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Originally Posted by gord962 When you practice, are you practicing a full swing with a ball? |
Sometimes. I practice my swing every day without a ball. I just go out in the yard with a club and do my full swing, working on the feel of it, rhythm, etc. I'll do 20-30 full swings that way, working on the making the swing feel big and round and smooth. Some days I do this twice a day. In addition to that, I go to the driving range when I can, to hit balls. Usually I only bring one or two
clubs with me, and usually one of them is a wedge. It's at the range that I often try some of the things that I read about in this forum.
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Also, practice a trigger to get you from the top of the back swing down to where the club is parallel and your right elbow is on your right hip. This is the most powerful move in golf. I spend about 5 minutes a day going back and forth between those two positions.
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Now that's a tricky thing. The thing I try for is a kind of whiplike feeling, where my hip is whipping the rest of my body around and making the swing happen. So when I can, I try to use a slight forward hip twist as my trigger. It has to be slight, because if I do it large it throws everything into disarray. Once in a while I get that whiplike feeling and a good shot out of it. But I also have to say that once I transition into the downswing I feel almost as if I'm a zombie and the swing does what it's going to do without any help from me. Whether it's going to be a good swing or a bad one, it's as if it's determined at that moment.