"Keep your head down"

[shortgamer]

Fundamentally, is there something wrong with this thought? I've heard golfers and instuctors abroad say they wish they had a dollar for everytime they heard this crap but I guess I'm clueless as to why this is bad advice. I'm assuming this thought is to keep you down in your spine angle?

 

[Spike]

I think what happened was......a few hundred years ago during a particularly windy day on the links the old Scottish Pro yelled to his student, "Keep yoor cloobhaid doon throo impaawct!"

But the wind being too strong the student thought he said, "Keep yoor haid doon."

And that is why he has the posture of a vulture, is surrounded by beaver pelts after a shot and tremendous back problems.

 

[bantamben2]

head down is good, most people have too flat a shoulder turn though, so there shoulder hits there chin if they had a steeper shoulder turn they could look out of the center of there eyes.

 

[birdie_man]

I've got the Duval/Annika thing goin on....always have....I don't know that it's either good or bad.

 

[Brian Manzella]

...And that is why he has the posture of a vulture, is surrounded by beaver pelts after a shot and tremendous back problems.

Hall of Fame Post, Spikerooski!

 

[Perfect Impact]

The swing center is not the head: it is behind the neck: the head and chest swivels around THAT POINT. So the head moves, but the center is fixed. In both DD and AS, I believe; but I'd have to check vids to be certain; that is my recollection.

 

[Brian Manzella]

George...

When we agree on something, they ought to "mark it in stone."

MARK IT.

NO WAY in this world any objective study will show the HEAD as any center of anything.

NO WAY.

None.

 

[bcoak]

The head controls how we move. Think about how you move to turn wwhen walking, what leads?

 

[Spike]

The head controls how we move. Think about how you move to turn wwhen walking, what leads?

hmmm....what part of the head?

 

[pieman]

so we're still saying we want to turn around on the base of the neck, correct?

 

[Bigwill]

I've got the Duval/Annika thing goin on....always have....I don't know that it's either good or bad.

From what I've seen, Duval and Annika maintain their posture, even thought their heads rotate toward the target. I think the KYHD cliche' was meant as a way to maintain posture, initially. At least that's my take on it.

 

[Spike]

There is no way your head will move if you are moving the clubhead away from your head. The moment the clubhead moves closer to your head is when your head will want to move. Fighting that natural reaction can cause body aches. So, keeping your head down is not the secret.