Emergency!...
 

Emergency!...Emergency!...Emergency! Calling all Doctors! Calling all Doctors! The patient is in dire need of medical attention. It appears the patient has been plagued with the dreaded Shanks and hair splitting hosel rockets. Golfers of every level on the driving range have been ducking, diving and running for cover whenever the patient shows up at the driving range. The patient explained that he works the Basic and Acquired Motions to his satisfaction. Nevertheless, he is plagued with shanks and hosel rockets from hell in his Total Motion. The Patient believes that he is possessed and he believes that he needs to be diagnosed immediately. The patient refuses to play a round of golf this season due to his maladies. The patient is in need of a long-term medical solution.

I feel your pain. I've fought this off and on, but this year it's not been a problem (knocking on wood, as I'm about to head to the course...). Check out this thread:

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=6348

What is your head doing? Raising up?

You've been Heeled
 

Although I've posted this before, the following drill has helped many cure the heels and shanks:

Originally Posted by kmmcnabb
"You take your stance at the with your driver. Then take the driver and place it across your shoulders with the grip toward the target flush with your left shoulder and the head out the back (about two feet sticking out the back). Then you backswing to the top and on the downswing, try to hit the ball with the head of the driver (which you can't of course). This will give you immediate feel of getting the right shoulder down on plane. If you have not been doing this then it will feel quite different.

This single drill got me to focus on my right shoulder and I can now feel immediately when I am not down on plane with my right shoulder. I took film after this drill and the difference is quite startling."

Now try to "over-cook" the feeling by trying to hit the ball on the toe of the driver , which as kmmcnabb points out you can't, but you get the picture. Repeat, over and over and over...

12 PB, now that you have mentioned it, I have not been paying too much attention to my head. I am not sure if my head is rising or not. However, I have notice that it is hard for me to come to a complete finish without feeling some discomfort on my left side (in the area of my left hip). Only guessing, I think I may be standing too upright at address. My swing thought is to get the right shoulder down but I think this may be causing an out of balance condition for me. In the Acquired Motion, I have no problems getting my right shoulder down. As long as I can feel my right forearm parallel to the ground at the end of my Acquired Motion, my right shoulder feels as though it falls perfectly into the slot down and through.

Not a teacher . . . . but I'd think you are some how disrupting the radius . . . check your head motion . . . up or down? Are you having to shrink up your arms? Some how the club is out too much or you got the face laying on the plane too long.

12 PB, sometimes I do feel that my arms are shrinking up on the down stroke. However, there are times when I feel that I am running out of right arm and I try to get my right shoulder down more into the stroke. Nevertheless, at times, when I add more right shoulder into the stroke, I feel that I have too much right arm and both arms feel like they’re shrinking up on me.

Got any film of it?

12 PB, I don't have any film of me at this time. I will get new camera equipment after Tax Man delivers my 08 returns. In the mean time, I'll try find someone to film me.

Get the club 'up' plane. You are likely coming far inside.

A couple drills to check:

get up against a wall (backside to wall) and make some slow motion backswings with a wedge. Get those hands 'under' the shaft (as a swinger).

take a driver\dowel and grip it down near the clubhead end. See where the grip end is pointing at halfway back - is it pointing at your plane line?