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bunkershotgolf · 4 years

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It’s All Over but the Shouting

By ED TRAVIS

According to the recently released USGA and R&A Distance Insights Report (DIR) golfers (including you) hit the ball too far and future distance increases must be stopped by “rolling back” equipment performance.

The DIR effectively draws a line in the sand but did not say what would be changed nor indeed if anything at all would be done however the implication is clear and quoting from the Report’s conclusion: “This report clearly shows a consistent increase in hitting distance and golf course lengths over the last 100-plus years. These increases have had a profound impact on costs to build, modify and operate golf courses and they have impacted golfers at all levels. We believe this problem will continue unless this cycle is brought to an end. With collaboration from the entire golf community, we have an opportunity to stem this tide and help ensure golf remains sustainable and enjoyable for generations to come.”

“Brought to an end” and “stem this tide” sounds like a prelude to reversing allowable performance of clubs and balls to some previous level. The Report also says more study and additional input from “stakeholders” is needed pushing the inevitable out at least a year. And if you have any doubt as to the outcome Mike Davis chief executive officer of the USGA went on record two years ago saying before his term of office ends, he will get the ball “rolled back.”

Neither does it seem there is much room for compromise other than arguing over how many yards will be pared. It’s baffling rules makers want to keep golfers from hitting the ball farther, in effect making the game harder, while at the same time putting out press releases of their dedication to “grow the game.” Not being on the inside of golf’s highest councils the reasoning of this apparent dichotomy is not apparent. It does seem though golf’s traditions are being skewed to overwhelm common sense and rationalize the idea tee balls ought to go less distance.

The history of golf is filled with technological advancements the rubbery ball, sand wedges, the wound ball, steel shafts and metal driver heads just to name a few. The current solid core ball and high rebound clubfaces were merely the next step. Now that will be all come to an end.

But wait, the DIR admits average golfers may not be the problem noting driving distance last year for the average male recreational player was essentially unchanged from 2005.

So, the golfers hitting too far must be professionals and top amateurs, the elites. These are the bigger, stronger, faster guys thrilling us at PGA Tour events smashing the ball distances we can only imagine. They have the physical attributes, training and ability to take maximum advantage of the low-spin solid core balls and clubs with lots of trampoline effect.

But the DIR also seems to ignore some basic facts and Frank Thomas, inventor of the graphite shaft and former Technical Director of the USGA puts it succinctly. “Fortunately, the laws of nature are playing an important part in governing the distance the ball will travel, while the athleticism of the elite golfers – about 0.1% of the golfing population– has changed, as it has in all other sports. Unfortunately — for most of us – this has not been as significant a change.”

This is analogous to the argument more length and more resources are necessary to contain the longer hitting elites, a situation which has already been resolved for virtually all the layouts used at the elite level. No less an authority than the Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee tweeted after the Genesis Invitational, “Riviera proved this week, just as Merion did at the US Open in 2013, that courses designed in the golden age of architecture are not made obsolete by today’s equipment. Firm conditions and green speeds that allow the use of interesting contours is all that is needed. And trees.”

Courses may be closing because of too few players but none have locked the doors due to too few yards and certainly no players are leaving the game because they hit the ball too far making the game is too easy. New layouts and renovations, few of which will ever hold an event for the elites, may simply have fallen for the developer/architect ego-boosting testosterone-laden “my course is longer than your course.”

For years the USGA and the R&A have been beating the drum golf has a distance problem and it would be naïve to believe the DIR wasn’t compiled with “we’ve got to do something about this” in mind. A reasonable guess would be the Rules will be changed to rein in distance by limiting club responsiveness or ball speed or both.

But since most weekend warriors feel pretty good if they can get a tee shot rocketing out beyond 200-yards the obvious solution is two sets of rules. One for regular people and one for the elites but here the USGA comes up against their long-held policy such a bifurcation of the Rules is unacceptable.

