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uttexas Great Member

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Write one sentence that describes a swing thought that works for the long game full swing. Not all swing thoughts work for everyone, but write something that has really helped your game, one of those aha! moments. Explain if you feel like it.

Complete the follow through ---I stole this from G. Player (he has the best one liner tips) I tried this and it works. There is WAY too much emphasis on the backswing (probably started with Hogan--who I admire greatly-- and has continued). If you simply think to yourself, complete the follow through, you subconsciously complete the backswing and make a nice, even tempo swing.

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ks8829 Great Member

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the simple swing thoughts that help me with my golf swing are:

1) keeping my left arm straight
help me shorten my backswing and make solid contact and hit the ball accurately and farther
2) tilt my rear shoulder lower along with the straight left arm works great
3) backswing take away is natural. This is harder to explain but if you were wearing a hula hoop around your body and your back swing would follow the bath of the hula hoop so that you weight is never swaying. You can test this out by chipping with a 3 iron and if your take away is just right you will hit solid chips with your 3 irons.
4) proper grip and grip pressure, neutral and light pressure

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Titleist 910 F15 & 21 degree fairway wood
Titleist 910 hybrid 24 degree
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uttexas Great Member

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Here's another one (stolen from H. Penick) Take dead aim I interpret this to mean both the ball (initial target) and the middle of faiway/middle of green/flag (ultimate target). Aim at ultimate target and visualize (I do this standing 8 or so yards behind the ball, then deep breaths, walk up to ball, align clubface to ultimate target (factoring wind and anticipated trajectory), waggles, then aim for one dimple on the back of the ball. Then strike the ball, completing the follow-through.

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ks8829 Great Member

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the simple swing thoughts that help me with my golf swing are:

5) keep your right arm closer to your body than your left arm (right handed)

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Titleist 910 hybrid 24 degree
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Titleist Man Great Member

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Dont overswing
see the shot before you hit it
dont over think it
mechanical thoughts vary from day to day(I know probably not the best thing but thats how it works for me)

In My Hank Haney IJGA Bag
Driver: FT Tour 9.5 w/ Aldila Voodoo Stiff
3 Wood: i15 15.5 w/ avixcore red stiff
Hybrids: Rescue 09 19, 22 w/ fujikara fit on stiff
Irons: 4 & 5 MP-52, 6-PW MP-58 w/ KBS Tour Stiff Wedges: MP T-10 52*, 58* w/ KBS Tour StiifPutter: Fastback 1 34 inBall: : Pro...

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Eeryck Well Established Member

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Mine are:

Relax! and Don't do anything stupid ... Dummy!

or

You know how to hit the ball... DON'T F#CK UP!

being overly self critical in a way that I can laugh at myself gets me out of my own head so that I can make a decent golf swing. Also, it lets me clear out other thoughts and attempt to get in that pure concentration thoughtless state.

-E

In my Grom bag:

Driver........... Burner 9.5* S-Flex
3-Wood......... Burner 15* S-Flex
5-Wood......... Ovation 18* S-FlexIrons............. Pro Combos 3,5-PW Rifle 6.0Wedges......... CG12 52.10, 56.14, 60.10Putter............ 33" VP1 Milled PutterBall................ e6+ or B330-SRangefinder.....

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sirshanksalot Established Member

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mine is "keep it nice and smooth and don't try to overswing"

Driver: G10 9* Matrix Ozik XCON6
Woods: i15 15.5*S UST Mamiya Axivcore Tour Red
Hybrids: i15 23*S UST Mamiya Axivcore Tour Red; i15 23* UST Mamiya Axivcore Tour Red
Irons: S57 5-PW DG S300
Wedges: Vintage Tour 52*; :eidolon: 56* & 60*Putter: Studio Select Newport 2

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oreodawg1 Established Member

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Mine are:

I'm right in line with you buddy. I tell myself those exact words. I usually don't tell myself that until after I F#CK up the first shot...I save them for the fixxer up shot.

