Concentrate on Swing Faults to Improve Your Golf Swing
Concentrate on Swing Faults to Improve Your Golf Swing
Golf swing faults are hard to pin down. Some are consistent and quite common, faults like a slice or hook ball flights, swinging over the top, or casting.
Others are more subtle, like releasing wrist cock and lag to early, reverse pivot or not swinging through the ball and they can come and go at different times. Sometimes fault fixes create others or tend to work only in the short term.
The golf swing, especially the downswing, is so fast that it is sometimes hard to identify the fault responsible. Watching the ball flight may give the only clue.
There are literally thousands of golf tips about fixing you swing online, in books, in golf lore. A great number of these tips are wrong or fall into the category of "band-aid" fixes, just bad advice, or identify the wrong fault.
Some examples of suspect golf lore blunders, usually yelled out by you or your playing partners right after you swing.
"Keep your head down" - This one is very common and is usually incorrect in that keeping your head down is wrong to start with, your chin should be up off of your chest and your eyes should be on the ball.
"He moved his head" - Again incorrect, the head as an extension of the spine, does rotate naturally during the backswing and again in the downswing and follow through. If they were referring to bobbing the head up and down, they might have a case.
"Didn't turn your hands over" - Flipping the hands is a common error, they really rotate in concert with the rolling of the fore arms.
Many times there could be more than one swing fault at play, but there is usually only one cause for the result. For example a slice is caused by impacting the ball with an open club face, this could be a grip in a weak position, swinging over the top, swinging too hard, or gripping to tight all of which could result in an open club face.
Many recreational golfer's rather than consult with a golf instructor to find the cause of their incorrect swing or ball flight will try one of "golf lore" methods.
Using the slice as the example again;
They may try to close the club face at set up or impact, the result could now be a hook.
They may try aiming to the left, the result would still be a slice.
As stated earlier there are many different swing faults, some of them will be hard to diagnose, and many times there could be more than one cause or result.
Your best solution is to work with a PGA teaching professional to get the correct diagnoses and work with what he prescribes for a permanent fix.
Now you just have to hope another does not develop!
Jim Newell is a 66 year old retiree, a very zealous amateur golfer and serious student of this great game. Once being a mid handicap player he is on a quest to improve his swing and re-gain some of the distance he once had. His website http://www.GolfDriverSwingKeys.com is dedicated to helping himself and other golfer's in their quest to improve their golf swing.
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