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Monday, 16 November 2009 | The Golf Drill Guru One of the most common causes of your slice is an over-the-top move on the downswing. Most golfers don’t know the difference, but this move actually causes a different type of slice – a pull slice. It’s a slice that starts left of your target and quickly turns right – it... |
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Fix Your Over-the-Top Slice
Monday, 16 November 2009 | The Golf Drill Guru One of the most common causes of your slice is an over-the-top move on the downswing. Most golfers don’t know the difference, but this move actually causes a different type of slice – a pull slice. It’s a slice that starts left of your target and quickly turns right – it... |
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No... Don't Bend Your Knees
Monday, 26 October 2009 | The Golf Drill Guru Keep your head down, and bend your knees! Hear it before? This is by far the worst advice anyone can offer a beginner golfer. In this post we are going to focus on the ‘bend your knees’ part of the annoying myth. First off, don’t do it! Bending your knees will promote an... |
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The backswing is one of the most important determinants in creating and retaining power. A break down in the first few movements of the backswing can rob your swing of power and reduce your chance of solid contact. Many instructors have talked about a one-piece takeaway; this move involves the arms, wrists and club moving away from address together. Seen front on, the arms and wrists make a triangle. This triangle is very important to retain in the first movements of the backswing on all full shots.
To help encourage this move try the extension takeaway drill. Grab a box of a dozen golf balls and head out to the range. Setup without a ball and place the box of golf balls directly behind your club. When you perform your backswing, focus on pushing the box of balls as far away from you as you can before cocking your wrists and completing your backswing. While doing this it is important to try and retain the triangle you initially created at address for as long as possible. If you find your wrists breaking and you’re just flipping the box of balls out of the way, you’re not doing this move correctly. Work on maintaining this throughout the start of your backswing. By delaying your wrist cock on the backswing you create a wider swing arc. This will encourage you to have a better angle of attack and help create more swing speed from the leverage of a wider swing arc. An early wrists cock robs you of power, by making your swing very armsy and your swing arc very narrow.
Not too sure what I mean when I refer to swing arc? Try and think of it this way… if you were to swing a 3’ stick, the outer tip of this stick would be moving pretty fast, however if you now swung a 5’ stick at the same pace, the outer tip would be moving much faster. This is the difference between swinging with only your wrists (narrow swing arc), or including your arms (wider swing arc). This drill helps you to incorporate your arms into swing – thus widening your swing arc and increasing your clubhead speed. You can see that in the bottom picture, my wrists are just beginning to cock. Incorporate this move into your golf swing and you’ll see a dramatic increase in your distance and consistency. Don’t miss this one! On a side note, we've already had quite a few new swings uploaded to our new site SirSwingsAlot.com - Even had a fair bit of rating, and comments as well... Check it out yourself and upload your swing for a chance to win 1 of 3 Professional Swing Analysis'!           In Case You Missed It...
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