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The guy on the golf fix had a good theory behind this one. You do not want to look at anything specifically... Get behind the ball, get a visual of the ball flight and were you want it to go. Concentrate on the target in the distance. Now address the ball and continue to think about that target, imagine it in your head. Swing. You do not want to look at a specific point. what will happen is you will have a complete view of the ground and the ball, taking everything in your whole field of vision. This will allow you to swing freely because you are not trying to drive the ball into one point, but letting the club naturally take its swing arc, and you happen to just put the ball were it needs to be. So this is more letting the club do the work. I like this idea because if you think about the game of darts, you focus in on one point and you throw the dart there. Well to me when you focus in on one point you are trying to get the club there in the shortest route. This can mess you up, you might end up not letting the natural arc of the swing occur.

Crunches are good, but if you want to truely build strength in the abs, you want to do Planks, Side Planks, or Mountain Climbers. Ab muscles are meant for stability, keeping the body in a good standing postured. Which is required in the golf swing to maintain spine angle. I would switch out a few crunches for those three exercises.

I had this issue for a while, the past year. I found the best thing to think about is slowing the swing down. You be amazed how little distance you loose with the increase in ball striking. Also, work on keeping that spine angle through out the swing, will help stabalize the swing more. Then what i concentrate on is on the backswing that my right hip tucks backwards. Not to the point i loose my torque in the my swing. Then i want the same sensation on the downswing into the follow through. That my weight is getting to my left heel while my left hip is tucking backwards. A good drill might be to swing with your feet close together, i mean touching. If you do your violent hip slide you will fall over. you will find you have to rotate your hips to do this drill correctly, only take 3/4th shots doing this drill.. Another drill would be to place your feet closer together, about a foot apart, then bring your right foot back and on its toe, then make one arm swings with your left arm only. This will help you get the feeling of being on your right side at impace and the finish. If you slide your hips you will fall over again.

100% correct.. I think i was 2 over par once and there was this dogleg right that was drivable for me. straight ahead, should have took a long iron out. But i tried to play a big push cut into the green to try to get eagle. I hooked it into the water. Luckily i made a 8 footer for par. But i should have just hit a long iron and try to hole the iron from the fairway, probably a better chance of doing that then going for the green in one. If your style is aggressive, then play aggressive, just be smart about it. For me personally, i am a pin seaker, because i have confidence i can get up and down a good % of the time. I love playing like that, nothing more boring to me than middle fairway, middle green, two putt. To do so i try to play shot making golf, curve the ball. Even if the hole is a straight away, i will try a power fade or big sweeping draw, instead of my tradition 5 yard draw that is my natural shot shape. You can make golf fun, and it will help you get rid of alot of pressure. It will help you concentrate on the shot at hand if you make mini games out of each shot. Now don't do this when playing for a tourniment or serious money, you need to go all out there. But in a league or recreation golfing, make it fun. My rules, If the Par 5 is tight driving, 3 wood and lay up. If its not, then let it rip. Unless you are good at pitch shots, i would try to hit a tee shot that left you will a full iron shot on each approach. If that means on a 340 par 4 you hit a 3 wood or 3-iron, then do it.

The reason your shoulder is grabbing your chin is because your slouched over the ball. If you get that back straighter and more flex in the knees then your shoulders will natrually fall backwards. If you stand up straight your shoulder blades naturally fall into there girdle and you stand up tall, you need that feeling when you bend over at the hip. You don't want to squeeze your shoulder blades together, but you want to hold then in there natural position. This will keep your shoulders from being tucked forward on you and get them away from your chin, letting you to rotate around your spine more..

Actually, it depends on the person. With a consistant swing, if you move the ball forward you are actually going to hook the ball because your giving your swing more time to close the club face. If you move the ball back, now the ball is in a position were the club face will be in an open position and you will slice or push the ball. The club doesn't move straight down the target line, its only square for a short while.

