If you’ve ever remotely considered purchasing one of my How To Break 80 books, CD’s, DVD’s or other golf products, then listen up because I’m gonna make it very interesting for you.

It’s that time of year again where we need to clean out our inventory so I’m offering rock-bottom prices to move some of our current stock. I’m also going to be changing the pricing on some of the instructional products we have because of increased demand and retail competition.

It all starts today. The “18 Day Holiday Blowout Sale” has officially begun and here’s why you want to check it out:

*Lowest prices ever (today only)
*Free shipping on some products
*They’re great gifts
*Brand new products to choose from

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But there is a catch…the lowest, best prices will be available today but will continue to INCREASE each week, until the sale ends on the 18th day, Dec. 14th. Please note that the prices you see are SUBJECT TO CHANGE at any given time. I can guarantee you will see the lowest pricing of the entire 18 days TODAY so give it a look.

We’ll be selling all of our instructional products as well as brand new golf clubs and accessories. My products are designed for all skill levels and can be used during winter time in the comfort of your home.

Lastly, if you know of any golfers who could use my golf instructional products or accessories, they make great gifts!

Enjoy!

Go Low,

Jack

P.S. I’m offering my standard guarantee on all products. If you don’t like them, give them back and we refund you immediately.

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What do Ernie Els and Fred Couples have in common when it comes to ballstriking? Ernie is a big strapping guy. Fred is a smaller, slightly built man. Given their sizes, you’d think there would be a big difference in their ballstriking capabilities. Yet there isn’t. Both are considered among the best ballstrikers on tour. That’s because Fred has learned to plug the power leaks in his swing. Power leaks cost you distance, inflate your scores, and boost your golf handicap.

If you want to be a great ballstriker, copy Fred Couples. Plug your swing’s power leaks. Otherwise, they’ll betray you and fatten your golf handicap, even if you have a good short game. But plugging your power leaks helps you hit the ball farther and with more consistency than ever. And that in turn will improve both your scores and your game. Stopping your leaks may not help you hit the ball as far as Ernie or Fred, but it will impact your game.

Most Common Power Leaks
The key to great ballstriking is managing the power stored in your backswing. Most players swing a club harder, thinking the harder they swing the farther the ball will go. Instead of trying to manage their power, they’re trying to manipulate it. Too much manipulation creates a backswing full of “compensations”-attempts to redirect the club to a good impact position. This might work for a few swings, but too much manipulation costs you strokes over the long haul.

In my golf instruction sessions, I teach players to manage their power not manipulate it. Good golfers never speed up their clubs by swinging harder. They allow the power stored in their swings to simply “happen,” using leverage to create force. They also plug the power leaks that can short-circuit their golf swings. Below are the typical power leaks in a swing:

1. A lack of wrist cock
2. A collapsed right elbow at the top of the swing
3. An overly bent elbow at the top of the swing.
4. An early release of the club
5. A late release of the club.

In addition to plugging power leaks, good ballstrikers take advantage of two key levers in their golf swings. The first lever is created when your wrists cock and form a 90-degree angle between your left forearm and clubshaft. The other is formed when you fold your right elbow so that your right forearm (left for left-handers) comes perpendicular to the right biceps. Failing to produce these levers during your backswing creates power leaks.

Managing Your Power
Managing the levers in your backswing keys the delivery of power at impact. The two drills below-the One-Arm Drill and the Hit and Hold Drill-teach you to manage the stored power and plug your power leaks.

One Arm Drill
Assume your normal setup position. Then take your left hand off the club. Next slowly swing your right arm to the top, making sure the elbow folds to form a 90-degree angle. Turn the upper part of your body away from the target and shift your weight to your back hip joint. On the downswing allow your right elbow to straighten like a piston, and your right side to turn through the ball. Now shift your weight and swing. The ball should go straight. If it goes right, your release is late. If it goes left, your release is early.

Hit and Hold Drill
Assume your normal setup. Now take the club away. Go to the top and swing back to the ball. Make sure to sling the club across your straight left leg stopping just after impact when both arms are straight. The hands should be higher than the clubhead at the finish. If they are, then it’s a sign that the energy dump from the lever to the ball occurred efficiently. If they’re not, you need to work on channeling energy to the ball more efficiently.

The One-Arm Drill helps you manage the right side of your swing. The Hit and Hold Drill helps you manage the left side. Together, they help you plug the leaks in your swing and better manage the delivery of power to the ball. That in turn generates longer, straighter shots and help you cut strokes from your golf handicap.

Weekend golfers often rely on muscle power to produce distance. Swinging a club harder or faster doesn’t always generate distance. Sometimes, in fact, it costs you distance. Great ball strikers like Ernie Els and Fred Couples take advantage of the built-in levers in their swings to create effortless power. If you want to do the same-and shave strokes off your golf handicap-learn to manage the power stored in your swing and plug your power leaks.

Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book “How To Break 80 And Shoot Like The Pros.” He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicap immediately. He has a free weekly newsletter with the latest golf tips, golf lessons and golf instruction.

We all want to lower our golf handicap. That’s why we practice so hard and read so much about the game. It’s the “Holy Grail” of golf. Among the keys to achieving a lower golf handicap is consistency. You must be consistent to lower your scores and cut strokes from your handicap. If you want to achieve consistency, transferring your weight correctly is a must.

But that’s easier said then done. As an instructor, I see many golfers struggle to achieve proper weight transfer. Even golfers who I know are good athletes sometimes have trouble with this. Poor weight transfer is one of the most common swing faults in my golf lessons. It’s especially prevalent with golfers who play infrequently. They have what’s called a “reverse pivot”— one of the deadliest swing flaws in the game.

Transfer Your Weight
Normally, when swinging a club, you transfer your weight onto your back foot during your takeaway, then onto your front foot during the follow-through. Watch Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, or any of the pros on television and you’ll see how well they achieve correct weight transfer. For them, it’s second nature. They make the transition smoothly and efficiently. That’s why they’re so consistent when hitting a golf ball. None of them exhibit anything even close to a reverse pivot.

With a reverse pivot, you do the opposite of what you should do. Instead of transferring your weight to your back foot and then to your front foot, you transfer it to your front foot during your takeaway and then back to your back foot during the follow through. This move constricts your body turn, short-circuiting power and inhibiting consistency. Golfer’s who exhibit a reverse pivot don’t get much on their drives or iron shots.

Causes of a Reverse Pivot
Causes for a reverse pivot are many. An obsession with keeping your head down, an attempt at holding your left arm (right for left-handers) rigidly straight, and/or allowing your head to turn to the right as you swing the club back—all cause a reverse pivot. So if you find yourself doing these things, you may be employing a reverse pivot in your swing without knowing it.

Since the reverse pivot wreaks havoc with your swing, it’s hard to describe any tell tale signs that you have the fault. The reverse pivot restricts your turn so much that your arms and hands have to take over the job of your shoulders while hitting the ball. That curbs your power. But two sure-fire signs that you are committing a reverse pivot are loss of power and accuracy.

Eliminating the Reverse Pivot
One way to eliminate the reverse pivot is to practice this drill: Adopt your address position, and then place the club across the back of your shoulders. Now turn as if you were going to hit the ball. As you turn back, the club encourages your head and spine to rotate. Sense your balance as you do this. A good tip to get the hang of this is to look out of the corner of your left eye (right for left-handers) at the top of your swing. Practice this drill as often as you can… and then keep doing it.

Another drill—one that seems to get better results in my golf lessons—is to begin with a sort iron and assume your setup position. From your setup, lift your forward foot and position it next to your back foot. As you swing, take the club away from the ball, lift your forward foot, and allow it to return to the original position in your setup as soon as your club reaches about waist high in your backswing.

This drills trains your body to shift your weight to your back foot at the beginning of the backswing and allows your body to shift its weight toward the front foot at the end of the backswing, and then on through the downswing. It also promotes a much healthier spin angle, both atop your swing and into the finish.

Proper weight transfer is essential to developing a swing that delivers power and accuracy consistently. Achieving consistency—whether by taking golf instruction sessions or through working things out on your own—is the only way to lower your golf handicap. If you’re serious about becoming a scratch golfer, make consistency your ultimate goal.

Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book “How To Break 80 And Shoot Like The Pros.” He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicap immediately. He has a free weekly newsletter with the latest golf tips, golf lessons and golf instruction.

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How To Break 80 Newsletter

November 21, 2007

“The Web’s Most Popular Golf Improvement Newsletter”
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In this issue we’ll discuss…

1) Putting Like (A) Tiger
2) The Mid Trickler: Turning Three Shots Into Two
3) Question of the Week - Ironing Out Transition Problems
4) Article - A Golf Lesson On Weight Transfer
5) Article - Plugging Those Power Leaks

Jack’s Note: Happy Thanksgiving! I’m sure we all have lots to be grateful for and I know I’m thankful I can play golf a few times this week Just a head’s up for next week…it’s gonna be crazy. Seems a lot of you have heard about this upcoming holiday sale and want to get “first dibs” on the new pricing and offers so here’s a little more detail.

We’re having a huge discount sale and calling it the “18 Day Holiday Blowout”. Here’s how it works…the lowest, best prices will be available next week starting Tuesday, Nov. 27th but will continue to increase each week, until the sale ends Dec. 14th. We’ll be selling all of our instructional products as well as brand new golf clubs and accessories. And here’s the best part…at ridiculously low prices. Some of them are actually priced much lower than any offers we’ve made in the past. Heck, we’ll even cover the shipping in some cases.

But don’t be a slacker…by week’s end the prices will be going north. I’ll send more details Tuesday. In the meantime, enjoy your leftovers.

