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IMPACT ......AND...... BEYOND
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IMPACT DOES NOT MEAN THE JOB IS DONE
Lets go and look at the impact and post impact region of the same three players shown on the previous page-- Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson-
On the previous page I highlighted today's traditional thought of an 'on plane' downswing and how they had the butt of their clubs pointing at the ball.
Let's take a look and see what happens as a result of this..........
Is it co-incidence that a steeper 'on plane' downswing gives cause to each player having to straighten and throw their trailing arm (right arm for Tiger & Ernie) off plane through impact and beyond causing the clubface to turn drastically post impact.
Isn't it painfully obvious that the steeper you come on the downswing the steeper and more vertical your shoulders will be at impact.
The body stalls slightly, the arms straighten and slap and then we see these beautiful looking finish positions that the player ends up and makes everyone go .."Wow, what a great looking balanced finish" ...BUT....the damage has been done long before that.
Depending on the amount of flip the clubhead can veer right.....OR....the clubhead can flip in a pronounced manner to the inside.
Either way.......
Both directions mean a loss of clubface control. And since we see it here at impact or beyond it probably means the loss of control happened even sooner than this in the swing.
The gap between the hands and the body has elongated at a rapid rate...again... showing a lack of control of the end result of the ball because the hands are working independently from the body.
They have to throw this trailing arm at the ball because the steeper downswing gets them 'stuck' and they have no where to go because of the speed they are wailing away at the ball with.
There it is.....the term... "STUCK"
How many times do we hear the commentators say "Tiger got stuck on that one."
Getting stuck is in reality....... very far from the explanation the commentators give for this terminology. That's a catch phrase and a lumped on term that doesn't describe what is really occurring.
This is the VERY reason we see such dreadful driving of the golf ball from players such as Tiger and Phil.
The steep swing, upright equipment, offers little choice but to go hand and arm slapping around impact and roll the face around with only minimal control of the outcome of the shot.
I can't blame the players one bit....this is what the game has become thanks to the powers that be allowing technology to run rampant with no resistance.
They are using equipment that is designed around distance and not control.
They are using equipment that has been designed longer in the shaft and more upright in the lie angle. These changes were made by equipment companies to boost the ego of the average golfer who wanted distance and whose shot pattern was mainly a slice.
The longer shaft and delofted clubs made players think they were hitting the ball longer.
The upright lie angles made the player throw his hands at the ball in a steep motion to bottom the sole out at impact and it promotes a hand roll and only a quick fix to their slice problem and brought pulls, hooks, pushes and bigger slices into their repertoire.
In the process it ruined people's swings and the companies then thrusted the same clubs into the professional's hands so they could market them and sell them to the public.
A classic example of ill designed equipment being used. Professional's have adapted to the " junk " they are swinging and can play decent on occasion, but the swing deterioration has multiplied and this is a major reason we see player's having poor ball striking statistics and less consistancy.
They are being taught to come down 'on plane' (the wrong plane) and then roll their hands hard through impact also in an effort to match up to this poorly designed equipment.
AND
The golf courses are now longer, with wide open spaces where accuracy isn't as much of a premium as it used to be.
They are even cutting down rough now....saying that this gives the players a "unique opportunity to showcase their escape skills from predicaments".
The players swing skills have all deteriorated based on the combination of all these happenings.
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I would love to see Tiger Woods be able to drive the ball from the tee like he used to. He used to win tournaments by lapping the field because he was in play from the tee.
He used a shorter heavier smaller club. He managed to swing it much more along the ball striking guidelines of excellence and he was still very long.
He would very much dominate again. ...as he is quite simply the best at the other facets of the game and has the ideal concentration and temperament to compete at high standards for extended periods of time.
He still has a decent iron swing for the most part, but that is eroding with the new philosophy and his stats show he is way down the list in hole proximity and percentage of greens in regulation from longer range iron shots (such as 150 yards or longer).....
Because you CAN'T have weight forward on your long clubs....It is only logic. Something these teachers DO NOT comprehend for some reason by telling any golfer otherwise whether it be Tiger Woods or John Smith.
When you continually work on the wrong things with your swing with the wrong set up of your equipment your muscle memory and your muscle tone fades.
Tiger is bigger and stronger than ever also from his working out.
The longer he goes this route with his mechanics , the tougher it will be for him to come back and dominate the game again.
He pretty much has no feel for the clubhead or for impact and beyond and this new swing stuff, which even started with the one plane business, has slowly but surely taken away HIS FEEL for playing golf.
He is even working on his short game and putting now which were always beyond compare.
You lose your feel for one part of the game by doing un-necessary motions with your swing then it filters into the finer touch areas.
As long as he doesn't get too far off track he would actually be a pretty easy fix...
After all he is Tiger Woods...and you just don't forget what to do
It's still in there somewhere but is being buried under the clutter of nonsense.
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LET'S SEE HOW THE OTHER PLAYERS WHO DON'T KEEP THEIR CLUB
'ON PLANE' COMING DOWN SIZE UP THROUGH IMPACT.
Jones, Trevino, Hogan, Snead, Player and Nicklaus
Right arm bent and braced......
No hand rolling the club.......
Shoulders Opening through the shot with rotation
NO SECRETS HERE......THAT IS HOW YOU DO IT
All these players worked out the true swing protocols and then knew how the swing was meant to feel which enabled them repetition of the motion.
ALSO TAKE NOTE :.....All these players had entirely different backswings
SIX OF THE GREATEST BALL STRIKERS EVER.
They can't all be wrong!!
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TODAY'S SWING MISHAPS
I can show you pictures all day long of poor swing mechanics based around ill designed and ill fitted equipment.
I am in no way saying these are bad golfers. They are in fact some of the world's best players we have on offer today.
