i used the 3 skills and nailed it!

[kevinhendrix]

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Hey everyone. Hope you are all well. Sounds like the 3 skills is helping a lot of you. I would just like to give some help and advice for anyone who is finding skill 3 a bit difficult to achieve. May I firstly congratulate Todd and others who have managed to implement skills 1 & 2 into their technique giving you all some success I hope. However certain things make the 3 skills easier or harder to do. If anyone is finding the sweetspot, making square contact (missing the headcover when doing this drill) but still the ball is flying right of target, you may want to try the following: -
1 - It might be worthwhile to read the section on the grip in the book and see if experimenting with this allows you to close the clubface easier after impact.

2 - You may want to try and visualize more of a hooking type ball flight. It is worthwhile exaggerating this initially even to the point where shots do actually hook a little left of target. You now know the clubface is releasing. You now need to visualize shots once more starting initially out right then combine this with the same feeling of the ball curving back left. It is up to you to experiment with the amount of opening and closing you do with the clubhead until you start to understand how this affects your ball flight. Please dont be affraid to give this a go. Keep your focus on the clubhead, contact you wish to achieve and combine this with visualizing your ball flight and you wont go far wrong. The 3 skills have helped me greatly in understanding what I want to achieve at impact and how this will affect my desired ball flight and I no longer have any swing thoughts interfering with this process. Good and happy golfing to you all. Kevin McDonald PGA

[bdbl]

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Are you finding this with any club in the bag, or just the driver? Actually, I suppose on any course where OOB is 10 yards off to the right, you probably wouldn't pull a driver out anyway, but I'm just curious.

Sadly, judging by the shot shape today at the range, I'd say I'm over rotating with the irons and not doing much at all with the rescues or the driver.

I'm not too bothered at the moment; this was only the first practice session after all and I guess at a lot comes down to letting go and trusting whats happening.

For me I think the breakthrough will be slower than for Slats because I do have big problems with visualisation; I tend to be be a bit mechanical and position orientated BUT the good thing is that I already (on a good day ) hit down with the irons and I believe that the Leslie King / Swing Factory approach gives you the "curve " that they talk about - so to a degree almost there.

Thing is imo the next breakthrough won't come from doing more of the same no matter how hard I work so, whether it's "nailit" or more lessons (my place has a new coach who from the sidelines looks impressive), I have to try something different.

[ubizmo]

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Interestingly (well to me anyhow) I have been here before and each time not followed it through - sorry - and ended up trying to fashion a swing path that didn't leave the ball right - [on 6 holes at my course you only have to be 10 yards right to be OOB] - this time I aim to persevere with the rotation.

Are you finding this with any club in the bag, or just the driver? Actually, I suppose on any course where OOB is 10 yards off to the right, you probably wouldn't pull a driver out anyway, but I'm just curious.

[bdbl]

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This new book "Nail It" seems something special. Although simple in its message and method I cannot disagree with anything it says. I think the person that will gain most from it is the golfer who has played a bit, has hit a wall with respect to improvement and has become confused with a myriad of swing thoughts and mechanics. Other than a very small part on the grip it does not get into anything to do with body movements or positions. OK! the basic message is ball contact, swingpath through the ball and clubface rotation. There is also some clear definition how to visualise the shot that clears up some common misconceptions.

great point brian!
i think that profile fits me perfectly!

I think that makes two of us Ian.

Having read the book twice, I had my first "3skills" range session at lunch time - thought it might help

Skills 1 & 2 going ok but not really getting any club face rotation yet, so leaving balls out right.

Interestingly (well to me anyhow) I have been here before and each time not followed it through - sorry - and ended up trying to fashion a swing path that didn't leave the ball right - [on 6 holes at my course you only have to be 10 yards right to be OOB] - this time I aim to persevere with the rotation.

[ubizmo]

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I think the person that will gain most from it is the golfer who has played a bit, has hit a wall with respect to improvement and has become confused with a myriad of swing thoughts and mechanics.

I completely agree. There is a lot of talk in golf about the importance of "fundamentals," but the term is often used to refer to body positions and movements. The true fundamentals are about impact, and nothing else matters, except insofar as it affects the quality of impact. We all know this, of course, but it's easy to forget. I know that I've often found myself completely at sea, thinking about my left arm, my right knee, my hips, my sternum, and so on--to the point that my golf swing becomes more about choreography than about sending the ball to a target. The book is excellent therapy for all that. And, as I mentioned before, it is also very good for undoing some weird ideas about impact that most of us have held at one time or another.

[slater170]

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This new book "Nail It" seems something special. Although simple in its message and method I cannot disagree with anything it says. I think the person that will gain most from it is the golfer who has played a bit, has hit a wall with respect to improvement and has become confused with a myriad of swing thoughts and mechanics. Other than a very small part on the grip it does not get into anything to do with body movements or positions. OK! the basic message is ball contact, swingpath through the ball and clubface rotation. There is also some clear definition how to visualise the shot that clears up some common misconceptions.

great point brian!
i think that profile fits me perfectly!

[BrianW]

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I have read a lot of golf books, many of these books have been a bit of a general over-view to swing mechanics and much the same.

Some books have bits in there that are good and can be extracted then used to improve ones repertoire of skills. Hogan's "5 lessons", Joe Dante's "The new Golf Swing" Leslie King's "Swing Factory" are some that I have gained from, the latter probably more than most.

This new book "Nail It" seems something special. Although simple in its message and method I cannot disagree with anything it says. I think the person that will gain most from it is the golfer who has played a bit, has hit a wall with respect to improvement and has become confused with a myriad of swing thoughts and mechanics. Other than a very small part on the grip it does not get into anything to do with body movements or positions. OK! the basic message is ball contact, swingpath through the ball and clubface rotation. There is also some clear definition how to visualise the shot that clears up some common misconceptions.

So far I am enthusiastic and believe I will remain so!

[Neil18]

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A great American once said:

"The only thing that you can learn from golf books, is that you can't learn anything from golf books. But, you have to read an awful lot of them to find that out!"

Leslie Neilsen

[bdbl]

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wot nailed em as in this new book thats supposed to be out
good job sir

Huh, its not all its cracked up to be imo; read it twice now and haven't improved at all

[keith_mufc]

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wot nailed em as in this new book thats supposed to be out
good job sir

[slater170]

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Hey Pedro...

Tell us about the 88shots then....

Cheers

i nailed em!

[Scragger63]

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Hey Pedro...

Tell us about the 88shots then....

Cheers

[slater170]

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[quote=keith_mufc;10544585] Slats wot u mean 3skills?
Whats all this about I never heard of it please enlighten me a bit

Cheers mate lmao[/quote


nice one keith

[keith_mufc]

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Slats wot u mean 3skills?
Whats all this about I never heard of it please enlighten me a bit

Cheers mate lmao

[slater170]

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Great stuff, but the 1st skill does apply to driving. Instead of hitting down 20 degrees on the ball you hit it parallel to the ground but still with that hammer action in your mind. (photos on page 20)
Although I think your driving benefits more when you apply all 3 skills together
Back getting better (lots massage and heat therapy) might get to the range this week, as I have a comp Fri. Mind if i feel any pain or even a twinge then I stop and give it another week or two rest.

I hope at last i can get to using the 3 skills drills.
Let you all know how it goes.
Keith

best of luck with it keith!
played a new course yesterday windy and hilly shot an 88
would give you the details but dont want to bore the arse off people banging on about the 3skills