Try This Swing Plane Tip
A lot of golfers are like me, they have a lousy golf swing plane. For those golfers with golf swing plane problems, this can lead to other swing faults  like coming over the top, casting, and the big one, slicing. for golfers  who suffer from this swing problem, there are usually two things we can do wrong. If you’re into  golf swing tips, you will like this drill.
One problem is as you bring it back, the club will come up too high or too upright. Then it will have to come down on the backswing and you attack the ball too much from behind. This causes the ball to start too far out to the right. 
The majority of golfers who have swing plane problems will start to bring the club back too low or inside of where you should be. As a result the club will be too far behind you, or too flat at the top. From there, the club has to go too far out on the downswing to get back to the ball,so the club comes down too far above the correct  plane. You come across the ball in this case, and the result is what we call casting.  The ball starts way left, and very often the result is a pull that misses the fairway to the left. If not, the result is a pull slice, and you’re lucky if you can keep the slice in play on the right. Because of the glancing blow you deliver to the ball, you lose a lot of distance if you’re like me and you have this problem.
Of course what we really want to do is keep the golf club on plane during your backswing, and then bring it down on plane on your downswing. Here is a drill to help with this issue. Go to Home Depot or Ace Hardware and buy a cheap pole about the same width as a piece of rebar (about a quarter of an inch thick) only not heavy metal. They sell several to choose from that are lightweight plastic or wood, get one four or five feet tall with one edge sharp enough to shove it into the grass.Keep it in your car, you can use it all the time to help you improve your golf swing. Push it in the grass four or five feet behind you on the range, at an angle that copies what your correct swing plane path should be. The angle is about 10:30 (o’clock) on top and 4:30 (o’clock) on the ground. Take some swings with this stick stuck in the ground behind you, with your swing plane ( your golf club shaft) following pretty much along the line of the stick that’s in the ground. 
Now take your club back to waist level, the club should point at the stick when you take it back about four feet off the ground. The shaft should be horizontal to the ground AND parallel to the target line. At three quarters of the way up toward the top, your shaft should be parallel to the stick, not offline too high or low. When you hit the top you should still be on the correct line.  When you bring the club down, as you reach the impact position, you should be in the same spot you were when you went back, still on plane. You have to look forward and backward to do this drill, keep looking backward and forward to check your position. As you approach the ball when your shaft is horizontal, it should be parallel to the target line. Now you should deliver the blow on plane, and finish with your follow through toward the target.
This is a great drill to help and improve your swing plane. Practice taking it back to waist level, stop and check your position in relation to the stick.  Come back to three quarters, is your shaft at the same angle as the stick? You can tell if you’re doing it right. Take it back in two or three seperate movements, bring it down to waist level, stop again, are you in good position? Finish up, then start over and do it as many times as you can handle. This drill can really help  your golf swing!
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