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Old 12-05-2004, 07:55 PM
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Re: Left eye

I currently have a student who is left-handed (left eye dominant) but plays right handed. He came to me because he was firing al over the park, was miss reading putts ... all caused becuase he wasn't looking correctly.

He does swing well, very well in fact, but his alignment is shocking. We know why ... he is standing on the incorrect side of the ball and his eyes are trying to deal with it. In effect, they're trying to read text by looking at a mirror.

We eliminated the problem and you could probably eliminate yours too by aligning to the golf ball, close your right eye, do the checks and then swing away. It will take some practice becuase with 1 eye it is more difficult to judge depth.

If you still don't get it right, start to use visual aids to help your alignment. You could address the ball, hold the club in both your hands and use it to align line of your feet, then your knees and finally your shoulders.
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