In this video clip we stress the importance of rhythm in your golf swing. Believe it or not, the rhythm of your swing is established in the first few inches of your takeaway. When you can feel this flow of motion with the body and arms working in concert, together, tension free, as your swing begins, you WILL produce consistently better ball flights.
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If you constantly have trouble with direction and are tired of searching the woods for errant ball flights, you may want to check out the following video clip. It has to do with the connection of your elbows to one another and to your body turn – back, down and through. We cannot over stress the importance of feeling and maintaining the “elbows connection” throughout your swing. Question: From Chris Giddings: Dear Ozzie, Please can you give myself and many other frustrated golfers a simple way to Ozzie Answers: Dear Chris, ‘Casting’ is a feel of delivering power – albeit way too early in the downswing. Question: where should your club be traveling the fastest during your swing? Most players answer: on the downswing or at impact. Neither is correct! To produce powerfully accurate shots, your clubhead must be accelerating at impact and therefore reach maximum speed BEYOND THE BALL. Try this: turn your 3 wood upside down – holding it at the clubhead end. Start swinging, listening for where you hear your “whoosh.” Keep at it until you can deliver your whoosh beyond your front foot, i.e. from ball to target. Let’s understand what physically happens to create your whoosh. Your whoosh occurs at that moment when both of your arms and your club shaft form a straight line. That is: your arms and clubshaft thrust to straight. When you ‘cast’ this thrust to straight occurs very early in your downswing. Rather, your trailing elbow should still be loaded (slightly bent) at impact so it can trust to straight from ball to target – BEYOND the Ball! You will find that as you learn the feel of ACCELERATION through the region of impact – your ball will go straighter and farther. Your trailing elbow is the key to this feel. Work in super slow motion so that you can see and feel when your arms/shaft thrust to straight! Check out my video clip: Whoosh to Your Target. Let me know how it goes! All the best, Ozzie Golfstruck – Better Golf – Right Now! 2 Mar 2011 There seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding about proper weight transfer in the golf swing. So let’s clear it up. Bobby Jones perhaps said it best when he said “anything you don’t get turned behind the ball, you don’t get to use as a source of power back up against it.” Remember, Bobby had an Engineering degree in addition to his English Literature degree and his Law degree. Jones may well have been the most brilliant of minds ever to play this game at its highest level. During the backswing our objective is to coil (springlike) or windup up our body machine in order to deliver a powerful force from the ball to the target. What we learned from Jones is that the more of ourselves we get coiled behind the ball, the greater the potential force we can deliver. By Bobby’s account then, it would make no sense whatever to leave weight on the lead side (fail to get our lead side turned fully behind the ball) during the backswing. So what do we see all of the best players doing? Turning fully behind the ball and loading (coiling) against a resisting drive leg. Once fully coiled behind the ball, they make an agressive move to get back up against it, BEFORE they deliver the force of the blow. It is this move to back up against the ball that Bobby Jones deemed “The Magic Move of Golf.” In making the turn fully behind the ball and “the move” back up against it, we are transferring substantially all of our weight from foot to foot. What we must understand is that while doing so, we must learn the feel of turning our Center of Gravity (CoG) in place. Which in simple terms means: we must keep our spine tilted into our lead heel throughout our swing. To see and feel this motion, stand in front of a mirror and observe your spine tilt as you swing back, down and through – transferring all your weight from foot to foot, with your arms across your chest. To best learn this feel of motion click on “Warm-Up your Swing” above. Golfstruck – Better Golf -Right Now! |
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