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Date Posted: 17:05:45 10/02/01 Tue
Author: BDW
Subject: Right arm tension, great image ...
In reply to: KevinD 's message, "Swing Path (Help...!!)" on 11:45:19 10/02/01 Tue

>Does anyone know of a method or product that will
>ingrain the correct swing arc for Natural Golf?
>
>I will practice one night and hit 9 out of 10 shots on
>the sweet spot and my confidence will start to soar.
>Next time out practicing I will hit almost every shot
>off of the heal. When I figure out what's going wrong,
>it usually has to do with the fact that I'm not
>bending my back arm enough, going back to high, or
>have started on the wrong path.
>
>I would really love to be able to ingrain the right
>path so that it can start becoming more of an
>unconscious move.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.


The best thing I have ever heard on this subject is from my dad (CI Dave Woods), got to give the ole man credit where it is due.

At address, let your right arm hang so loose, so tension free that you imagine it as a piece of overcooked spaghetti. (This starts with light to moderate grip pressure with the right hand). On your backswing, allow your right arm to FOLD EFFORTLESSLY, offering no resistance to the backward momentum. This "pasta" image will allow you keep the swing more out in front of your body, instead of getting stuck behind with a flying, rigid right elbow. This image instantly allows me to get to the top of my backswing with my right elbow directly under my right wrist, where it should be. Believe me, if you get to this position at the top you will be on the correct path for your downswing.

When he first told me that, it FELT like that image narrowed my backswing arc and sapped some power. However, the results coming off the club were higher, straighter and farther, proving to me that the reduction of torque in a golf swing leads to better contact AND more power. That totally goes against conventional teaching of today, which stresses that power comes from resistance between hip and shoulder turn, or torque (X Factor). I believe smoothness = power. Torque just causes problems.

True story follows. I was playing golf with a buddy (conventional swinger) who a month earlier had gone down to Bay Hill for a 4-day Arnold Palmer school. He was a 10 handicap, and I swear he came back a 20. He told them he had a tendency to get the club "stuck" behind him at the top, which led to him having to throw his hands at the ball resulting in all sorts of problems. And that was exactly his problem. They told him everything under the sun to fix it, including ... "spin your hips harder thru impact" (great advice, eh?).

We were playing at a beautiful new Hale Irwin course in town (tough track) and he was just a mess. Pull hooks, skulls, you name it. This was a guy who the last time I played with him broke 80 and he was going to probably not break 100! I hate to give advice to people on the course unless they ask, and he was so pissed I thought he might bury a sand wedge between my eyes if said anything, but on the 16th tee I couldn't stand it anymore. His backswing was so inside and stuck behind at the top he was hopeless. So I told him about the right arm = overcooked spaghetti, and made him take about 10 practice swings with that image. He said it felt smooth, but weird and kind of weak.

What follows actually happened. He teed up a ball on 16, and using the image, striped it about 280 right down the middle. He had a 140 left to the green, took out a 9 iron, and HOLED IT for eagle. He made a routine par on par 3 17 after a gorgeuous 7 iron shot, and parred 18 with a great drive and second shot to play the last three holes in two under. He shot 48 on the front and was headed for another 48 or worse on the back before lightning struck.

Not guaranteeing any eagles, but this one swing image has helped me more than anything else I have ever read or heard. Give it a shot.

BDW

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