Posts tagged: contact

Play with a strong left side

By admin, May 6, 2010 3:21 pm

When choosing a productive golf tip to implement during a round, players should focus on one aspect of their game that is proving inconsistent. Players who are having trouble making regular contact with their irons, or controlling distances, should focus on keeping a strong left side. Any golf tip dealing with a strong left side refers to the point of impact on an iron shot, where excellent ball strikers are on a vertical line from the shoulder through the hands to the leading leg. A strong left side is an indication that all the working parts of the swing have come together at contact, striking the ball cleanly before the turf. Great iron players have strong left wrists and excellent balance.

Thin Shots

By admin, November 30, 2009 2:03 pm

Thin shots are usually a huge problem with bad lies. Getting solid contact on the ball is so important to accurate distance and clubbing that failure to do so throws an entire round off kilter. Thin shots aren’t the worst miss a golfer can endure from a bad swing, but it is certainly not the ideal way to strike the ball. Some of the pros actually practice thinning the ball out of certain situations when it is the most effective way to advance the ball. Amateurs should really try to stick to the basics and focus on squaring the clubface at impact while keeping it in the hitting zone as long as possible. A nice, level base to the swing will result in more consistency and less thin shots.

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