We hear “sell-out” applied to the United Auto Workers and, unfortunately, we hear it applied with little or no understanding of how ferociously the union resisted it, or how forcefully the two-tier configuration was crammed down their throats.
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Do you have a Pre-Shot Routine? Do you know it? So many golfers have a Pre-Shot Routine for most golf shots but don’t even know what their routine is when asked in a lesson.
We don’t want to be the golfer who makes a swing, when it finally feels right. Unfortunately, without a good Pre-Shot Routine it may never feel right, opening the door for tension and anxiety to creep into our game, and as we all know, tension and anxiety are the killers of both your Golf game and life itself.
Since golf is not a reaction sport, that golf ball is just going to sit there and sit there until the golfer addresses it and executes a shot. Let’s find a Pre-Shot Routine that we will understand and rely on when it is time to make the swing. Understanding your Pre-Shot Routine will really help to keep the tension and anxiety levels way down. Watch the professionals on Television and you will see that they all have a solid Pre-Shot Routine.
At my Academy I have video of Tiger Woods going through his Pre-Shot Routine in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003 & 2006 and in all the swings he made his Pre-Shot Routine never changed. It continues to be simple and consistent.
Some will tell you that Pre-Shot Routine involves selection of a club, checking the wind etc….and that is not wrong at all. For me, it is after those other decisions have been made, and now it is time to execute the shot.
Here is My Pre-Shot Routine:
It starts behind the ball, looking down the line of play to get a visual for the shot. I then stand parallel to the line of play, still well behind the ball and make 1 to 3 practice swings, looking to feel the swing that I want to make for that shot.
Now I am behind the ball, with arms hanging low and trying to get as loose and relaxed as possible.
I now look down the line of play and bring my line of play in, closer to the ball (about 3 feet). I am now staring at the spot 3 feet in front of the ball and approaching the ball while still staring at that spot until I get my feet parallel to the spot and the line of play.
Now that I am in a good set-up position and ready to make the swing I waggle and look, a 2nd waggle and a look and as soon as my club touches the ground after the 2nd waggle and look I swing.
Balanced Finish:
Because I know that I will be swinging after the second waggle, tension and anxiety are kept at as low a level as possible giving me the opportunity to execute the best possible swing.
Study the professionals; watch for their Pre-Shot Routine and re-evaluate yours. Find a style that fits your game and practiced it on the range. Remember, it is important to know your Pre-Shot Routine so that you will be prepared to make the best possible swing for the shot at hand.
Personally, I love Tigers, Mark O’meara’s, Annaika Sorenstam’s, and Phil Mickelson’s just to name a few.
Thank you for taking the time to read my article and my hope is that you will find some of this information useful, making your golf game the best it can be.
Lou Guzzi, 2003 Philadelphia Section “PGA Teacher of the Year”
Awarded as one of Golf Range Magazine’s “Top 50 Golf Instructors in America”
Listed as one of Golf Magazine’s “Top Regional Teachers in America”
Listed as one of Golf Digest’s “Best Teachers in Your State” for Pennsylvania
Nominated-”National PGA Teacher of the Year”
Class A – Member of the PGA of America
PGA Presidents Counsel – Member
Additionally, Lou has written articles in the past for Philadelphia Golfer,
PGA Magazine and has appeared on ABC Channel 6 Action News “Tee Times” and on Comcast CN8′s Golf Shoot-Out providing Golf Tips and as a Broadcaster with Lou Tilley and Kevin Walsh.
For more information you can contact Lou at:
Lou Guzzi Golf Academy at Talamore Country Club
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Golf is replete with myths. Covering everything from driving to course management, these myths are passed down from father to son, some in the form of golf tips on swing mechanics, others in the form of wise advice on how to do things. Unfortunately, many of these myths are just plain wrong.
Below are three popular myths I like to debunk in my golf lessons and golf tips. One or two of them may have an element of truth in them. The other may have no truth in it at all. Regardless, all of them embody ideas that can elevate scores and boost golf handicaps.
1. Aim at the Target
We’ve all heard this statement before. Maybe even said it. The statement isn’t so much mythic as it is confusing. The question is, aim what at the target? Your clubface? Your shoulders? Your body? The statement doesn’t really say.
The problem with this myth is that it can cause people to misalign themselves in one of two ways, hurting his or her golf handicap.
• aiming the feet, hips, knees, and shoulders directly at the target, leaving the clubface following a line well right of the target; or,
• aiming to compensate for ballflight errors, like when you aim left to compensate for the ballflight error of a slice (for right handers).
