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21 days ago

There is so much confusion about how a golfer unwinds in the down swing it just makes me shake my head. This is one of the most simple and natural moves known to man. Ben Hogan simply showed you by throwing a ball. Here is another drill that Hogan among others would use to get the correct feeling of how simple this move is. First set up like so with a club on your hip and your left arm in this position. I am using a junior club here but you can use any club in your bag. Next get your right hip and club driving TOGETHER to and through the ball towards the target. ALL GREAT PLAYERS unwind this way. Most will get a FEEL of the hip and the club head working and driving together IMMEDIATELY from back swing into the down swing. In the year 2000 Tiger felt like his right arm was getting straight as soon as possible in the change of direction. SAME THING!!!! Here is where players get when there getting stuck usually from working on shear crap. This ...

How Ricky Barnes can become one of the greats

99 days ago

Here is Ricky Barnes next to Ben Hogan in the exact same horrible position. This is Ben Hogan right out of Power Golf before he learned the correct information about the golf swing. And this is Ricky Barnes in this years United States Open which he damn near won with this swing, which is a testament to his amazing talent and short game. He has also missed the cut in darn near half of the tournaments he has played in this year. Notice the left arm has wiped across the chest which makes them have to flip the hands to have any chance of squaring the club to the back of the ball. And Hogan was a great player with a bad swing even from here. The problem was this position is NOT fundamentally sound and he never won a major swinging like this. Here are a couple more pictures from a different angle, as you can see his left arm is in a position where I see most 25 handicappers that come in wondering why they hit it all over the place. So Ricky could be ...

Are you getting what you pay for in lessons?

190 days ago

The old adage of you get what you pay for goes completely out the window when it comes to golf lessons. Simply by analyzing what some of these "coaches" are saying is stunning and flat out wrong. Here is a great kid Sean O'Hair getting completely wrong and horrible information from his new instructor. Excuse me but you learn when your 10 years old about swing plane, and anyone that comprehends this knows that what his coach says is his old "bad" back swing is perfectly on plane. Where he wants Sean to get in his new "good" swing is flat, traps his right side and is on plane to hit a baseball NOT a golf ball. If this kid ever gets this in his swing he will disappear and never be heard from again. You CAN NOT play consistent golf with the club behind you. What's scary is this seems to be the new flavor of the month, instructors trying to get players flat. Here is Sean winning at Quail Hollow not long ago and GEE it sure looks like he ...

Finally where he belongs

294 days ago

If you have been following golf for the first few tournaments of the year than you have certainly noticed a new face on the PGA Tour by the name of Scott Piercy. I have worked for many hours over the years with Scott and I will tell you what, they don't come any better or with more talent than this young man. Here he is winning a nationwide tour event in Ohio of last year. I talked to him in Oregon at one of his last events of the year on the nationwide, and congratulated him on getting his card for the 2009 PGA Tour season. One thing he said was he did NOT want to be back on the nationwide, I said just take care of business (work on the right stuff) and you will never be back. And he won't!!! He has too much talent and even better has the correct information about the golf swing. The hardest part for Scott now is to stay away from, and not listen to the crap that people around him will say about the golf swing if he has a bad tournament or two. Just listening to the analysis ...

CENTRIPETAL FORCE AND THE GOLF SWING

434 days ago

This would be a good time to talk a little about centripetal force and how it relates to the golf swing. Now I will talk about quite a few things here that may seem complicated to do, but always remember I can make you do all of this with one or two simple swing thoughts. First of all you must swing the club on plane. It will become clear that you cannot have centripetal force and swing off the correct plane and by swinging on plane you automatically create this force in other words you can not do one without the other. Let me first talk about a quick definition. If I took a string with a rock attached to its end, held it between my thumb and forefinger and twirled my fingers around that rock would spin around on the end of the string as well. The faster I twirled the faster the rock would fly through the air. My hand would represent an inner moving force (centripetal force) the rock would represent the resulting outer moving force (centrifugal force) and the two forces would be ...