Faced with solving the supposed distance problem and without splitting the rules based on playing ability the most probable solution is a local rule allowing events such as the U.S. Open to specify a lower amount of clubface rebound or a shorter flying ball.

Social media is filled with comments blaming equipment companies for what some say is the excessive distance the ball travels and ignoring the culpability of the USGA who for 20 years observed the progress in equipment and chose to do nothing.

The idea guys who have spent millions of dollars creating modern balls and clubs would put themselves in the position of being penalized for doing too good a job is irrational. It defies logic why any company much less a whole industry would do that when the real motive is to make money. Golf equipment companies are the same as the company for which you work endeavoring to make a product or preform a service that fills a customer need at a profit, i.e., capitalism 101.

For the major manufacturers Tour player validation is a key factor in the marketing plan. The implied premise being with the latest and greatest club/ball/shoes/glove/etc. any weekend warrior can rip it like Rory, D.J., Brooks or Bryson. Talk about irrationality but that’s the basic sizzle in the golf equipment message and two sets of equipment standards would certainly muffle and possibly silence Tour player validation from manufacturers product promotion.

Finally, chances are close to zero the club and ball makers will take this lying down. Could a manufacturer sue the USGA? Or will the institutional memory of the PING lawsuit 20 years ago make our game’s ruling body reluctant to the fight a legal battle?

Good questions but one thing is sure, the Distance Insights Report increases the drumbeat for change. For golf equipment it’s all over but the shouting.

#EdTravis

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meridiansungc · 5 years

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Brooks Koepka: My Advice to Make Your Second Shots Matter

Written by: Brooks Koepka

feel like my accuracy stats with irons are a bit misleading. I play fairly aggressively week to week and fire at a lot of pins. So I might miss more greens than other pros, but I'm still only a few yards from the hole when I do. That being said, when I really need to hit a green in regulation, I'm confident in my swing. In winning my second consecutive U.S. Open, at Shinnecock Hills in June, only three other players hit more greens in regulation than I did—and trust me when I say that hitting greens there was like trying to stop a marble on a kitchen countertop. Here I'm going to share some of my tips on hitting better second-shot irons, a part of the game where I see a lot of golfers struggle. Let's start with alignment. Lately my coach, Claude Harmon III, has me checking to make sure I'm not setting up open like you see here, with my feet aligned left of my target. On the Monday of U.S. Open week, he was all over me saying, "Aim more right; aim more right." I told him I couldn't aim any more right. Then he put a club on the ground to check my alignment.

Wouldn't you know it? I was still aiming left. The lesson is to make sure you're set up to hit the shot you want. Here are some more of my tips. – With Ron Kaspriske

DIP YOUR LEAD SHOULDER You drove the ball into the fairway and have a real chance of a green in reg. Now what? Assuming your alignment is good, focus on making a better backswing. A lot of golfers take the club back with almost no upper-body rotation—they're all arms. And even when they do rotate back, it's usually on a flat shoulder plane. If your shoulders turn back fairly level with the ground, it's hard to swing down from inside the target line and hit an accurate shot. You'll probably slice or pull it and miss the green. Instead, turn so your left shoulder moves back and down. See how mine is pointing at the ball (below). Look at all that space I've created to swing down from inside the target line. Essentially, it allows you to swing on plane and hit it straighter.

GOVERN YOUR DOWNSWING A question I get asked a lot in pro-ams is how I'm able to swing the club as hard as I do. Honestly, I'm not swinging that hard. I'm using about 75 percent of my maximum effort. If I swung any harder, I'd probably spin right out of my golf posture and miss the green big time. I bet when you swing your hardest, your accuracy goes out the window. That's why I recommend you take one more club than you would from a particular distance—say, a 6-iron instead of a 7-iron from 150 yards—and make a swing at 75-percent effort. You'll know you're doing it right if it feels like the club is trailing your body's rotation toward the target like it is here (below). What you'll find is, this syncs your swing and improves your chance of hitting it solidly.