When aimed correctly, the leading edge of the clubface sits at a right angle to the target line while your body aligns parallel-left of the target line. This set up establishes perfect parallel alignment. This position doesn’t come naturally. So you need to work on it on the range to recognize when you’re aiming correctly on the course.
Here’s a drill I use in my golf instruction sessions. First, pick a target and lay one club down on the ground a few feet in front of the ball, but on the target line. Then, take a second club and lay it down parallel to the first but along your toe line to indicate body alignment. Make adjustments as necessary. Finally, hit a few balls and see what happens. After awhile you’ll have trained your body and eyes to accept this new alignment.
2. As the swing gets longer, it gets faster
If you’re like most golfers, you swing the driver faster than the 7-
iron or 8-iron. Most of us invariably ramp up our swing speed with longer clubs because we envision hitting the ball harder and driving it farther. It’s a natural tendency, one I often see when giving golf lessons.
Unfortunately, when you ramp up your swing speed, you destroy your natural swing tempo—the total amount of time it takes to create your swing from beginning to end. That’s not good. When you start varying your swing’s tempo from club to club, you destroy the timing required to hit consistent golf shots. It’s one reason why you feel that you can hit your irons well one-day but not your woods, and vice versa.
All of us have our own swing tempo. Some of us have a fast tempo, like Nick Price. Some of us have a slower tempo, like
Fred Couples. Either way is fine, as long as you keep the same tempo for each club in the bag. It’s not something you control. If it takes two seconds to hit the pitching wedge, it should take you two seconds to hit the driver. Practice consistent tempo with all your clubs and you’ll hit consistent shots.
3. Play the ball back with shorter clubs
Most of us vary ball position as we change clubs. The shorter the club, the farther back we position the ball. But incorrect ball positioning can create major problems. With the ball positioned too far forward, our shoulders tend to align too far left of forward. Since your club swings where our shoulders point, we slice. With the ball positioned too far back, our shoulders tend to close, encouraging a push or a hook.
While you should position the ball more forward for the driver than the pitching wedge, you should never place the ball farther back than center for any normal shot with a level lie, regardless of the club you’re using.
Remember, for normal shots on level lies, there are just three basic ball positions;
• Short iron: one inch left of center
• Mid-irons: two inches left of center
• Long irons & woods: three inches left of center.
In addition, always relate the position of the ball to your upper body, not your toes. Using your toes can create the illusion that the ball is positioned correctly when in fact it isn’t. For example, if you use your toes to position the ball with your foot flared out but then close up your foot, the ball seems to move forward in your stance, when it actually hasn’t.
These are just three of the more popular golf myths that exist, many of which I address in my golf lessons and golf tips. There are lots more. Unfortunately, many of them are just plain wrong.
So be wary of them. And don’t be afraid to challenge them. Even if you’re wrong, the worse thing that can happen is that you can learn something valuable about the game of golf.
Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book “How To Break 80…And Shoot Like The Pros!”. He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that was able to figure out the secrets of shooting in the 70’s on a consistent basis without quitting your day job. Jack has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicap immediately.
Here’s a really good tip that may help you to get rid of your slice. Best of all, it’s really pretty simple once you get the hang of it, and understand why it’s being used. The problem is that it’s kind of hard to explain, so please bear with me.
Chances are that you have battled with a slice at some point in your golfing days. To be completely direct with you, dealing with a slice really sucks. It hurts your golf game in many more ways than one. Luckily, it’s fairly easy to fix. I cannot claim that this small tip will completely cure your slice, but there’s a good chance that it will. I hope it does.
When you come into the impact zone, there are really only two factors that can determine the “shape” of ball flight.
1. The angle of the club face at impact.
2. The path the club is taking at impact.
Really not that tough to understand. The tough part is explaining how to correct it, and keeping this e-mail short at the same time.
Anyway, here are a few things your should concentrate on.
Try to keep your leading shoulder “down” on the ball through impact. This is called staying strong through impact. Lots of times the leading shoulder (left shoulder if right handed) flies up before impact. Now just for a minute, think about what that does to the clubhead when it’s in the impact zone.
Golf is all about thinking and analyzing your shots to get better. A huge part of this game is understanding “why” you’re getting a certain result, and the physics behind that result. Thinking through your golf swing will provide huge dividends if you’re willing to invest the time it takes.
Get up from the computer and actually go though the motions slowly. Let your leading shoulder fly up as you approach impact and you’ll actually be able feel and see the clubface coming from an outside-in path. That causes a slice every time.
