Golf Swing Tips

Three Situations Where Your Instincts Are Not Correct

By Jack Moorehouse

Golf is a crazy game, isn’t it? If you’ve been playing the game for any length of time, I need a golf tip to convince you of that. You know exactly what I mean. You can play well today and then play poorly tomorrow. And there’s no apparent explanation for the change. All this confusion begs the question: Is there a mental key to golf that lowers your golf handicap?

I doubt it. At least, I haven’t found it. But the idea of finding a mental key to golf is intriguing indeed. It’s so intriguing it once led PGA pro Al Geiberger to create what could certainly qualify as the mental key to golf. Al called it the 90 Percent Rule. It goes like this: Whatever your instinct tells you to do, do the opposite—and you will be right about 90 percent of the time.

Golf swing tip 1 Swing Down, Not Up

New golfers who attend my golf instructions sessions often try to scoop the ball in the air with their irons. Getting an iron shot airborne by swinging up doesn’t work. By trying to lift the ball in the air you reach the bottom of your swing arc well before you reach the ball, resulting in fat and thin shots. Scooping also short-circuits power. Trying to lift the ball in the air pushes your weight on your right side (for a right-hander) and throws you off-balance at the finish, reducing power.

If you want to get the ball airborne with your irons, you need to swing down, not up. Swinging down means you’ll reach the ball at impact just at the bottom of your arc, exactly where you want to be at this point in your swing. Swinging down eliminates topped and fat shots. What’s more, it keeps your weight off your right side and you finish in balance, adding power to your shot.

Golf swing tip 2 Open Blade, Close Blade

Many new golfers slice. Seeing their ball tail off to the right, if they’re right handed, their first instinct is to close the blade at address, with the club aiming left of the target. On the backswing they keep the blade closed thinking that that will keep the ball from curving right. Unfortunately, that’s not a cure for a slice. Invariably, these golfers rotate the club from closed to open during impact and follow-through. Opening the blade causes them to slice even more.

The cure is to square the clubface to the target at address. Then on the backswing allow the clubface to swing open, similar to a door opening on its hinges. By opening the clubface, your natural reaction will be to rotate back to square at impact, and then let it close on follow -through. Letting the clubface open then close also causes your body to rotate, generating a fuller body turn. Making a fuller body turn causes you to return to the ball with the clubface square at impact and generates more power.

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