GET THE DISTANCE YOU EXPECT It's great if you're able to hit your shots fairly straight, but when it comes to second-shot accuracy, that's only half the equation. Putting the ball on the green is a blend of hitting shots in the right direction and the correct distance. The direction part comes from controlling the clubface's position at impact in relation to the path. The distance part comes from hitting down on the ball and compressing it, getting that great sound and feel off the face. To flush iron shots, work on improving what your dominant hand does as the club moves through impact. Here I'm showing that the right palm should never turn skyward (below). This allows you to strike the ball and keep the clubhead moving downward into the turf. Consistently do that, and the ball will fly a predictable distance.

FINISH IT OFF I typically opt for a fade when I'm hitting into greens. It's just an easier shot to control. That's why Claude keeps an eye on my alignment to make sure I don't aim too far left and overcook my iron shots. I'm telling you this because it relates to the photo you see here of my finish position (below). Notice where my chest is pointing in relation to where I'm looking. It rotated well past the green and is facing almost 90 degrees left of it. The point is, I kept my body moving as long as I could, which is a key to accuracy when controlling a shot's curve. If I stop turning my body sooner and the club keeps going, I probably would hook the shot. And if I stop turning my body and club too soon and at the same time, my fade will turn into a nasty slice. That's a move I see a lot from amateurs. In the hopes of hitting it somewhere toward the green, they don't let the clubhead close, and they stop the swing cold when their arms and club are facing the target. We call that steering, and it rarely works.

My advice: Keep the body moving to match the swinging of your arms and club. Whether you hit a draw or fade—or a straight ball if you're one of the lucky ones—keep everything moving until all the momentum is gone and the club's shaft finishes wrapped around your body, as you see here. If you swung at 75 percent of your max speed like I recommended, it's easy to get into this trophy pose. Or should I say, your club-championship trophy pose?

Source: GolfDigest.com

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inb4vaughn · 4 years

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On The PGA Tour with TrackMan

Most golfers these days have heard of TrackMan. We’ve seen and heard it mentioned on TV countless times.

What is TrackMan? It’s is a Doppler radar device that tracks both the golf ball, the club and the clubhead. TrackMan provides 26 data parameters on club delivery and ball flight along with numerous analytic tools.

With the ball, it accurately measures the distance, the direction, the spin rate, the spin axis, the launch angle and the ball speed (among other things).

It also tracks what the clubhead is doing to the ball to create these performance measures — things such as swing path, calculations of the face angle at impact or the relationship of the clubface to the swing path (square, open or closed in measured degrees), the angle of attack (neutral, up, or down in degrees), calculations of the loft at impact, the clubhead speed etc., are all tracked. Why guess when you can track?

PURE AND ACCURATE DATA

Building Trust, One Shot At A Time

Ball flight laws are unquestionable. So is the quality of TrackMan’s data. TrackMan is considered to have set the industry standards for accuracy in ball impact and ball flight measurements. That's why the leaders of the game trust TrackMan.

Quality data leads to quality analysis which again fosters sound decision-making and, ultimately, superior performance. Critical data is captured at the impact moment between the club and the ball, meaning in 1/2000 of a second. This essential data is instantly translated into an easy-to-understand language on a portable device for analysis and increased understanding of the swing. That's why reliable data is indispensable for Tour Players striving to lower their scores and to maximize their performance. Jordan Spieth, Jason Day & Dustin Johnson trust TrackMan.

Tiger Woods is also a strong convert. “A lot of times what we’re feeling that we are doing is not exactly what we’re doing,” says Woods. “I just think you’re trying to match up feel and real, and as you make swing changes, you make slight alterations, and you start realizing what the club is doing at impact and what that can translate into in the performance of a golf ball.”

Many Tour players use TrackMan to make practice more fun and precise while confirming what they are feeling.

Dustin Johnson, for example, uses TrackMan daily to dial in his wedges. Dustin went to No. 1 in the world by improving his wedge play by working on different trajectories and distance control—low-spinners, high-stoppers, one- to two-bounce stop and check. Rory McIlroy is doing the same thing. Players can structure their own tests or use the already-scripted tests built into the software and get instant feedback. TrackMan shortens the hours, days, and months to improvement.

