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Arms are still doing most of the work in the backswing. Its why u dont have the tilt. Downswing still looks good, so if ur striping it, dont worry about it. U are swinging pretty flat, which is why u dont have much launch.

That feel can work for folks who don't rotate in the downswing and slide a lot. I would never tell someone to hold the release from the top though. You are right though that a driver needs more release. It's partially to get the clubhead to work up more. It's also partially to square the face. But, it's also to just create more speed. Speed comes from arms and hands. If you are holding the release, you are losing yardage.

If your attack is down, you can always just use more loft. The other option is to use set up to hit up. Play the ball more forward in your stance, make sure you start with weight on your trail side, and just swing. If you still hit down on the ball, something else is going wrong. My guess is you don't get enough depth in the backswing and swing OTT. Folks that swing OTT hit down on the ball. If you have an in to out path on Trackman, you probably have a correction where you drop the club on the inside and early extend.

Like @Valtiel indicated, you are essentially out of sequence. You get to the top and then your lower body goes too quick and you get stuck. When you get stuck, the hips are too forward, the club steepens, and the face opens, forcing you to jump like that to square the face and shallow it. SQUATTING IS OVERRATED. I would simply work on tempo. You get into a good position at the top, but the squatting move is killing your tempo. Work on simply turning shoulders, lifting the arms, dropping the arms, turning the shoulders. It may help to do drills that are continuous motion so you can get a feel for matching your rotation and arm swing. You can also isolate those movements as well and still hit the ball solid. Start slow and just work on the feel. Then you can ramp up the speed to a full swing.

It's too armsy. You gotta incorporate more shoulder turn in the backswing so you don't swing across your feet so much. That's why the club is steep. You just dont have enough room to drop the arms.

Still not much hip depth. You just don't turn in your backswing much. You may want to work on a one piece takeaway. You have good arm and wrist usage. You also do a good job of turning in the downswing, but without depth in the backswing, you are always going to be OTT.

Good to see Michigan courses still up there. I do wish there were more public courses on here. Cost and accessibility need to be factored in more if Golf Digest wants to grow the game.

I'll never give up on the range, but I've ended my tinkering for now. I had 2 or 3 swings on the course this year, and it screwed up my ballstriking, which was great over the winter. At the moment I'm just using the range for warmups and keeping the one swing in shape. Going from a large bucket to a small bucket.

Don't think of the backswing as getting deep. Think of it as setting the arms in a good position to move laterally and turn. If you are swinging too long, you are probably all arms. A long backswing can be good for driver, but you will really struggle on wedges. A good drill to do is just set the arms and wrists at P2 and just move laterally. You need to get used to putting force into the club with the body. People with long swings tend to turn too much and pull the arms behind them. Try and set the club and just do subtle weight shifts. You should hit chippy cuts. Then you can ramp up the speed and pressure shift until you get the club moving into a more full swing. Use the same small arm movement to P2 but just move the body more. Drew Cooper, one of the longest amateur hitters, feels his backswing ends at P2. He is mostly referring to how he actively moves his arms.

You can try dropping the hands. I did it for a long time with some success, but I've moved to a more dynamic, body driven swing. I use my pivot and pelvic drop to get the hands down, then just turn. I don't force my arms and hands down anymore. In reality, if you have a compact backswing, you don't need to drop your hands that much. WIth right side bend and extension, the hands actually dont return exactly where they were at set up. The hands should be closer to your right thigh, not near your left thigh like they were at set up. If you want to practice the hands dropping earlier, you can do the Justin Rose drill or the pump drill.

I think you mean help not pulling the club inside in the backswing and help shallowing the club in the downswing. You have a classic overswing. Too much hip/shoulder depth and you pull the arms behind you early, which gets the club across the line and the wrist cup at the top. Don't have much lateral in the backswing and kind of just spin around your lead foot. You then try to hold the release and fall down onto your lead foot in the downswing, which makes for a flippy release. I would recommend working on shortening the swing. Try and hit little 3/4 7 iron cut shots. This will ensure you stay in posture more and, hopefully, use your hands less to square the face. It should feel like a pitch shot. Shift turn, shift turn. Make sure your turn isn't too flat. To get the club vertical early, you need to tilt a little. Don't worry about trying to actively shallow. Shallowing is a result of good movement.