice chipping/putting, etc. If you watch the previous video with Patrick, you can also keep an eye on dynamic lie if you have access to a launch monitor that tracks it like Trackman
HUGE TIP PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU NEVER WANT TO SHANK THE BALL AGAIN!!! WHEN YOU SET UP TO THE BALL KEEP YOUR BACK PRETTY STRAIGHT UP AND BEND YOUR KNEES BUT MAKE SURE THEY AINT LEANING TOWARDS YOUR TOES LIKE SHOULD FEEL LIKE THEY ARE LEANING BACK A BIT THEN STICK YOUR BUTT OUT AND IT KINDA SHOULD FEEL LIKE YOU NOW YOU HAVE A STURDY STANCE AND YOUR WEIGHT SHOULD FEEL PRETTY BALANCED AFTER DOING THIS AND LIKE YOU CAN FEEL THAT NOW YOUR WEIGHT ISN’T ON YOUR TOES AND TRUST ME DOING THIS YOU WILL NOT EVER SHANK IT AGAIN!!!
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I do get mine mostly with the shorter clubs, pitch, sand, even a 9, what about toeing down my club a couple degrees, would that HELP a little bit? I think even mentally it may help, sometime I just feel like I can't miss and others, like with shorter clubs, i just can't get comfortable over the ball. Make it flatter to get rid of that lie angle? This video was fantastic, looks like you covered it all on the causes and fixes, thanks, you really are great at conveying by words and illustration. Keep up the great work!!!! One more thing, I sometimes will hit 2 or 3 straight drives dead straight, but grounders, like a hard ground ball in baseball right at that pitcher, but deadly straight. Should I hit more towards the toe when I get in that rut? It usually goes away after some tinkering but i really don't know how I get out of because my swing '"feels" the same as when I'm hitting the driver well. Tnx again.
This video is for me! I’ve really been working on my driver the past few months. Never had an issue with iron’s especially shanks. Obviously the odd chunk or skull. But now I’m hitting driver 320 and can’t seem to hit a straight iron , and chunking or shanking them. So my question is have I done something to my swing? Or is a driver swing and iron swing the same?
The Mr Miyagi of golf . Thank you!!! This is VERY helpful. I made the flash light training aid too:)
Great insights! I’m a better player that had periods of shanking last season. My cure was to try to stand up straighter. Your explanation of the head dipping and the low backswing explains why it was happening. I see it clearly now. Thank you sir!
I am 71, play to a 12 HC. Play from the SR tees these days but I do occasionally play the whites and results are the same. I have been using this box drill for a while and I also paint out a white line to make sure I am not hitting behind the ball. I kill 2 birds at once, shanks and hitting behind the ball. I will admit however it happens now and then. It's golf, if the pros can do it ametuers certainly can. Great video.
Sharing this for my fellow shank sufferers. A few things that have helped me. 1) Be very precise in your setup with distance to the ball when practicing. Write down your preferred distance in inches from toes (or heels) to ball for a specific club (perhaps the 7 iron) and set up a practice station. Modify it in small increments if needed. That will reinforce consistency as you work through the shank by minimizing other compensations. 2) Make sure you aren't leaning forward on to your toes and reaching for the ball at setup. This was a last minute habit of mine that I only finally caught by taking video of my swing. Now I just think "relax and where the arms drop the club, the ball must go." 3) A shoe box works just as well if you can't find a club box. A rolled up beach towel also can work. 4) Focus on keeping your balance throughout the swing and watch on video if you are lurching forward on the downswing (early hip extension). This limits the space you have to return the clubhead to the ball and hosel strikes can be the result. You may need to allow your arms to swing more in front of and past your body. 5) Finally, if you learned at one point to pull down with the hands to lag the club head (toll the bell or pump drill) and/or if you are used to driving your hands out at the ball, consider instead trying to work your hands more between the ball and your body. Think of feeling your hands as passing closer to your thighs and let the club work around you on its own circle. Combined with working on my setup and takeaway, this feeling helped me the most to stop swinging so much in-out and not hit the box.
Disclaimer: I'm not a golf pro. These tips / feels have simply helped me get out of the shanks and I just hope they can help someone else get back to better golf.
I agree with all thanks for sharing!
i made the pvc trainer. glued a training grip will practice with box
Another great video Ed! Thanks much!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great analysis; thankfully my shanks have been far and few in between. It would come out of nowhere during a round, but not be repeated. I would simply laugh at the awful thing and consider it an anomaly. Usually it resulted from a momentary lack of concentration, but sometimes as you pointed out, it resulted from lowering my head or changing my spine angle. Thanks for the box tip!
i hit shanks from coming too far inside to out and would close the club face which also causes the club head to move further away from you … my fix was simply to feel like the butt of the club was pointing inside the ball in the downswing
I had my worst case of shanks ever in my life yesterday. This is immediately after coming off the best 3 weeks of long and mid irons in my entire life. 😂 I'm talking sticking greens from 130 to 210 yards, Pitch to 4 Iron. 4 iron shots that were sticking. Anyways, I am a 47 year old man with broad shoulders and 52 inch chest. I ended up going to the range immediately after my game and taking my right elbow and tucking it really hard to get out of the shanks. I will use your box method and check for shallow from now on.
Let us know how it works!
Thanks...great, informative video. Is it possible to have irons that are too upright causing a shank?
We talk a bit about that topic in this video:
ruclips.net/video/ZxZsdklLdtI/видео.html
When I occasionally shank it happens with a wedge chipping near the green like 10 or 20 yards from the hole. Yet with driver and middle-to-long irons, I often I hit the ball off the toe. Then I start wondering with middle irons should I worry about the shank or the toe. Wonderful game. Lol.
The unmentionables. I've found when I've done it a couple of times I've been too close to the ball. This would mean an over the top to create space tying in with your explanation.
Exactly I didn’t mention being too close to the ball another big cause
Awesome!
I actually used the box method last summer. When I used the box I would hit the ball solid. Then I’d take the box away and start shanking again. Must be a mental thing?
It can be mental for sure, it can be helpful to switch to practicing something else - use fairway woods, practice chipping/putting, etc.
If you watch the previous video with Patrick, you can also keep an eye on dynamic lie if you have access to a launch monitor that tracks it like Trackman
HUGE TIP PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU NEVER WANT TO SHANK THE BALL AGAIN!!! WHEN YOU SET UP TO THE BALL KEEP YOUR BACK PRETTY STRAIGHT UP AND BEND YOUR KNEES BUT MAKE SURE THEY AINT LEANING TOWARDS YOUR TOES LIKE SHOULD FEEL LIKE THEY ARE LEANING BACK A BIT THEN STICK YOUR BUTT OUT AND IT KINDA SHOULD FEEL LIKE YOU NOW YOU HAVE A STURDY STANCE AND YOUR WEIGHT SHOULD FEEL PRETTY BALANCED AFTER DOING THIS AND LIKE YOU CAN FEEL THAT NOW YOUR WEIGHT ISN’T ON YOUR TOES AND TRUST ME DOING THIS YOU WILL NOT EVER SHANK IT AGAIN!!!
Hit the ball!
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Hit the ball, already!
Shank City ... Welcome to my town 😂😂
Get yourself a cardboard box! haha
Then why when I hit a great shot my mind doesn't keep making me make that same shot? 😮
Sports psychologists will say you need to think of those best shots you've ever hit before you take your swing to remind your brain how to do it :)
No actual swing?
Shouldn’t this video be 5 minutes long?