So what can you do to correct it? Well, for starters, try to learn to keep your leading shoulder strong. Keep that shoulder “down” on the ball all the way through impact, even after the ball is gone and flying straight down the fairway.
Here’s an illustration of what I’m talking about. As you can see, the leading shoulder is still down. The triangle is still there. Most importantly, my body has NOT gotten ahead of my hands. This is a HUGE distinction. As you may notice, the left shoulder is actually higher than the right shoulder. So what do I mean when I say “leading shoulder down”?
You have to envision yourself from the back looking down on the ball. When I say “down”, I mean that the leading shoulder and chest is still facing the ball through impact.
So even though it may seem like the leading shoulder is higher than the trailing shoulder, it’s still facing the ball at impact — NOT TOWARD THIRD BASE in comparison to the ball. That would mean that you have let the leading shoulder fly up.
Hand action is huge in this game. You must learn to release your hands correctly through the ball. Meaning that you release the hands while the leading shoulder is still “down”, or facing the ball.
If you are currently playing with the conventional swing method, it’s really easy to let your body get ahead of the ball. One of the many things you will learn in “The Simple Golf Swing” is how to avoid that trap.
Keep the leading shoulder down and let your arms and hands release through the ball and you will see the ball go farther and higher. This will take a while to get used to.
The key is to let your arms release through the ball, while your left shoulder is “down” on the ball. To do this you will need to rotate your forearms correctly, and use your leading ELBOW (not shoulder) as a hinge. So another way to explain this movement would be that your hands are still moving toward the target, but your leading elbow has almost stopped.
I hate to admit it, but I really like quick fixes. You’ve just read one of them. Another one would be to initiate the downswing with your arms. I’m sure that’s the exact opposite of what you’ve heard before. Starting the downswing with the arms is a tough thing to do.
You want the ball to go the maximum possible distance. So subconsciously, many people have the problem of letting their body get way ahead of their hands. That’s the number one slice-producing move among golfers today. It’s probably the toughest one to fix, because when you’re at the top of your backswing, all you can think about it crushing the ball.
Instead of thinking maximum distance, think minimize slice. Start the downswing with your arms. Get to the top of your backswing, and then the first move should be with the arms. Put this move together with keeping the leading shoulder down, and it will do wonders for both your woods and your irons.
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Have you ever thought about what your hands and forearms are actually doing at the moment of impact? If not, please give this a try.
Try to get into the impact position, like you are about to make solid contact with the ball. Now flip your trailing wrist like you were casting a fishing pole. This is referred to as a wrist break, and it’s not a move that you want to be making in golf. So if you are trying to “flip” your hands through the ball at impact, this tip may help you understand the correct way to make this happen.
If you put a wrist watch on you’ll be able to visualize easily what we want. As your leading arm approaches impact, the watch face should be getting close to pointing exactly down the target line. Now simply ROTATE the watch face so it’s pointed at the ground. With a club in your hands, you’ll see that this move makes your trailing wrist flip on top of your leading wrist. That’s the move we want to be completing through impact.
It’s important to note that your forearms should be working together as well. Try keeping your forearms as close to each other as possible through the impact zone. If you can master this move, you’ll find increased distance and it will also do wonders for your slice.
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If you ever compete in match play events, you need to know how to approach them in order to get good results. If you think match play is the same as stroke play in golf, then read on — because I’m going to tell you what you need to do in order to succeed.
Match play pits one golfer (or one team) against another. Unlike in stroke play, in which total score counts, the golfers compete for each hole. Whoever shoots the lowest score on a hole wins the hole. If the two golfers (or teams) finish with identical scores, the hole is “halved.” Whoever wins the most holes wins the match. If the players (or teams) finish with the same score, the match is halved. Match play does not usually affect your golf handicap. These are the basics.
This head-to-head confrontation, as golf instruction manuals tell you, radically changes how you play the game. Some golf tips urge you to be more aggressive in match play than in stroke play. Other golf tips urge you to play your normal game. What determines how you play is where you stand on the hole, where your opponent stands on the hole, and where the two of you stand in the match.
Most golf instruction will tell you that match play is a balancing act. You’re always weighing the need to put pressure on your opponent against the need to win the hole. The player who plays the best under pressure, regardless of where his golf handicap is, usually wins the match. Handling the pressure is not something golf lessons prepares you for. It’s something you need to experience yourself.
