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Digging deep into the golf swing

Digging deep into the golf swing by Kevin White

Digging deep into the golf swing

The basic golf swing is simple - yes?

Turn, turn back and in the meantime hit the ball… add good rhythm and swing wideness, and the ball is going to go a very long way.

So why can’t I do that? When I see the pros play, it looks so easy, they don’t even hit the ball hard but it flies a mile every time.

Bare with me now, I am going to reveal the most common reasons for poor golf swing and how to correct them, starting at the basics;

Good rhythm is one thing that all good golfers have - what then is good rhythm?

Rhythm is when you accelerate through the ball, you start from the top and your swing accelerates all the time and through the ball. You are not hitting at the ball, your swing is accelerating through!

You can’t get good rhythm if your muscles are tight and if you try to hit the ball with pure power. Gripping the club too tight is going to ruin your rhythm and you will find yourself hitting at the ball instead of through it.

This very important and I suggest you spend one day at the range with only this one thought in mind - accelerate through the ball, and keep all muscles loose, so that they can work together to create speed and power.

Ok, fair enough you probably think, but what about my slice or hook, or all the thick shots, thin shots, my bad bunker play, what about them?

Now very carefully pay attention and read the following:

When you have a target on the golf course, and you set your body to swing a golf club towards that target, and if you set yourself incorrectly, your body is not going to be able to produce rhythm, timing or power!

Your body is going to feel consciously or unconsciously awkward and you are going to either hook, slice, hit it fat or thin.

On a good day you might get it right few times, but on a bad day, you are going to be all over the place all the time.

The big question therefore is; are you aiming correctly?

Chances are your aiming is invalid, and because of that one thing, all kinds of faults creep into your swing.

Believe me when I say, that I have discussed this with tour pros and working pros and they all agree on this one, but very seldom you go out on a round with a pro, so he/she will be able to see how you really aim. You take your lessons on the practice range, you get your tips and off you go - and you will continue to aim badly.

You might even know this, and you aim pretty well, but if your BODY DOESN’T SEE AND FEEL that the aim is correct, you will be either slicing or hooking the ball plus all kinds of other errors creep in.

So now go the practice range and concentrate on only one thing: getting the aim correct. Pick a target, go behind the ball and visualize a straight line from your ball to the target - ok, that is pretty easy. Now go and address the ball but try to see that same line. You will find that from behind the ball it’s very easy to visualize a straight line to the target, but from the address position, it’s much harder, you probably see the line wrong and it feels like you will be hitting to the left or to the right.

This feel is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING in a sound golf swing. Aim correctly and feel with your body that you are aiming towards the target.

If you really want to improve your golf, you need to be able to aim correctly every shot!

If you skip this and continue the way you have, you will not be able to find rhythm, power and accuracy.

But when you get it right, you will feel how your body works correctly, effortlessly and you will produce good rhythm and generate much more power than ever before - guaranteed!

Go to the range and pick new targets every five shots or so, visualize the line, and don’t give up until you can see it from your address position. If you find it very hard to do - try turning your head a little at the time when staying in your address position, chances are your eyes might be away from the line because of bad habit and you need to adjust your eyes to see the line correctly.

You will maybe feel weird at first, but stick to it relentlessly and results will come.

That’s it for now - hope you put these things to practice and I invite you to visit the link below where I will be introducing a system that will help you in every field of your golf.

Kevin White
“the guy who wants to go all the way”

Kevin White’s golfing cures; http://koti.mbnet.fi/kwmagic/secretgolfz.htm

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Improve Your Golf Swing Instruction Book

A Great Instructional Book for Understanding the Full Swing

By Mike1 “MJ” (Houston, TX United States)
I have invested the last year building a correct, accurate and repeatable golf swing. During that time I’ve read more than twenty golf instruction books. My readings have helped build my understanding of the golf swing and have supplemented my golf lessons.

This book is one of the lesser known golf instructional books by a relatively unknown author. Through my readings I have found that the most well-known professional golfers don’t necessarily produce the best golf instructional books.

For a clear, fundamental description of the golf swing, this book is one of the best. With the instruction in the book, your understanding of the body movements required to create a correct golf swing will grow rapidly. Using the instruction in this book, my golf swing improved dramatically in a very short time.

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Golf Drivers 2008 Review

CLEVELAND HIBORE XLS
STREET PRICE: $300

LOFTS
8.5*, 9.5*, 10.5*, 11.5*; draw version: 9, 10.5, 12; (*also comes in tour version)

TECH STORY
The third generation of the scooped-crown design has a wider and larger face (17 percent bigger than the HiBore XL) and an MOI above 5,000. Helping to increase that number is a thinner wall (0.6 millimeters) and deeper indentations in the heel-and-toe sections of the scooped crown.

