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GOLF TIPS - Wednesday, April 4, 2007
"Tips... News... And More... All For The Love Of The Game"
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Fellow Duffers,
Have you ever tried walking an entire round of golf? If not,
you should. I bet you find it more enjoyable than riding.
Plus you'll get in shape. For those of you who think the
round will take longer, guess again. Instead of two people
being stuck in a cart and having to wait for the other guy
to hit before driving to your ball, each one of you will
walk to your own ball and be ready at the same time. Plus
you get to have some quite moments to think.
Make sure your shoes are comfortable and drink lots of
water. You'll never want to ride again.
Sam
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A Tip From Steven Bann
If you’re hitting your chips skinny or fat it’s because
the club is getting to the bottom of it’s arc too early.
The most common cause of this is when the left wrist breaks
down and we start trying to scoop the ball on to the green
rather than let the loft of the club lift the ball in the
air. If I do this then I hit the ball right on the belly and
it runs right across the green to the other side.
To stop that from happening we have to learn to keep our
hands laid on the club head all the way through and here’s a
simple drill to help you do that. I’ve taken a stick here.
I’m going to grip the stick underneath the shaft and then I’m
going to practice my stroke keeping the stick away from my
body. If my wrist scoot or flip at all, the stick hits me on
the side of the body and I get good feedback that I’m doing it
incorrectly. So I have a few practice strokes, the stick is
not touching my body, now I’m going to try that with the ball,
and I’ll make a lovely crisp contact because my wrists have
led the club head through impact.
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A Hank Haney Tip
I want to give you some tips on how you can analyze your impact
with the golf ball and what you can do to make it better. The
only purpose of the golf swing is to return the golf club to
the golf ball, squarely with the proper angle of approach so
that you can contact the ball with the center of the face and
the ball and the turf at the same time.
When you hit into the golf ball, ideally the back of your left
hand should be flat at impact. Your weight primarily on your
left side and your hands pressed forward. You are contacting
the ball and then the turf. Now how do you know if your impact
is not correct? If your golf ball is flying too high you are
hitting with your hands collapsed. If the ball is too low you
have the clubface hooded too much, maybe your left hand is
bowed down too much and the clubface is delofted.
If you are hitting to the right you are hitting with the side
of your hand instead of the back of your hand. If you are
hitting to the left your hands are turned over, cupped with
the wrist forward or rotated over too much, that is causing
you to hit the outside part of the golf ball and hook it.
Ideally the back of the left hand should be facing your target
at impact, that is your key. If you can return the back of the
left hand to face the target at impact you are going to have a
straight shot with the proper trajectory. Too high you are
hitting on the collapse, too low you are bowing it down too
much. To the right, with the side of the hand, to the left,
turning your hands over too much. Back of the left hand, square
to the target at impact and that is where your shots are going
to go.
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A Tip From John Elliott
As you know golf is a game of distance and direction. The bad
news is that most people associate their driver with distance
and their putter with direction. No, they are both distance
and direction. Now I am going to talk to you about how to gain
more distance with your putter, nah, I am not really going to
do that. I am going to talk to you about how to hit your
driver a little farther. It is not just your driver, it is
your whole game where you want to put more distance in your
golf ball.
The simplest way to do that is to hit the ball more in the
center of the clubface more often. Every time you hit it
towards the toe, towards the heel, towards the top or towards
the bottom of the club, you are not only losing distance, you
are losing direction. Now what causes those mishits, and many
times it is simply a misidentification of impact. What is
impact? Well that is the compression of the face of the club
meeting the ball and the position that the face of that club
is in.
Too many of us when we hit the golf ball, our hands, wrists and
arms are in a position where the hands are behind the face.
When the hands are behind the face at impact and the hands are
towards the rear leg, the face of the club is going to be wide
open and you are not going to have much power. To have more
power like the Tour players that you admire so much, what you
need to do is learn how to have a forward leaning shaft at
impact. Even with a driver a forward leaning shaft.
Backward leaning in its simplicity does one thing to the club,
it adds loft to the face. So my nine and a half degree driver
now has somewhere around fifteen or sixteen degrees of loft,
so the ball is going to go way up here but it is not going to
go very far. Watch the difference when the face arrives in
this position, where the shaft is in front of the head, now
that nine and a half might be seven, or seven and a half. So
the ball will take off lower and travel farther because I
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You ask how do you do that? One thing we want to understand
is that the hand position at address is not the same as the
hand position at impact. Let me give you an illustration.
When I grip the golf club there is a small indentation in my
lead wrist. But when I hit the golf ball that indentation
should flatten out. Now your question will be how does that
happen?
Well it does not happen at impact, it happens at the top of
the backswing. The indentation in the left wrist that we have
at address, by virtue of our wrist cock, if it is correct,
takes the indentation right out of the wrist. So now I have a
flat left wrist at the top, a flat left wrist at the top
produces a forward leaning shaft at the bottom. And a forward
leaning shaft, as you just heard, delofts the clubface which
increases the distance.
So for all of you that are hitting your irons and/or your
woods, and you are hitting the ground behind the ball, you
are losing distance not in feet but in yards, tons of yards,
because you are losing the angle and you are not hitting the
ball squarely.
So again, remember, the position of your lead hand at address,
and the position of your lead hand at the top are different.
But the position of that lead hand at the top and the
position of the lead hand, my left, at impact, are one and
the same. That will deloft the club, making the ball going
considerably further. Learn more about that by studying,
reading, watching more videos, but address and impact are not
the same. When they are you are not going to like what the
ball does. It will not go very far. Good luck with that.
That is a tough one, but good luck with it.
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