Some say it’s too technical. I would argue just the opposite and it’s only too technical if you don’t understand TrackMan. If you understand TrackMan, it simplifies things. It is a vital tool in my teaching arsenal and those of other instructors worldwide. It’s portable, it’s accurate and TrackMan is constantly refining its software parameters to give players and instructors a better understanding of what to do with the information provided.

PUT IT INTO ACTION

How A Trackman Lesson Can Improve Your Game Fast

The average golfer would benefit greatly from a TrackMan session with a Certified TrackMan Professional. With TrackMan you will quickly understand the why and the how.

We coaches use TrackMan to best determine the course of action to make you a better player. You will improve immensely the first day. With TrackMan you’ll quickly become an insider of the most revolutionary training tool in the industry.

Sean Foley, Justin Rose and Cameron Champ’s instructor, says, “It’s a moderator somewhere between science and Harvey Penick.”

Bob Grissett teaches in Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Florida. Reach him at www.bobgrissettgolf.com

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chenowethgolf · 5 years

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5 Top Reasons Why Golfer’s Don’t Improve

5 TOP REASONS WHY GOLFER’S DON’T IMPROVE

Everywhere golfers are beating balls trying to improve and actually many are getting worse! There are a few that will improve and it will take much longer with very little knowledge of how they achieved this change. I will explain 5 reasons why I believe golfers struggle to improve.

1 – FAULTY THINKING

I spend hours on the range teaching and over-hearing amateurs discussing to their buddies how they are getting better when actually they are chasing their tail and getting worse. They are working on mechanics and trying to perfect the model swing (which doesn’t exist). They have been hypnotized by instruction and cliché from 50 years ago. They hit a good shot and by chance something they felt made them think this is the magic move I need to repeat over and over! I did it! No you didn’t and your about to remember the wrong feeling. They need to better understand the concept and science of what they did and how it affects the swing.

2 – CEMENTING MISTAKES

When a golfer makes a mistake they are actually making a less efficient way of striking the ball. Although there is not ONE CORRECT way of doing this because there are many ways to hit a ball correctly. We see this on television all the time. It is only a mistake if the student cannot accomplish this with their current approach. There are but a handful of golfers that can figure this all out without a coach and the others that can play well, are most likely making compensations.

I can give you an example. If I saw a golfer snap hooking every shot on the range because their grip was too strong causing the clubface to close abruptly, I could have a dozen more golfers have that same or even stronger grip and sooner or later they will figure a way to stop hooking. They would have to make several physical adjustments with their wrists, forearms, and timing to accomplish this, but nonetheless it will work or will it? This change will cause other elements to fail such as impact, ground contact, loft and spin. They will then add more wasteful adjustments and the cycle will repeat itself.

3 – FAILING TO DO IT

Even in the unlikely event that a player is working on the right thing(s) for them (I can tell you from experience that most players are not), the majority of players struggle to do it. Perhaps you have experienced this yourself, where you are working on a certain swing-move but you just can’t seem to do it with a ball there. Making the swing we want seems effortless without the ball there. But, under the gun, the sight of that golf ball does strange things to us. Now, this might be a physical issue, but (in most cases), if a player can perform the movement at full speed in a practice swing, there should be no reason why a player can’t perform it with that little white object there. The fact is, most golfers don’t know how to learn effectively. They don’t understand how to change a motor program – they have no process or tools with which they can make swift and lasting movement-pattern shifts. It’s one of the most frustrating things that an aspiring improving golfer experiences. It’s a huge roadblock which, once removed, opens up the floodgates to more rapid learning. There can be many reasons for it, including;

Impact intentions which contradict the desired movement pattern

Unrealistic expectations for performance in the initial stages

Poor attentional control

Desire to stay within comfort boundaries

The reality is, as long as you can do something in a practice swing, there is no reason why you can’t do it with a ball there – it’s just that your process for learning sucks.

