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Tom's Featured Tip: Winter Practice - What To Work On
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Winter Practice - What To Work On
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
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Winter Practice - What To Work On
When I give lessons, I usually work on the three main skills that it takes to be a good player:
- Ground contact
- Curvature
- Swing speed
- Ground contact location control
In order to create proper compression at impact, you need to strike the ball squarely on your downswing before your swing bottoms out for your irons, closer to the bottom of your swing for your woods and hybrids, and slightly on then upswing for your driver.
- Consistent curvature
For accuracy, you need to know your shot curvature tendencies in order to hit your target.
- Swing speed
The first indicator of golf potential is how far you can hit the ball.
For consistent curvature training, you need to monitor your clubface contact in relation to your swingpath. Outdoors, closely observing the direction that the ball starts and how it curves will tell the tale. In the last newsletter we talked about path and face relationship and how it causes curvature
Simply put - the ball will curve in the direction that the clubface is pointing in relation to the swingpath.
- Open to the path, it will curve left to right.
- Closed to the path it will curve right to left
- Square to the path, there will be no curvature
For indoor practice at home to monitor curvature, you would need space for a setup that would allow you to use a personal launch monitor like a Rapsodo, or a fairly expensive indoor simulator setup.
For indoor practice on a simulator, the data will give you the information that you need. Locally in Batavia, I use the simulator at The Game of Throws. You can't beat the price at $15 per hour, it's also where I give my indoor lessons on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
For swing speed training, my first concentration when I teach is on good technique. That will help you maximize your natural swing speed.
Here's an newsletter article I wrote on building more swing speed, Q&A: Swing Speed Training
Getting maximum distance is not only about technique and speed. Where the ball contacts the face of the club is also very significant. That means that you need to monitor clubface contact by spraying some Dr. Scholl's Foot Powder on the face of your club to see where contact is occurring. BUYER BEWARE - I just bought a can of spray powder made specifically for golf. As far as I can tell it's no better than Dr. Scholl's foot powder, and it was more expensive.
Stick with Dr. Scholl's, it will tell you if you are striking the ball on the sweet spot of your clubface to maximize your distance.
Here's the quick takeaway on the four things you should work on over the winter:
- Contacting the ball before your club strikes the ground
- Where the ball is contacting the cubface
- Where the clubface is aiming when you strike the ball
- Swing speed
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All the best,
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