Swing Plane Must Cross the Target Line

It is so easy to make the mistake that the swing plane perimeter is imagined as a circle and and the plane goes along the target line. However, this is far from the truth. In our mind, we should endeavor to hit the ball with an inside to outside intent, in effect, crossing the line.

When using the shoulders to throw the club towards the ball, make sure that you understand the actual path the clubhead takes depending on the length of the club you are using. For example, if you are hitting the wedges, you tend to send the clubhead digging to the ground. This is because your swing plane is so upright that it almost mirror the target line. However, if you are hitting the driver, you must throw the clubhead more from the ball to outside the target line. You are in effect throwing the clubhead to cross the target line. In reality, what happens is the clubhead never crosses the line but just stays a little longer on the target line. If not purposely thrown to cross the line, the clubhead would have just have immediately come around and leave the target line, thus giving the ball a glancing blow rather than staying with it longer.

So what to do, you would ask? Well, if one cannot do the latter suggestion (below), then one must make sure the club is thrown (by the shoulders) to cross the target line - in effect forcing it. However, if one can twist his shoulder far enough at the upswing - really twist - then the swing itself is automatically corrected because of centrifugal force and because of "over" swinging.