4 – TAKE IT TO THE COURSE 5 – THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE

I will share numbers 4 and 5 in my next tip! You don’t want to miss it!

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doorcreekgc · 5 years

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Take a ‘lie-detector’ test to improve your short game by Dave Pelz

BY DAVE PELZ

One of the things that separates Tour players from the rest of us is that the former are intimately familiar with their games. They know how different shots will unfold regardless of where the ball is sitting, especially around the green (where difficult lies abound). Not surprisingly, that’s where weekend players tend to cough up strokes.

There are four parts to every short-game shot. Failing in any area will almost surely lead to a poor result.

They are:

1. Judging the lie.

2. Selecting a club.

3. Predicting how the ball will react when it lands.

4. Executing the swing.

This article addresses the first — and perhaps the most important — part of the shot equation. If you can’t pull off good shots from bad lies, you’ll never reach your scoring goals.

In my opinion, the only way to develop this skill is through experience. Pros have the advantage of unlimited practice time, but you can begin to catch up with a simple three-shot experiment that I use in my schools. Its entire purpose is to open your eyes to the various backspin outcomes that can be created by the type of lie you’re facing.

For this “Backspin vs. Lie” experiment, you’ll need your lob wedge, a tee and three balls. Select a 20- to 30-yard shot around a green that forces you to carry a bunker but that provides plenty of room between the apron and the pin. Drop one ball into the rough, another into a normal fairway lie, and tee up the third so it’s about a half-inch above the grass (photo, above). The goal is to land all three shots in the same place on the green, about a third of the way from the edge to the flagstick. (Repeat any shot that misses the landing spot.)

Once you’re successful from all three lies, check the results, which should look something like what’s pictured in the photo at right. What you’ll notice is that the shot from the rough rolled out the farthest — the mass of grass that wedged its way between the ball and the clubface at impact killed most of the backspin. The shot from the fairway stopped short of the first, even though it landed in the same spot. That’s because you generated much more backspin due to the cleaner lie. And for the teed-up third ball, which had zero grass on the clubface to interfere with contact, you created max backspin and stopped the ball almost immediately after it hit the green.

Of course, you never get to tee up your wedge shots, but that’s not the point. What this exercise teaches is how lie effects spin, and that controlling spin is the trick to hitting short shots close. It’s an invaluable lesson. Try it from different distances using different wedges. The experience will turn you into a cagey vet in no time.

Source: Golf.com

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lakeforestgolfclub · 5 years

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Take a ‘lie-detector’ test to improve your short game by Dave Pelz

BY DAVE PELZ

There are four parts to every short-game shot. Failing in any area will almost surely lead to a poor result.

They are:

1. Judging the lie.

2. Selecting a club.

3. Predicting how the ball will react when it lands.

4. Executing the swing.

This article addresses the first — and perhaps the most important — part of the shot equation. If you can’t pull off good shots from bad lies, you’ll never reach your scoring goals.

Source: Golf.com

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tregarongolfcourse · 5 years

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Take a ‘lie-detector’ test to improve your short game by Dave Pelz

BY DAVE PELZ

There are four parts to every short-game shot. Failing in any area will almost surely lead to a poor result.

They are:

1. Judging the lie.

2. Selecting a club.

3. Predicting how the ball will react when it lands.

4. Executing the swing.

This article addresses the first — and perhaps the most important — part of the shot equation. If you can’t pull off good shots from bad lies, you’ll never reach your scoring goals.

Source: Golf.com

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deercreekhubbard · 5 years

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Take a ‘lie-detector’ test to improve your short game by Dave Pelz

BY DAVE PELZ

There are four parts to every short-game shot. Failing in any area will almost surely lead to a poor result.

They are:

1. Judging the lie.

2. Selecting a club.

3. Predicting how the ball will react when it lands.

4. Executing the swing.

This article addresses the first — and perhaps the most important — part of the shot equation. If you can’t pull off good shots from bad lies, you’ll never reach your scoring goals.

