I’ve tried correcting a nasty banana slice I hit sometimes by trying to use a FLW and making sure my downswing comes from the inside, but I have produced more of a push shot as a result. I have a problem with completing a full follow-through on my swing, and I’m pretty sure it’s the cause.

Can anyone offer any advice on either correcting the push, or working on a full follow-through?

Where is your follow through aiming? ie are you arms pointing when both straight down the target line or out to right field?

Just to the right of the target line most of the time, but not by very much I think.

So if it is a push (no tail to the right) then the face at separation is aimed that way without quite enough anti-clockwise rotation going on to get it square. So spin the pivot a bit quicker and you should get the ball out straighter.

Both arms straight should be out to right field.

I seekgolf guru

Excuse my ignorance here but I have a similar problem to Bunny’s. I have always been taught to “shake hands with the target” i.e. arms straight and pointing to the target. Is this another bit of so called “good advice” I should forget about?

That bit of advice has to be taken in context of ‘where are you trying to shake hands to.

If I were standing chest onto someone then shaking hards is directly forward of my chest.

In a golf swing its a little less square chested from your setup pose isn’t it.

The rotation the hand shake visualizes is good from that set up pose. Except we really need in golf to shake hands with a bent right wrist not a flat one.

Bunny

It could be that in trying to correct a slice, you have developed a good backswing/downswing action that allows you to come from the inside. However, you may not be completing your pivot action, and completing the swing. The hands should move to the region of the right shoulder in the backswing and to the left shoulder in the followthrough, so that the clubhead swingarc is symmetrical. For the hands to move to the left shoulder region in the followthrough/finish phase of the swing, the hands must move inside and not down-the-line post-impact. To achieve that goal, one needs to actively turn the torso through the impact zone, so that the front of the torso faces the target in the followthrough/finish and the arms/hands/clubshaft should be in front of the front of the rotated torso.

See this photo of Aaron Baddeley’s followthrough.

Badds followthrough

Note that his chest/abdomen is facing the target and that his arms/clubshaft is in front of his body – well inside his stance line and opposite the left shoulder.

The message – keep turning the torso after impact!

Jeff.

I seekgolf guru

Excuse my ignorance here but I have a similar problem to Bunny’s. I have always been taught to “shake hands with the target” i.e. arms straight and pointing to the target. Is this another bit of so called “good advice” I should forget about?

China,

YOUR “target” is the ball and THE “target” is the ball’s destination.

However, for the purposes of sorting out this guy’s, and your, problem, THE “target” should become the initial line of ball flight.

If he/you tend to fade, then the initial line of ball flight is slightly left of the ball’s destination – and for a draw, that would be slightly right.

What about ball position, couldn’t having it too far back contribute to a push?

Mr C, that also comes into play in terms of the initial flight. Good spot.

Speakin from experience there ;-) It was picked up on in a lesson. To get around it I was compensating in other areas and while the results were good for the most, I prefer doing it right than compensating!

What about ball position, couldn’t having it too far back contribute to a push?

Work is for people who don’t know how to play GOLF.

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Ball position for any golf shot is critical. However, only the golfer himself can determine what is the best ball position that gives him the ball flight he is looking for within his swing dynamics.

Bunny,

A late inclusion, however, I too had a slight push. It may be caused by standing too close to the ball. When coming down to strike the ball, by standing too close, your arms have no where to go in release, so they release outwards. I have corrected this (sometimes) by standing about an inch further back. Hope all suggetions help you.