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When I interview a
student before a lesson, one question I ask is 'what do you
think about when you are executing the shot?' More often
than not the response will be; 'I am just trying to hit the
ball!' Its interesting that I almost never hear that
response from better players.
If you were to take a sledgehammer and pound down on top of
the golf ball, you would surely hit it. But that's not
golf, that's hard labour! Golf is about controlling the
flight of the ball. And that can only come from swinging
the club.
Folks sometimes get the cause and effect mixed up. It's
the swinging of the club that produces the shot. The
ball in some sense is incidental. I once heard Butch
Harmon say, 'Poor players stare at the ball, and glance at the
target. Great players glance at the ball, stare at the
target!'
Research has been done in England on the moment of impact, and
the result is enlightening. Because of the speed that
the vibrations move up the shaft, combined with the speed that
the electrical impulses travel from your hands to your brain
and back; when a golfer thinks he or she is impacting the
ball, it is actually 15 yards away.
What that means to your golf game, is that once the club is in
orbit into the downswing, there's nothing you can do to help
it along. The best thing you can do is LEAVE IT ALONE.
In golf, a little bit of trust goes a long way. |
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