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I recently had
the good fortune to spend some time with the extraordinary
teacher and researcher of the game, my long time coach
Norrie Wright. We had a session at his teaching tee in
Jacksonville, Fl., where we shared ideas and ways of
presenting information to students.
The topic came to the sequence of a golf swing, and the
relationship between the turn (body), and the arms.
It’s no secret that most golfers swing the club across the
ball, out to in. This can also be called above the
plane, or over-the-top.
In his simple way of describing difficult topics, Norrie
told me how much success he has had with the image: `let the
arms beat the turn’. That pretty much tells it all; in
a 2 plane swing (more on that later), one's arms must drop
into the `slot’, before the turn of the body brings them out
and around.
The out part of the swing happens much later. If the
turn beats the arms, the body will invaded the space where
the arms should have gone. The arms then have to go over the
plane.
Work it out on your own; find out what `let the arms beat
the turn’ means, and you will be onto something good.
My contribution to the conversation was that for certain
students, a more rotary motion works well. In that
kind of swing, since the arms never really raised up, there
is no need to drop back down. That’s called one-plane.
They both work. To check out one plane golf, I like
the site
www.rotarygolfswing.com. |
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