Head Dip
What is actually happening
Your body is trying to stay down the way somebody once told it to, and it's overdoing it. Going back, the lead shoulder crowds under your chin, the knees over-flex, and your head sinks toward the ball, sometimes by several inches. Your swing now has a bottom that sits deeper than the one you stood at, and it has to climb back out before impact.
What it costs you
Every inch your head drops is an inch the club bottoms out early, and the ground gets the strike your ball was supposed to get. The fat shots come first. The thin ones follow, once your body learns to jump back up at the last instant to avoid the fat. That contact lottery was never about your hands. Your altitude is changing mid-swing.
Your head has a box, and it stays in the box. Turn around your spine, never down it. Chin tall, shoulder turning underneath it.
Shadow Box
The oldest camera in golf is your shadow, and it works for free. Late in the afternoon, set up with the sun behind you so your shadow stretches out in front, and park the shadow's head on a mark: a leaf, an old divot, a tee pushed into the grass. Swing to the top while watching the mark. If the shadow's head slides off it, you dipped, and you saw it happen live, which beats finding out on video an hour later. Make ten backswings keeping the head on its mark, feeling the turn happen around your spine instead of down into your knees. Then hit five balls trusting the feel. On gray days, film face-on and draw a box around your head at address. The head stays in the box to the top. One quiet head means one bottom, and one bottom means contact you can predict.
Is this the one costing you shots?
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