Improve Golf Swing
How can you improve your Golf swing?
find a good teacher/PGA professional that can give you good instruction. someone said not to do that… i have been taking lessons from a pga pro and one of my friends has just been practicing and she is wayy behind me in knowing what to do. when you take lessons from a pga pro… you are learning the fundamentals (grip, alignment, stance) and you learn how to improve your swing from there. if you make a mistake… they are there to help you fix that mistake and help make it so that u don’t make to many more mistakes. when you take lessons though.. you need to make sure it is someone that you can be comfortable with as you get to know them. they can also help you with chipping and putting. and no.. they don’t teach you their swing because.. they have been taught on how to teach you your own swing, no ones swing is exactly alike.. they may look alike but they aren’t. don’t just practice and not take lessons because.. you can be making your swing worse, because you may have something wrong with your swing. it is a lot easier to teach a student that doesn’t really know how to swing but.. they can help people that do have a swing but it is a bit harder to improve (atleast that is what my cousins has told me).
i don’t know where you live but… go to www.golfgalaxy.com and go to lessons or something like that and see if there is a store by where you live and you can book a lesson because they have a pga pro in every store. you can also… go to a local golf course and talk to the pro there and see if they can give you some lessons. i don’t know if golf discount gives lessons but it is a store just like golf galxaxy. www.golfdiscount.com
when you do start lesons… make sure you practice between lessons..i learned that the hard way
good luck!!
Improve my Golf Swing?
Could anyone please look at this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZZphyjnUoM
and help me fix my problem. I tend to pull my left shoulder up or straighten my left leg too soon on my downswing and slice it alot. I have taken lessons, but he cannot answer my question, he tries to go too fast. Any help is appreciated.
When a golfer hits a slice as opposed to a fade there are TWO things going wrong at the same time. Now your set-up to the ball is fade. No doubt about it. Your stance is open, the ball is forward just inside your front foot. You want to move the ball about 1 to 1 1/2 balls back in your stance and away from you. That’s just set-up.
Reason 1 – Your arms are tucked into your body. That’s not only the major reason you slice it has to be uncomfortable. You gain no extra control being closer to the ball. So when you address feel as if you are slightly reaching for the ball. Let your arms hang naturally or even out from you a little bit. Most slicers have no idea that their set-up is the reason they slice. When you set-up and your hands are in your lap you have to know that it is next to impossible to get them back to that position without lifting up your body or (as in your case) coming over the top. The ball should be placed slightly at the toe of your grounded clubhead. NOT center. Lift the clubhead up with your wrists next time you set-up and see where the ball is when the clubhead is direclty behind it. I bet it’s completely on the heel. Move back so it’s center.
Reason 2 – It is your left elbow. The left elbow controls the look of that clubface. The presentation of that moving clubhead to the ball during your swing is inherent upon that left elbow. The breakdown of that left elbow happens at the top of your very long backswing. If you shorten it you can keep your elbow intact. When you try for that “little extra” everything breaks down and you have to compensate on your downswing. In your video at exactly 9 seconds is the top of your backswing. You are past parallel and the extra three inches of turn takes you off plane and makes you lose that elbow.
Take a look at this video. http://www.golflink.com/tipsvideos/video.asp?v=26834
It says right elbow but it goes in depth into the left elbow as well.
Lastly, (this doesn’t have to do with your slice) you want to feel as if you are swinging through the ball not “hitting” the ball. There is one thing that makes this swing decent not great and that is confidence. There is a definite tentativeness about this action. Know that you are in control of all of what is going on with this golf shot. As you see these shots straighten out you will gain a little confidence and start to swing through. But all in all a good swing, good rhythm, good posture and weight transfer good follow-through. Good swing. Good Luck
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