Mario contacted us at Search 4 Scratch Program recently.
He's got a hip replacement, and
he's on a 26 handicap and he wants to get down to 12.
And one of the things he'd like to do is get more clubhead speed.
And what I did there was I just hit a shot off my knees to show that with
limited mobility,
I can still hit the ball about 200 meters with a driver.
We can get so caught up in golf,
watching the pros play and seeing all of this freedom that they have,
but not realizing that these grown men and women have
played golf since they were small. And so they know nothing else.
They just know how to rotate their bodies and they get a lot of coaching and
they're a product of all of those things.
But a lot of people playing the game like Mario,
take it up later in life and they've done out other things in their life.
They don't move as well as some of these athletes move.
And so you have to be able to build a golf game around what you can do.
So Mario wants to make the club go faster to hit the ball further.
And so, what I always recommend for people
is that what you've got to get really good at, is two things.
You've got to get really good
at maintaining a full wrist cock in the backswing.
You don't need a long backswing.
You don't have to take it up over your shoulders.
You can swing the club to the side,
but as long as you get a nice full wrist cock,
where the shaft is hinging fully,
and then you learn how to deliver it, Mario,
you can create more speed without a lot of effort and also
get the accuracy, which is the thing you said. You said in your message
to us that when you try to increase your speed, you lose accuracy.
And I can understand that because there's a way of doing it.
So what I'd like to do in this lesson for you,
Mario is explain how you can do it. So let me say again, let me say to you,
that you don't need a very long swing, but what you do want,
is you want the golf club to be fully hinged at the side of your
body. So even if it's only in between my shoulder and my hip,
it's fully hinged,
the other thing you want to make sure is when your hands and the club are at the
side of your body, that the golf club itself, the golf shaft,
is somewhat pointing somewhere down where the ball is.
That it's not pointing over too high,
like where the shaft is almost horizontal.
And you also don't want it to vertical.
Because from there you have to make compensating moves.
That require a lot of effort. So in other words,
the more that you can get the shaft angle in a common plane with the ball,
the easier it is to swing down and maintain the accuracy in the swing.
Accuracy gets lost when we try to hit it hard.
And the golf shaft is out of position and has to find a position that is common,
like a plane that is common with the ball. So whether it's here or here,
you have to make compensating movements,
which require pressure against the shaft and add more effort and less
distance. So, Mario this golf club swings to the side.
Golf shaft is pointing somewhere down in an area here where
it's not much above the ball and not much below the ball. That's number one.
Number two, there's only two parts. And looking at it from this end,
the golf club's over to the side. Now this is the important move.
Do not worry about the golf club end here. Focus on this end here.
And what you want is;
you want the handle to travel around in front of your body and past your
body. So when my belt buckle is here,
you want to practice getting the handle to move first and move right around.
Now it's a small circle.
It's easier to move this small circle around them to work on the head.
The head end is at the end of this shaft is the clubhead mass.
It makes the whole thing harder. If you're pushing against that,
it's harder to do. If you, however,
move the handle end and lead with the handle,
and then let the club release like this.
You can create an enormous amount of speed,
which is why I started with that shot on the ground to show you that basically
all I was doing was getting the shaft in a common plane with the, with the ball,
and then moving to my hands around my body and letting the club move really
quickly. That's the key. So you don't need to use a lot of your lower body.
Your body will respond to the swinging of the club.
Let's have a look at it again. Club swings to the side, Mario, fully hinged.
We moved the handle end around in front of us and to over here,
somewhere past my belt buckle,
the club itself will be pulled out in front of you.
You won't have to worry about it.
You just move a little bit with it and you practice this move
and you can hear there's a whooshing sound.
And what you want to do is get that woosh that you can hear with ear,
to be more, more or less past where the ball would be.
So I stand here with a club that's about waist high. I hinge back,
and then I move my handle first.
And my goal is to get a whooshing sound to the left of me
Like that. The speed of the golf club.
And the momentum will carry me around to a finish,
wherever that happens to be for you. Standing this way to show you.
So I'm on the ground now doing it, swing the golf club to the side.
You can see it's in a common plane with the ball and then move the handle
first. And you want to move the handle, Mario, not away from you.
Keep the handle moving under your body, under my chest here.
And then through it looks like this.
So I made a little short backswing there.
I focused on the handle moving first and moving as far into the downswing as I
can. My body just responded to the speed of the club.
Got good contact, distance will come. And the thing about this, Mario,
is if you've practiced this routine and practice it often because you'll need to
practice to get used to it,
It'll help you to increase the speed of your club head,
but gain the distance that you're looking for and the accuracy and
move towards that handicap you want. Mario, thanks for sending in your question.
We wish you the best of luck at Search 4 Scratch.
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