Source: Golf.com

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napervillegc · 5 years

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Take a ‘lie-detector’ test to improve your short game

DAVE PELZ

There are four parts to every short-game shot. Failing in any area will almost surely lead to a poor result. They are:

1. Judging the lie.

2. Selecting a club.

3. Predicting how the ball will react when it lands.

4. Executing the swing.

This article addresses the first — and perhaps the most important — part of the shot equation. If you can’t pull off good shots from bad lies, you’ll never reach your scoring goals.

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lucasoilgolf · 5 years

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Take a ‘lie-detector’ test to improve your short game by Dave Pelz

BY DAVE PELZ

There are four parts to every short-game shot. Failing in any area will almost surely lead to a poor result.

They are:

1. Judging the lie.

2. Selecting a club.

3. Predicting how the ball will react when it lands.

4. Executing the swing.

This article addresses the first — and perhaps the most important — part of the shot equation. If you can’t pull off good shots from bad lies, you’ll never reach your scoring goals.

Source: Golf.com

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ashlandgolfclub · 5 years

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Take a ‘lie-detector’ test to improve your short game by Dave Pelz

BY DAVE PELZ

There are four parts to every short-game shot. Failing in any area will almost surely lead to a poor result.

They are:

1. Judging the lie.

2. Selecting a club.

3. Predicting how the ball will react when it lands.

4. Executing the swing.

This article addresses the first — and perhaps the most important — part of the shot equation. If you can’t pull off good shots from bad lies, you’ll never reach your scoring goals.

Source: Golf.com

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moundviewgolf · 5 years

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Take a ‘lie-detector’ test to improve your short game by Dave Pelz

BY DAVE PELZ

There are four parts to every short-game shot. Failing in any area will almost surely lead to a poor result.

They are:

1. Judging the lie.

2. Selecting a club.

3. Predicting how the ball will react when it lands.

4. Executing the swing.

This article addresses the first — and perhaps the most important — part of the shot equation. If you can’t pull off good shots from bad lies, you’ll never reach your scoring goals.

Source: Golf.com

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sherwoodforestgolf · 5 years

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The 10 Best Golf Swing Tips!

1. Keep Your Hands Low

Limiting the height of the followthrough will effectively reduce the height of your shots. The lower the hands, the lower the ballflight. Moving the ball back in your stance or choosing a stronger club and trying to swing easy are other ways to accomplish the same thing, but they’re less reliable and more difficult to execute. Instead, keep your hands low in the finish (compare the two photos at right), and the trajectory of your shots will be lower.

2. Give Your Spine The Forearm

Make sure you’re on-plane at the top of the swing to guarantee solid ballstriking and increased accuracy. Notice in the photo at left how my right forearm is parallel to my spine, my left wrist is flat and my elbows and arms form a tight triangle. These are indications that I’ve rotated my shoulders into the backswing perfectly.

3. Use Your Body For Power

Every good golfer knows that power comes from the body, not the arms. To learn to power the club with your body instead of your arms and hands, put the club behind the ball at address, with your body in a dead-stop position. Without taking a backswing, try to drag the ball into the air. If you’re a player who uses his or her hands to control the club, you’ll probably struggle at first. However, you’ll quickly find that once you start moving the club with your body, you’ll begin to get the ball in the air more consistently. This helps you turn fully through the ball on the downswing.

4. Hinge For Power

Amateurs have problems hitting crisp iron shots due to two fatal flaws. First, the takeaway tends to be too low to the ground, which delays the proper hinging of the wrists until too late in the backswing. Second, in a misguided effort to create power, the arms tend to swing too far in the backswing. This causes a breakdown in posture and usually leads to a reverse pivot. These flaws cause mis-hits and a lack of distance and control.

