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Golf Tips tv: Stand like a Tour Pro
www.iGolftv.com A must see The Modern Posture Position
To many players including some tournament professionals fail to realize just how important the legs are in the set up.
But know for certain that if you have your legs in a great position to begin with it makes everything else there after a lot easier.
If I have to little knee flex I will lose balance and power, to much though and I wont be able to turn and coil properly……….yep it’s important.
Great thought for me. Stand like i’m Roger Federer about to return a serve or like I’m David James about to save a penalty . Remember Golf’s an athletic sport so I should stand like that not like I’m ordering a glass of pimms at the Henley Regatta.
I need to bend forwards from the hips and waist, setting an awesome spine angle ……this again increases the odds of my swing being on the correct plain. I make sure the feet, knee’s, hips and shoulders are all square.
Poor posture very often accounts for a poor swing, work hard on this area and I will dramatically increase my odds of having an efficient repeatable Golf swing.
I feel my weight running down the inside of my legs and into the inside of my feet, if anything I want to feel the weight moving down through the inside of your legs into the inside of both feet. Imagine I could hold a beach ball between my knees.
From here I allow my hands to hang just in front of my shoulders, once I reach this position I will be able to make a great triangle with the shoulders and arms, becoming a Y-shape when I’m holding the club.
My left shoulder should naturally be a little higher than my right as my right hand is positioned on the club below my left. (Opposite for left hander’s)
tips to work on your posture:
• Use a mirror at the range or at home
• Get someone to take a video or a photograph of me at address
• Compare my address position to a tour player
• Watch, study, understand and then implement the great swings that i can see on TV or the Internet. Watch watch watch. Fill my mind with great images and my body will react
Remember the better the quality of my posture position at the start of my swing the greater the chance of producing a great golf swing.
All that’s left is the simple task of gripping the club correctly, here’s what i need to do. 3 grips to choose from:
• Overlap
• Interlocking
• Baseball
Whatever I decide on, follow these rules:
• Make sure that both V’s point towards my right shoulder
• I should be gripping it in the fingers
• My thumbs are on top of the grip
• Hands face each other
• Grip it softly
Now from here I’m ready to swing, go and watch the video on sequencing the swing and learn and understand what the top players do so well.
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Dave Pelz and Phil Mickelson discuss the golf-putting training aid, The Putting Tutor
Used and endorsed by three-time major winner Phil Mickelson,
The PELZ Putting Tutor® will help you:
1.Improve Green Reading
2.Square your Putter Face
3.Verify Eye Position
4.Putt Like The Pros
SET-UP FEATURES
Designed to identify the putts you strike squarely and start rolling on-line, the Putting Tutor® features a guide line to help aim your putt on the exact chosen line for your putt.
The Tutor’s eye position stripes allow you to verify consistent eye position at address. Consistent eye position is necessary for great putting fundamentals. The Tutor’s flat back edge helps you square your putter face at address.
FEEDBACK FEATURES
The Putting Tutor also has two marbles at its front edge, which tell you whether or not you’ve just made a “pure strike” and started a putt on line. If your putt dislodges a marble, it means your ball started off-line. This is good feedback because:
1.You cannot learn how much a putt breaks if you hit it poorly
2.You need to know which of your strokes start putts on line vs. off line
3.You’ll learn to consistently groove a reliable “pure-stroke” putting stroke.
GREEN-READING HELP
Once you’ve begun making pure strokes, you can focus on watching the roll of your putts. If your stroke was good (no marbles were dislodged) and your speed was good, but you still miss the putt, you know you must have read the break wrong. You learn how much putts break simply by adjusting the aim of the Putting Tutor higher or lower, until well struck putts go in.
Practicing with the Pelz Putting Tutor will help you improve your green-reading skills as you simultaneously learn to make consistently better putting strokes. The feedback the Putting Tutor provides takes the mystery out of missing putts and will help you become a better putter!
About Phil Mickelson: With 36 career victories since making his professional debut at the 1992 U.S. Open, Phil Mickelson ranks second among active players and is 13th on the all-time wins list. He has finished second or third on the money list seven times including six of the last eight seasons. He has finished in the top 10 at eight of the last nine Masters Tournaments, including wins in 2004 and 2006. As at the ’04 Masters, his 2005 PGA Championship win came with a birdie on the final hole. A member of the last six Ryder Cup teams, he is the only U.S. Player to appear in all seven Presidents Cups.
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