Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Keys To Creating A Consistent Golf Swing...

Follow These Steps To Your Best Swing Ever


After years of taking lessons from different pros, studying every "How To" book and hitting THOUSANDS of golf balls, I think I have for you the KEY, to improving your golf swing. I learned it from studying Ben Hogan and Moe Norman.

Step1: Get The Right Leg Properly Setup At Address, AND KEEP IT THERE throughout your BACKSWING, weight stays on the inside right foot!

The KEY is....... The right leg angle (for right handers) you need to establish at address. It needs to be at roughly a 45 degree angle (Imagine sticking a shaft inside your right foot, and point it 45 degrees down parallel to your target line).

To see what that right leg should look like at address as well as throughout the backswing I would advise you look at Ben Hogan, the greatest ball striker ever. Tiger Woods has this same look, as well as the most famous ball striker of all Moe Norman.

Most of you reading this will probably not have this angle, but more of a bent right leg/knee more straight up and down as if you were squatting. THIS IS A KILLER for your consistency!

Step 2: On Your Takeaway TURN Your Right Hip BEHIND YOU toward the target (Zero lateral move of the hips)

This is crucial for setting up your best golf swing. If you TURN and don't SLIDE your right hip, it will be easy for you to keep the 45 degree angle in your right leg.

If you are doing it right, for the first time in your life, you will feel EXTREME LEVERAGE from the ground!... It will feel like a sprinter about to explode off the blocks! And the best part is you won't have to think about the downswing!....You will find that you will automatically unwind all that leverage!!!... Your left hip will start the downswing because it HAS TO, because you have made the proper coil into your right angled back leg. Your transition from backswing to downswing is basically a RECOIL. LET IT HAPPEN!...Don't fight the recoil, that is EXACTLY what you want to feel!!!!

My Key Feelings:

  • When I do it, it feels like I am turning myself into the ground. You will feel like on the backswing you are getting "shorter". The getting shorter feeling is because you are turning DOWN into your right hip with the angled right leg resisting.
  • Another feeling is on my downswing it will feel like I am driving my RIGHT KNEE into the ground toward my left knee. (See Ben Hogan's leg action he talks about this same feeling.)
  • To get that correct feeling of keeping the right leg angled at 45 degrees, picture yourself in an ICE SKATE and you were on ice trying to swing a golf club. The only way for you to not fall, would be for you to angle your skate blade. If the angle is lost, your weight then would move outside your foot and you would lose your balance.
Please let me know how you make out!...I would love to hear from you, or help you understand better what I am trying to teach.

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