Outside-to-In Swing Path
What is actually happening
There's nothing wrong with your effort. Your body just fires in the wrong order. From the top, your shoulders unwind before your lower body gets a chance to lead. That throws the club up and out, so it comes into the ball from outside the target line and cuts across it. You've heard this called coming over the top. The shape is the symptom. The order is the fault.
What it costs you
An out-to-in path with an open face is the slice that starts left and keeps bending right. The same path with a closed face is the hard pull. Either way you lose compression, and the harder you swing, the more of that effort leaks sideways instead of going through the ball.
Start down from the ground up. Before your shoulders move, feel your trail elbow drop down into your rib cage.
Headcover Gate
Set a headcover on the ground an inch outside your ball line, even with the ball. An over-the-top swing has to cross that spot on the way down, so the gate sits exactly where your fault lives. Make ten slow swings that miss the headcover, feeling the club drop to the inside while your lower body starts the trip. Clip it and there's nothing to interpret. The gate already gave its answer. Then hit five balls at an easy pace. You're looking for a start line at the target or a touch right of it, because that's the proof the path moved. Finish by filming one swing at full speed to make sure the new order survives the adrenaline.
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