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Els and Wie Swing Comparison
Found this pretty cool clip when I was researching Ernie Els’ swing. A great look at Ernie’s swing from this swing vision: I love this swing at the top. His right palm is just parallel to the ground, pointing to the sky …great powe...
Pre Shot Routine 20090411
I’ve been out of the golfing scene for a week or so due to injury (thanks to renovations and a bad wrist injury from my first week back at golf last Wednesday), so I’m taking this opportunity to think carefully about my pre-shot routine a...
Upright Swing FTW
Check your plane by checking your left arm at the top of the backswing. It should be pointing down the target line. Today was lesson day for me, and another round on video for my swing. Things were looking good, but there was still ’something&#...
Learning About ‘The Big Muscles’
Using the correct big muscles makes everything easier and, well, just better! Has been a while since my last post due to me spending time on house renovations, rather than golf. But back into the swing of things today. And as usual after some time aw...
The Swing Thoughts That Worked
I keep my swing thoughts simple and direct. Simple instructions yield the best results under pressure, and allow me to remain confident in my swing. While it’s still early days, I was striking the ball very well on the weekend and when I though...
A Good Day
Work smarter, harder and never give up. The results WILL show themselves. Yet another day back in weekend competition to test all these changes to my swing under some pressure. Our club has just hosted the Australian Amateur in the last week, so I wa...
The Way Forward
On the downswing, I make a lateral move forward with my whole body, not just my lower or upper half. Had another great lesson today. I’m always really happy when we find something wrong and find a way to fix it in the one lesson. Today there wa...
More Swing Problems Found and Fixed
Another day with the coach today, and a BIG day at that. Lots of new things learned. Most importantly, I learned the importance of maintaining your spine angle throughout the swing. I was taught some drills to help get me into the right habits. Befor...
More Hope
Thanks to the kindness of the local pro at the driving range today, I got my swing on video again (No charge, what a champion!) and things are starting to look a lot better than the last round on video. BUT we were still able to find some weird fault...
More Experience …Yay
I hope you can all detect the sarcasm in that title. My first week back in competition since I have started getting lessons and, while I was striking the ball very well, my accuracy was horrible with my long game, so much so that it got me into a lot...
Awesome Downswing Drill
After getting the backswing sorted, I’ve been struggling for a while with Mr Downswing. Namely how to get it to start and continue on a consistent, correct plane. That is until today! I was at the driving range next to this older guy who was hi...
After Impact
I’ve been struggling to get an inside-to-out path when coming through the impact area (or even a straight path), so I decided to see how the pros look after impact, and compare the results to myself. The results were very different = I have wor...
Everything ‘connected’
Today I learned a new lesson. At the top of the backswing, the whole body (from the ground up) is connected via torsion. You feel loaded with power. Upper and lower body in sync When you start the downswing, if you unscrew your lower body too fast, ...
Workout Results
I’ve found a great workout combination of weights and cardio that is showing results (two-three belt sizes lost so far). Each workout consists of one major and minor bodypart weight workout and 2 kilometers of uphill exercise bike/cardio (put t...
The Old Habits Creeping Back NO MORE
Today I learned how quickly old habits can creep back into my golf swing if you don’t stay on top of them. A couple of my favourites are a flat swing plane and hand position at the top of the backswing. Get these wrong and you’re finding ...
Izenda Reporting and An Early Rise
After spending 7 straight hours in one day last week pulling my hair out trying to get Izenda scheduled reports to work, I gave in and decided I could not solve the problem. I figured I must be missing something and it was time for this developer to ...
Good Day and Bad Days
Just when you think you’ve got this game licked, it enlightens you to how small your grasp on it really is. I experienced ‘one of those days’ today at the driving range. Not just with the full swing, but with putting also. However, ...
Importance Of Wrist?
After slowly but surely getting the hang of my pre-shot routine, I find myself still seriously pulling some shots at the driving range, which if they were on the course, would be at least one fairway off course, which typically = bogey/double. I kno...
Pre-shot Routine and Swing Thoughts
Today I learned the importance of a pre-shot routine. Without planning it I ended up going through a routine in my head that, for me, checked off everything I needed to do before hitting a ball consistently (described in third person). Since this is ...
The Journey Begins
I decided about a month ago that I’d like to put some serious time into golf to see what I’m really capable of, and more importantly, to find out for myself how much there really is to hitting great golf shots consistently. What is my one...
