Jack Nicklaus once said the one constant in a good golf swing is a steady head, and that’s true across the spectrum of golf shots, from the full swing to the shortest putt. Keep that head steady to improve your golf game.
So what is going to happen when your head moves? When you move your head and you are a right handed golfer, you will in most cases move or sway toward the target or to your left. If you are a left handed golfer the oppisit is true. If you move a little, lets say a couple inches to the left, this can make you hit one ugly shot.
Think about the childs song we used to sing. The ankle bone connected to the foot bone, and so on.
What happens when this move occurs is a bunch of bad or poor shots. Some shots could be topped shots, sliced or hooked shots, you could even pull the ball or just even smother it. What is happening that causes this is called the outside in swing or the “over the top” swing.
Someone watching this move might say the player is lunging at the ball. Or they might say the right shoulder seems to be “crowding” the player’s chin away from the ball.
In the short game, this move will be less magnified, but you are still going to hit poor shots. Not the one that you intended to hit. If you like blading the golf ball, then just produce this outside to in golf swing when you are pitching or chipping the ball. What happens with the outside to in golf swing most times is that you have a tendency to hit the ball right in the middle (above the equator or in the belly of the ball). This is all caused by that head moving just a little.
There are so many different things or shots that could happen when the head is moving. Some are, those little shanks or hosel rockets to the right or even a skulled or line drive shot.
This outside-in tendency extends all the way to putting. Most of the time you will be able to tell you performed this swing path while putting is because as soon as the ball is on its way, you know that you pulled it to the left.
Many players assume these yanked putts happen because of loose hands or wristiness during the stroke, but the culprit just as often is a slight movement of the head and upper body toward the target, which changes the spine angle, which in turn alters the club head path.
Take Tiger Woods. If you watch, his head never moves. It does not matter if he is pounding the ball off the tee or even making a 3 foot putt. His head remains as steady as a rock. Want a good shot, keep the head still, this is what Jack said and he is right.
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