Golf instruction and tips often reflect the current techniques and golf swing approaches utilized by the top PGA tour players.
Can you swing like Tiger, VJ, Trevor, or the Shark? Should you try to copy their swing techniques or is that simply an exercise in futility?
In the next few segments, golf professional and instructor Jeff Evans will examine and detail one of golf most successful swings, his technique and how this approach can help or hurt your game.
The modern swing often mentions less lower body motion, which often leads to the impression that one should keep the feet and knees stiff, or still.
Timing and Rhythm are critical parts to any swing, from chipping to full swing motions.
So, if you are looking to Own your swing, start from the ground up. Have you been restricting your foot motions, losingrhythm? How much or how little depends on you.. remember it is your swing.
So, if you are limber and can feel motion without moving your feet, so be it. Most golfers, especially those from the past era, Sneed, Hogan, Nicklaus, Watson and many others had pronounced foot motions compared to today's players.
Good or bad. If you sway, or move up and down- bad idea. If you useyour feet to develop rhythm and timing in the proper sequence- good idea. Check your feet. Are they too restrictive- do you feel the motion of your swing?- And what was wrong with motion of yesterday's players ? Maybe your feet are the key to yourweight shift and your timing sequence! Modern era swing techniques or swing styles of yesterday. Listen to those who have done it and OWN their swings. Then decide what is best for you.. the feet are a good place to start.
Golf even for the best, is fleeting. Got it one day, gone the next.
Throughout the history of golf, only a few professionals have been said to own their swings. Notably, Ben Hogan, Sam Sneed,Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and and fast approaching, Tiger Woods. Now we might argue about a few others, but the concept of having a repeating swing, that produced excellent golf over the long hall might be the best criteria.
Owning their swings, they could minimize bad play periods, repeated their swing patterns and were able to maintain consistent reliable ball striking. These players could work the ball and produced whatever shot needed for the circumstance.
In the coming weeks we will take a look at issues, fundamentals and ways to own your swing. Why this may be a critical part to improving your game. And for the skeptics, is it even possible to own your own swing.. Especially if so few have done it.
In order to make solid and repeating contact with the ball, you must put force against the shaft from behind. That is one reason why people who slice and come across the ball loose distance. The pure ball striker gives you the sense of and feel of moving the shaft and directing pressure from behind and down into the back of the ball.
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In this video, Ben Hogan discusses the right index finger, and its responsibility of creating pressure along the shaft. The Pure Ball striker is designed to give you the feel and understanding of how to direct your trigger finger and hands down the plane and into the ball. For a pure strike, "everytime".