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GOLF TIPS - Friday, June 22 2007
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Fellow Duffers,
I love today's shoulder turn tip. We all tend to compemsate in
one way or another to make a shoulder turn that is too big to
be able to provide consistant accuracy. Read the tip and use
the drill. Groove that feeling of when to stop turning and you
will lower your scores quickly.
The other tips are good, too, it's just that I've been
struggling with my driver swing.
Sam
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How to Control Your Turn
By Bruce Hamilton
GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher
THE SITUATION
You feel like you need a big tee shot so you swing your driver
back as far as you can go, and then turn a little more. Problem
is, even after making this megaturn, your drive still goes the
normal distance. What's the deal? After all, the more you turn,
the farther you should hit the ball, right? Wrong.
WHAT TOUR PLAYERS DO
The players on Tour make big, powerful backswing turns and get
their right shoulders behind their necks because, well, they
can. They are professional athletes, and train as hard as your
favorite MLBer to remain strong yet flexible. They coil as much
as their bodies allow. For most of them, that means huge
backswings.
WHAT TO DO
Most of you reading this are probably not in the best shape of
your life, so when you try to make a huge backswing, you turn
more than your bodywants to allow. Enter a series of compen-
sations, which usually take the form of lifting your back or
bending your left elbow. At that point, you start to lose your
coil and stretch, and the energy you built up earlier drops
back down to nil.
HOW TO FIND YOUR STOPPING POINT
This is easy: Your right arm tells you how far you can take
back the club.
Assume your normal setup and then, without moving your hips,
bring your right arm up like you're holding a service tray.
Try to hold the tray as far behind you as possible without
forcing it. Now, with your left hand, bring the club into your
right hand. There's your natural backswing turn. It may not
look like Woods', Els' or Mickelson's, but it's loaded with
enough coil power to blast the ball a good long way.
TRY THIS DRILL
Overturning is caused by over-rotating your right shoulder,
which also pulls your left shoulder off-plane. To sync your
shoulder turn and feel how far back you should take the club,
try the drill below. If you catch Tiger during a practice
round, you'll see him do this from time to time.
This drill proves that your natural backswing length is
determined by how far your can turn your left shoulder, not
your right. If you feel you need more turn, get into the gym
and start stretching. Otherwise, your attempts to force power
will cost you distance and accuracy.
Get into your golf posture and address a ball. Take your left
hand off the club and move your left arm under your right,
placing the back of your left hand against your right elbow.
Take your backswing, keeping your left hand firmly against
your right elbow the entire way to the top. Feel the muscles
in your left shoulder tighten as you swing to the top. When
you can't turn any more, stop. Now you're loaded and in
control. If you removed your left hand, you'd still be able
to turn your right shoulder. That's overturn and it's bad for
your game.
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How to be Pitcher Perfect
Turn your body to pull your hands for Tour-style wedge shots
By Anne Cain
GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher
June 01, 2007
Most poor pitch shots result from overactive hands and wrists,
so keep them calm and instead pitch the ball with your body.
Here's a drill that will teach you to rotate your upper and
lower body completely through the shot and produce a more
consistent launch angle and extra distance.
Place a dowel that's at least 24 inches or longer) in the hole
on top of your grip and lean the shaft forward at address so
the dowel is left of your front hip. Then try to pitch the
ball by pulling the club through impact with your body turn,
not by flipping your wrists.
You're doing it wrong if...
The dowel smacks the left side of your torso in your forward
swing.
You're doing it right if...
You pitch the ball cleanly and the dowel stays left of your
body throughout your motion.
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Stop Leaving Pitches Short and Right
By SANDY LaBAUVE
GOLF MAGAZINE TOP 100 TEACHER
The Problem
Your short pitches around the green end up right of your
intended target, or they skip across the green because you
catch the ball thin.
The Solution
Because these are short shots with a definite target, there's
a natural tendency to help the ball into the air by moving
your club up and to the right. You swing "under" the ball
rather than through it, which causes the clubface to remain
slightly open at impact, sending the ball right. Solid pitches
result from trusting the loft of your club to get the ball
into the air and swinging your club on a full arc by moving
both the clubhead and the handle to the left of your target
through impact.
The Fix
Think "arms" on these shots. If you use too much hand action,
you're likely to shove the club to the right then flip it
over to the left. That's a recipe for sculls and shanks.
Don't change your address position or your backswing, but use
your arms to swing both the handle and the club to the left of
your body following impact. This will properly square your
clubface for extra-crisp contact.
Into and through impact, swing your club down on an arc using
mostly your arms.
After impact, continue to swing both the handle and the
clubhead on an arc and to the left of your target.
Your arms and club should finish left of your body, and your
hands rotate the club only slightly.
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The one-hop-and-stop pitch
How to play the stop-it-on-a-dime shot that's cooler than Fonzie
By Brian Crowell
If you want to be cooler than the other side of the pillow, you
gotta have the one-hop-and-stop shot. You've seen the pros do
it: From about 25 yards out, they pick the ball off the turf
so it bounces once on the green and then puts on the brakes
right by the hole. It's cool and it leaves an easy tap-in.
You'll need a clean lie in the fairway and your sand wedge.
Play the ball one inch back of center in your stance with your
clubface square to the target. Your hands should be slightly in
front of the ball.
Apply a little extra grip pressure with the last three fingers
of your left hand. This will come in handy in just a moment.
Keep your weight centered throughout your swing. Take the club
back to waist height and then accelerate down through the ball.
Kick your right knee toward the target as you reach impact.
This will get you moving onto your left foot and ensure
ball-first contact.
Don't release the club. Instead, maintain that little extra
grip pressure and you'll keep the club pointing at the target.
Follow through to knee height, and rotate your body and hands
around to your left.
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