Ideas about the release => high ball flight
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Brian Manzella
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Leo,
You should make sure your hips are left enough at impact.
If they are, know that the average shot on tour goes 90 feet high!!
That's with all clubs.
Your toss-out may start becoming "actual." Watch the Clarification video and JUST do what the scientists say—stop trying to line-up early.
Work on the "pulling the hula hoop out of the ground" drill from the video.
Report back.
You should make sure your hips are left enough at impact.
If they are, know that the average shot on tour goes 90 feet high!!
That's with all clubs.
Your toss-out may start becoming "actual." Watch the Clarification video and JUST do what the scientists say—stop trying to line-up early.
Work on the "pulling the hula hoop out of the ground" drill from the video.
Report back.
brian has refered to sticking the hula hoop or the club into the ground and then pulling it back out. i have found that if i stick the club in the ground further back from the ball i can hit a high launching penetrating ballflight. if i stick the club into the ground closer to the ball i get a lower penetrating ballflight.
Jim Kobylinski
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This is really important to understand. I think everyone needs to go to a PGA Tour or even Nationwide Tour event one day and really see how high these guys hit the ball. It was eye opening for me. Granted part of it comes from the ball speed / spin they generate BUT they still hit it higher than you think
I would agree that I've started hitting the ball a little higher (on average) since trying to "let it go," and incorporate the ideas of the new, free-wheeling release. However, with the exception of a few ballooned short iron shots, it is a much different ball flight/trajectory. It is more of an "up and out," that seems to keep going with less spin. It is definitely launched higher, but also more forward and outward. To put it another way, it's almost like it's knuckling through the air a little more, instead of spinning up to an apex and running out of gas.
What's more, if I do absolutely need to hit a lower, piercing shot, it's pretty easy. I simply take one more club, swing with less intensity, and still hit it farther than I used to on full swings with the same club. It still seems to "knuckle" through the air better, just with a lower overall apex.
What's more, if I do absolutely need to hit a lower, piercing shot, it's pretty easy. I simply take one more club, swing with less intensity, and still hit it farther than I used to on full swings with the same club. It still seems to "knuckle" through the air better, just with a lower overall apex.
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SteveT
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You can also get a higher ball flight if you are a taller golfer with clubs 2º up and 1" longer.. like mine. I nip the ball with my mid and short irons and get high trajectories and balls landing steeply and stopping quickly. Very accurate too.
Unfortunately, I suffer with longer clubs like the driver where a steep swing is just bad. When I try to shallow out the swing, I lose accuracy and distance. Faldo at 6'2" had a steeper swing and his average drive was only 260 yards. I shall never conquer the driver because time is running out.
My best drive was 275 yards (325 - 50)... a 'power fade' with the highest trajectory I have ever seen and then a gentle glide to the right. Never been able to repeat it because I don't know what happened and couldn't duplicate it with my particular body mechanics. Oh well ... I'm a PGA pro from ~160 yards in... and a bogey golfer from farther out.
Unfortunately, I suffer with longer clubs like the driver where a steep swing is just bad. When I try to shallow out the swing, I lose accuracy and distance. Faldo at 6'2" had a steeper swing and his average drive was only 260 yards. I shall never conquer the driver because time is running out.
My best drive was 275 yards (325 - 50)... a 'power fade' with the highest trajectory I have ever seen and then a gentle glide to the right. Never been able to repeat it because I don't know what happened and couldn't duplicate it with my particular body mechanics. Oh well ... I'm a PGA pro from ~160 yards in... and a bogey golfer from farther out.
dschultz6072
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+1 You'll go there and likely say "They hit their 3 iron higher than I hit my 7 iron! And they know where it's going! Their shots look like they could stop on concrete! Concrete I tell you!"
tongzilla
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Sorted. I got the perfect ball flight now. And it feels easy too.
The IDEA of letting the club line up with my right arm from the top was enough. No conscious effort to achieve it was necessary.
Also I do not need that initial weight shift you talked about in the video.
Been reminiscing the last 10 years around here. How ironic that the people giving the kool aid are the same people to come up with the antidote.
Kevin Shields
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Jack Nicklaus - "Anyone can hit it low"
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