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[IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME] Three separations drive the downswing

The quality of your release is related to three “separations” that occur as you start back to the ball: 1. Your hands must separate from your back shoulder and move directly down toward the ground. This movement contains an essential power lever, and it is not released until impact. 2. Your front shoulder must separate from your chin, a move that aids in dropping the arms and...

Golf | 2017-03-15 15:55

Extend your right arm through the shot

If you want to hit the ball far and accurately, you need to extend your right arm fully during the downswing. Your arms are straight at only one moment during your swing _ just after you hit the ball. Straight arms immediately after striking the ball show you’ve extended your right arm correctly through the shot. This means you’ve fully unleashed the power stored on the backs...

Golf | 2017-03-08 17:48

IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME

Legal mulligan By T.J. Tomasi Tour pro Heath Slocum cues up his swing by emphasizing his weight transfer with his left knee flexed over his foot. First he creates a swing image, then he matches the image with an actual rehearsal swing guided by a swing key. Finally, he steps to the ball with a fully developed swing image as his guide.Here's Slocum's actual downswing a fe...

Golf | 2017-03-08 17:33

[IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME] The opposition position

Vivid mental images let your muscles know what needs to be done when you make a golf swing. To better understand how power is unleashed to the ball, picture a horse and rider moving away from a wall with one end of a 60-foot coil of rope tied to the saddle and the other end anchored securely to the wall. The horse gains speed and the rope rapidly uncoils until it suddenly goe...

Golf | 2017-03-01 16:46

Swing your arms and club around the body

To hit your tee shots longer and straighter, you need to swing your driver on a flat plane. Just picture you driving a wedge under a door rather than hammer a nail into the floor. Driving the wedge under the door is the direction you need to feel when you swing your club. You need to let your swing force go along the ground through the wedge, or rather through your ball. Just...

Golf | 2017-03-01 16:44

One move to hit solid, powerful shots

To hit solid, powerful shots, you need to keep your left wrist flat at the top of your backswing. This helps you properly leave your left wrist flat when your club meets the ball. Simultaneously, you need to let the back of your left hand face your target as you unleash power into your shot. Aiming to keep your left wrist flat at the top allows you to swing your club on the p...

Golf | 2017-02-22 17:15

[IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME] Think small to stay on target

It's safe to say that most golfers don't aim correctly, and the farther away the target, the more ambiguous their aim becomes until, with the driver, they're aiming at something like "north," which is a nice direction, but not much of a target. The latest research by Dr. Jason Gallivan at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, suggests that the size of the target determines h...

Golf | 2017-02-22 17:13

Leave your right hand remaining outside your left hand

Typically, novice golfers push their club outside or inside the target line as they swing back. Pulling the club outside the line going back, you will incur nasty pulls, pull-slices or pull-hooks. Yanking the club to the inside, you will get the club stuck behind your body. This forces you to swing your club from inside to outside the target line. This causes horrible pushes,...

Golf | 2017-02-15 17:24

[IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME] Knuckle down for penetrating ball flight

What the clubface is doing at impact determines the quality of the strike _ in fact, where it’s pointing determines 75 to 85 percent of the initial starting direction of your golf ball. In addition to directional control, good players decrease clubface loft at impact to create laserlike penetration, while poor players add loft, producing out-of-control wobblers that blow all ...

Golf | 2017-02-15 17:19

Eight-point advice for long drives

You will hit shorter, easier approach shots if you hit long drives. The more you hit shorter approach shots, the more times you can hit your ball close to the hole. If you hit your ball close to the hole, you will make more birdies. To make your golf more enjoyable, you need to learn to hit your tee shots far to your maximum. Here are eight thoughts that will help you enjoy h...

Golf | 2017-02-08 18:44

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