learning to play agian

Well I returned from my month hiatus of golf and GTO. I don't know how you people down south practice golf this time of year. I live in VA and on a coold day I can hit about 150 balls but on a hot day after about 75 balls I am done for and sweat is dripping down everywhere and all over the grip making it imposible to be tension free so I have to quit for the day. This is the first summer I have been able to play golf and it is alot different than I thought it would be, I think I need to move out to the desert somewhere where there is not as much humidity.

But back to my point.......

I returned and I aparenly forgot how to play and sucked and had to re-learn all the swing thoughts that had made me sucseccful before so I thought I would share thoose with the hopes that they help you as much as they helped me.


* I will always go back to gregs RHD, that is great for accuracy

* A relaxed tension free swing is always good

* Keep you head still, it is the anchor of the swing. go to this website for more info and I would encourage you to read all 11 steps, I am no pro but I found most of his teachings to be correct. His grip fundamentals aren't for me but they could work for you. The Tsquare image I love, it gets me in the slot that people speak of, and makes it alot harder to make a bad swing if you move the hips and tilt th shoulders as he says. Gets you swinging form the inside great.
http://www.newgolfswing.com/newgolfswing07.php this also helps with a proper weight shift. his shoulder tap is good too, to see if you are on a good plane.

Thoose are the swing thoughts I use to get my swing back and to have a good constisant fairly long shot. HTH

I’ve found some of the information in the "newgolfswing" (the entire method, not just chapter 9) to be quite useful. Some of it I have a hard time accepting, the extremely closed club face at the top of the swing, for instance. Would any of our resident experts care to comment on what they agree with and what they disagree with in the "newgolfswing"?

I don't think it is that closed, to me it looks like the pic is at a 45 deg at the top which is pretty common i think. I agree all of it is good to, but I have heard a lot of that before, but never that tsqare they speak of in chap 6

IMO, they’re pretty clear that a closed club face is one of the core fundamentals of their method.

anyone else have any opinions on this? I think the takeaway with the early wrist break seems closed in relationship to some backswings, but the takeaway isn't how people determine if it is closed or open, you look how it is at the top and it is maybee a tad closed but mostly it is 45 deg. in line with a flat left wrist or maybee a little bit foward bend which closes it, but not a backward bend, that opens it.

I think the main point is to make sure it isn't open, if it is square of closed is you choice, but they just want to make sure it isn't open and you do not roll you hands at the takeaway and get the left wrist under the shaft which opens up the face.

I am in the same boat with you. I took six weeks off to gu surf and when I came back it took me four days before I hit two good shots, figured out the key missing element and now I am clsoe to where I was when I left. It is crazy how ONE swing key can make such a big difference

so true, even the best like tiger wan't his best at the US open from his not playing golf for a while.