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| By Chuck Evans
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This week I'm in Pennsylvania working with a couple of our players on the
Hooters Tour. While this certainly isn't as glamorous as the PGA Tour, these players are nonetheless
playing for money, living their dream and pursuing the PGA Tour.
While there is certainly a world filled with these tours and players, they
all have the same goals in mind: to be the best they can be.
They all work diligently on their short game, ball striking, mental game, and
getting their set make-up just right as well as keeping their bodies in shape
for what is a long season. Strength and flexibility can mean the difference in
making the "big show" (Read: PGA Tour) or staying in the "minor leagues." With
this in mind these players all have something that is inherent to all golfers:
the search for perfection!
While having perfect mechanics isn't a guarantee that one will make it on
Tour, perfect mechanics do produce perfect shots.
One thing that I see a lot are players that really don't understand how the
body, arms, and hands really work in a golf
swing. If the body out races the arms then a push shot is likely and if the
arms and hands out race the body then shots that are pulled will be the norm.
The hands can make up for a faulty pivot motion to a certain extent but why make
that adjustment if you don't have to. There is a proper sequence that is based
upon physics that you can rely on.
The golf stroke is a series of events that take place which produces a
"lagging" of components. Let me explain. Think of the golf stroke as a gear
train that starts from the ground up. In the start down, the hips rotate back
toward the target while the hands and arms remain at the top of the backstroke.
This applies pressure from the upper left arm to the chest - sort of gluing it
to the chest. The trunk now follows with the right shoulder moving down plane
and the arms going along for the ride.
So now you have the gear train effect, hips pull the trunk, trunk pulls the
arms, arms pull the hands and club. This continues until the ball is struck and
the player gets to what we refer to as follow through - the place in the swing
that both arms are straight. From there all of the components are basically
released and have come into alignment with each other.
At our Medicus Golf Institute Golf schools we train players on the physics of
rotation and the geometry of the circle. Now that may sound complicated but it
really isn't once we put into lay terms and actions.
To really store up power try using this procedure above and you will see an
increase not only in power but in accuracy!
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