Weight Shift with Driver

This video was from last week during a practice round at Twin Oaks GC, in San Marcos, California. Eric and I are both doing our qualifying for the PGA Torrey Pines event, at Twin Oaks GC. As you can see I have been getting my weight onto my left hip throughout the take away and at the top of the back swing. I do not think it is all bad because my weight stays over the ball on the way down and through impact. I would like to however get it back to how I used to be, having my weight go from my right thigh and hip on the way back and at the top and then transfer to the left side on the way down, into impact and through to the finish. I tend to struggle with swaying instead of turning on the way back. I think this move slowly developed from trying to stop the sway going back to the top. My natural ball shape is a draw which can become a hook occasionally. This reverse weight shift, almost a stack and tilt move, has caused me to hit a very small draw now with more straight shots and when I miss, its out to the right. This is far more controllable but my mind still see the draw so there is still some adjusting. Plus I do not like how the swing looks at the top with the weight on the left.
 The driver I am playing is the new Titleist 913 D3 head. It is 8.5 loft, with the white dot 4 gram weight in the head, which is lighter than the stock red dot weight at 9 grams. The shaft is the Graphite Design Tour AD DI-7X at 45-1/2". This setup is a straight heater. The only downfall is the feel of miss hits. It feels awful when its miss hit but when you look up and its down the center of the fairway, you get over the bad feel. I hit just about every driver available in 2012 and this is the best, hands down. I cracked the face of my Nickent Special Edition Tour Spec T-Stamp head in January of 2012 and have been in search of a replacement ever since. It took until Decemeber 2012, countless fittings, custom shafts and hours of launch monitors before finding this combo. I now have a permanent replacement in the bag which feels amazing because I basically played the entire 2012 year with different drivers, not a confident feeling when standing on the tee! If looking for a new driver, check out the 913, its money.

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Scott Alpi
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