In my ongoing quest to improve impact alignments, I recently gave the unhurdleable hurdle a try after seeing a version of it on JG's blog and after watching COFF. I'd never tried it before and found it surprisingly easy to do. Hit about 60 wonderful punch type shots in a row off of the mat, everything from SW-8i. Fast forward to a few days ago at this little 120 yard field where I hit my SW. I was struggling with my pitches and just said do an imaginary version of the drill. It worked wonderfully. So a few questions.
(1) How often do you instructors look at a person's hand path, and what do you look for, and what types of things do you tell higher handicappers? It's just a subject that seems not to get much attention in golfland and maybe one that's underrated.
(2) This feels zilch like anything I've ever been told to do or had tried to do on my own. I didn't feel like I had passive arms/hands or that my pivot did all the work or that my hands had a free ride or that my rt shoulder went in my pocket, but it felt like I just drove my hands straight down at the ball. And it felt ridiculously relaxed, a nice change from the usual contortions and lack of balance I sometimes feel. Is this a case where I just accept this might be my feeling kind of like the Tom Watson, "I feel like I swing over the top."? How many of you have feelings that are backasswards from what you're "supposed to do."?
(3) I haven't tried this out w/ longer clubs and am thinking that maybe being that steep with the hands coming down could be a problem. Any advice for keeping the idea and adapting it to driver, 3w, longer irons, etc.?
(1) How often do you instructors look at a person's hand path, and what do you look for, and what types of things do you tell higher handicappers? It's just a subject that seems not to get much attention in golfland and maybe one that's underrated.
(2) This feels zilch like anything I've ever been told to do or had tried to do on my own. I didn't feel like I had passive arms/hands or that my pivot did all the work or that my hands had a free ride or that my rt shoulder went in my pocket, but it felt like I just drove my hands straight down at the ball. And it felt ridiculously relaxed, a nice change from the usual contortions and lack of balance I sometimes feel. Is this a case where I just accept this might be my feeling kind of like the Tom Watson, "I feel like I swing over the top."? How many of you have feelings that are backasswards from what you're "supposed to do."?
(3) I haven't tried this out w/ longer clubs and am thinking that maybe being that steep with the hands coming down could be a problem. Any advice for keeping the idea and adapting it to driver, 3w, longer irons, etc.?