PLAYER COMMENTS
“It’s the farthest, most stable driver yet. The ball doesn’t balloon. . . . This is like that country song, ‘I got a brand-new girlfriend!’ You just choose your loft and go. . . . I hit one clear on the heel, and it still went decent.”

HOT
The best way to make an unconventional-looking driver is to make it play like an old standby–on steroids. That’s what we have here. Plus, we like the three versions.

NOT
Adding a 13-degree, nondraw version would help better players with slower swing speeds.

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COBRA SPEED LD
STREET PRICE: $300

LOFTS
F/Speed: 9.5, 10.5; M/Speed: 10.5, 12; M/Speed OS: 9.5, 10.5 ; Speed Pro: 8.5, 9.5, 10.5

TECH STORY
Updated from last spring’s version, the new Speed LD maintains its deep-dimpled, sloped-crown design. It comes close to the USGA’s limit on size, but don’t overlook the heat-producing-but-hidden rhombus bump behind the face, which is designed to improve off-center-hit performance.

PLAYER COMMENTS
“A very serious club. Looks like it’ll really launch the ball. . . . Cobra makes the nontraditional look almost traditional.”

HOT
A tiny adjustment makes this success story sound much better. Cobra’s Speed Fit might not be high tech, but it’s user-friendly and works fast. Is a fitting system supposed to do more? No.

NOT
Custom shaft options, aside from the nifty Cobra tech van, are limited. We’d like to see more than two lofts in the F Speed version.

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NIKE SQ SUMO² 5900
STREET PRICE: $400

LOFTS
8.5, 9.5, 10.5, 11.5, 13, HL

TECH STORY
The extreme square shape is an attempt to reach the USGA’s limit on MOI (5,900 gram-centimeters squared). How was this achieved? Engineers took weight saved from an updated (and lighter) multithickness face and moved it to the corners, giving the square-shape clubhead extreme stability on heel-and-toe hits.

PLAYER COMMENTS
“It’s ugly, but I can’t believe how well you can bomb it. I was hurting the golf ball. . . . This looks, sounds and hits like a freight train. It’s forgiving, and I can hit the ball long and down the middle. . . . Nice job of muting the sound of last year’s model. It’s clever how the design gives you the sense of a traditional driver.”

HOT
This year’s version is an improvement. A new adjustable-shaft fitting component is a bonus.

NOT
The clubhead’s shape might not fit those whose moves are more grace than growl.

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TAYLORMADE BURNER
STREET PRICE: $300

LOFTS
8.5 (TP version only), 9.5, 10.5, 13 (standard and draw only)

TECH STORY
The shaft is lightweight (only 50 grams) and long (46 inches) and is designed to increase your swing speed, resulting in higher ball speed. The stretched-bullet head shape helps push the CG back for a higher MOI.

PLAYER COMMENTS
“Love the setup. The design on the crown gets you looking right down the fairway. . . . Launches the ball high. If someone has trouble getting it high, this is their club. . . . My mis-hits, and I mean all of them, were in play.”

HOT
A marketplace behemoth, and rightly so. TaylorMade’s engineers have made the ultra-thin walls sound and feel as meaty as a side of Angus beef cooked over an open flame. And don’t overlook the inverted-cone face design. SelectFit features, ahem, 186 driver combinations.

NOT
The jazzy crown might not suit your eye.

Learn More TaylorMade Men’s Burner Driver’s

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CALLAWAY HYPER X
STREET PRICE: $300

LOFTS
8.5 *, 9, 9.5*, 10, 10.5*, 11 (*tour versions only)

TECH STORY
The Hyper X features the largest hitting area of any Callaway all-titanium driver. The head incorporates a face-thickness section in the shape of an X, designed to improve springlike effect across a larger area. The tour versions have a square-face angle, and the standard lofts are a degree closed.

PLAYER COMMENTS
“The ball moves from right to left every time. Has a nice, classic look. Almost the same ball flight off the toe as in the center. . . . I could even hit it off the deck. . . . Straight top edge gives you confidence and the feeling that you have a lot of face to work with.”

HOT
The color matches its hard-nosed, blue-collar performance. Plenty of pop, and if Callaway says it has spent eight years perfecting off-center-hit ball speed, it’s worth investigating.

NOT
Where are the high lofts for slower swings? Why no 9-degree loft for left-handers?

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