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Newsletter - Issue 46 Date 01/28/08
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TCT Quick Tips - Attitude Check
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Top players know they will eventually play well if they keep a
positive attitude.

How's yours?

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Golf Tip : Keep Your Head back
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If anyone has a golf question that they would like 
answered, please email your question to: 
teachingpro@bataviacc.com and I'll do my best to answer 
it in an upcoming newsletter.

Block your ears when you hear ...

"KEEP THE HEAD STILL" 

This impossible advice has been given in one form or another
for about as long as there has been any literature on golf:
"Keep your head down." "Keep your head still." "Keep your
head fixed." "Keep your eye on the ball." "Don't lift your
head." "Don't look up."

You've heard these directions a thousand times.

If they would only say, "Keep your head back," they would be
much closer to being right.

Because the head does have to stay back, whether it moves or not.

But the head does move.

A careful study of pictures of the best golfers in the modern
game reveals a very definite pattern of movement.

The head stays steady on the back-swing, or perhaps turns on
the neck a little to the right. Once the downswing gets well
under way, though, the head moves to the right and comes down.

It doesn't move ten or twelve inches, nothing like that. But
it does move, consistently, in the right-and-downward pattern
from one to three inches, perhaps more.

This movement is not an idiosyncrasy of certain individuals.

In the correct swing it must take place.

It is caused by the rocking shoulder movement that takes place,
a rocking that brings the left shoulder up and the right shoulder
down, and by the bowing-out of the body toward the target as the
weight is moved far over to the left.

The rocking shoulder movement causes the head to move to the
right, the bowing-out of the body brings the head down.

Don't let anyone convince you that the head doesn't move in a good
golf swing. 

It has to.