Several simple steps can be taken to gain control over the length of the swing in order to create more solid contact. At setup, a 45-degree angle should be present between the left arm and the clubshaft. This starts the swing with the wrists already hinged halfway to the necessary 90 degrees. During the takeaway, the hands should stay close to the ground while the clubhead moves up quickly. The goal is to get the left thumb pointing at the right shoulder as soon as possible. You’ll know you’ve achieved the proper wrist hinge when your left arm is parallel to the ground and the clubshaft is perpendicular to it. This sets the wrists much earlier in the backswing, eliminating the need to swing the arms too far at the top. The tendency to lose posture and reverse pivot will be removed with this more compact golf swing.

Creating the proper wrist hinge in the backswing will lead to noticeably better ballstriking and, as a result, more consistent distance and direction on all iron shots.

5. Give Your Slice The Elbow

Some players like John Daly swing with their elbow flying out, while others like Sergio Garcia keep it in, proving that it’s possible to hit great shots with either method. However, my biomechanical studies indicate that the flying right elbow position favors a fade ballflight while a tucked right elbow promotes a draw. If you struggle with slicing or have always wanted to develop a power-rich draw, then the right elbow may hold the answer. Plus, when you let the right elbow fly, it has the tendency to raise the right shoulder skyward, which almost always causes an over-the-top move during the downswing and an array of bad results.

The key for long-term success is to eliminate the faulty shoulder tilt and right elbow position at the top. The most efficient right elbow position for keeping slices at bay and promoting a draw is on or just inside the seam running down the right side of your shirt. When you place your right elbow in this general area, it allows the shoulders to turn level to the spine, making it much easier to drop the club inside on the downswing for maximum power and improved control.

6. Solid Plane = No Slice

An open face at the point of contact can cause a slice. So, too, can a faulty swing path, even if your clubface is square to the target at impact. Slicers’ swing paths tend to come too much outside in (hookers, vice versa). All golfers need a path that comes just slightly from the inside. Try the Box Drill. Take the top half of a golf ball box and stand it on its side. Align the box parallel to your target line as shown. Strive to groove a path that allows the shaft to pass just over the box. For slicers, set up the box on the same line, but just forward of the golf ball. Don’t hit the box!

7. Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

Hookers need to stop the clubface from closing too soon. To do this, adopt a thumbs-down approach to impact. In the photos at right, you clearly can see the red side of the paddle with both my thumbs pointing down toward the ground. This type of movement slows the closing of your clubface, thus eliminating shots that curve to the left. In the second photo, the blue side of the paddle shows. This thumbs-up position is what slicers need to attain (a closing of the clubface).

8. No Flips

“Flippiness” (the dreaded early release) occurs if your body gets too far in front of the golf ball. When this happens, your club will drastically lag, usually with an open face. Instinctually, your hands will work to close the face at impact. This level of timing is difficult even for the pros to execute on a consistent basis. What usually happens is the clubhead races in front of the shaft and strikes the ball with an open or a closed face, and typically on an ascending arc. In baseball, if you get too far in front, you’ll hit the ball to right field, unless you flip the wrists. The same is true in golf. You need to establish a firm left side to keep your head behind the ball and stop the flip. Photography by Warren Keating

Usual suspects

Enemy number one: Your body is out of position or out of balance. Your body senses this, so your hands take over to try to get the clubface squared at impact. However, this adjustment usually takes the form of a flick or flip of the wrists.

Fixing The Flip

Set up to an impact bag (or an old duffel bag stuffed with towels), push the clubhead into the bag and set your body into a good impact position. The lead arm and shaft should form one straight, vertical line with the head back. Make sure your lead leg is braced and that your hips are turned slightly open. Hold this position to create the proper feel.

9. Chipping

Although it’s tempting to hit chips indoors, all it takes is one broken lamp to realize that golf is an outdoor activity. Nevertheless, you can improve your chipping technique within the friendly confines of your own living room with the help of a wooden dowel or broken golf shaft.Take the dowel and place it through the hole on the top of the grip on a pitching wedge. Push the dowel roughly eight to 12 inches down the butt end of the shaft (a little Vaseline may help the dowel slide easier through the clubshaft). Two to three feet of the dowel should extend outward from the top of the grip.

