The hands

[pokerlife]

i just left the range and i was hitting some 80 yard shots with my sand wedge.

Here's what i noticed. When i take the club back my right hand is usually pointing in the direction as if i was going to shake hands with someone directly to my right .

I tried a few swings taking the club back with my right hand pointing directly down as if i was dribbling a basketball and the contact was much more solid. The ball flight was also a little lower and had a slight draw.

I went back to the big range and tried the same thing with my driver and it didnt work at all


Anyone have a clue whats up with this?

 

[Tom Losinger]

i just left the range and i was hitting some 80 yard shots with my sand wedge.

Here's what i noticed. When i take the club back my right hand is usually pointing in the direction as if i was going to shake hands with someone directly to my right .

I tried a few swings taking the club back with my right hand pointing directly down as if i was dribbling a basketball and the contact was much more solid. The ball flight was also a little lower and had a slight draw.

I went back to the big range and tried the same thing with my driver and it didnt work at all


Anyone have a clue whats up with this?

The same swing doesn't work very well with all shots. Stinks doesn't it? It sounds like you found a good wedge motion, now work on finding a good driver motion. You just might need to look in a different place. Face, plane and angle of attack....More face rotation, plane more right, , level to up angle of attack with the driver should work better. Have fun!

 

[pokerlife]

Ya i though i was going to hit the driver good as well lol

Ball came off like a bullet about 5 feet off the ground

 

[dominicscaife]

Sounds like your basketball bouncing motion delofts the club a lot.

So delofting a sandwedge may work fine. But deloft a driver too much and your in trouble.

Kinda like Brian's famous Ping 1 iron story in "Never Hook again"

I would have thought that delofting like that may also close the face and you pull balls left?

What was your ball flight like with the basketball motion?

 

[chino]

"So delofting a sandwedge may work fine. But deloft a driver too much and your in trouble."

with the proper set-up this action will work very well with the driver when conditions demand it.
It's a kissing cousin to the stinger shot. No you will not pull the shot as long as your rotation doesn't stall.
A great move to have in the bag.

 

[dominicscaife]

"So delofting a sandwedge may work fine. But deloft a driver too much and your in trouble."

with the proper set-up this action will work very well with the driver when conditions demand it.
It's a kissing cousin to the stinger shot. No you will not pull the shot as long as your rotation doesn't stall.
A great move to have in the bag.

Can you elaborate a little bit on what "as long as your rotation doesn't stall" means?

How would you recommend correcting if you did?

Cheers.

 

[chino]

When the rotations stalls or stops, the arms fly past the body & result a flip.

Rotation needs to continue while yet still maintaining axis tilt with upper body (amount of AT depends on shot you are trying to execute.