Driver: Nike Sumo 5000 8.5 stiff V2 shaft
Woods: IDrive 3 & 5 square (Callaway Clone)
Irons: Callaway X Forged 3-PW w/Rifle 5.5
Wedge: Titleist Vokey 2009 spin milled 52 degree Adams 60 degree
Putter: Maxfli BlackMax TwoBag: Nike Sasquatch Tour Stand BagBall: Whatever is in my bag that day

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tm22721 Dedicated Member

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After four years I concluded that swing thoughts don't work because my subconscious actually swings the club. So I started watching slo-mo Hogan videos from every angle mimicking it on the practice tee until it became engrained into my subconscious.
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ks8829 Great Member

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Practice chipping with your 7,6,5, 4, 3 iron and focus on your take away and only take your backswing only 3 - 4 feet and practice your backswing and follow through with your wrist comming through naturally, this drill will help you practice your take away and start of your follow through and you can see the direction of the ball, whether you are pulling or fading, practice until you make crisp contact and hitting the ball straight every time. Then used the same take away to hit your irons and this drill may help me make solid crisp contact with my full swing and hit it straighter.

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Titleist 910 F15 & 21 degree fairway wood
Titleist 910 hybrid 24 degree
Mizuno Mp33 5 - PW
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i usually say before i swing, "LONG AND SLOW!" especially with my driver since i tend to get a little bit quick with it.

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Driver: Nike VR Pro 8.5* w/ Myazaki 43g X
3 Wood: Nike VR Pro II 13.5* w/ Diamana Whiteboard 83g X
5 Wood: Cobra S9-1 Pro 18* w/ Diamana Whiteboard 83g X

Hybrid: Mizuno MP Fli-Hi 21* w/ Prolaunch Red X
Irons: 4-7 Titleist 712 CB, 8-9 712 MB w/ TT Dynamic Gold X100

Wedges: 46* Vokey SM4, 54* Vokey SM4, 60* TMade ATV

Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 Belly 43"

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Write one sentence that describes a swing thought that works for the long game full swing. Not all swing thoughts work for everyone, but write something that has really helped your game, one of those aha! moments. Explain if you feel like it.

Here is the swing thought for everyone, no matter what his or her handicap is: When asked what he thought about when he did his golf swing in a tournament, under pressure, Samuel Jackson Snead asked for a microphone to be put on his shirt collar. He then did his swing with his driver and said out loud, "One, two, three". "That is all that I worry about ----rhythm and smoothness. One, two, three." If you have some concept of what to do, the key is to swing with rhythm and balance. "One, two, three".

Mitch Pezdek------Dash Aficionado and Legend in My Own Mind

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TommyD69 Well Established Member

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Tin Cup's swing thought was "Dollar Bills", I use it some times...

But I have to say, the BEST single swing tought I have that works time after time is:

"Swing Like a Girl"....

This in NO WAY is a knock against women, I think MANY men would learn a LOT from watching the women play golf on TV or in person!

Women (for the most part) do not have that "Pee Pee Envy" thing that we men have (about EVERYTHING!)....

I find that I hit my longest and best shots when I DO NOT try to KILL the ball!

Help your game... watch a girl play golf!!!

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mako224 Established Member

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No matter how slow you think your take away is make a consious effort to take it back even slower till you feel your full coil at the top.

That simple swing thought makes a huge difference with the long irons.
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ScruffyScraper Established Member

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Slightly open the face at address. Waggle nervously.

Think balance and staying inside on the backswing. KEEP LEFT HEEL DOWN FLAT! This let's your lack of flexibility keep your swing compact and keep you in balance.

Pull the butt end of the grip straight at the ball...hard. The clubhead comes down on its own.

Follow through fully--leaves me arched slightly forward as if at the end of a 1920s hickory shaft swing instead of nice and straight as after a modern upright swing. No reverse pivot this way.

Yell at the mf-ing ball to stop hooking. Decide if this is the day to take a wedge to your buddy's head for calling you "Captain Hook" for the four millionth time.
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