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Ball Position
There is a big misunderstanding about where the ball should be at address. Many golfers believe that the ball position moves according to the type of club being used. For instance, when using short irons the ball is placed at your back foot and when using a driver it is moved to your front foot. Actually, the ball moves very little. It moves about three ball widths from your sand wedge to your driver, the golf club makes the necessary changes for you. Look how a driver is designed – the face is in front of the shaft. On most...
 
 

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As a power source your legs are very important, but not in the way you may think. The fact is your legs do not provide your swing with power directly. Power comes from your club head speed, and since your hands and arms hold the club, they are the only things that can directly make the club mo

When it comes to a golf swing, I try to get my students to understand what the golf club needs to be doing. It controls what happens to the golf ball and since it only takes about 4 to 5 seconds to make a golf swing, you need to understand how it starts back.

Let’s clear up one misconception. Your shoulders do not turn in the back swing. You may question this because you need to turn in you back swing. However, it is not your shoulders that turn. Trying to turn them can ruin your turn because your shoulders are independent of each other. You can

It is important to keep the club in front of your body. Many golfers take the club too low and too far to the inside on the backswing which forces them to manipulate the club back in front of them on the downswing. This over the top move in the downswing is what produces slices, pulls, steep di

What is the worst tip in golf? "Keep Your Head Down!" Keeping your head down makes it difficult to make a turn in the back swing, make a full follow-through and find the ball after you have hit it. You want to keep your head up off your chest so your back, chest and shoulders can turn on the b

In a golf swing, we should work on fixing the cause of the problem not the result.    The correct transfer of weight in the backswing is the result of a correct pivot, not the focus of your attention as the club moves away.  A correct pivot occurs when you turn your shou

A great many of the golfers I work with for the first time need to understand and get into a great address position.  Let’s look into this.  The golf swing takes approximately 3 to 5 seconds.  That isn’t a lot of time to try to do many things, what’s more from the top of your backs