Apr 16 2009
Grooving Your Swing
The key to hitting longer, straighter drives is squaring your clubface at impact. Anything less this results in either a weak drive or a slice or pull. To ensure you attain the correct impact position, your swing must be mechanically flawless or you must make pre-impact adjustments on the fly.
But making adjustments is not conducive [...]
Apr 6 2009
Igniting Your Swing With The Right Side
Conventional wisdom isn’t always the solution in golf. For example, when holding instruction sessions, I advocate using your left side to ignite your swing. This approach eliminates several common swing errors. Golfers igniting their swings with their right sides often start the club back too quickly or jerk their hands too far inside the target [...]
Mar 16 2009
Swing East, Hit Hard - Couples Style
Among the biggest mistakes weekend golfers make is thinking they must swing harder to drive the ball farther. That’s not so. You can swing easy and still hit the ball a long way, if you know what you’re doing�a point I’ve often stressed in my golf tips and golf lessons.
Take Fred Couples�one of the Tour’s [...]
Mar 12 2009
Use A Wall To Cure This Common Swing Fault
Taking the club too far inside the target line on the backswing spells disaster. It can lead to all sorts of bad shots—pushes, slices, duck hooks, and topped shots. A common swing fault, this move is usually caused by a backswing controlled by the hips and the dipping of the shoulders away from the ball. [...]
Mar 4 2009
Four Drills For Achieving A Sweeter Swing (II)
This is the second part of a two-part article. It discusses centering and radius—two of the four common denominators that make for a sweeter swing—one that will dramatically cut your scores and lower your golf handicap. Part I covered plane and face, the other two common denominators.
Professional golfers all have sweet swings. Otherwise, they wouldn’t [...]
Mar 4 2009
Four Drills For Achieving A Sweeter Swing (I)
This is the first part of a two-part article. It covers plane and face—two of the four common denominators to a sweeter swing that will help you lower your golf handicap. Next week we’ll discuss centering and radius.
The next time you watch golf on TV, take a close look at each golfer’s swing. If you’re [...]
Mar 1 2009
Master These Four Swings
Professional golfers practice harder that most fans think. It’s what makes them so good. They practice so hard because the know that no matter how much physical talent they have they know that practice is the best way of improving their games. So they develop programs designed to abolish their weaknesses. Then, they build their [...]
