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How to Fix Your Swing Plane and Over the Top Move

Pretty good over the top move. Do you know what causes it? And more importantly, do you know how to fix your swing plane?

Is all about understanding how to fix the inside stuff, not the outside stuff you see.

When most golfers have a golf swing that comes over the top and produces those giant pull-slices, the way they’re typically taught to fix it is with some sort of visual or mental cue. The one you’ve probably heard most often — and probably paid good money for — is: “You’re swinging over the top, so just pretend you’re swinging down the first baseline.”

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When most golfers have a golf swing that comes over the top and produces those giant pull-slices, the way they’re typically taught to fix it is with some sort of visual or mental cue. The one you’ve probably heard most often — and probably paid good money for — is: “You’re swinging over the top, so just pretend you’re swinging down the first baseline.”

If that worked, everybody would be fixed already. But of course it doesn’t work, because it doesn’t change anything in your actual swing mechanics. It doesn’t address what’s fundamentally broken.

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Chuck Quinton

is the founder of the RotarySwing Tour online golf instruction learning system. He played golf professionally for 8 years and has been teaching golf since 1995 and has worked with more than 100 playing professionals who have played on the PGA, Web.com and other major tours around the world.

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