- Hello there, Adam Bazalgette here,
Founder of Scratch Golf Academy.
Today's subject, three tips for your golf swing.
Now these will be general in nature,
but if you can get these three tips right,
get them incorporated, you will really
have a good foundation and start to make
good golf swings and you can build from there.
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So the first tip is swing plane,
and what that refers to is the angle you swing on.
Is it more there?
Is it more here?
Believe me the club is designed a certain way.
You start fighting the design of the club
as you swing, you'll struggle.
Let's have a quick look at a great player,
then we'll work on it.
So here's Paul Casey, successful player,
won a couple of times on the US tour in the last few years.
I've always really liked his swing,
like his lower body motion.
Here's the reference I would use
and there's a lot of references
you can use for plane, but let's use this one.
Right about there the hands are about opposite
that right shoulder, that trail shoulder.
So as he finishes his backswing,
you could say that his left arm is almost directly
across his shoulder plane, maybe slightly above it.
That is a very common, middle of the road
kind of a spot here,
when you see that shoulder covered by the hands
at that point in the swing.
So here's a terrific drill, an easy one
to get you on the right track.
We'll look at it from both angles.
Briefly, from this angle.
I'm gonna go about three-quarters of the way back,
then just touch my wrists right
against the inside of my shoulder.
So, that's my reference point.
And then, I push them out away from me.
Doesn't have to be rigid, but just out away from you.
You'll start to get the right feel.
Check it out from this angle.
So, as we look at the drill from here,
I'm gonna touch my hands just near the inside of my shoulder
then push them away from me a little bit.
May not be a completely full backswing,
but it gives me a reference and if you call Spot A where
your hands and forearms are address this would be Spot B.
And here's the key to the drill,
once you're familiarizing yourself with that,
you've got to do it looking here,
do it with your eyes closed a little bit,
just a few minutes away from the golf course
you'll have a good sense of it.
Once you're familiar with it,
all your doing is going from A to B.
And the less you think and the less you position the club,
if you try to place the club in positions
with your hands, you're doing it wrong.
You just familiarize yourself with those two spots
you'll really be on the right track with your swing plane.
Again, this is general.
Hey, there's some great players
who swing a little bit up from that
and a few who swing a little flatter than that,
but this is a great starting point,
and you can always customize a
little for yourself from there.
So, here's our next tip.
And that is, that your body should influence
your arms and cause them to make,
which in turn, of course, influences the club.
Now, here's the principle involved.
First off, it's more repeatable.
You just start placing your club with your hands
and arms too much it won't be very repeatable.
But, secondly, it's much more powerful.
Now if I was to snap a towel like that,
it would make a lot of difference to you if you were
on the receiving end of the hit how long the towel was.
Let's assume I was good at it and I did it the same way.
I hold a little towel that long,
you're not going to feel that much.
I get a big, long towel, if it's light enough in weight
you're going to get whacked with it at the tip.
That's the principle.
So, here's the club, the further away
from that you can have the genesis of your swing,
the more pop and power you'll get.
So, use the body.
Let's have a look at a great player.
So, I've chosen a throwback.
The great Arnold Palmer.
Certainly, a favorite of most people, certainly mine.
I got to spend quite a bit of time
around him on one or two occasions
in my golf career, and he was just great.
So, here we go.
Body really winding there taking those arms back,
and not just in the backswing.
Watch as he changes direction.
There's the body.
You couldn't be anymore dynamic than that.
There's the body leading, and when the energy
finally does transfer out to the club,
believe me there's a lot of power there.
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Now another important feature.
You will have much more repeatability,
and create more power, more centrifugal force,
if your axis stays pretty centered.
So, put the club down, get your shadow
directly in front of you once in awhile
and practice that pivot there.
It's okay for the hips to drive a bit forward coming down,
but the top of your axis should be
nice and steady as you go through your swing.
Alright, here's my final tip.
Sometimes, this is a very overlooked one.
It might be a little on the boring side,
but hang in there, it is crucial
if you are going to get the other things to work.
And that is, grip pressure.
People say in golf lessons with me,
what do you think a good grip pressure is?
Is it a three or a four?
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know what your version of a three is,
I'm not sure I know what my version
of a three or a four or a five is.
Here's the key, you have to have
enough grip pressure to control the club.
First off, if you don't control the club
you're not going to be any good anyway.
But, secondly, your subconscious mind will
tell if you're holding it too loosely, and as you
start to create speed you'll grab it a little bit.
So, get enough grip pressure there to control the golf club.
But, at the same time, you have to have mobile wrists.
If you don't have some mobility and bounce there
in your wrists that is too stiff.
Now, it is absolutely not true to say
that as you tighten your grip
you have to tighten every joint in your body.
How many of you have ever shaken someone's hand
reasonably firmly, but have a soft arm?
So, that's what you're looking for.
So, don't kinda take a cop out and say
I read it was a four or a five or an eight or whatever.
Play with the club a little bit
away from the ball 'til you feel like,
yeah, I've got control of it,
my mind knows I have control in these fingers here,
but I can definitely feel the mobility of the wrist.
I can feel the weight of the golf club out there
reacting to what I'm doing.
You dial that in a little bit,
You'll really have helped yourself.
Certainly, you have to have a decent grip.
If your grip it too high in the palm,
we're not getting into that in detail now,
you'll struggle here.
So, make sure that grip is more towards the fingers
and the heel of the hand is on top of the club.
Okay, that's our third tip.
I think it's a big one, it's an important one.
Work on it.
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Three tips for your golf swing.
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