Top of Back Swing Position

Here are some tips for where to stop your back swing. I found Nick Faldo's method is best for myself.

Top of Back Swing position:

Nick Faldo's way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHCGNT-hPw

Tom Watson's way:
http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-instruction/2011-01/watson-top-swing

Jon Woodroffe's way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeV3RQR0Kwc

Some notes to myself

I started to apply tour tempo golf (swing-set-through) to my irons earlier, and it worked for a while. Then I tend to have a couple of shanks. Then I slowed down my back swing, making some adjustments...

Recently I had an experienced golfer look at my iron swing (slow takeaway, easy swing, more upright position at the top), and he told me I got a problem with my swing plane. More upright position at the top would leave my natural swing plane, so I need to keep it a little flat...

Then I practiced with this swing adjustment, trying to keep it on the swing plane during the whole back swing. This would also slow down my back swing. It seems to work, except that I would hit it fat occasionally.

Tried this new swing for all clubs including driver and fairway woods during a couple of rounds. Results are not bad, maybe lost some distance for driver, but not too much, around 10 yards...

I thought I would stick to this new swing for good... But tonight at the range, I started to shank again at the beginning all of sudden with 7 iron. Switched to driver, same swing, distance not good. Tried swing-set-through, solid contacts, longer shots... then tried swing-set-through with irons, also solid contacts, straight shots with good distances for almost all irons (9 through 5, did not try PW).

This is interesting... I guess I will have to switch between the two swing styles back and forth, which ever works...

Another note: I found the reason why I tend to pull/hook with fairway woods: I got an inside-out swing path.