Just keep working on it, it takes a while to fix faults that have been around for a long time. I switched my grip once, i was shanking the ball for a while, then i started hitting solid shots. But just remember, if you think someone can two putt each hole, thats 36 putts. even if you shoot a 96 thats over 1/3rd of the shots in the golf round. I would think you want to spend 1/3rd of your pratice time on golf. Rough numbers, i assume you hit at least 1 iron per hole, 1 driver per hole, and two putts per hole. If you happen to make the green, then you have a par. if not, short game. Really, if you want to make drastic improvements, look at working on short game and putting. If you spend two hours a day on golf, i would spend an hour on putting and short game, 30 minutes on each.

A Classic miss for a really good player. I am going to try to get this right, i know MOE will probably correct me if i am wrong on this.. Push means that your club is comming from the inside out, and that the club face angle relative to the swing path is square. Hook would mean that the club face angle relative to the swing path is less than square, closed way to much. So this is pretty much a timing issue. I have the same issue as you do, a push or hook if things are going bad. This is because i hang back on my right side, due to my hips flying out to fast getting ahead of my upper body. This causes me to flip the club or if i don't time it perfect push it right. I think you issue is the overswinging, because the club lags so much you are having a hard time syncing it up. honestly for me, i have the same problem. My swing though it 3/4th shots. If i think 3/4th shot, then my club is at parallel, but it feels like i am way short of it. I still think you are comming out of your swing a bit in the downsing, body lifts up out of it and you loose your spine angle. One of the best mental notes i heard of was you want to try to compress the ball with your chest. That is keep overtop of the ball. When you lift out of it you need perfect timing. I would look at Pro swing sequences to get a look at how your swing differs from theres. You have a very very good swing, and the next step is probably nit pick at a few things here and there.

Continue to work on weight transfer, stop getting stuck on the right foot. Get over the mental block with regards to overswinging when ever i use my driver Practice putting and chipping to take my golf game to the next level

You are flying your hips out to much, and you are staying a little to much back on your right foot going through impact. If you stop the video at the 4 seconds left mark, you can see his spine bent over, and his head hanging low. You dropped your right shoulder down and through, during impact and stayed on your back side. I would work on maintaining that spine angle more, other than that the angles look good, on plane.. Solid swing

Even so i find it good to practice the posture, so its repeatable. There is a collapse in his spine angle on the backswing, but mostly due to him being to close to the ball. His hands should be under his shoulders to his chin at address position. I would like him to have a straighter arm, but its not that important, as long as you do not collapse it fully, it doesn't have to be locked in straight. Yea definetly work on turning the upper body against the lower. You are loosing tons of power when you rotate your hips as much as the upper body. Its alright to bring the left heel off the ground in the backswing, jack did it and other pro's, but you don't want to have that left knee collapse to the right on you like that.

You got to work on the fudamentals of the golf set up. Your ball position looks good. But you are hunched over the ball, and you are to close to the ball. What you want to do is this. Stand up tall, then bend at your waist, it should feel like your butt is sticking out, once you get a good tilt at the waist, then bend your knees. you don't want to be bent over to much that you feel off balance. The video looks like you are on the heels with your weight. You want to be on the balls of your feet, which are located between the toes and the beginning of the arch of the foot. You can tell if you stand straight up and rock back and forward, get the sense of being on your toes and heels, then come to a neutral balance, you should be on the balls of your feet. I would work on the posture first this will fix alot. I would practice in front of a mirror. Get some swing sequences of pro's to see there posture, check golf.com or golfdigest.com, they have swing videos or photoes.

Back when i had my Titleist 795D, i was able to. The reason, that club could spin the ball like crazy, different times different Tech. Today with low spin drivers, its hard to get the ball to travel up the golf club and get any good height on it. If its not with in 3-wood distance, just lay up. Better than topping one and leaving you with a 3-wood shot.

Well my goal is 60%+, but i am usually around 45-50%... I think my best round of golf i had, i was probably 15 out of 18 greens, i shot two over par. The issue was i didn't play a round of golf all year, just came home and played a round with my dad. So my putting and chipping were no good at all. But man were the driver and irons on fire. What helped was playing Racquetball.

"Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga" Well there is a big different between tempo and over swinging... When you loose your synch between the parts of the swing, that is overswinging. Nick Price has one of the fastest tempo's, and i believe greg norman did as well, His driver would bounce off his back. just making the distinction between the two. yeah its all mental for you. It will just take practice to get that calm on every shot. I would start with never taking another second ball again, even on putts. Just don't do it, its a bad habit.

I take that mostly as true. I remember johnny miller once said that he could fade the ball with his hands alone, because he could minutely open or close his hands just before contact and through contact to shape the ball. ok now that i think about it, and visualize the club comming through the ball, i can see how that is true. If the toe of the club is past the hozel, then the club face is pointing to the left and the ball should go left, unless you have an outside in golf swing which part of that can neutralize it. So the article is saying that to hit a fade, were you want to start it to the left of the hole and bring it in to the right. If 85% of the balls initial flight is based on angle of the club face, that means you want to have a close club face at impact, and have an outside in swing path. I guess that makes sense, but there is more dynamics to the golf face than that. I played a 4-iron on the golf course the other day, were i aimed my body at the left side of the green, and i was going to hit a push fade. So my swing thought was to finish high and not rotate my arms over for a normal shot. That means, the clubface was open at impact. But my divot showed it heading right for i aimed. The ball started off a bit right of were i aimed and went right. So how did the ball go right if i didn't have an outside in swing path. the 15% of the swing path would be near 0 degrees. Then my clubface was open, so that means it would start to the right, which it did. But then it headed right. So that means an open club face, on a straight path will produce some sort of side spin to cause the ball to fade right. Because it faded about 15 yards.

Keeping stats is alright to do. But don't get to carried away with it. To me the most imporant stats are these. Greens in Regulations, for me i like to get about 60% or more Number of Putts, i like to average less than 2.0 per hole Scrambling Believe me, my handicap ranges from a 3 to a 14, it dependant on those things. Driving accuracy is over rated, unless you play on a course has tight golf holes. My driving accuracy last year was probably 20-30%, my handicap was about a 10. My best days came when i can manage less than 2.0 putts per hole, and hit 60%+ of my GIR. For most golfers, average length of putts isn't imporant, we are not that good to help that out, unless you do some serious ball striking practice.

1: Break Par this year, came close last year -2 at the half, ended up at 4 over 2: Leave no putts short from 25 feet and in 3: actually practice the short game. 4: Lower handicap to scratch golfer 5: No three putts 6: Start playing in tourniments

Mine is a 420 par 4, it starts from an elevated tee, the fairway deep down then rise back up to an elevated green. There is a hazard on the left, and trees on the right. Its a slight dogleg right, but there are a group of trees that shrink the fairway a bit and forces your eye sight towards the hazard. The green is guarded by two bunkers, and its a two teir green that in the summer you can easily putt it off the green. I hate this hole because it doesn't suit my eye. I hit a slight draw, and i have to aim over the trees on the right to get the center of the fairway. Then the green is pure evil.

Well i was tought, when you want to fade the ball, aim your feet were you want the ball to start, aim the club were you want it to end. So a fade would be, aim your feet to the right, aim your club at the pin, and swing the club along your feet, and you got a fade. So if i take that logic to a duck hook, that starts left, he must either be aiming left, or has such an over the top swing that the club path. The over the top is unlikely because this produces spin that causes a slice. So his path must be inside out. He is also flipping his hands over, causing more spin. No way a duck hook happens on a normal inside out swing. My swing was so inside out my left hand almost touched my right hip on the downswing, i never duck hooked it. I only ducked hooked in when i got stuck on my left side and my hands flipped through impact to compensate for lack of weight shift. So if his starts left, and ducks, then he must be aiming left and flipping his hands. My best guess from personal experience, i get this duck hook a couple times a year. Check the alignment, check the weight transfer. If both are fine, see if the hands are flipping. If so, then you will have to develop a feel for it not flipping. Which means doing something completely opposite of what they are use to doing. I would try hitting a knock down shot for a while, making sure the left hand is bowed at impact, keeping the hands low through impact and feeling like the top of the left hand is traveling at the target.

