After looking at my swing on video yesterday and seeing how much my right heel was shooting off the ground, I knew I had to make some changes in a hurry. Today I went out and begun the process. While this is a pretty simple change on the surface, it will not be easy to overcome as it is simply one of the dynamics of my swing. It happens without me having any conscious control over it and at a phase in the swing where everything is running on automatic, making it very challenging to make the change and still hit the ball well. Unfortunately, I’ve agreed to play in a mini-tour event tomorrow, so this has the potential for a small disaster!

Right now I feel ok, I’m hitting the ball pretty solid while working on these changes, but at the cost of about 10 yards per club because I have to slow everything down to get the sequencing under control. Enough with the discussion, let’s look at some pics!

In this pic, you can see my swing from yesterday on the left and my swing from today on the right in the “Barney” colored purple shirt – that’s what my wife calls it, anyway, I like it. Whether you like my shirt or not, my impact position on the right demonstrates my efforts to get my lower body more stable, although my hips are still running out ahead just a touch. But, you can see that my right heel has stayed more on the ground at impact rather than starting to turn out like on the left.

Into the follow through, you can see this a little more clearly:

Notice how my right knee hasn’t collapsed in as much in today’s swing compared to yesterday. However, it’s still starting to roll outward rather than inward. It’s progress, but it’s not right yet.

So what the heck causes this and why am I trying to change this in my swing? Well, it wouldn’t be any fun if I just gave you all the answers right up front! Just kidding. Although, I will be doing a video for this very soon in my online golf instruction section, the Member’s Vault. But for now, take a look at the picture below of me and Tiger Woods and you should be able to figure out pretty quickly the dysfunction in my golf swing.

While I normally don’t slide like this, it is something that started happening today as I tried to keep my heel down more to get a feeling for it. I didn’t slide at all yesterday, but that was because I just let my hips spin out and get out in front of me. Like I said, it’s progress but there’s plenty of work to do ahead. Stay tuned as I keep working on building the perfect golf swing!