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grantc79

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  1. Look at the video of his swing here: There is very, very, very little hip slide if any. Now I'm not saying a hip slide won't help 99% of all golfers, but it isn't an imperative to playing good golf. The only imperatives to playing good golf are a flat left wrist, club head lag pressure point, and a proper plane line.
  2. You do not have to slide the hips. For the vast majority of people it is a very good thing, but it is not a must that has to happen for good contact to take place. See Arnold Palmer: Now just because you don't consciously slide the hips doesn't mean they won't (and likely will) gradually slide forward while the hips turn, but there doesn't have to be a definite slide.
  3. Considering the vast majority of bad golfers are slicers I don't know why you think this is good advice.
  4. If you swing down the target line you will slice the ball all day long. Target line and delivery line are two different things.
  5. The longer the club the harder it is. I lose quite a bit of distance hitting due to not being as efficient at it. But that said I am a lot more accurate with it.
  6. It doesn't require flexibility to be a hitter though, only strength. I personally think it is a lot easier to be strong as an ox as and old man rather than flexible as a gymnast as an old man. But I might be wrong.
  7. Depends really. I think the analysis of the best players in the world learn as kids and kids are a lot more flexible than they are strong, thus the best players in the world are more often than not swingers is pretty true. I had never really thought about it like that, but it is probably the case. I do think most people blend both into their swing and I don't think most realize that they do, and how much they do of one over the other. As far as "knowing what you are to help your swing mechanics" I guess that's true but it doesn't apply to many players. Some players have the mechanics switch turned on and don't know how to turn it off and that gets in their way. Other's dont know how to turn on the mechanics switch at all and simply play on feel alone. Just depends on the person. With proper instruction either one can do well.
  8. Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino were both hitters though :) I personally am a Hitter and love it. It is EXTREMELY accurate though I must admit it isn't for everyone and I am still perfecting the stroke. The vast majority of people are not hitters because they are unfamiliar with it but it is a very efficient way to hit the golf ball. The tell tale sign is the right fore arm at impact. If it is at a 90* angle to the body then that is definitely a swing. If it is pointing towards low point then that MIGHT BE a Hitter.
  9. Not really. It is fairly easy to do. Really all it takes is a little lagging club head takeaway (basically the hands pull back before the club moves) and attempt to keep very loose hands and wrists (but tight fingers of course or the club goes flying) up to the top. Once at the top allow the hip bump to create an insane amount of lag and do not fight it. Then just keep your core sliding and turning like crazy and your right shoulder going down as much as you can until you hit the ball. Until your body runs out of steam and it can no longer slide, drive, turn anymore then lag will remain or actually increase. As soon as your body starts the quit though you better hope you are almost to impact because that club is coming forward and there is nothing you can do to stop it from flipping your wrists. I think damn near anyone can create as much lag as he does at the top with a little bit of practice. Now sustaining it as LONG as he does and releasing it as late as he does is pretty difficult.
  10. More key is where you grip tightly. Tight in the fingers is OK but tight in the wrists is a big no no.
  11. Nope. The best way to do it is the way Phil describes, the way you describe leads to complete disaster. Firstly, you should always point the club at the target and then grip it. If you want to open or close the face don't grip the club and then manipulate it. You want to manipulate the face to point in the direction you want and THEN grip it accordingly. Try this one next time you practice: 1: Pick out an aiming point about 4 inches in front of your ball and aim the face of your club at that spot. After aiming, take your grip as the club lies, do not square the head up. Just grip it as it sits. 2: Take a stance line that is parallel to that target and take a normal swing along your foot line. Your ball should go generally straight. Next repeat step 1 but instead of taking a stance line parallel to the target in step 2 take a stance line that is somewhat closed to that target line (where your back is pointing more towards the target and your chest is pointing more away from it. Now, this is crucially important, swing a long the same swing plane in relation to your body as you did in step 1. In other words do not alter your swing in any way in relation to your body. Continue to swing along your foot line. If you do this correctly you should hit a push draw. Now repeat step 1 again but this time for step 2 open your feet up a bit and swing along your feet again. This should produce a pull cut. Essentially all you are doing is changing your swing plane by changing where your body is pointing. This is a FAR FAR smarter way to alter your ball flight than trying to swing steeper or more flatly to hit a pull cut or push draw because this method will allow you to make the same move every single time, just in a different direction. As long as you remember to point your face at the target and point your body in the direction you want your plane to take, closing the feet to produce a more outward push/draw type swing plane and opening the feet to produce a more vertical pull/cut type of swing plane, you should be able to shape the ball pretty well easily enough.
