Without actually seeing your swing, it’s difficult to Dx. I did not say strong grip. I said make sure the Vs are pointing to your right shoulder. That’s a standard grip, not a strong grip. Check Hogan’s #1 Modern Fundamental. Once you start screwing around with overly strong or weak grips …you are exacerbating your flaw. So your swing path varies! Really not good. A 10 degree variance is not consistent. You should not vary more than 2-3 degrees on every swing. If you have access to the monitor, that helps and knowing you can form a constant open path of 2-3 degrees is still a target down the Left side of the FW, Hogan played that ball flight from 1950 onward. 12 degrees is a target that’s not on the course, you are feeling you have to aim into the woods. 12 degrees is way over the top…no doubt in my mind. That is usually caused by poor execution of the fundamentals. I will guarantee you that, if you recorded yourself from behind and from side, you will find your release is early because you are not rotating around a solid foundation and maintaining that all the way through your swing. My teacher 40 years ago told me, unless someone yells for you to look at a naked girl running across the FW, Your head should stay in a constant position behind the ball at address and should not come up until your right shoulder brings it up which means you have already made impact and the clubhead should feel like it is already past your left knee. Try repetitions with your swing in slow motion to feel the positions, do this drill alot. then after 20 or so slo-mo practice swings, start to speed up using a ball on the range. You are not looking to hit the ball more than 20-30 yards as you speed up to like 85% of as fast as you can swing, without losing your balance (swaying/falling backwards or forwards). Yea, it looks stupid on the range, but it’s how you build a repeatable swing from the ground up bit by bit. Maintaining balance rotating around your lower body… the core (breastbone ) should feel its in a constant position. If it isn’t, you’re coming up early, the players eye/hand coordination takes over, and you chop wood. Just so you are aware, During a full speed golf swing, your right shoulder coming through and bringing up your head… is a like a 20th of a second. At 70 you should have no problem pumping a ball out 190-205 yds off the tee with driver. To me it sounds like you are trying to hit the.ball. Anyone can hit a ball. Players today Do Not have Hit the Ball coaches do they? No, they all have Swing Coaches. Once the light bulb goes off in your brain during practice to stop hitting the ball with a golf club and you start swinging the club and letting the ball be in the way of that swing… letting however you want to swing that club work for you, that’s the secret. Grip, Solid Foundation or Stance, Rotation around that Foundation back and through, Balance, Practice then adds what? Speed! Speed of swing and that energy causes ball speed off the club face…hence distance, Doing those properly will deliver the club squarely to the ball limiting spin. One thing you have to realize, there is no cure for a bad swing, there is no magic ball, there is no magic club, there are no magic beans. You have to put in the work to build YOUR SWING. Not your HIT. There is no right or wrong swing either, back in the day, there were alot of different swings as opposed to the robot looking swings the players have today. BUT, go online and watch slo-mo swings doing back to Bobby Jones… all of the players have the EXACT same foundation, impact, spine tilt, 54-55 degree shoulder tilt at impact, head down behind the ball… videos don’t lie.