Blocking and Pushing

[Shamed04]

Yesterday I hit the ball extremely solid. Felt good sound good but ended up right everytime. It was just a straight up push I suppose, all the way through the bag as from driver to 9i.
Any ideas

[GregJWillis]

Re: Blocking and Pushing

Check alignment first.
Then check your spine angle into impact. You might be standing up a touch.

[pnearn]

Re: Blocking and Pushing

Greg

Why do you think Tiger pushes? He obviously loses his spine angle with his pronounced squat but his bad shot is the push .. does he just turn to fast or does he slide too much?

[GregJWillis]

Re: Blocking and Pushing

Body outraces his hands..turns to fast.

[bdbl]

Re: Blocking and Pushing

Check alignment first.
Then check your spine angle into impact. You might be standing up a touch.

Hi Greg

This might seem a silly question but I don't think I lose my spine angle during a swing so can a push be caused by standing up too much at set up? I ask because I only really suffer with a push with the driver where I don't really bend that much.

[GregJWillis]

Re: Blocking and Pushing

Sure...if you are too upright at setup there is nowhere for the hands to go into impact but out-to-in, rather then in-to-out.

[pnearn]

Re: Blocking and Pushing

Body outraces his hands..turns to fast.

It must be fractions with him then because it seems on every shot that's he turning incredibly hard from the ground up and managing to square it up

[bdbl]

Re: Blocking and Pushing

Sure...if you are too upright at setup there is nowhere for the hands to go into impact but out-to-in, rather then in-to-out.

Ok, thanks I'lll check my posture with the driver next time - as well as alignment.

[BrianW]

Re: Blocking and Pushing

My bad shot is always a push and when it happens it is caused by my right hip pulling round too early in the downswing and blocking my right arm. I think the problem is associated with incorrect understanding in the past that the downswing needed to start with an aggressive rotation of the hips, this can pull the left hip behind and the right out in front too early creating spin out and blocking.

I think many of us get the wrong idea of "Clearing the hips" or why we should do it. The hips will naturally turn in the backswing and as the downswing starts the right buttock needs to stay back so that the right arm and elbow has space to swing through, as we come into impact the right buttock should stay back and the left one should wind back so that it is in line with the left. through impact into the release the left should stay back and the right should pull out.

If that's difficult to follow this video explains it nicely: