Sunday, I promised I’d share the secret of golf that I discovered in a lesson over the weekend.
It was said that Ben Hogan supposedly was coaxed to share his “secret”, but that he kept the real secret for himself. Many now claim to know the lost secret move that gave Hogan’s swing the magic.
Well, I’m afraid that it has nothing to do with angles or positions. If golf swings were meant to be a series of geometrical checkpoints, then players [...]
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There are two main schools of thought about ball position for full swings. The first is that ball position is around the middle of the stance for a wedge and moves slightly toward the left foot (for a right-hander) for each longer club, through the driver where the ball position would be somewhere near the left heel. The stance also widens slightly for each longer club.
The second is a relatively stationary ball position near the left heel but [...]
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Not too long ago, I discussed hitting shots from uphill and downhill lies. The adjustments are relatively straightforward.
How about sidehill lies? Same thing. The adjustments are straightforward when you understand what’s going on. With a little practice, you can get a grip on the likely outcome and handle those shots with no problem.
Ball Above Feet
The most important thing to remember when the ball is above your feet is that the orientation of the club (for a [...]
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Fewer and fewer golf courses these days are relatively flat. In fact, the ones are mostly flat are those that were probably just cut out of the landscape before it became normal to sculpt the land more. And, if you live in an area where the land is naturally hilly, then even old courses will be undulating.
That means that it’s very important to understand how to hit shots from uneven lies. Even a perfectly struck drive will [...]
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Uh oh, another golf swing revolution.
Golf Digest has cornered that market on the stack and tilt swing, so Golf Magazine came out with a revolution of its own in the September 2007 issue. This time, it’s the “No-Backswing” swing.
The concept has been developed and studied by Top-100 teachers Dr. Jim Suttie and Dr. T.J. Tomasi. This isn’t a new idea. When I was first learning the game almost 15 years ago, a pro demonstrated this to me [...]
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