The Most Damaging Move in Golf.

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Brian Manzella

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What is The Most Damaging Move in Golf?

Let me start by defining "damaging."

A move that IF made by every single golfer in the world tomorrow, would raise handicaps the most.

What is it?

(I'll give my answer after reading some of yours)
 
Spanners in the mechanical works of a golf swing...

Hmmmm let me think...

Having the club slid right into the palm of the left hand so that the heel pad is on the side of the grip makes the golf stroke really inefficient because of the anatomic inability to create an orbit of the club that travels around the left hand.

Trying to use some zero pivot motion as some misguided interpretation (which just about means actually reading the thing and taking it literally) of the x-factor. The inability to pivot has caused alot of grief...

Those are quite good starters...
 
I'll go with cupping the left wrist. Either that, or over-rotating the left arm on the backswing.

Is this what you're looking for?
 
"I'll go with cupping the left wrist."

'Cupping' the left wrist so that it bends dynamically as it faces the plane is fine because that is one of the two conditions that can be created in responce to the orbit. Since rotating the hand back to vertical automatically turns the wristcock into wristarch for impact, it is a very doable variation.
 

BurnItUp

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Lagging the hosel rather than the sweet spot of the clubface through impact.

Resulting in slices and shanks.
 
I'll go with cupping the left wrist. Either that, or over-rotating the left arm on the backswing.

Is this what you're looking for?

My two-bits as well.....

Although, this can be "fixed" in the downswing...

Now, if you cupped your left wrist in the downswing....eeeek.
 
Ya some kind of "low-tilt" (/no-tilt/less than no-tilt) pivot comes immediately to mind.

Same deal with more open clubfaces and more bent left wrists. (that won't screw up the better players so much though)

How about jumping in the backswing.......?

Marsupial golf...........

Wait..............within reason, right.................
 
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trying to do that pronation/supination thing through impact + trying to make your left wrist go from cupped to arched during release at the same time.


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Edit: I'd like to add that DOING that is not necessarily a bad thing. But ACTIVELY TRYING TO definitely is!
 
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Lagging the hosel rather than the sweet spot of the clubface through impact.

Resulting in slices and shanks.
If you tell most people this they would probably not understand what you're trying to say and therefore probably hit it pretty much the same. Everyone understands "keep your head still" though...
 
trying to do that pronation/supination thing through impact + trying to make your left wrist go from cupped to arched during release at the same time.


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Edit: I'd like that DOING that is not necessarily a bad thing. But ACTIVELY TRYING TO definitely is!

Oh Tongzilla are you trying to critique me :D.

And you can do it if you tackle it correctly.

Once the initial movement sets the club in motion, the clubhead starts to go out of its fixed alignment relative to the adjusted address degree of bend in the left hand inorder to load the no.2 acc. I think it is pretty obvious that the hands have to move in response to the force that is already put into the clubhead during start-up whilst loading.

Whilst this motion is made you allow the clubhead to go into one of two variations - one is where the hand is aligned along the forearm, the other is where the hand is bent by the degree that the left arm bends the wrist into the plane.

So in that context you don't try to do it, you allow the orbiting clubhead to do it for you. However. Im giving you to much credit of thinking of it in this light and chances are your really refering to it as a concept as a whole. Providing you know how to do its a fine variation which someone can try. It doesn't take special co-ordination to do it this way, if I can do it that way anyone can.
 

BurnItUp

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"Hit UNDER the ball".

The club pro was giving a group lesson to three housewives at the driving range.

I was hitting balls about ten yards away and couldn't believe my freaking ears.

What hope did these poor women have?
 
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Gripping the club with a stranglehold....

(Altho some may say the real problem is taking a club out of the bag in the first place..:)).....
 
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