Got a question from Bill that is really making me have to think deep about coming up with a good answer and I think I got it. Bill's question is this, 'I have been converting to the Peak Performance Golf Swing at the start of the season. The biggest change that I see is better direction to where I am aiming. One thing that does happen occasionally is that when I am practicing I will start hitting balls with irons to the right, off the toe and hosel. I eventually get it back but sometimes it takes a while. Any suggestions?
This is pretty interesting here because you go from hitting your irons off the toe then all the way back into the hosel, which means you are hitting hosel rockets which are, you know the big-bad 'S' word. That is quite a change in the swing.
I have to go back to the first six words in your questions, where you have been converting to the Peak Performance Golf Swing, so the key is what did you convert from? The answer to me seems that it would have be that you have been a rotational golf swinger, that is a big huge turn in the backswing, getting deep in the Sacred Burial Ground, which means you have to come back out to get to on, on and on to hit the ball solid and straight.
So conversely the outside in swing is because of that big turn to get from out of graveyard back to the aiming line and that big turn, anytime you use a big huge rotational turn to start your downswing it moves your spine, head and whole body forward a little bit. So if you move too far forward therefore closer to the ball, that could be the cause of the hossle hitting the ball which is giving you the hosel rockets and/or if you are pulling so much in and at the same time instead of moving forward and into the ball, you are actually pulling and moving away from the ball and that could be the toe shots.
I think the same movement, the big turn, causing the outside in swing is the cause of both of them. So the answer is that you need to make the three quarter, limited turn swing. The odds are you are still probably turning too much in your backswing, which is having to make you turn harder in your forward upswing. So get back to making sure that you have the limited turn swing, your forward arm goes over your toe line at the top of the backswing, you are three quarters and you are vertical and then transition with the lateral left bump to swing up to the T-finish, finishing square to the target.
So, I think it is just back to the basics on the three quarter swing, limited turn swing, three-quarters, limited turn and swing up to the t finish. I think you will see that you will become a lot more consistent and get rid of that toe to hosel and stay much more consistent hitting the ball, at least, if not dead center very close to the center of the club.
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