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GregJWillis
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Registered: November 2002
Location: U.S.
Posts: 1,678
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Mon December 13, 2004 11:17am
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Rating: 5.00
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Man, it looked cold and windy that day...Here are the things I see to work on:
Setup
* The ball position "looks" like it is forward, but I think it is the angle of the camera. It needs to be a little more forward, just off the left heal.
* Your hand position is right in the middle of your body where they need to be on top of your left knee. This will make more sense as you move the ball position forward, your hands will have to move forward as well.
* Your weight is distributed 50/50. Move to 60/40, where you have a littel more weight on the back foot. This will do a couple of things: Help rotate around that leg, rather then throw the back hip outward where you are loosing balance. And help to stay behind the ball through the whole swing. You are moving way too much toward the target with the body, resulting in your off balance finish.
Takeaway
* On your takeaway, you are standing up on that back leg. You want to keep it flexed. This allows you to stay balanced at the top and ready to make an aggressive turn with the hips at the top of the swing. You are not using your legs/hips at all. It is all upper body.
Top
* Your arms are trying to wrap around your head at the top. You think you are creating more power this way, but you are actually loosing it. To gain power with the arms, we need them to be as long as they can be away from the body. This means that anytime you bring the arms into the body, the overall length is shortened. So feel like they are extending away from the chest. Think of a skater spinning. To spin slowly, they extend their arms outwards. To spin fast, they bring in their arms. In golf, we want to transition from a slow spin to a fast spin. The longer the arms are away from the body at the top of the swing, the faster we will spin when the arms are brought inwards at impact. So create as much separation with your arms as body as you can. Relax the right arm. Let it just do what ever the left arm wants it to do. The left arm wants to stay straight and long. So let the right arm get extended away from the body too.
Impact
* I didn't get a good look at that because of the timing of the camera shutter speed, but I am looking at your head movement, and you are using your head to try to help hit the ball. Keep you head looking at the ball the whole time. Even after you hit that ball you should be trying to see the spot where the ball was sitting. This will help keep your balance, stay behind the ball and rotate around your body, and not move towards the target. Any more forward, and the camera person would had to have helped you up...that tee box is pretty high!
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I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play. ~Lee Trevino
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gord962
Calendar & Links Manager
Registered: March 2003
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,643
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Mon December 13, 2004 6:22pm
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A few things to add to Greg's post:
Set up: Your stance seems really narrow for hitting a driver. As a greneral rule, the inside of your feet should be as wide as your shoulders when hitting a driver.
Take away: in addition to standing up, you are moving your hips outside your centre of gravity. Try to keep your hips inside your knees (vertically).
Impact: On the follow through, you actually have your weight PAST your knee. Like Greg mentioned, creating that kind of momentum with your body towards the target does not help you with distance, it will only hurt your control and trajectory. The pivot is where you generate the power you are looking for.
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Gord
Quote of the month:
"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall
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Sat January 8, 2005 11:22pm
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Rating: 1.00
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