Face-on
Sway.
The upper body drifts off the ball instead of turning. Film face-on and watch Address to Top.
Face-on · Address, Top, Impact
What's going on.
The body slides off the ball on the way back instead of turning around it. Face-on, the head and chest have moved away from where they started. The low point moves with them, so contact and start-line wander.
What's already OK.
You are still making a full mid-iron. The turn just became a drift off the ball.
The one thing.
Swing the club around a post in the ground between your feet.
The drill.
Around the post
A mid-iron. An alignment stick just outside the trail foot, or imagine a post between your feet. Camera face-on. Stock full swing.
10 rehearsals, then 10 balls.
The club makes the circle. The post stays where it is.
Film again.
5 full mid-irons, face-on. Share the best. The next look is only this idea.
Face-on at the Top the body has turned, not drifted off the ball. Impact is back over the same ground you started on.
- Watch Athletic Motion Golf 0:00–1:59
- Watch Titleist TPI (Dave Phillips) 3:16–4:30
- Around-the-post: 10 rehearsals, then 10 balls
- Film 5 face-on mid-irons and share the best
Watch these clips.
Official YouTube. Start times are the bit that teaches this idea, not the whole channel.
They name the face-on sway: drifting off the ball, or the other way toward the target. Watch that drift. The belt-buckle talk is how they see the turn, not a second idea for you.
The alignment rod is the face-on check. Rotate into it. Daylight as the body slides off the ball is the sway. Skip the pressure-percent talk.