Left Shoulder Movement In The Golf Swing: Pros vs Ams

u/Imwonderbread 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “What stays the same?”

▶ this video Lead shoulder moves down around and up basically. Most people with contact issues move the shoulder up immediately in the downswing leading to the need to dump wrist and arm angles a bit too early and low point control because of it. The most important part of all that is it moves down to start then starts to go up around P6ish

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u/HyruleAtZelda 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “please help. ANYTHING PLEASE”

I would like to see a face on view of your swing because from DTL everything looks solid. You’re also better than 90% of people that are going to comment so please just go get lessons. One thing I can see is you are maybe not releasing the club properly. It looks like you have a slight chicken wing which usually happens when you are stuck or are pulling the handle. This would explain the push. Check out this video: …

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u/SecretEtchantBond 2022 · r/GolfSwing · in “8 iron from 145. A lot of issues starting with pre swing weight transfer and overall imbalance through the swi”

Can you post a DTL view? It is hard to tell but you may be straightening your trail leg too much. You also want the weight on the inner part of your front foot toe just barely sooner. Honestly though the mechanics of your front on view are excellent (weight shift, lag and impact). Only thing I can say is you need a little left shoulder drop. ▶ this video Post a DTL and lets see from there.

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u/Intrepid_Potential60 2023 · r/GolfSwing · in “Help me get rid of my slice/fade.”

It’s…..extending?…it. It’s a great little compact swing you have, you just kind of stop the body turn quick and go to all arms the rest of the way - and all arms can’t close the face really, has to try and flip at it, come inside on the way down. Here’s extending a shoulder, some nice video analysis of it - ▶ this video ▶ this video I struggle with it too, I am not….as athletically built 🤓 ….as you are. The way I …

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u/DoglegDaredevil 2023 · r/GolfSwing · in “25 hdcp, name the 3 biggest factors I should work on in my iron swing ”

▶ this video Here’s the science behind my thought process if you prefer something visual

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u/CptBadAss2016 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Chicken wing fix”

This swing fault here is actually not talked about much and a pretty tough one to fix. I'm not surprised no one has mentioned it yet. Your lead shoulder is shrugged through the swing when it should be relaxed. You need to learn to let go of the tension in your upper trap. Watch the motion in your lead shoulder, in the start of the downswing it moves a little bit left then straight up and back. The lead shoulder …

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u/notthebestusername12 2024 · r/GolfSwing · in “The perfect swing”

Individual instruction is 100% the best route in all cases. Check out this AMG video about pros vs ams and how they move or drop their arms in the downswing: ▶ this video

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