Tutelman. Com!

Dave Tutelman is a retired physicist and avid Golfer.

He has a golf section of his site devoted to golf. 

I got a lot of good info out of this. I was looking for info on 'crack the whip' and how hands slow to speed up the club.

The various videos on YouTube seem to have it backwards!

Worth a read.

This is terse as I don't have a keyboard and the phone input slows me down.

Catching up 2/11/17

Hello reader,

Here are a couple of items I've been testing.  One must keep in mind that the things are right or not and also whether I can produce it correctly.

I'm trying to get a lot of my body out of my swing.  I'm progressing towards an arms start with the body to help as needed.  ABC is the memory help: Arms, then Body, then Club.

Also as part of this is to post  a bit on the left leg.   Use the body after the club has started down. 

Monte Scheinblum talks about starting smoothly and slowly to make the run with the hands and arms - get them off the chest.  You'll also hear this from Bobby Lopez and Tony Luczak too.  See all of them on youtube.

Tony also mentioned the karate chop hand position on the way down. 

I was at the range today and hit about 130 balls.  I found starting the arms to be fairly easy to do if I started slowly.  I lost no distance with this approach and my ball flight was a lot higher. 

It's tough to start slowly particularly with the longer clubs.  This was probably mentioned in chapter 3 of the Scottish Book of Golf Instruction in 1647, second edition. 

I also found it difficult to post to the left leg.  I like to slide a bit and thus we have a mental conflict.  But when I could do it, it worked well and my directional accuracy went up.  When I can't I push to the right.

When chipping, I'm working on the takeaway.  Too much inside and I push and too much outside and it goes left.  There is a sweet spot there!  I'm using my right hand in these as well, which is new to me.  It seems to add some speed.

I'm pretty happy with the items.  I am able to take a good whack at the driver and 3 wood with good results and avoid the huge slide. 

I played 3 days last week.  We are in the tail end a drought and the mud is thick.  I played the par 3 course a few times, the last round in even par.  I hit 8 of the 9 greens.  The distances range from about 80 yards to 190.  So there was a variety of irons in play.  The greens are large with a lot of tiers and such.  They are easy to hit, but the putts can be challenging.

Promising Results 2/5/17 (or 5/2/17 for you out of the states!)

I had a little list:

• drop arms from the top of the backswing while maintaining the shoulder coil
• think about hitting with the left shoulder - and by that the arms, which have a longer way to go, must start first and go faster than the shoulder turn.
• after a full backswing, which moves the head behind the ball, stay there and just swap the shoulder positions
• Hands should be outside of the right foot at the end of the backswing

Okay.  I was dubious that I could move arms without moving shoulders.  I was able to do this after a bit of effort.  This seems to be useful to me, as it keeps me from sliding aggressively onto my left side and getting past the ball.  I seek to stay behind it.

A good backswing will move your head and torso towards your right foot.  Thus moving off of the ball.  Look at Stenson's swing.  He shifts back, then stays there.  Any weight shift is due to the arms moving over the right leg.

The hands are in position outside of the right leg too.  They have a nice path back to the ball.

This backswing will angle your body towards "right field."  So the swing plane is tilted to the right as well.

While it was not on the list, the thought to "hit the ball to right field" between first and second base came to mind.  Should it have been on the list?  I would say yes at this point.  When I tried this, I found the swing to right field to be easy to do.  It seemed I was aimed there and it required no reroute or adjustments in the swing to do that.

So, I hear you ask, where did the ball go?  A good question and if I had not tried it, I would have thought that it would be on its way to right field.  But, praise the new gods and the old, the pill went right up the middle.  We are not talking an "n" of one either.  I was able to hit all my shots pretty much up the middle with all the clubs.  It was a nice feeling and I feel confident that I can dismiss the miss to the right.

I have a tendency to push the ball and I thought that the hit to the right would compound it.  Those fears seem unwarranted at this point.

We have a game tomorrow morning weather permitting and I'm going to give it a go.