echoes77
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He ponders: "Why don't more people do this on tour?"
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Flick on Hovering the Clubhead
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birdie_man
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I can't stand doing this.
It would take a lot to get used to.....and right now- couldn't stand getting used to it.
It would take a lot to get used to.....and right now- couldn't stand getting used to it.
Chris Sturgess
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Does it really decrease tension though? I don't think it does, if anything I would say it increases tension since there is no tension when the club is sitting on the ground. There is more of an accelerated grip pressure maybe, but there is an accelerated grip pressure anyway in just doing the act of swinging the club. Seems unnecessary, Jack would've played just as well grounding the club I think, didn't Hogan, Snead, Tiger, etc. do pretty well without hovering?
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I don't ever remember watching Jack where he didn't hover the club. And when he was younger it seemed to take him an eternity to hit the ball after addressing it....
I don't ever remember watching Jack where he didn't hover the club. And when he was younger it seemed to take him an eternity to hit the ball after addressing it....
self-mastery
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How is hovering the clubhead "the latest fad"?
Brian Manzella
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Lets not call it "Hovering." I am using that term for a backswing with a body that hovers over the ball.
In an interesting side-note—I think that the clubshft gets stressed LESS in the takeaway if you don't sole the club.
And I like to stress the shaft in the takeaway.
I can hit it good either way and esp. with the driver un-soled. The un-soled Driver is what I teach to many beginners with great success.
Lets not call it "Hovering." I am using that term for a backswing with a body that hovers over the ball.
In an interesting side-note—I think that the clubshft gets stressed LESS in the takeaway if you don't sole the club.
And I like to stress the shaft in the takeaway.
I can hit it good either way and esp. with the driver un-soled. The un-soled Driver is what I teach to many beginners with great success.
birdie_man
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Any specific reason you'd tell certain beginners to not sole the driver?
Idiots?
This thread reminds of the following -
In 96 or 97 (can't be sure - I'm over 60 now) I played in the 4 spot qualifer at Missouri Bluffs (St Louis area) for the Senior PGA Tour event to be held at Boone Valley CC. I had never "un soled" the club in the past, but started doing it in my practice round on Sunday.
Shot 66 in the qualifier (low round), shot 67 in practice on Tuesday, shot 68 in the pro-am on Wednesday and I believe I had one round in the 60's during the tournament and finished under par for the tournament.
Do I "un sole" the club now? Nope - hence the title on my thread.
Moral of the story - even when we have something that works, we continue to chase the dream that there must be something better out there. Just goes to prove that most golfer are "idiots".
Maybe I will "un sole" in 2007.
Thanks for bringing the memory of un soling back.
Bruce
This thread reminds of the following -
In 96 or 97 (can't be sure - I'm over 60 now) I played in the 4 spot qualifer at Missouri Bluffs (St Louis area) for the Senior PGA Tour event to be held at Boone Valley CC. I had never "un soled" the club in the past, but started doing it in my practice round on Sunday.
Shot 66 in the qualifier (low round), shot 67 in practice on Tuesday, shot 68 in the pro-am on Wednesday and I believe I had one round in the 60's during the tournament and finished under par for the tournament.
Do I "un sole" the club now? Nope - hence the title on my thread.
Moral of the story - even when we have something that works, we continue to chase the dream that there must be something better out there. Just goes to prove that most golfer are "idiots".
Maybe I will "un sole" in 2007.
Thanks for bringing the memory of un soling back.
Bruce
When I was a junior player I teed the ball low with a driver, (wood, not metal) , took it back in and up and hit down on it steeply, sometimes taking a small divot ala Olazabal or Sam Snead. A well meaning pro talked me into teeing it high, hovering the club head like Nicklaus and swinging to right field and up. It is twenty five years later and I still fight the lousy effects of that lesson. As Brian points out, hovering works for some, not others. The question that all pros should ask is "what does this swing need", not " this was good for this player".
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