leonberkowitz

From the book Lesson Tee by Jack Nicklaus is his fundamental law that one has to keep a steady head in the golfswing. That means guarding sway or lifting of the head. The head is the cog of the wheel so any movement will alter the arch and lead to a number of ball flight faults. A drill that he used as a young golfer was swinging flat footed with a five iron letting his left ankle roll inwards towards his right foot on the backswing and then letting his right ankle roll in towards his left foot on the through swing...But NOT letting his feet come off the ground at all! Another drill failing this when practicing ONLY is to try to complete the swing without lifting your head or letting your eyes move off the balls location, this will force you into an abbreviated finish but the resulting feel of a steady head will ultimately carry over into your normal swing. I have practiced this for years and every now and then when I am not hitting the ball as solid as I would like go back to these drills. I remember the immediate benefits of keeping a steady head being dropping from a mid handicapper to shooting in the early to mid seventies on a regular basis:)

So have you found Graves golf single plane swing to be more consistent? I too am embarking on this new swing. Please let me know how it went.

It astounds me how many people do not know how to accurately line up square with hips, shoulders, and feet truly parallel to the target. I observe good golfers all the time on the range with their fancy aiming sticks lining up incorrectly every day. I used to be one of those people - for a long long time. Until someone finally posed a logical question to me. Now many golfers see the 'railroad track' method described in many golf magazines. The lines appear to be perfectly parallel. But they're not even close. This is because whether you stand between them or on one line, parallel lines do NOT appear to be parallel in the distance. A players toes are, let's say, 36 inches from the clubhead. If you were to lay two ropes down, each 300 yards long, side by side, wouldn't they still be 36 inches apart out at the target? The lines above end up a good 20 yards apart. They look parallel, but they're not. Parallel lines appear to converge in the distance when you're standing between them. So when you lay your aiming stick down, you can basically just aim it at your target, and you'll never be more than a couple feet right. Your stick and address angles should never look left of the plane line. So unless you are playing a big pull cut on this hole, there is a chance you will line up improperly too.