The over-the-top move produces the slice AND the pull — golf's most confusing miss pair. TrackMan shows your path shallowing (or not) on every single swing.
Fix My Transition Or call/text (308) 370-9797Over the top means the club approaches from outside the target line, cutting across the ball leftward. Face open to that path: slice. Face square to it: straight pull. This is why over-the-top golfers live the maddening both-ways life — big slice, then dead pull, with the 'fix' for each making the other worse. It is one flaw wearing two costumes.
The move itself is a transition problem: the downswing starts with the shoulders and arms instead of the lower body, throwing the club outward before it ever descends. Nearly every self-taught golfer has some version of it, because it is what hitting hard feels like it should be.
Your club path in degrees, every swing, live. Most OTT golfers start 4–8 degrees out-to-in — and finally seeing it is half the battle.
Lower body initiates, club drops instead of throws — trained with feels and drills chosen for your specific pattern, radar confirming each rep.
The path number marches toward neutral session by session. When it crosses zero, draws happen — usually to audible disbelief.
The first in-to-out swing of a lifelong OTT golfer is one of the best moments this job offers. It arrives faster than you expect with live path feedback.
The cruel joke of over the top: the correction feels like hitting the ball dead right, so uncoached golfers abandon the fix at exactly the moment it starts working. Radar solves the trust problem — when the screen shows your path at neutral while your body screams 'too far inside,' you learn to believe the number over the lie your feel has told for years.
That feel-versus-real recalibration is the core of OTT coaching at Chronicle Golf in Grand Island, on TrackMan, with the 2015 Nebraska State Champion reading every swing.
The miss pattern says it: slices and straight pulls from the same swing, divots pointing left, and a ball flight that starts left or curves right but rarely starts right. Ten swings on TrackMan confirm it with an actual path number.
A transition that starts from the top — shoulders and arms firing first, throwing the club outside the ideal plane. It is the natural untrained move, which is why the majority of amateurs have some degree of it.
The path number improves within the first session for most students; making the new transition automatic takes a few weeks of the drills in your practice plan. Lifelong OTT does not mean lifelong fixing.
Because the correct move feels wrong — like blocking it right — and without measurement you bail out before it grooves. Live path numbers are what carry students through the distrust phase.
The $60 TrackMan analysis in Grand Island. You will see your path, understand your miss pair, and leave with the transition drill that fits your pattern.
Your out-to-in path is one number, and numbers move with the right feedback. Guaranteed measurable progress in session one.
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