On the tee it’s more important than ever to hit the fairway with your drive. If you’re first off the tee, hitting a good drive increases the pressure on your opponent to also hit a good drive. And vice versa. If you hit a bad drive, that takes the pressure off your opponent. And vice versa. The object is to apply pressure as much as possible during the match.
On the fairway you need to be aware of where your opponent is and what his or her score is on the hole at all times. Keep in mind those golf lessons that tell you to maintain focus. You can hit a bad shot on the hole and still not lose the hole if your opponent also hits a bad shot. In fact, you can shoot an 8 on a hole and win the hole, if your opponent shoots a 9. The key to winning a hole in match play is knowing where your opponent stands on the hole and not panicking if he or she hits a good shot. The next shot could be out of bounds.
On the green, how aggressive you are on any putt depends on where your opponent is, where you are, and where you stand on the hole. Normally, if you had a difficult down hill putt, you’d play the shot conservatively, so as to not slip ten feet past the hole and cost yourself additional strokes. That’s what most golf tips emphasize. In match play, where your opponent is and what his or her score is dictates putting strategy.
If your opponent is lying 3 and is five inches from the hole, chances are he or she is going to sink the putt for a 4. If you’re lying 3, you need to sink the putt to tie your opponent for the hole, so you might as well be aggressive with it.
On the other hand, if your opponent is lying 3 and is twenty feet from the hole, you might as well play that downhill putt more conservatively, if you are also laying 3. You don’t want to run the ball 10 feet past the hole. It could cost you an additional stroke or two and, quite possibly, the hole. Always know where your opponent is on the green and what he or she is shooting before deciding on your putting strategy.
Conceding putts is an issue in match play. You don’t have to concede a putt, even if your opponent has conceded one to you. But most golfers do if it’s short (within 2 feet) and it’s not going to cost you the hole. Some players will concede short putts right up until crunch time, then make his opponent putt everything out just to put some additional pressure on him.
It’s also good to know if your opponent is a good or bad putter. If he’s a poor putter, you might make him putt everything out. Chances are your opponent may 3 putt or even 4 putt on the hole, giving you the hole if you 2 putt.
And then there are going to be times when you need a “hero shot” to win the hole or the match. If the hole or the match is on the line and you have a difficult shot, which you’d play conservatively in stroke play, you want to be more aggressive. If you play the shot conservatively, as most golf instruction dictates, you’ll probably lose the hole and/or the match anyway, so you might as well go for it in the hopes of saving the hole or match.
The key in match play is knowing when to be aggressive and when to be conservative. Match play is not about lowering your golf handicap. It’s about winning holes. Where you stand on the hole, where your opponent stands on the hole, and where the two of you stand in the match dictates strategy. Try not to let the pressure get to you and try to increase the pressure on your opponent whenever it’s prudent. And don’t panic if you fall behind early. You can still win the match if you don’t give up.
Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book “How To Break 80 And Shoot Like The Pros.” He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicap immediately.
When you look back at the great rounds you’ve played, what comes to mind? Sure, you were putting good. And I’m sure your drives were at least playable.
And when I look back on my better scores, all those factors are true, but the one thing that stands out is my short game, around the green.
Let me clarify something. Although the title of this lesson is “Be One with your Wedge,” what I really mean is “Be One with the Club You Use around the Greens”… but that title didn’t sound catchy enough. 
The short game is totally about comfort and feel. You really need to get a mental image of yourself hitting the perfect
shot. Don’t mess around with trying all kinds of fancy-crazy shots unless you totally have them in your bag. Make the same consistent shot over and over. Just focus on the power of that repeatable chip.
What helps me is imagining that my sand wedge (this is the club I use around the greens – yours might be a pitching wedge or 8 iron, etc.) is an extension of my left arm. I view it as almost another part of my body.
And when I successfully keep that focus through the round my scores are generally 4 to 5 strokes better.
Another thing to keep in mind is that age-old advice of trying to chip the ball so that it stops within a 3 foot circle around the hole.
After playing a couple holes take a look back at any chips you’ve had around the greens. Then adjust your power (notice I said power – not the type of shot) accordingly.
Have you been running the ball by the hole? Then lessen your power a bit. Feel like your chipping club is part of you.
This advice may seem a little primitive, but it is so very essential to lower your score.
Dave Moore is the author of the Anti-Slice Swing System (thedaveway.com), which has drawn rave reviews like this one: “Thanks very much for creating this program…I am quite a skeptic with cure-all fixes – however, yours is just amazing.” – Matthew F., Willowville, OH.