Well if hitting, "IT" means hitting the hosel of the club, then most likely the person is standing to close to the ball. Since the hosel is the closest part of the club to you, then you are standing to close. But this is further perpetuated by an outside in swing and an open club face, which now you are having the hozel even more in play since the club face is rotating away from the ball. If the club face is open then that means the hozel is infront of the toe end of the club and more likely to impace the ball first. This is also true with an outside in swing, which the inner side of the shaft is comming at the ball, hence the hozel end of the club. If you have an inside out golf swing then you are protecting the hozel with the club face, less likely to hit the hozel from this position. So, really this supports when i get, "IT", that it happens when my hands break down at the top of my swing, completely chaning the club face angle, and now the hozel is more in play, and add into the fact if there is no hip turn, you are swinging with all arms. You now just added an outside in golf swing. Unless you are able to extremely rotate your hands through and make sure you are far enough away from the ball, then the likely hood of hitting the hozel is high. So my guess for a cure is, check the distance between you and the ball. For the most part, take a good athletic stance and let your hands hang from your shoulders straight down, or have your hands under your chin. This is a good starting position for the golf swing. Make sure you have hip rotation going backwards, that means your back is getting close to facing the target and your hips are pointing 45 degrees to the right (for right handers). This will be a full turn. Next, make sure you are not casting the club on an outside in swing path. My fix for this, laser pointer, duct tape and a yard stick. Put the yard stick on your target line, tape the laser pointer to the butt end of your club. Do the pump drill, google it and make sure that the laser is traveling from the right end to the golf ball as you slowly lower the club in your down swing. This will train your body to have a very on plane swing.

Thats called a bad habit. You feel like you don't want to hold up the group and you just wack a three footer with out going through the same routine as a normal putt. Don't get out of your routine no matter what, let others mess up there 3 footers, and if you play for money, make sure they count that as a stroke if you didn't give them the putt. Best thing my dad taught me, Putt out each putt, even 5 inches like you would normally any other putt.. This will help you considerably.

Go to a pro that does video analysis. Then you can see your swing your self. But if i had to guess, your either dipping your body and loosing your spine angle, causing a steep desceding angle into the ball.. Also, if you have tried to fix this by moving the ball back in your stance, this cause it to become worse, to fix it you want to try to hit golf balls off the inside of your front foot. Or another trick, place a tee in front of the ball about 3 inches and try to hit the tee and the ball. But first go see a Pro, hitting fat shots constantly is a major swing flaw that i can't help you with without seeing your swing.

i just got one, i love it for the front and back yardages mostly, this gives me my club range. No need to know 185 to the middle, i rather know 170 to the frong, 190 to the back, things like that. Then i know that if i hit a club to a max of 185, i wont go over.. I also like measuring my shots, then i can keep track of my yardages and gaps between my clubs better.. I say give him the yardage, he still has to hit the shot.

Depends on the dip. If you look at all the Pro's there heads go down a few inches during the golf swing. Is this actually causing you any problems. Or are you just trying to skim off any stroke you can. Because if you are, the best thing you can do from now on is, Putting, Chipping, and course management. You will find these three aspects will greatly effect your game more than trying to fix that dip, which isn't bad in the swing. People think the head shoudl stay still, thats false, and impossible to do. The head moves, you just don't want it to move opposite the direction of the weight shift during the swing. Also you don't want it moving upwards during the downsing. Other than that, the dip you have in negligable compared to other aspects of a golf game that can be improved upon. But if i had to nipick on your swing, i say you stay on your backside a bit to long. Your left shoulder isn't in line with your left knee and hands after impact. This is called the stacked position. So i would concern your self will a little less lateral hip movement, and start getting that left hip tucked behind you, and getting your weight to your left heel in the finish position.