Golf Tips and Instruction-April 5, 2006
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How To Break 80 Newsletter
April 5, 2006
“The Web’s Most Popular Golf Improvement Newsletter”
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In this issue we’ll discuss…
1) How Many Swings Do You Have?
2) Drill To Make Perfect Contact
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1) How Many Swings Do You Have?
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You can have several different swings but from a pure teaching and
mechanical standpoint you might be surprised at the answer. You
only really need two.
We want to keep it as simple as we can. The two swings are:
1) The full swing …where we go from the bottom (address position) to the top of our comfortable range and back to the bottom where we make impact. Solid , magical results always…right?
2) The less than full swing…where we do not get to our comfortable top of the swing. This is an abbreviated swing and we use them often. So you only need two swings with fourteen or more clubs.
This includes your putter which makes less than a full swing.
Once we know exactly how far each club goes, we should generally make all full swings until the yardage is shorter than our full swing pitching or sand wedge. From this distance in we then adjust with less than full swings.
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2) Drill To Make Perfect Contact
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If you want to hit straight drives, you have to make solid contact. You can only do so with a square clubface.
The principle you use to square the clubface at impact is the same
as the one hockey players use to hit a slap shot. In hockey, the shooter’s hands are separated as he winds up.
Borrow that move while you’re waiting on the tee box to free up your hinging action and release. You’ll hit a more accurate drive when it’s your turn to play.
Here’s what to do:
• Stand on the side of a tee box and take your normal driver address, but to the side of the ball (photo at right).
• Slide your right hand to the bottom of the grip so it is separated from your left hand.
• Swing back and through, feeling how your left hand controls the top of the club and your right hand guides the clubhead. Re-create that feeling when you’re ready to hit.
Use this drill and you’ll be sure to make solid contact more often.
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Until next time, Go Low!
Jack
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