  12. Sure it does. I'm with Iacas in which I don't recommend doing it by pushing the left arm but there is nothing wrong with lifting the club and letting a good shoulder turn take care of the rest.
  13. First of all, I have pretty big muscles and big size in general and I shoot free throws like a crazy person. Also see David West from the New Orleans Hornets. He is the best shooting and free throw shooting power forward in the NBA and he's got a body like the Hulk. At the end of the day I would say lift as much weights as you can. Do core/back stuff and leg stuff especially. But stretch religiously too. Make sure you stretch daily.
  14. What you are probably not considering and what is probably the culprit is your angle of attack. The angle of attack on a driver should be pretty much level meaning you aren't hitting down on it and you aren't hitting up on it either. By hitting more down on it, you are adding a lot of spin to the drive and also you are obviously going to launch it much lower. If you hit a flat angle of attack or if you hit slightly up on it you increase your launch angle and lower your spin dramatically. This is the main reason why guys on the PGA tour hit the ball so far. It isn't swing speed (though that helps) as much as it is how they hit the ball. The idea angle of attack on a wedge is about 10 down, a 7 iron is about 5 down, and a driver about 1 up. I have seen people gain 30-50 yards of distance on drives by fixing their angle of attack.
  15. The basic idea is called extensor action. It sounds crazy and takes some getting used to but once you get it, it is the most structured and solid back swing you could make. The right fore arm preferably takes the club back, the entire time the right tricep and upper arm is attempting to straighten the right arm, the left arm is passively acting as a leash and so the left arm stays nice and taut. As soon as you run out of right arm to bend the back swing stops because the pushing right arm will not allow the left arm to bend (which is a huge problem if it does). This also does a lot to keep your wrist alignments in good shape throughout the back swing. Most people will actually shorten the swing, gain consistency, and gain power due to the fact that their alignments improve so dramatically with this method.
  16. The Red is actually mid/high launch mid/low spin. You are thinking about the Axiv Green. It is low launch and low spin.
  17. Very slowly but yes. The whole idea is you can't run out of right arm until after impact. As soon as you run out of right arm the club slows down dramatically. So basically you start shoving slowly and gain power until you run out of right arm to shove (the arm is straight) about 12 inches past the ball.
  18. Assuming it didn't draw yes :)
  19. Shoving the club with your right arm, right tricep specifically, to power the club. Basically if you take the club to the top you have two ways of getting it back. You can drag it with the left side or shove it with the right side which most aren't familiar with. Its a pretty efficient way to hit the ball but takes some getting used to.
  20. I decided to fool around with hitting it with my right arm again which I haven't experimented with for about 6 months now. I always struggled with the whole right arm hitting thing but I recently got a PC and cameras set up in my garage and decided to mess around with it again and see what it looks like. Surprising to me it looks a hell of a lot better than my swinging stroke. Thought I would post it and see what you guys think:
  21. Firstly, you should get fit for your putter. I was fitting professionally for a putter yesterday and come to find out I actually was aiming into the ground and left of the hole about a foot from 8 feet. That was eye opening. You also need this........ Trust me, you have no idea how much this helps. http://www.aimpointgolf.com/ http://www.aimpointgolf.com/map_ca.html
  22. I think we are discussing planting as two different things. What I mean by planting is applying weight to. You can do that without lifting it off the ground. What you mean I'm guessing is moving it from above the ground to the ground which you can actually do without applying much weight to it at all. Weight being applied to it generally requires your body to be moving towards it and especially your hips to be sliding over it. That is a good thing. What I'm stressing is that because your foot doesn't leave the ground doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't slide your hips over that foot and apply more weight to that foot. For golfing purposes in the transition and down swing the lead foot needs to be planted, with weight shifting more and more on to it, with hips sliding over it, to tilt the spine away from it so that an inside path can be made down to the golf ball.
  23. Completely wrong no offense. Proof here, stand with both feet flat on the ground. Without lifting either foot put 90% of the weight on your right foot and then 90% of the weight on your left foot. Very easy to do and both ways and the weight transfers to the planted foot. Effectively what you are doing, as long as you are actually trying to shift right and left in your swing, is making a plant/post leg. In the back swing you shift weight to your right foot and then turn on it. In the forward swing your weight moves to your left foot AND THEN you turn on it. Most people never understand how to get the weight back to the front foot which means they turn on the back foot. This move leads to a slice which its no surprise that most people do.
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