Day 53: Bangin' Balls - Swinging from the inside

I hit balls today with one focus - use the new swing (level shoulder turn) and hit the ball from the inside while turning your hands over.

The only problem was that I continued to hit behind the ball. This is also called hitting it fat. I thought that by taking a level shoulder turn, I was going to minimize that. What I did to compensate for that was to move the ball more forward in my stance - off of my left heel. I also focused on taking away the club on an outside path (with a level shoulder turn) and coming thru on the inside while striking the ball from the inside while really turning my hands over. Well, this works when your timing is perfect. I was about half and half - when I was late with turning my hands over, I would push the ball out to the right; when I was early turning my hands over, I would hook the ball; but when my timing was perfect, it was a thing of beauty - a nice, high, lazy draw.

There was one bigger problem than just hitting 50% of the ball well - I was thinking too much. The focus on my level shoulder turn at the take away had me thinking too much and not just 'swinging' - I think this promotes the chance of hitting the ball fat. I feel like I was a bit too mechanical, but perhaps it was just because of a new swing plane and would take time to get used to - not sure.

Nonetheless, I would continue to try and use this set-up (ball position) and swing and see what happens. The one thing I did know was that I was not comfortable and not striking the ball as consistently as I should be. I will hit a bucket of balls before the round tomorrow and see if I feel any more comfortable.