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Sounds to me like you are on to something.
Sevam1
Originally posted by Neil18
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I love the guys enthusiasm and he clearly has experience of talking to Moe Norman about the swing, and Moe learned some stuff from Hogan.
I love the sound of the strike.
Hogan was known for his accuracy, but he could be long if he wanted to be. If anybody on Tour swung it like Hogan nowadays they'd be around the 300 yd mark I'm sure.
What I was very interested in was Sevam1's comments on weight shift and pivot points.
I was recently converting my weight shift thoughts to be more natural. By that I mean that my weight will and should be where my head is (the head being the heaviest part of the body). If you stand in a golf posture and try to put the majoruty of your weight on your lead foot whilst keeping your head behind the ball, you can't do it without shifting your hips severely to the left, so much so that the left hip will be outside the left leg. Not good for balance in the follow through.
So, in essence, the weight shift is more gradual and flows with the club, hence the club pull you up on your left leg to finish. This contradicts a lot of teachings that focus on getting the weight over to the left leg early. I've found that approach can lead to a lot of pulls pushes and (in the worst case) shanks. So Sevam1 is advocating 2 pivot points. The right leg in the backswing and downswing, and the left leg in the follow-through.
It feels more natural to me. More like a step through the ball. And I release teh clubhead through the ball much better. When I first tried it I was much straighter and longer and my swing flowed much more. It felt weird at first because I was keeping more weight on my right foot for longer into the downswing and impact, but the results don't lie. As long as I keep the ball position constant and don't stand up out of the shot, it's bullet straight city!
Just gotta get rid of my bad weight-shift habits and improve my planes to be more shallow to get it consistent.
I like it!
I love the sound of the strike.
Hogan was known for his accuracy, but he could be long if he wanted to be. If anybody on Tour swung it like Hogan nowadays they'd be around the 300 yd mark I'm sure.
What I was very interested in was Sevam1's comments on weight shift and pivot points.
I was recently converting my weight shift thoughts to be more natural. By that I mean that my weight will and should be where my head is (the head being the heaviest part of the body). If you stand in a golf posture and try to put the majoruty of your weight on your lead foot whilst keeping your head behind the ball, you can't do it without shifting your hips severely to the left, so much so that the left hip will be outside the left leg. Not good for balance in the follow through.
So, in essence, the weight shift is more gradual and flows with the club, hence the club pull you up on your left leg to finish. This contradicts a lot of teachings that focus on getting the weight over to the left leg early. I've found that approach can lead to a lot of pulls pushes and (in the worst case) shanks. So Sevam1 is advocating 2 pivot points. The right leg in the backswing and downswing, and the left leg in the follow-through.
It feels more natural to me. More like a step through the ball. And I release teh clubhead through the ball much better. When I first tried it I was much straighter and longer and my swing flowed much more. It felt weird at first because I was keeping more weight on my right foot for longer into the downswing and impact, but the results don't lie. As long as I keep the ball position constant and don't stand up out of the shot, it's bullet straight city!
Just gotta get rid of my bad weight-shift habits and improve my planes to be more shallow to get it consistent.
I like it!
Sevam1
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