Golf Digest - 13 Quick Swing Fixes

[saevel25]

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-instruction/2013-10/photos-basics-swing-fixes#slide=3

I can just shake my head at a lot of these.

At least the last guy got the pop-up right with it being to much of a downward strike with a driver.

[turtleback]

Quick Swing Fix sounds like an oxymoron to me.  Unless that player's problem is that he is holding the wrong end of the cub, that is.

[DeadMan]

Yikes. This one seems to be the worst:

[quote]Launching one straight right often feels powerful because you're hitting with a square clubface, but you're still heading to the right trees to search for it. The issue with a push -- a shot that starts right and stays on that line -- is that the club comes into impact too far from the inside; you're swinging too in to out.[/quote]

Uh, isn't a push because of an open clubface? Or do I not understand the "new" ball flight laws?

[Mr. Desmond]

I can't bring myself to click...

[EverythingGolf]

Yikes. This one seems to be the worst: [quote]Launching one straight right often feels powerful because you're hitting with a square clubface, but you're still heading to the right trees to search for it. The issue with a push -- a shot that starts right and stays on that line -- is that the club comes into impact too far from the inside; you're swinging too in to out.

Uh, isn't a push because of an open clubface? Or do I not understand the "new" ball[/quote] The club is square to the path, but open to the target.

[saevel25]

Uh, isn't a push because of an open clubface? Or do I not understand the "new" ball flight laws?

Square to what, target line or swing path?

[DeadMan]

I assume they meant square to the target, because that's how magazines like that define a square club face.

[JazzFatCat]

Sweet. Perfect golf here I come.

[iacas]

The Tips:

1. Slice? Roll your left wrist.
2. Hook? Hit the inside part of the ball.
3. Push? Take a dramatically closed stance.
4. Pull? Keep the right shoulder back.
5. Top? Left hip over left knee, chest pointing at ball.
6. Toe hit? Miss a ball toward the heel.
7. Heel hit? Swing left.
8. Fat? Move body and low point forward more.
9. Thin? Rotate your head through impact.
10. Whiff? Hit a penny in front of your ball.
11. Shank? Your grip is weak.
12. Drop-Kick? Improve weight shift.
13. Pop-up? Secondary axis tilt.

Quote:

Minnesota fats probably never hit a pool ball left of his target. Know why? He knew that to keep the ball from going left, he had to avoid hitting the right side of the ball.

The tip then goes on to say that to hook the ball you have to hit the outside of the golf ball. That is, as we all know, untrue (most will define the outside of the ball as outside the target line).

Quote:

Dana Rader , the shank comes from having a weak grip, which leaves the face wide open at impact and exposes the hosel. (A weak grip means your hands are turned too far toward the target on the grip.) "I've never been able to fix a shank without strengthening the grip," Rader says. "It helps square the face at impact."

Uhhhh…

Some of the tips are okay (but may or may not apply to you). Some are a joke they're so bad.

[Vinsk]

I'd like to see a "Myth Busters" show with Erik and have these silly Golf Digest tip writers have to stand there on camera and be schooled. Golf is hard. The last thing anybody needs is bogus info in such large distribution.

[mvmac]

I'd like to see a "Myth Busters" show with Erik and have these silly Golf Digest tip writers have to stand there on camera and be schooled. Golf is hard. The last thing anybody needs is bogus info in such large distribution.

Here's a start.

[Vinsk]

Yes...and it's beautiful. I just would like to see all the work you Erik, Dave and others have done on the media forefront. I like the guys on Golf Channel for the most part, Golf Digest writers, etc. But I don't understand the fear of being wrong. The very basic aspect of this crazy and wonderful game is to improve. People have their own flavor and styles but these usually come about once the basics are learned. It's so aggravating to see poor instruction being taught en masse. I understand Dave Leadbetter has an accomplished career. I'd just like to see for example, you and Erik on the Golf Channel with Michael Breed presenting your well researched and sound instruction. If I had had the instruction provided by you and the others here years ago... I'd probably be a scratch golfer. Years of incorrect advice is tough to undo but in continuously working on it. Any way, enough babbling. Thank you Mike, Dave and Erik.

[David in FL]

I can't bring myself to click...

Me neither. I'm screwed up enough. I don't need any more "help" like that!

[Mac62]

Originally Posted by iacas

Uhhhh…

Some of the tips are okay (but may or may not apply to you). Some are a joke they're so bad.

It's okay - they'll come out with another list of "tips" next month which will directly contradict this month's.