When I take the club too far inside it wraps around my body and at the top of the backswing the club is below my shoulders (more across my chest)instead of over my shoulder

Hi Tig, glad to have you here. We all agree that taking it back w/left side is good. FWIW, I have gotten into the pattern you describe above. It sounds like you've nailed your problem yourself. This is what helped me get back on track: I remember that the arms move with the body -- my hands get no further than my back shoulder, never outside.

To feel what I mean, get in address position and make the arm motion of the swing without the body turn. That's all that the arms do. If you were standing straight and you bent your elbows to lift your arms, the club would come up and hit you in the face. But, if you are right handed, your right shoulder is dropped in proper address position, so when you bend your arms, the club comes up in front of your right shoulder.

Now, that's a drill. In a real swing, the arms will move in the same way, but the movement is not powered by the arms. The momentum of the body propels the arms, and the more relaxed the arms are, the farther the ball can go.

So at the range today, I was hitting some long irons, 3/4/5 irons, which I haven't been using. But I decided I'd bring them out and see how it went. Bad at first but then I realized I was too tense, trying to "hit" them hard with tense forearms. Didn't work at all. So then I relaxed, swung smoothly and boom, they were launching like clock work.

So just a word to the wise, RELAX your arms. The clubs WILL do the work. if you get too tense and think things like "I gotta hit this hard..." it will fail badly...