Re: Will this golf idea work for you?
- From: me <oconnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:41:04 -0700 (PDT)
On Jul 30, 3:34 am, Gravydownshirt <gravydownsh...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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My idea is this... make two practice moves towards the ball,, (before
the actual full hit), stopping just before the ball - at impact
position- and seeing if the club face is still pointing to the target.
And then, if it looks and feels right, play the shot on the third
pass. The main thing is, on the first two practice moves, the whole
body is to take the same shape as it would appear if you had taken a
freeze frame of yourself at impact. ( ie. right heel off the floor,
hands forward, straight right arm, etc.).... you should not just swing
back to how you looked at address..
I tried this with every club and I get a lot of quality straight
shots...
I hope this will help someone out there...
David Feherty loves to joke that stopping in ones swing will
reveal two things. 1) You have hands 2) They are holding a
club.
There is the whole "pump" schtick where folks are encouraged
to stop at the top of the swing and make a couple of "pumps"
and then swing through the ball. The philosophy is related I
think to what you are alluding to. The down swing is vastly
more important than the take away. All one has to do is
watch Furyk swing to get this lesson.
All of this talk about swing planes and take aways and
really almost all of the rest of it is related to bringing the club
to the ball on the right vector and orientation. For me, set up
has been found to be a regular problem. The second thing is
tempo. Lately, another pre-swing technique I've been doing which
confuses partners a bit is that with my driver, I tend to take a
full back swing, stop, and then reset. All I'm doing is assuring
that my back hasn't tightened up. Waiting on tees tends to
do that, especially since the last full swing may have been
10-15 minutes ago as I approached the green. A tight back
can cause me to stop my swing prematurely and then my
tempo gets screwed up and I end up not executing a full turn
on the down swing prior to impact.
Your "two swing and then impact" would be a good way to
address both tempo and issues like my back. I will admit
however that I have found that fatigue, especially in the hot summers,
affects my game and taking alot of full swings doesn't help.
Kinda pisses off some of the more impatient partners as well.
Did actually read a good tip in Golfweek. One of these
swing guru's had a list of tips. The one I liked was something
about a "mental line" drawn aft of the ball. You stand behind
that line until you decide distance, club, shape, all those
other mental tasks prior to swinging. Then when you cross
this mental line, all thinking stops. It's now about feel and
just executing the shot.
.
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