Now, practice your chipping motion, making sure that your left wrist remains rigid as the clubface passes through the impact zone. If your left wrist breaks down (a flaw that can cause a lot of short-game misery), you’ll feel the protruding portion of the dowel hit against your left side. In addition to guarding against wrist breakdown, the dowel will also help you to establish the proper hands-forward position at address—a crucial factor for clean contact.

The dowel also will force you to keep your hands moving forward and swing the club down the target line in the followthrough. Once you master this drill, you’ll be able to get up and down with the best of them.

As you perform these drills, you’ll begin to see the value of other everyday items in helping you improve your game. Don’t be afraid to experiment—you may just develop the next must-have training aid.

10. Stay In Your K

Even good golfers with sound, grooved swings come untracked now and then, especially if they lose the flex in the back leg trying for distance. If you stiffen your back leg during the backswing, your body will likely tilt out of balance, making it tough to re-flex the knee just the right amount in time for impact. If you can play some great golf, but consistency is your problem, it might be that you need a dose of Special K. Here’s how it works.

K Pasa?

At address, the Special K is the angle formed in your back leg by the upper and lower leg. The manner in which you stand to the ball determines in large part how well you maintain your Special K during your swing.

The best advice is to establish an athletic, ready-to-move setup. Create this posture by bending forward from the hip sockets and back from the knees. When your back leg is flexed correctly, it creates room for your arms to swing and aligns the joints, one on top of the other. You should be able to draw a line from the top of the spine through the tip of the elbow and then from the tip of your knee down through the ball joint of your foot.

Keeping The K

To keep your swing level, this angle should be maintained from address to just after impact. A good way to experience what it feels like to keep the Special K while you swing is to look in a mirror while you take practice swings. Start with the setup position shown in the photo, below left. Hold it steady, then look in the mirror to connect the sight and feel of the correct back leg flex for that position. Next, swing to the top. Again, hold that position and use the mirror to see if you maintained the angle in your back leg.

Source: golftipsmag.com

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culbertsonhillsgr · 5 years

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The 10 Best Golf Swing Tips!

1. Keep Your Hands Low

2. Give Your Spine The Forearm

3. Use Your Body For Power

4. Hinge For Power

Creating the proper wrist hinge in the backswing will lead to noticeably better ballstriking and, as a result, more consistent distance and direction on all iron shots.

5. Give Your Slice The Elbow

6. Solid Plane = No Slice

7. Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

8. No Flips

Usual suspects

Fixing The Flip

9. Chipping

10. Stay In Your K

K Pasa?

Keeping The K

Source: golftipsmag.com

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chenowethgolf · 5 years

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Take a ‘lie-detector’ test to improve your short game

By: DAVE PELZ

One of the things that separate Tour players from the rest of us is that the former are intimately familiar with their games. They know how different shots will unfold regardless of where the ball is sitting, especially around the green (where difficult lies abound). Not surprisingly, that’s where weekend players tend to cough up strokes.

There are four parts to every short-game shot. Failing in any area will almost surely lead to a poor result. They are:

1. Judging the lie.

2. Selecting a club.

3. Predicting how the ball will react when it lands.

4. Executing the swing.

This article addresses the first — and perhaps the most important — part of the shot equation. If you can’t pull off good shots from bad lies, you’ll never reach your scoring goals.

Original Source: Golf.com

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noblesvilleparks · 5 years

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10 Best Golf Tips Ever!

1. Keep Your Hands Low

2. Give Your Spine The Forearm

3. Use Your Body For Power

4. Hinge For Power

Creating the proper wrist hinge in the backswing will lead to noticeably better ballstriking and, as a result, more consistent distance and direction on all iron shots.

5. Give Your Slice The Elbow

6. Solid Plane = No Slice

7. Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

8. No Flips

Usual suspects

Fixing The Flip

9. Chipping

10. Stay In Your K

K Pasa?

Keeping The K

Source: golftipsmag.com

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