Golf swing analysis with video. Drills.

I have been working on keeping the club in front of me during the swing.  I was getting the club and my hands way behind at the top of the swing.  My hands were also very high at the top.  This started causing me to pull hard from the top and kind of cast the club early and come over the top a little.  My divots were toe heavy and pointing left.  This drill has really helped keep the club in front of me which has also improved the plane of the club head through the swing.  As it turns out the plane of the club head is much more important than the plane of the shaft.  Just remember that when you are drawing lines on your shaft.  The drill also helped square the divots, my hands are closer to my body at impact.  In the video you can see the right elbow staying in front at the top of the back swing, it does not slide past the seem in my shirt.  The club exits in a much lower position which is something I work on. 

In this video I am making a swing thinking of the towel drill without the towel under the arms.  The swing is getting longer here and you can see I was a little off balance at the end.  Aside from the lack of balance I love this swing.

This is my full swing.  I prefer the swing above.  I like the shorter backswing.   My club does not cross the line.  The interesting thing is that the ball went the same distance in both shots.  I am also flighting the ball a bit lower with this drill.  That is because my plane has shallowed on the way down and with the shorter backswing I have more shaft lean at impact, greater lag.  I will post some face on shots which should show the increased lag.