CUSTOM VIDEO GOLF SWING ANALYSIS BY BARRY GOLDSTEIN!
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Here's your chance to have your swing analyzed by one of the countries top teaching professionals Barry Goldstein. Barry will analyze a video of your golf swing that you send in and give you a written critique of your swing along with suggestions and drills to work on. You can also ask a follow up question that Barry will answer once you've received your anaysis. 
Barry Goldstein teaches at the famed Inverrary C. C. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Nominated four times by Golf Magazine as "One of the Top 100 teaching pros in America" , and twice selected as one of the "Top 50 Teaching Pro's" by Golf Range Magazine, Barry comes with a resume rivaled by few. He's appeared numerous times on the Golf Channel's "Academy Live" and "Your Game Night", and is an instructional editor for Golf Tips Magazine! Here's your chance to have one of the best teachers in the country tell you what you're doing wrong (and right!) and recommend drills to lower those scores and make your practice more productive.
Demand for this service has been high, but Barry will do his best to have your personal swing analysis back to you wihin a week or less.
There is a fee for this service of $60, payable through our Store. You will need to both send in your video as an attachement by clicking here, as well as make payment through our store.
Your video should be shot either "head on", with the camera facing your chest, or from behind looking down the target line, or both. We can work with most video fomats. (AVI, MPEG, etc. ) In the same e-mail please give Barry detailed information about your game. (handicap or score, how long you've been playing, your normal ball fight(slice, hook, etc.) distance you hit your Driver and 7 iron, and any particular issues you are having with your swing/game, etc..) The more information you can provide the better!
If you have any questions please e-mail us at videoswinganalysis@isuckatgolf.net and we'll get right back to you.
"SAM"
(approved for publishing by Sam)
Sam,
For someone so new to the game, I must say..well done. You are off to a very good start in your golf career, and welcome to the best sport you'll play for a lifetime!
Let's get to your golf swing. Nice quality on the video Sam. Easy for me to see.
I like your finish alot. Please keep it the same, which is balanced, and your weight fully moved to your your front side in your finish.
In your setup, I would like to change two crucial components. Your grip is the first. Looking at your swing head on, I see too weak a grip. I would like you to turn both of your hands towards your right shoulder Sam. Your grip is hurting you, and will help you when you have both V's formed between your thumb and forefinger pointing to your right shoulder.
Second, looking at your swing from down the target line, your posture is causing you issues, making you rise up and lock your legs at impact. I want you to set up 'taller' and 'prouder' with your chin up off your chest and your back straighter. You should not be rounded off and slumped Sam as you currently are.
Feel tall the entire swing Sam. No slouching.
Now, in your takeaway, I want you to allow the club to be 'toe up to the sky' in your first move back. You will see your club is closed, or hooded when you look from down the line. This is important, and you need to feel the clubface being square, not closed here. This may feel open to you Sam.
From down the line, you'll see the club then gets 'laid off' or 'flat' at the top of your backswing. Imagine, if at the top of your backswing you dropped the club Sam. It should land on your right shoulder. Your club would land behind you. Big issue here Sam for your swingplane. You need to feel more upright, less around your body. Picture a Ferris wheel. You swing more around your body like a Merry Go Round.
At impact, you have a 'hanging back' issue where your weight is about evenly distributed. Sam, all good players have more of their weight on their front foot at this point. I want you to make an effort to get off your right side here. Do not stay back and try to lift the ball...hit down into the turf, and move your weight towards the target Sam.
As you noticed, you are 'chicken winging' as you hit the ball, and as you begin trying to extend into your follow through. Very broken, and short armed you look. It is important to feel a long right arm extending down the target line here.
Make a bunch of practice swings..no ball...with your hands split 4 or 5 inches apart. Let your right hand be 4 or 5 inches lower than your left, and make full practice swings, You will immediately feel a long right arm in this 'split hand' drill. It works wonders for a chicken wing player.
Sam...work on one thing at a time! Do not try and correct it all at once. Begin with set up, and then backswing, and then eventually downswing.
Best of luck, and again,....great scores for such a new player!
Barry Goldstein
SAM'S RESULTS
(March 09)
Barry,
I went out this morning to address the issues, there was a lot to take in all in one go, so i concentrated on the "toe up" positon of the club, the stronger grip, and the swing on the traget line,
I started with 30 minutes on the grass getting used to these changes then went on to the course. On my address, Ii made sure the clubface was square on, and then went back to the toe up position and then down to the ball again, so i knew i was correct, well i did 9 holes, every shot was straight as a die, it is as if every problem had disappeared, would never have believed such a small difference could make such a big difference.....
Thanks!
Sam
