On Plane vs Under the Plane Golf Swing

The image below represents two very different swing paths into the ball. In this article, you'll learn a key principle to help you get on the right path and on plane — one of the most fundamental fixes in golf swing instruction.

On the trail side, our golfer Ian was approaching the ball severely from in to out and hit everything high with a strong right-to-left curve. It was nearly impossible for him to get the ball to start on his line, and if it did, it would end up well left of his target due to his excessive in-to-out club path.

It got so bad that he couldn't even aim himself anymore because the ball was going all over the place. Ian's a very good player (low single digit handicap) and couldn't figure out the problem or how to fix his ball flight issues.

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In about 10 minutes, we had his path much more square into the ball, and the ball was coming out much lower and right on his line with zero curvature. This is exactly the kind of rapid improvement that tools like an AI swing analyzer can help identify — pinpointing the root cause of swing plane problems almost instantly.

Read on to learn what the problem was and how we fixed it…

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