Feb 20, Golf swing Lessons for Instant Golf Game Improvement
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Feb 11, Please share – Classic Golf Swing Lessons ebook link
Please would you share the link for my ebook – Classic Golf Swing Lessons to friends, family, and your golfing partners.
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Feb 11, Anchoring your Putter debate
A question by Robert from California.
What is (if any) the rule(s) about anchored clubs ?
My reply
As far as I am aware there is no rule about anchoring your clubs. I take it you mean with the putter.
The way I see it is there is no real advantage behind anchoring your putter as opposed to putting the conventional way which is probably why the Royal and Ancient and the USGA have not brought a rule out yet.
Some tour players are successful with them while others have gone from bad to worse.
An example of this is Ernie Els. First of all he had much to say some time ago on players switching to belly putters and that it is not a golf stroke and Tiger repeated the same sentiment recently.
The fact is Ernie went against his beliefs and public statements about belly putters a couple of months ago and has gone from bad to worse on the greens using one!
Getting back to Tiger. He seems to have brought more attention, probably because of who he is about the use of belly putter on tour. It will be a shame for the authorities to listen to him and act on his comments in this regard. After all he does not own the game.
My take is, if anchoring helps to bring your scores down then putt with the putter anchored to your belly. If not stay with the conventional way.
Anchoring your putter is not much of an advantage over the conventional style of swinging the putter with your hands in my opinion.
What are your comments? Let’s hear them by replying to this thread on the golf help page in the left navigation bar on this page.
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Feb 9, What effect does it have on my golf swing if I wrap my left thumb around the club shaft?
Asked by Frank Seiler, North Fort Myers ,Fl
Louis reply
If I understand you correctly, you are asking about placing the left thumb down alongside the handle instead of resting on top of the handle and what effect this has.
The first point I want to make is – if placing the left thumb alongside the handle instead of on top of it had any advantages then most tour players would be holding the club this way (and all golfers for that matter).
The fact is no good player out there holds the left thumb in this position.
The disadvantages of such a position is achieving unity of the hands when you swing the club. We swing the club with brute force. And unity in the hands is vital for controlling the force and applying power into the shot.
What is most likely to happen with this thumb position is the hands cannot support each other they way they should resulting in too much pressure exerted in the wrong fingers and places which can affect the proper hinging of the wrists on the back and down swings.
It becomes harder to control the club at the transition stage of the back and down swing. This area is where much pressure in exerted on the last three fingers of the left hand. If the thumb is NOT underneath the handle at the transition stage it becomes more difficult for the left hand to support the force exerted when the club changes direction for the down swing.
The last three fingers of the left hand should hold slightly firmer than the other fingers on the left and if the thumb is first of all placed on top the the handle at address it will be underneath the handle at the top of the back swing giving added support to the club during the transition stage.(acting like the third leg of a tripod)
When the left thumb is alongside the handle at the transitional stage of the swing you are most like to experience a looseness of the club in the left hand causing an early release and loss of control of the club and a change in club face position, all not good for a solid consistent strike.
Hope this answers you question!
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Feb 8, Golf Swing Techniques, Stack and Tilt and Others
when it comes to golf swing techniques very few golfers are aware and understand how to adapt their swings to new swing techniques.
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Feb 8, When Does The Club Release
Hi Louis,
On the down swing I try to maintain my wrist angle. But I have discovered that I do not release my hands at impact.
I hit the ball often with the clubface more open than square. Does the wrist actually pass lets say the zipper of your pants, before you release the club head?
Louis reply
Releasing the club may differ slightly from player to player.
There is no exact position where the club and left arm straighten out at impact because of strength and flexibility factors of the individual.
In a good strong player, yes, the hands can reach the zipper of the pants before releasing the club and be ahead of the club head at impact. For the average golfer release of the club is around hip high on the down swing.
Consider the whole idea to release correctly is to get back to impact with the arms and club in a similar position to what they were at address.
You can improve how “late” you release by firstly gripping correctly and having the pressures in the correct fingers of the left hand.
The reason perhaps why you arrive at impact with the club face open is your right shoulder movement on the down swing moves outward towards the ball instead of moving downward to your right hip in the early stages of the down swing.
The right shoulder moving outward or over encourages a release of the wrists way too early on the down swing.
If you allow the right shoulder to move downwards and under the chin into impact you will find you can naturally delay the release for longer into the down swing for that split second. The lower body will respond by shifting your weight on the left side.
The momentum of the club head will release the cocked right wrist into impact.
I have an excellent swing exercise drill in my book Classic Golf Swing Lessons on swing plane and how to build the feeling of getting in the correct body position for releasing correctly. You should buy it!
Trust I have answered your concerns here!
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Feb 6, Golf Swing Path Improvement
having a good golf swing path can add power to your swing and give you more accuracy. You can achieve this easily with this training aid.
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Feb 3, Shanking Causes and How to Fix It
stop shanking by understanding what the causes are and how you can prevent this awfull shot.
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Feb 3, Golf Help with Your Golf Swing Faults
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