Excellent Ideas Part II

I was hopeful (always!) that the progress of the prior day would continue to today.

I generally go to the driving range on the weekends and try to play during the week.  Retirement is a wonderful thing...

To summarize yesterday's ideas, they were to get the hands into a better position by taking them back parallel to the shoulder plan and to not do (or have to do) anything with them on the way down.  The power stroke is merely a spin down with the club coming through as the physics demands.  No fighting it and no effort.


I was having capturing the magic of yesterday and realized that, as Monte says, there is a roll to the left arm that gets the club into the proper orientation to the left arm.  I seemed to be cheating on that and when corrected, good things happened.

I then realized that since all I wanted was a spin, staying centered over the shot seemed to make sense.  I've always seemed to be set up to try to "push" the ball along the fairway, rather than to spin and kick the ball out with the club as it and the club face interacted.  I thought about this after my range time, but it seems like a good thought when over the ball and what I should think the spin wind up should be doing.

I tend to setup open and part of that was this view of pushing the ball down the hole.  Now setting up square to provide a platform for the windup seems to be logical.


This post is more a memory aid for me than any real news.  As my bowling coach used to say, "you've got to do it all."


So, we spin back and put the hands/arms/shoulders in the proper plane and position and then spin back down.

I also found that trying to spin quickly from the top was not the most consistent.  Better to start the spin slowly and then keep accelerating until the bottom of the swing where the whip starts to bring the club around.  That improved the club contact with the driver, which is the big issue for me.  It also allows for a better lower body shift to provide the base for the spin, by providing time for the first shift to be done by the feet/knees/hips before the back and shoulders get involved.

I'll play tomorrow and we shall see if reality matches theory!