Golf: A Numbers Game (By Woody Lashen and Pete Makowski) Knowing your numbers can help your game immensely. Understanding what your patterns are can help you with your game management, equipment needs and why your pro is directing you to make a change in your swing. But be careful – you must look at the…
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My good friend Woody Lashen from Pete’s Golf, is featured in online magazine, PrivateClubs.com: The Numbers Game (By Evan Rothman) Key golf figures that can help minimize your scores and maximize your enjoyment of the game (Click here to access the 4-page story with all the numbers you need to improve your game.) [ezcol_1third] ….
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Maintain your right wrist angle for a solid strike . Watch any good putter, and you’ll see that his or her right wrist (for right-handers) holds the same angle in the follow-through as it did at address (main photo). That’s a sign of stable wrists through impact—a must for good putting. By contrast, many amateurs…
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[ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] . 1) Hitting – right arm thrust 2) Swinging – Centrifugal force Biggest Errors: 1) Bent left wrist 2) Loss of rhythm Rhythm: is the clubshaft and left arm going through impact at the same (RPM) rate! . . YOU CAN GET A FREE VIDEO GOLF LESSON FROM TOM PATRI…
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Longer Drives May Be All in Your Head (Part 2, Conclusion) Continued from blog entry – “Right Heading, Longer Drives May Be All in Your Head (Part 1)” . [ezcol_2fifth] DRILL: FACE OVER FOOT Feel how the head and upper body should move with the swing by practicing the correct finish. To do that, think…
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Longer Drives May Be All in Your Head (Part 1) The average adult head weighs 12 pounds. When you’re trying to drive a golf ball a long way, it makes sense to have the momentum of this mass working for–instead of against–you. The world’s best players move their heads eight to 10 inches toward the…
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STAND CLOSER TO THE BALL TO STRAIGHTEN OUT YOUR TAKEAWAY (Part 2, Conclusion) Continued from blog entry – “Close the Gap (Part 1)” . DRILL: TO THE FOREFRONT . Once you’re standing properly, build an on-line, on-plane backswing with this drill I learned from my mentor, the late Bill Strausbaugh Jr. Start with the clubhead…
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STAND CLOSER TO THE BALL TO STRAIGHTEN OUT YOUR TAKEAWAY (Part 1) The golf ball isn’t going to hurt you. Yet many amateurs act as if they are afraid of it and stand to far away at address. They then have to bend too much from the waist and over-reach with the arms, which causes…
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[ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] . . . . One of my favorite putting “feel” drills is to have my student set up to their target, ready to putt, then just as they’re ready to start their stroke, close their eyes. After the ball is long gone, they may look. I ask them to repeat this process…
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