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1) Putting Like (A) Tiger
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Tiger Woods is among the best putters on the Tour. He has penchant for sinking pressure putts. He almost never fails to make one when it counts. And he seldom leaves his putts short, especially during critical times. He’s an aggressive putter, but he’s also a smart putter. He’s extremely careful when facing difficult putts not to be aggressive. He makes sure his ball doesn’t slide way past the hole if he misses it.

Basically, two types of putters prevail—aggressive and conservative. Each type has its advantages and each has its disadvantages. The key to putting like Tiger is knowing what type of putter you are and compensating for that type’s disadvantages. Being a smart putter cuts strokes from your scores.

The aggressive putter “goes for it” almost every time. She strokes her ball confidently and tries to go past the hole on every putt. While an aggressive putter sinks a lot of putts, she must be careful with difficult putts, like downhill putts or putts on slopes. Her tendency to go for it sometimes pushes her well past the hole, with a difficult shot coming back.

The conservative putter likes to hit the ball so that it just drops in the hole. He strokes his ball rather tentatively, so he seldom hits a putt past the hole.He must be careful about leaving too many putts short. A ball that’s short can’t go in, even if it’s dead on line. That can hurt, especially when putting for a birdie.

Our personalities usually determine the type of putter we are. Aggressive people tend to be aggressive putters. And vice versa. Keep that thought in the back of our mind when putting, so you can compensate for the disadvantages of your putting style. Remember, a ball that’s short has no chance of going in.

Tiger’s Favorite Putting Drill
This drill teaches you to keep your putter true to your target line. Find a flat surface on the green about eight feet way from the hole. Place two tees in the ground just wide enough for your putterhead to squeeze through without touching either tee. The closer the tees are to the putterhead as it passes through the better. Now drop a ball between the tees and practice putting.

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2) The Mid Trickler: Turning Three Shots Into Two
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If you’re looking to cut shots from your game, the mid-trickler is a great way to do it. It’s a low risk option producing a shot where the ball hops once, checks up, then trickles to the hole, leaving you with a short putt. It’s the best option when you don’t have much green, but it’s too long for a high soft drop shot. The mid-trickler shot practice to master.

Here are five keys to the mid-trickler:
1. Check your lie carefully
2. Position the ball toward the center
3. Keep your shoulders level
4. Lean your shaft forward slightly
5. Use the club’s “true” loft

While the key to hitting this shot is your setup, the ball’s lie is also a factor. The mid-trickler requires a reasonable lie, one with some grass under it. Beware of hardpan and tight lies with this shot. They make it almost impossible to execute effectively.

Set up with the ball positioned toward the center of your stance and your shoulders level. This setup encourages a neutral or a slightly forward shaft lean, allowing you to make contact with the ball using the club’s “true” loft. If you want to get the ball close to the hole consistently with the mid-trickler, you can’t add or subtract loft from the club. Doing so automatically reduces or increases the shot’s distance. Your take away and follow through should be about thigh high.

The mid-trickler turns three shots into two. Effectively played, it’s a lifesaver, especially when you can’t use a high soft drop shot. You’ll need to practice it to master it, but you’ll be surprised how often it comes in handy and how many strokes it saves you on the course.

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3) Question of the Week - Ironing Out Transition Problems
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Q. Jack, My iron shots either go right or short and very high. If I pull my right foot back and turn my club face so it looks like it is pointing left (10:00 o’clock), I hit it about 125 yards straight but not always. How can I correct this?

Thank you for any help,

Herb

A. Thanks for the question, Herb. The fact that you hit the ball better when you pull your right foot back suggests that you’re not releasing your body properly during your swing and not executing a smooth transition between backswing and downswing.

Right-handed golfers sometimes tend to pull too hard with their left sides (right sides for left-handers). Any tendency to pull continuously from the top of your swing with your left side creates a series of complications that must be compensated for later on in the swing. Moving your right foot back helps correct this.

The transition from backswing to downswing must go smoothly and you must release your body properly during your swing. Work on the fluidity of your swing during the transition using this exercise: Take your 6-iron and with your feet only a few inches apart, hit a few shots. Swing the club back and let your body unwind to initiate the downswing’s start. Make the transition as smooth as you can, letting gravity pull the club down before releasing the clubhead through impact. Keep your head steady as you start the downswing. That will help “calm” your upper body and generate longer, straighter shots.

If you’ve got a golf question you’d like answered, send an email to us at questions@howtobreak80.com and we’ll review it. I can’t guarantee that we’ll use it but if we do, we’ll make sure to include your name and where you’re from.

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4) Article - A Golf Lesson On Weight Transfer
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5) Article - Plugging Those Power Leaks
http://www.howtobreak80.com/articles/powerleaks.html

Until next time,

Go Low!

Jack

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About the Author
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Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book “How To Break 80 and Shoot Like the Pros!”. He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicaps quickly. His free weekly newsletter goes out to thousands of golfers worldwide and provides the latest golf tips, strategies, techniques and instruction on how to improve your golf game.