Block vs Push

[curtisj76]

Is there a difference? If so, could you educate me. Muchas thanks

 

[jenhaoyen]

i think one is describing body parts, and the other is describing ball flight?

 

[dannyc]

prolly depends who you are talking to, but pretty much the same thing in my opinion...
block could be a "large" push

 

[tobell]

The distinction has to do with the release. A block is when the player inhibits or holds off the free release of the club through impact..Trevino. A push is a rightward shot with a full release..Freddy Couples.

 

[adamscot89]

A block is usually caused by the body and hands being way in front and the club being under plane, you could swing left of left and still block the ball if you hold of the club leave it under plane and the face open obviously whereas...

a push is really just caused by swinging too far to the right and having the face square or slightly open to your swingpath,

nice comparison of Trevino and Couples

Tiger is blocking his tee shots right now, a lot of people would say he's "jammed up", which is a somewhat decent way to describe how the body gets when you block the ball, although as Brian touched on in his blog, it really has a lot to do with the club getting below the plane that you are swinging on whether it be shoulder or elbow.

Tiger swings down on the shoulder plane and then drops the club to the elbow plane which is below the the one he started on and tries to swing left to keep the ball from going right which puts his body way in front and abrah kadabrah some lady in the right gallerie just got a concussion.

 

[birdie_man]

I was not aware of a difference. I really do not know.

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

in my vocabulary it is exactly the same thing