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Lift Your Head
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What is the worst tip in golf? "Keep Your Head Down!" Keeping your head down makes it difficult to make
a turn in the back swing, to make a full follow-through, and to find the ball after you have hit it.
You want to keep your head up off your chest so your back, chest and shoulders can turn on the back swing.
Keeping your head up allows your arms to follow through to the top and you can look up to enjoy the sight
of that good shot, plus you will be able to find it to hit it again!
Don't Shift Your Weight
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In a golf swing, we should work on fixing the cause of the problem not the result.
The correct transfer of weight in the backswing is the result of a correct pivot,
not the focus of your attention as the club moves away. A correct pivot occurs
when you turn your shoulders behind the ball. A way to feel this is to stand at address with the
club across your chest. Now turn your shoulders so the club's shaft is over and parallel to your right foot.
This is a correct pivot.
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Posture- The Start of A Great Swing
A number of the golfers I work with for the first time need to understand and get into a great address position.
Let's look into this. The golf swing takes approximately 3 to 5 seconds. That isn't a lot of time to try to do many things.
What's more, from the top of your backswing to impact happens in 1/10 of a second. So, as you can see, it is very important to
control the things that happen early in the swing because they can make or break it.
A great address position consists of 2 things
- Having the correct body position
- Having the club in the correct position
To get your body into a correct position try this drill, do the following: Stand at attention.
Place a club on your back where the club head is touching your head and the grip is touching your rear end.
The lower part of your back should be arched in and not touching the club shaft. Without letting the
club head come away from your head and without the grip coming away from your rear end, bend from your
hips slightly forward. This is key. Most golfers bend from their back and waist.
In order to allow your body to move correctly in a golf swing, you need to bend from your hips.
After you have bent forward about 20 to 30 degrees from your attention position, you now flex your knees slightly.
Your weight should be even on both feet and towards the balls of each foot.
Now let your arms hang down below your shoulders.
To most golfers who haven't been in this position, it seems very strange and uncomfortable,
but if you do it in front of a mirror you will see that it looks correct.
The uncomfortable feeling will go away as your body gets use to it.
The club position is important at address. Many golfers believe the club shaft and your lead arm should form a straight line. This leads to many problems in the takeaway. It mainly causes the club to move too low and inside the proper swing plane. If you face a mirror
in your good posture, your hand should be in the middle of your body, straight from your belly button.
When you grip the club, you will see that lines drawn up your arms and from shoulder to shoulder forms a triangle.
A line drawn up your club shaft would bisect that triangle and go through your lead eye. Looking down at the club face, it may appear that your hands are behind it. If you look at the mirror, you will see that is not the case.
Work on these two ingredients to help you get your swing and your game off to a great start.
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