Friday, November 16, 2012

Tool: Covering the ball and wrist position right after impact

When looking down the line at swing I saw how the pros wrists really flipped over right after impact.   On the range I though about how this would happen with the wrists other than having amazingly strong wrist muscles and the timing to flip your wrists at the exact right time.  Then I thought of using my shoulders to flip over my wrists.  The feeling is pushing one shoulder forward with your arms extended pushes that hand over and visa versa.  So I tried the swing out.  The feeling is to push my right shoulder over right before impact and let it then rotate my right arm over, then wrists, then hands.  This also feels like it create a whipping effect.  As well this keeps my right shoulder going forward and gets me to cover the ball more.  I think the best example of this is Rory's swing.  It's looks like he's throwing his hands forward through impact.  And instead of pulling up right at impact he covers and drives through.  Something that my and my son have been working on with his swing as well.

Coming in too steep redux

Once again I was just comparing my swing to Adam Scott's from behind and thought that I was coming in too steep and my hands were too far away from my legs at impact.  It turns out that I went through this exact same process in May.  I just re-read through that coming-in-too-steep post and it's exactly what I need to do.  So since May till now I just went through a regression to my old swing.  Will go and work on the range this weekend.