Sunday, November 18, 2012

Make Better Impact


This week's lesson is entitled, "How to Maximize your Distance by Hitting Triples instead of Home Runs " and it's a great overall theory to build your entire swing around. Keep this in the back of your head at all times while you are on the course, and remind yourself of it before every shot. The result will be increased distance and straighter shots because you'll be releasing your hands through the ball better.

Background Info :
Many recreational golfers struggle with slices, blocks, and inconsistency because they don't know how to release their hands through the ball correctly. By "releasing your hands through the ball", I am describing the act of maximizing your club head speed at the moment of impact, and eliminating the "outside-in" movement that creates a slice.

How You Will Benefit:
  1. You'll learn an easy way of "getting your hands through the ball"
  2. You'll be increasing the speed of the club head through the impact zone
  3. You will ensure that the club head is square at impact (which will drastically reduce any slice that you have)

Follow Through Tips

 

This message will be quick, but it's a very important one. "The Simple Golf Swing" will correct any slicing or blocking of the ball that you experience. Believe it or not, part of the correction starts with the follow-through. Take a look.

A Word on Your Finish
The goal of the golf swing is to make solid impact with the ball. I think that everyone would agree there. However, don't neglect a proper follow-through because the ball is already gone. You can actually correct many of the problems with your swing by analyzing your finish.

Here's a quick check to get you started.

Driver Tips



Fact: Over 90% of golfers will never be able to compete with you if you can do 3 things relatively simple things (disregard putting for now).
  1. Stay out of trouble with your driver (notice, I didn't say smash the ball 300 yards down the center of the fairway).
  2. Hit 70% of the greens you face from 150 yards in (in other words, learn to control your 8 iron and down).
  3. Chip the ball within 20 ft of the pin, almost every time (regardless of what you may think, this is not that tough).
That's it. So that's what I'm going to focus on over the next few weeks.