Staying with the ball longer?

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hue

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Brian: I have been working very hard on getting the kind of impact that you have in your logo. I am working on staying with the ball longer Travino style. Making sure my trail shoulder is going down down down to the low point with good impact hands.The club is now staying lower to the ground post impact than it used to and the divots are getting longer. I still have a tendency to come out of the shot when I am not concentrating and my new post impact pattern is not on habit level yet. I find that staying with the ball is more demanding on the pivot and you must not get lazy with the pivot also that the club stays up my left arm longer and does not recock and get flippy.

What do you do to get your pupils staying with the ball longer through the post impact zone?
 
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Brian Manzella

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I put a penny on the ground in front of the ball, depending on the student and the effect I am going for, a little or a lot.

"Now, hit 'em BOTH!"
 
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hue

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Thanks Brian I will give that a go. It strikes me that this is a drill better suited to hitting balls from real turf than from matts. I find I stay with the ball longer hitting from real turf and that matts foster the picking and pulling out of the shot tendency.
 
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wanole

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quote:Originally posted by hue

Thanks Brian I will give that a go. It strikes me that this is a drill better suited to hitting balls from real turf than from matts. I find I stay with the ball longer hitting from real turf and that matts foster the picking and pulling out of the shot tendency.
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My personal opinion, but I would rather not hit balls than hit off matts. You can't miss a shot off matts because the bounce affect.

I know up north you don't have much choice, but matts just give no feedback to me.
 
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Jim Kobylinski

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wanole...i agree sorta.

Once you become aware enough of your clubHEAD and clubFACE you will learn to know when you hit a good shot and when you didn't (when the bounce helped you.

This is the ONLY reason why i still, at times, (mostly in the winter) will hit off mats.
 
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matt

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You can absolutely tell if you compressed a ball or not off of a mat. You either hear a good "thump" if you hit it correctly, or a clinky/scrape sound if you didn't. Plus the ball flight will be terrible if you are bouncing off the mat and into the ball.
 
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Jim Kobylinski

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matt...you'd be surprised how good a bounced shot on a matt can look. Honest. I consider myself a good player and i have really good awareness of whats going on around impact. And i have hit some decent shots off of matts that i know would've been a little fat on the ground and i'll be with people and the shot will go where i was pointing and you'll hear me say, "damn it." They will say, no great shot and i try and explain to them it wasn't.

Granted you can't get a big bounce on the matt cuz you'd just blade it, but small ones get responded with pretty decent results and unless you're good enough to feel and know that, you'll be tricked when it comes golf course time
 
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