Valtiel

It's 100% a technical issue based on this and previous swings from the OP. There are instances where it can be mental, but that is almost always within very technically sound swings, which unfortunately this isn't based on my feedback above. If you're rotating incorrectly and coming towards the ball *without* losing spine angle to compensate then you're simply moving in a way that is going to get the club coming from way outside and hosel first, which is what's happening here.

You're rotating flatter in the backswing with the upper body via your hands going inside early. Your hand path needs to get more vertical going back with the feeling of your left shoulder working down under your chin going back, not up and across it like it is now. You're currently getting stuck a little deep/inside/steep via your hands getting too far behind you and the club getting across the line at the top. A feeling you can visualize is that all your arms do is lift upwards in the backswing while your shoulders take care of the "around". Right now your hands are sucking back inside in the backswing and the club is getting really flat...then steepening at the top (across the line)....then rerouting back to flat again in the downswing. It's more/bigger moving parts that require more timing, and if going back flat you either have to commit to *staying* very flat via keeping the club laid off (think Jon Rahm or Daniel Berger), or you have to learn to back steeper. Also you're still addressing the ball out of the toe which, if you're hitting too many toe strikes now, is because you aren't losing hip depth anymore and coming towards the ball. You might want to consider centering the ball in the face at address.

Hey you're a dad, you KNOW what 25-30y ago feels like these days...

Cheers! And yes you're correct, but the main checkpoint there is weight distribution heel/toe. After that adjustment you need only (mainly) make sure that your foot pressure slightly favors the balls of your feet, think 60/40. The other checkpoint is you hips relative to your ankles...make sure they don't get behind them too much (or at all really). From there you have the levers and the balance to keep yourself rotating in place and prevent coming forwards so long as you sequence your pressure shifting correctly (more on that if you want some pointers there).

This is definitely me these days being a new dad, and was definitely me last week lol. I played like absolute dog**** by my standards while reminding myself that I hit several REALLY good shots that were purely a product of better pressure sequencing. Even the shots that feel borderline and feel yucky still produce way better results on average. I flagged a 6i from 195y with *zero* curve after hitting a drive OB left because i'm an idiot, and even though that 6i swing didn't actually feel that great, I saved par because of it. For me it's definitely a "less curvature on bad swings" kind of improvement that even during bad rounds keeps the confidence up because I know there is an anchor in there that will keep bogeys from becoming doubles. This is long term improvement btw, and it was based *purely* on gaining the understanding of sequencing on paper fomr a ground force/pressure trace standpoint. It took a lot of practice to correct of course after spending a lifetime as a junior golfer doing it wrong, but now it's something that I can count on even if I don't touch a club for 6+ months. My drive suffers from the layoff, but my irons don't.

And I mean.....we all know *why* that is 😅

He's saying what i'm saying....sequencing. When and where your pressure is moving in relation to your hand/arm swing. You can spike the **** out of a ground force plate like a competitive LD and still be out of sequence, but get your pressure in the right places at the right time (relative to your hand/arm swing) and you stand a far better chance at rotating correctly and getting your low point where it needs to be, both of which reduce compensations and increase consistency/accuracy/efficiency.

A lot of that is going to come down to posture which I should have mentioned in the initial post. Your ball may be an inch further, but several other parts of your body are further forward as well. Head/eyes, shoulders, butt etc etc. If you're only looking at feet position and ball position then a big chunk of the story is missing. If you look at the two of you, imagine where you would draw a vertical line to roughly represent your centers of mass. You'd find that yours is further forward than hers. With your feet in this same position if you assumed the same posture with your legs that she has (critically the forward tilt of the shins and rearward tilt of the thighs) then your butt and upper body would all move slightly back away from the ball which would put you at a better distance from it. So i'll amend the incomplete statement that you're "too close to the ball" to say "your posture is putting you too forward" and that you need to get more of that balanced zig-zag in the legs to get yourself better balanced and oriented. You mentioned that your knee break is disguised by your pants, and while that's likely a little bit true, we can see with this overlay that you can't have much under there given where your butt is in relation to hers for the same foot placement, if that makes sense.

Correcting sequencing via improving the timing of pressure shifting absolutely can and regularly does improve accuracy because to do this correctly is to better enable correct pelvic rotation which in turn reduces problems like early extension and the compensations therein that cause inconsistency. If you already sequence correctly (which most don't) then improving GRF is mostly a speed thing. But if you don't then you stand to gain a lot in both speed AND consistency.

As a means of understanding the broad and very important concept of "when" in the swing, absolutely. It's pretty straightforward to show someone a video that shows when pros shift and how that likely differs significantly from the person that struggles with sequencing. Actually having plates to measure the individual attempting to improve would definitely be preferable should they struggle with the actual implementation of the concept, but no one can argue that seeing it and understanding it on paper isn't a net benefit.

Or if you're Jordan Spieth, both! At various times!

Scottie made some very significant changes to his takeaway and backswing between his amateur competitive years and turning pro.

That's still very similar the gif I posted compared to address: This is not square. It's not super open, and maybe this edges towards being less than PGA tour average, but definitely not square when you look at where the hip joints are at impact. This is what square hips at impact looks like:

Na is a pretty "tour average" at being double digit degrees open, if we're being accurate. Albeit with a touch of "hump".