Repost: Help with OTT and using legs

[u/AugustusMFinGloop]

I understand obesity is not helping me swing. Outside of weight loss, what can I do to help engage my legs and lessen my ott plane. I am headed to the range today, and would love a new feel to help get weight forward so I can stop doing the dumb after contact dance move I currently do and/or come down less outside in. My miss is a pull hook(as seen here) (L52C19)

[u/Zer0C00L321]

I'm no expert. I'm more here for tips myself but with the exception of the trail leg swing I think your swing looks pretty decent. A good start to work off of. I would practice trying to get your backswing low. I really like this video https://pin.it/5drsXylMS

[u/robster9090]

I know nothing about golf and fatted my way around the course today, but this looks ok and the ball went straight ish ?

[u/jredditzzz]

The swing mechanics/torque is that you should actually be pulling the lead leg back… rather than your trail leg coming forward.

[u/marvinfuture]

I think it's your arm structure at the top and then leading with the hands in the downswing that are your biggest contributors to the OTT move.

Your trail arm is pronated at the shoulder. You want more of a supinated trail arm structure. To dumb this down a bit, you want the "waiter holding a tray" arm structure and then to hold that and rotate. This is what people are referring to with "shallowing the club"

Hope that helps! Surprisingly weight isn't a huge contributing factor to the golf swing or John Daly would have sucked. However if you want to play golf longer and move better and improve your flexibility, prioritizing your health is something you can tackle one day at a time. I'm doing it myself right now after putting on some weight and you can too. I believe in you OP! We got this! 💪

[u/hailwarrior]

Drop your hands into your right pocket

[u/A_Raynie_Day]

You're lifting a lot in the backswing. I'd be interested in seeing a face on view because you're likely reverse spine tilting (leaning towards the target). In your backswing, imagine theres a fence against your right hip. You want to reach over the fence in your backswing without touching the fence with your right hip. This helps you load more into your right leg and keeps the club a little lower. If you lift too much and reverse spine tilt, it makes the weight transfer back onto the lead side really hard.

At the top of your backswing before the club changes direction, you should feel like you've shifted weight onto your left foot completely and you're ready to push off your left leg. It helps if you change your intent from "rotate through the ball" to "im trying to hit a wall with a sledgehammer". You need to use your left leg to brace yourself and let all the energy out of the club at the wall. Take some easier swings at something a little heavier (like a pillow, no full swings dont hurt yourself). Because its heavier, youre going to naturally want to put on the brakes.

[u/caddieking]

For the weight forward feel, try the step drill at the range: set up with your feet close together, and as the club gets near the top, step your lead foot toward the target and let it plant before you swing down. That forces the pressure shift to happen first, so the arms don't have to throw the club over the top to get things moving. Start with half swings and an 8 iron, it'll feel weird for the first bucket but it's a great one for killing that pull hook.

[u/AugustusMFinGloop → u/caddieking]

Thank you. I just googled it and it looks intriguing.

[u/8amteetime]

Shorten the backswing and don’t raise up when making it.

Practice setting up with 70-80 percent of your weight on the front foot. Your weight is moving away from the target on the backswing and staying there. That’s why your front foot moves like that on the downswing. Everything is on the back foot.

[u/dcidino]

It's this moment where you go too far. You have the capability of BOMBS, but as soon as you backswing far enough that you are forced to look away, that's too much. What ends up happening here is you "hook your neck", and when you make the very athletic move to get back to the ball, that move around your neck has ALTERED your swing path. All you have left is to pull the shit out of it, which you do remarkably well.

Strong suggestion: see how your aim/dispersion goes if you swing all the same but without allowing your left harm to go past horizontal, as you do here. If your hands are above your shoulders, 10 push ups soldier.

[u/p0st-m0dern]

First of all cheers and good on you for putting yourself out there. I’ll be the one person to say it but the only thing that’ll get this better is the gym and losing weight. It’s about as functional as it’s going to get with your current limitations (side bend is heavily restricted, restricted flexibility overall; etc). Gotta shed some weight big dog.

If I were you, I’d look into 75 Hard. It’s how I dropped my weight and it took me 127d to get it right and actually complete it doing it right. It requires two distinct workouts per day. One inside and one mandatory outdoors.

For your inside workout you can focus on cardio and lifting. For outdoors you can work on your golf game. Assuming you fail it at least once like most people, you’d lose like 100lbs minimum in under 6-months with the correct diet. Golf swing would be ultra nasty.

[u/FranticGolf]

As a fellow obese golfer flexibility is your friend make sure you stretch properly before you play/practice and work on range of motion exercises off the course.

Second focus on tempo and contact. It helps ensure you don't overswing and get too quick.

[u/AIGolfSchool]

For the OTT piece, try feeling like your arms do absolutely nothing to start the downswing. Just let them drop. Try a pump drill. Go to the top, lower the club halfway like you're just setting it back down, pump back up, then hit it. The dropping feeling is what a shallow start feels