Quite frequently when someone shows up for a lesson, I will ask them about their current swing thoughts. Perhaps it goes without saying that every swing thought is not good for every player. A thought that might work for one person might set another back to where they can barely play.
And one thought that I hear with quite a bit of frequency is someone thinking that they need to have an inside out club path. For the uninitiated, this means that the club is coming from well inside the target line and then actually crosses the target line as it heads out toward the direction of a first basement if the golfer was a right- handed hitter. The ideal club pass is slightly from inside the target line to square at impact and then back inside after impact. Anytime the clubhead gets outside the target line either from an inside out or an outside in path there can be ball flight issues.
Even though an inside out path is considered the Holy Grail by some golfers, it leads to a whole litany of flight issues that no one is particularly going to like. Among them are blocks to the right, flip hooks to the left, thin shots and fat shots. Hitting a shot that’s dead straight toward the target with no curvature is virtually impossible.
If you have a swing thought that you think might be helpful in your case, feel free to email that thought to me, and I will express an opinion. I loved a Viktor Hovland comment that I read a couple of years ago. He said that if he is playing well and sees something on YouTube that looks intriguing, he will drop a metaphorical row of bread crumbs so he can get back to where he started if it doesn’t work. Chasing every swing thought that you might find on YouTube can be very detrimental to both your long-term success and short-term mental health.
