Archive for the ‘Golf Swing’ Category
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
By Aaron Leonard
1. First, the easiest thing to check is your grip. If your grip is too strong (hands positioned too far right on the grip) then this can promote a closed club face, promoting a hook. Weaken your grip by making sure your thumbs are pointing straight down the middle of the shaft instead of to the right.
2. Next, you will want to focus your attention on your posture. Hold your club out directly in front of you. If you stand too upright, your swing may tend to be a little too wide and your hands may become a little too active coming over the ball.
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
By Verlyn Ross
A great backswing requires practice and understanding the biomechanics of the golf swing.
A good backswing starts with your hands, and then the arms and shoulders follow in one smooth motion.
Swing easily and smoothly. When you are ready, tee the ball up and swing away. Swing issues and technical moves should be worked out on the practice range.
Shorter backswings and the longer ones are both relative to the amount of shoulder rotation each golfer creates. John Daly can turn his shoulders back more than 90 degrees.
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
By Steve Crooks
As a golfer, the most important trick of your trade is your swing. The importance of a good swing can never be over emphasized. If a good swing is part of your repertoire, your game should improve by leaps and bounds. Following are some small details that could help you master that elusive golf swing.
• Contrary to popular belief, the perfect swing is not really about a golfer’s powerful arms. What you need to learn and master is bringing your whole body to direct a concentrated and powerful swing of the club. Having strong arms alone is not going to get you that. Remember, more power and more control means a better swing. Your entire body is going to turn with your club, but don’t forget to keep your legs facing the ball. Also, your leading arm should not be bent at all. For a backswing, the force should come from right around your body. This helps to gather the power before the final swing.
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
By Mark Pearson
Wouldn’t it be nice if all our golf ball lies were as level as they are on the driving range? Unfortunately they are not… and golf would not be as interesting if they were!
We often find ourselves in situations where the ball is above or below our feet, or we are hitting from an up or downhill lie. All of these lies affect the way the shot is played and how the ball will fly. So how should you play these shots?
Uphill Lies
When you are hitting from an uphill lie, the ball will fly higher than normal. The slope you are hitting up effectively adds loft to the club. So take an extra club to compensate. Always try and align yourself perpendicular to the slope. This will stop you coming in too steep on the shot.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
By Paul Macleod
Warning: If you are a weekend hacker and are happy with it, do not read this. Just click away from this article and go on with whatever you were doing.
If you play just for the heck of it and could care less about the score or competition, there is a great knitting site you may be more comfortable with. Go there.
For everybody else, those of you who strive to get better at golf, this is an absolute must read.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
By Michael Kosmala
In part 1, I discussed the impact that simplifying the golf swing can have on consistency and accuracy. More specifically, minimizing your weight shift back and away from the ball is your first step to a more consistent golf swing.
Proper weight shift forward and through the ball on impact will help you improve your golf swing resulting in straighter balls with more distance.
In practice, this means less sliding through the ball and more swinging your weight around your body.
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
By David Kierstead
When we finally realize that golf is in our head in a big way, we can attack the animal where most of our golf swing issues arise.
For instance, when you take your backswing, I bet that in your head you think, “terrible back swing I am in trouble,” and you give up on the swing on the way down. Meaning, you straighten up and remain on your backside and flip it. Now, I bet that if you stayed with the swing and transferred your weight, you would have hit it a ton better then when you gave up on it. So why don’t we just trust our swing even if we feel it’s a bad backswing and complete the downswing?
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
By Michael Kosmala
Most golfers spend countless hours trying to reproduce a highly technical swing that only a handful of professionals can replicate on a consistent basis. So it’s no wonder that the United States Golf Association recently reported that only 10% of all golfers break 100 on a consistent basis.
Many golfers learning to play golf shift their weight back on the backswing because this is what they see countless pros do on TV over and over again. What they don’t realize is that you don’t need to swing like a pro to lower your golf handicap. In fact, simplifying your swing will dramatically improve your golf swing, increasing consistency and distance.
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
By Les Ross
I recently worked with one of my readers who asked me for a second opinion on a video swing analysis that he had just received that brought up an interesting point about adjusting swing plane. He went for the lessons with the goal of increasing his driving distance by 10-15%. He was also experiencing pushed shots to the right.
The video analysis revealed that his swing plane on the backswing was very flat. Being a large-chested man who lacked a little flexibility in his upper body, he had developed a tendency to “wrap” the golf club around his body on the backswing. The net result was a shallow downswing that came into the ball from a sharp inside-out club head swing path that often caused the pushed shot to the right.
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
By Paul Macleod
Back in the day, good golfers used to roll their hands open on the backswing. This move opened the club face at the top of the swing. An interesting position to be in since you want the club square at impact.
This open position created a need to make a severe correction on the way to the ball in order to square the club up at impact. This correction required tremendous timing and great hand eye coordination. Only the best players could do it on a consistent basis.
This is absolutely true.
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