Bill Miracle
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Got home Saturday after a so-so day on the course. In the mail was my first copy of The Golfing Machine. Started reading it and a lot of stuff made sense. I don't know what I didn't get the freakin' book sooner.
Got to the range today...started off hitting my pitiful shots. So, determined to figure out a fix....I started thinking about some of Brian's articles and personal teaching. And....something that stood out in the book...IMPACT FIX.
So, I picked a target, picked an intermediate target in line with the longer target, set up to the ball in an impact fix and then moved to a set up position. If you do this, and you have a neutral grip, the club will be "hooded" or closed at address. I remembered Brian saying this would be the case in one of his videos. So, taking the club back from this position caused me to know what to do to get it in impact postion on the downswing...and hit the inside aft of the ball.
I don't know if this is something I was missing or just something weird to me but....settting up this way caused everything to work. I knew I couldn't come into the ball with the club looking like it did. I got the right backswing and held the twistaway. I felt my a$$ end move to the left while my head area stayed back. I came slightly inside the ball and hit some monster shots that had a little draw or went straight. Not only were they long, they had nice trajectory as well.
Oh yeah, I also focused on lag into the ball. I was letting the right elbow do some fully things. Today, I let it get infront of my hip and sustain the lag while my pivot mashed hell outa the ball.
This worked on every club...from LW to Driver (with the execption of my hybrid...couldn't hit that for crap but..I think it was ball position). I hit each club 3-4 balls then picked out a different club at the other end of the club range (a 4i after a pw).
I ended up staying at the range for almost 4 hours. Yeah, I had a few crappy shots but....only a few.
I also took this same set up routine to the chipping/pitching game. I've made a lot of improvement there but this dialed it in even better.
Does this just sound like a band-aid or does the club face look slightly closed or "hooded" when you set up.
We'll see this holds up through the remainder of the week. It just made everything seem so easy that I really didn't have to focus on anything but...impact postion, then set up with mid-hands..club pointed at belt buckle, twistaway and get that club in position to duplicate impact position...hold the lag and WHAM! My body did everything that it was susposed to do on it's own.
With the club slightly closed at address, my brain was telling me that if I hit the ball like that, it was going waaaay left. The impact fix helped me to see what the club needed to return to and the intermediate target was kind of an aiming point. Does this make sense?
To me it was AWESOME!
Got to the range today...started off hitting my pitiful shots. So, determined to figure out a fix....I started thinking about some of Brian's articles and personal teaching. And....something that stood out in the book...IMPACT FIX.
So, I picked a target, picked an intermediate target in line with the longer target, set up to the ball in an impact fix and then moved to a set up position. If you do this, and you have a neutral grip, the club will be "hooded" or closed at address. I remembered Brian saying this would be the case in one of his videos. So, taking the club back from this position caused me to know what to do to get it in impact postion on the downswing...and hit the inside aft of the ball.
I don't know if this is something I was missing or just something weird to me but....settting up this way caused everything to work. I knew I couldn't come into the ball with the club looking like it did. I got the right backswing and held the twistaway. I felt my a$$ end move to the left while my head area stayed back. I came slightly inside the ball and hit some monster shots that had a little draw or went straight. Not only were they long, they had nice trajectory as well.
Oh yeah, I also focused on lag into the ball. I was letting the right elbow do some fully things. Today, I let it get infront of my hip and sustain the lag while my pivot mashed hell outa the ball.
This worked on every club...from LW to Driver (with the execption of my hybrid...couldn't hit that for crap but..I think it was ball position). I hit each club 3-4 balls then picked out a different club at the other end of the club range (a 4i after a pw).
I ended up staying at the range for almost 4 hours. Yeah, I had a few crappy shots but....only a few.
I also took this same set up routine to the chipping/pitching game. I've made a lot of improvement there but this dialed it in even better.
Does this just sound like a band-aid or does the club face look slightly closed or "hooded" when you set up.
We'll see this holds up through the remainder of the week. It just made everything seem so easy that I really didn't have to focus on anything but...impact postion, then set up with mid-hands..club pointed at belt buckle, twistaway and get that club in position to duplicate impact position...hold the lag and WHAM! My body did everything that it was susposed to do on it's own.
With the club slightly closed at address, my brain was telling me that if I hit the ball like that, it was going waaaay left. The impact fix helped me to see what the club needed to return to and the intermediate target was kind of an aiming point. Does this make sense?
To me it was AWESOME!
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