12-5-0 The Basic Motion Curriculum

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I think I figured something significant out for my swing today, and I'm interested to see if others agree with this.

Let me first admit, I'm a slicer. Not a banana ball left then right slicer, but a straight (or even right) then further right slicer. Now I know my impact is from the inside, and I've been carefully working on a flat left/bent right wrist through impact recently, so I don't think it's that either. Instead, I think its pretty clear the face of my club is failing to close sufficiently through impact (golfing machine note: I'm trying to swing). So somehow, I think, centrifugal force is failing to do it's thing with my swing. It's causing the clubhead to release fine, but not the clubface to square.

Any comments?

ChrisNZ

Chris,

There are two things you must learn to do. First, you must learn to keep your Left Wrist Flat. You say you are doing that. Look, look LOOK to make sure. Second, you must learn to swing through the Ball and not at the Ball. Swinging at the Ball is 'Hacking the Ball' and that produces only Hackers.

Here's how to get started. Take your normal grip -- hopefully it is a Strong Single Action per 10-2-B -- and a Square Stance. Be sure that the Stance is actually parallel to the Target Line. Put a Club down and check it out. There's a very good chance you are aimed to the right.

Now start the Club swinging continuously over the top of the Ball as if you were going to hit a short Chip Shot. No more than three feet back and three feet through. Back and through and back and through and back and through. Continuous motion. Don't Cock your Wrists. Instead, just Turn and Roll your Left Forearm as you swing your Flat Left Wrist back and through and back and through. Turn and Roll and Turn and Roll and Turn and Roll and Turn and Roll. It is the Rolling of the Flat Left Wrist that gets the Club through Impact, not the Flattening of the Right Wrist. Please read that last sentence again. And one more time. Thank you.

As you continue this motion, be aware of the pressure created in the right forefinger as you swing down and through and down and though and down and through. Continue to be aware of that pressure and keep it 'pointed' at the Straight Target Line as you swing back and through and back and through. Turning and Rolling and Turning and Rolling. Keep pointing at the Line, 'Tracing' it with the Pressure in your Right Forefinger as you Turn and Roll and Turn and Roll the Flat Left Wrist. On each Downstroke, be very aware of theRight Hand Tracing and the Left Hand Rolling.

Now lower the Club behind the Ball and make the exact same Motion away from the Ball and through it. The Ball will go straight. If it did not, first make sure that you properly 'Traced' the Line. If you did not, try again. If you did and the Ball went to the right, Roll more. If it went to the left, Roll less.

Repeat until satisfied.