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Old 01-07-2007, 04:15 PM
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Re: solid tee shots

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Originally Posted by cmays
Bigbo:

Not a bad swing for such a old man.

I would like to see your swing in motion, but let's look at some frames.

Top, frame number 1. I would like to see you with your chin up off the chest just a little more and the knees have just a little more flex in them.

Top, frame number 4. You recover the knee flex. Notice how the left shoulder leans out, this is what we want to see going into the backswing.

Too me and I can not tell from static photos, you maybe bringing the hands a little too far to the inside in the backswing.

Grab a club and bring it back in your backswing to about waist high or even a little higher, no big deal and hold it there. Now just turn your shoulders around to bring the club up and around into the top of the backswing. If you are doing the same in the swing you provided you are in good shape. If you are pulling the hands in on the way back, this is a No,No.

Frame # 2 on the bottom, look at the right shoulder being up so high and then as you reach the top of the swing you are leaning to the left as you progess through the frames.

Keep the right shoulder down longer and have the feeling the club is being thrown out in front of you.

What you are doing is coming around on the ball.

Practice drills.

1. You can fold the hands and arms across the chest, take your address position and tuen the shoulders back and the left shoulders lowers a little and the turn them forward and the right shoulder lowers a little and from that position the arms, hands and club extends out and the shoulders would bring everything over the front shoulder at the top of the forward swing.

When we use the big muscles to control the swing, everything we did in the backswing will repeat in the forward swing w/o using the hands.

2. Swing up to about shoulder high and pull the right elbow down to the ground. This will force you to come down and around on the shot.

A little better spine angle at address, let me post Helen if you have not seen this one:

1. http://www.golftoday.co.uk/proshop/f...our_swing.html

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Work on throwing the club out to keep the right shoulder down a little longer. We call this extension in the forward swing.

We could tear anyones swing apart a 100 different ways, but if you focus on the major issues, the swing will fall into place.

1. Check to see if you are using the hands to bring the club to the inside.

2. Chin just a little more up at address with a little more knee flex, feel your butt sticking out, back behind you.

3. Maintain your spine angle in the forward swing and let the club and arms bring the club up over the left shoulder in the forward swing.

Add a little here. Notice how your right hand knuckles are facing the ground coming up to the top of the backswing. You are swinging on an angle and we want the same feeling of the hand knuckles coming to the ground on the downswing so you can throw the right hand into the shot.

When you swing on an angle you always have a built in lag.
Thanks cmays I am looking at the swing and reading the post
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