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By Paul Ito, PGA, Illustration By Steve Karp
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If you’ve been told the key to better ballstriking is to keep your head
down, odds are you’re a golfer who puts a slice on the ball. Also,
you’re a victim of bad advice, since keeping your head down can cause a
variety of swing (and back) problems. Keeping your head down on your
backswing actually will cause your head to get in the way and restrict
your body turn. This means your arms and upper body will lift upward
instead of around, and you’ll swing with an upright, outside-in swing
path.
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Get your irons in check by observing one of the best ballstrikers in golf
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By Brady Riggs, PGA, Photo By Warren Keating
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 Since his early days playing for England on two Walker Cup teams and
making noise as an NCAA star at Northwestern, Luke Donald has had PGA
Tour success in his sights. Having already cracked the top-60 in career
earnings with more than $12 million to his credit, you’d have to say
he’s right on track.
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By Steve Atherton, PGA; Illustration by Phil Franke
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 If you want to increase your ballstriking ability, you need to
understand how to rotate your hips properly in the golf swing. Most
amateur golfers rotate their hips too far during the backswing, which
makes it difficult for them to get their hips to open up to the target
at impact, a key component of a successful swing. |
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By Brady Riggs, PGA
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 Amateurs have problems hitting crisp iron shots due to two fatal flaws.
First, the takeaway tends to be too low to the ground, which delays the
proper hinging of the wrists until too late in the backswing. Second,
in a misguided effort to create power, the arms tend to swing too far
in the backswing. This causes a breakdown in posture and usually leads
to a reverse pivot. These flaws cause mis-hits and a lack of distance
and control. |
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By Eddie Lee, PGA; Photography by Warren Keating
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 If you’re planning a golf vacation this winter, be prepared to face a
course element common to most tracks in Hawaii, Arizona and Florida:
Bermuda grass. If you’re not accustomed to playing on this type of
turf, you may be surprised at how it can affect your game, both on the
fairway and the putting surface.
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By Karen Palacios-Jansen, Photography by Sam Greenwood
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 All good players have one position in the golf swing that’s similar
despite their very different-looking swings. This position is impact.
Good players retain their wrist-cock through the hitting area so that
their left wrist is bowed and the right wrist is flexed (for
right-handed golfers), and both hands are slightly in front of the golf
ball at the strike.
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By Barry Goldstein, Illustration by Phil Franké
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 For many golfers, topping the ball is a serious problem. Not only are
worm burners the ugliest shots to watch in golf, but they invariably
put your ball into horrendous situations from which to escape. |
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By A. J. Bonar, Illustration by Phil Franké
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 Believe it or not, the long-held belief that the clubface must be
square through the hitting zone to hit straight shots is a myth. Over
the past 10 years, I’ve measured the activity of the clubface during
Tour players’ swings through the impact zone, and what I’ve learned is
that not a single player holds the clubface square during the hitting
area. Not one! In fact, these top-level players rotate the face
counterclockwise around the shaft (for right-handed players) at about
30 degrees per foot of linear motion forward. |
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By Steve Atherton, GolfTEC; Illustration by Phil Franké
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 Most golfers have felt the agony of wasting a great drive by shanking a
wedge shot into the trees or the water. That one shank probably has
even made a few of you so paranoid that you shanked the next four shots
around the green. |
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By Scott Young, GolfTEC; Illustration by Phil Franke
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 Do you have a problem striking the ball solidly on a consistent basis?
Do you tend to hit behind the ball? Do you struggle getting the ball to
go into the air? Do you lack power? If so, it could be that you have
too much lateral body movement through impact. |
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Get behind the ball for better, more powerful swings
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By Carl F. Rabito, Photography by Terry Renna
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 Most golfers know that a full, 90-degree shoulder turn is a crucial
element of a solid golf swing. Without it, a proper weight shift and a
correct swing plane are almost impossible to achieve. A good shoulder
turn not only ensures that your shoulders and chest are behind the ball
at the top of the backswing, but helps maintain consistent balance
throughout your motion. Before you can master a proper shoulder turn,
however, it’s important to understand what it entails and exactly what
it is.
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