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Old 09-05-2005, 04:20 PM
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Re: Cant hit a wood

The woods are designed to hit the ball a little different from the irons. So using an iron swing with a wood will cause the slices.

WOODS:
* Get ball position forward (about the front heal)
* Take the club back as low, slow and as long as you can as your first move using your shoulder rotation (you will feel a big pull/streach in your leading side of the back, if you don't, you are rotating your hips too much back with the shoulders).
* Arms and hands work together - setting to the top and releasing at the bottom smoothly. (this is the big difference from an iron - where you can get very steep in the arms, and agressive in the release in the hands)
* Shoulder rotation through impact is as big as you can stay in control with the hands. So find your ballance in power in the rotation and the ability to keep up in the timming of the hands to get the club back to square.

Start out hitting easy 3/4 drives using this new method. Get your shots to go straight first, then start to add power in the rotation. Re-time the hands to go with the new power. After a while, you will get the new timming and feel that will just simply become the right feel for a driver/wood off the tee.
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