Swing Analysis - Shank

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All right, golfers, let's tackle that annoying shank.

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So this is one of the more debilitating misses when you're analyzing it on

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video.

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I draw a bunch of lines and the main positions we're going to compare are P1 or

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set up to

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P7 impact.

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So I have a line on the outside of the club, I have a line on my forehead, I

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have a vertical

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line on my tailbone and then I have a line just on the outside of my hand just

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kind of

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right there.

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What I want to look for is which of these pieces are moving out towards the

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golf ball.

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The two main reasons to cause the shank would be the club getting well out or

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the club being

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more open.

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As I've worked with more and more shankers over the years, I think it's mostly

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the club

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going out and usually that happens when golfers feel too much the weight of the

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shaft.

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They're swinging the shaft and what they're holding at the golf ball rather

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than swinging

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the club head which is not on the same axis as the shaft.

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So one of the easy ways to diagnose what's going on is looking for did my head

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move forward

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or too much down, did my hands move out, did I just kind of throw the club out

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there because

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the right arm was a little high and straightening so it got outside that line.

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My whole body shift into my toes which would show up as the butt moving off the

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line during

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the downswing.

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So this is the real quick setup that you can use video wise for identifying

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what's causing

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the shank and then ultimately it's getting recalibrated with either a body

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position, a

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weight distribution or the feeling of the club.

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Once you have that handled it's usually not too challenging to resolve your sh

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ank issue.