| Title: | Welcome to the Golf Notes Conference! |
| Notice: | FOR SALE notes in Note 69 please! Intros in note 863 or 61. |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Tue Feb 15 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2129 |
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Based on the note in 330 about hitting them thin, which used
to be my problem, I now find myself overcompensating and hitting
them FAT. Sometimes it doesn't do me harm as I take a huge divot,
more like the Panama Canal, but I've made contact with the ball
before the steam shovel effect sets in. When I used to hit them
thin I was feeling the left shoulder come up on me. Now I'm
really concentrating on keeping my left shoulder down and look what
I've done. I'm even making a divot on some fairways woods. I think
my problem is that I'm not straightening my back, that I'm staying
hunched over the ball and this makes me dig deeper. Does this sound
right? Thanks. Next step after this is to get rid of the slice.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 333.1 | Better a silver fox than a bald eagle :-) | LOCH::KEVIN | The perfect swing.... the endless search | Fri Jul 15 1988 13:06 | 16 |
Actually I wouldn't make any corrections. Divots that big can be
dried out and become very useful when you get older. :-)
Hitting the ball fat usually comes from dropping the right shoulder
during the down swing. When this happens to me the problem is usually
that I've lined up to the right of the target and I'm trying to
pull the ball back on line. This causes the shoulders to come off
plane, thus causing the fat shot. Check your alignment at address.
Your shoulders should be left of the target (assuming you're right
handed). To use a baseball analogy, when you swing think about going
back through the box.
KO
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| 333.2 | hitting fat | LDP::WRIGHT | Tue Jul 19 1988 18:48 | 6 | |
Hitting them fat is usually caused by a premature uncocking of
the wrist on the downswing. Instead of the wrist uncocking as the
club meets the ball,they uncock early,moving the clubhead out of
position and causing it to strike the ground behind the ball.
Most of the time this error is an incorrect weight shift.
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