The problem is they are only scratching the surface of their abilities by swinging in such a manner.
IF they could learn what I have to offer and feel the true protocols of the golf swing, they wouldn't have to make golf a day to day proposition based on timing the clubhead into the ball.
They would enhance their shot making ability and ball control with much more regularity and not have to try to fix timing issues in their swing every few days in the hope of finding their ball striking again.
It is an all too common theme of over acceleration too soon in the swing because of too light equipment....combined with too steep a downswing... just giving way to the arm thrust and the stiffening of the legs and the hand slap and clubface roll that give these players limited control on a daily basis.
Some days they have it.... most days they don't. The key is too eliminate that possibility and bring the percentage rate into your favor of playing well more often and for longer periods of time.
My swing training and ideas will point anyone in the right direction to better ball striking on a more consistent basis.
If some of these players hit the ball more consistently and had overall better control of the ball day in and day out ... .then the sky would be the limit.
They are leaving SO MUCH on the table by doing what they are doing with their swing.
They have the instinct and the ability to play exceptionally well.....but if they would abide by the true swing protocols they would then have straighter drives.... closer iron approaches....and the opportunity to shoot lower scores more regularly and evaporate the higher scores from their score card.
The cherished ball strikers of days gone by (see below) all had the common theme of retaining their knee flex....and swinging on a shallower plane into impact....which allowed the right arm to stay quieter UNTIL well after impact.
This bred the consistency of their ball striking and allowed them to play much more flawless, easier hassle free golf without having to conjure up miracle shots and have to hole 25 foot putts on every green to salvage a score.
Shoulders open...right arm bent and in close...knees bent and used as a brace
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The Finish and how it can dictate the swing.
The final part of the swing that tells us something and brings an insight into everything that happened previously is the position indicated below.
This is the point of the swing that shows all the incredible forces and correct sequencing throughout the golf swing that brings the shaft into a vertical upright position at this point in the follow through
From here we just fold into our finish---- whether it be a lasso style like Seve or Arnold Palmer......or a drop and slap of the club on our back like Jack Nicklaus or Greg Norman did.
The finished product of the follow through then becomes personal style from this point on... we don't have to look like we are posing for the cover of a golf magazine at final finish.
When I look at the modern golf swing and style it shows a different club and shaft position at this point and is a clear indication of over acceleration too soon with the hands.
All wonderful stylish looking finishes to the swing but unfortunately absent of the correct swing intentions that assist in ball striking prowess.
We see the club slowing down and folded at this position because of the energy of slapping the ball with our hands on the downswing and impact.
The acceleration process is out of sequence for all the reasons mentioned previously and all these players are relying on is a slap timing of the hands to try square the club at impact.
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Conclusions:
The golf swing is a complex timing of events that all lead to a farther chain of events occurring. It's a chain reaction of one thing leading to another --
You can't stick the club in any of these positions without the correct forces being in position. They all need to blend.
That's why I teach the swing in segments so they become second nature without having to necessarily try or think about the last or the next sequence.
You learn - You train- You work- You reap the rewards
This is NOT a made up thesis about the golf swing. It is proven beyond a doubt based on the great ball strikers of history and also based on my very own feels of the dynamic swing I once had and the mechanical position swing that came along later on based on a false plane and faulty equipment.
Once one part is out of sequence the golf swing train can be derailed quickly and can cause a huge variation of shots that are indiscriminate in their nature.
My job as an instructor is to explain and teach and allow you to feel the correct sequencing. This will bring more of the desired results of your shot selection on a more regular basis.
Once my swing feels are entrenched in your system through purposeful training and understanding then ....the mystery of golf will slowly disappear.
The images on this page should really show that the swing IS NOT over once club strikes ball.
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Listen and view a recent video of Sir Bob Charles - 1963 Open Champion
talking about equipment and the pros and cons of today's V's yesterday's clubs
This is a great testimonial about equipment from one of the game's greats.
A FINAL WORD ABOUT EQUIPMENT
Many of my students and people I talk to just in general conversation find it very amusing that I try to get them to practice with old style blade clubs that have flat lie angles and persimmon woods.
Their belief is.."I can't hit those"
That IS NOT THE POINT......IF you learn to hit them then just think how much easier your regular equipment will become to use!!
I have stated many times you need feedback from your swing. The lighter, upright perimeter weighted equipment deteriorates your swing and doesn't allow your hands and brain to feel the mistakes that have occurred throughout the swing and the strike of the ball.
To gain improvement you HAVE to make the playing field more difficult.
It amazes me that people all want to take the easy way out. They use horribly designed clubs that insist on no good basic movement. Their swing evolves from a pile of dirt into a pile of rubble.
They blame lack of improvement on their clubs and go buy the newest latest greatest equipment to hit the market thinking those clubs will hold the 'golden ticket' inside them somewhere and help them improve. They waste thousands of dollars and are still blankly staring at square one.
If you were a mathematician and all you ever saw pass across your desk was questions that involved 4 + 4 or 5 + 2...how would you gain knowledge?
I always think back to the most remarkable cricket player the world has ever seen.
Sir Don Bradman was an Australian cricketer who finished first class test cricket with the unbelievable batting average of 99.94 runs per innings.
This means he made 100 runs EVERY time he went in an batted. No-one has come even remotely close to approaching that figure and no-one ever will.
When Bradman was growing up he used a cricket stump or a branch of a tree to practice. He would hit a golf ball up against a wall with the stump/branch which was about 1/10th the size of a regular cricket bat.
He made the act of striking the ball more difficult .... once he could do that well... when he had a regular size bat in his hands and the regular size cricket ball was coming at him from a bowler's delivery ...it looked like a watermelon to him.
He was so good, the other teams couldn't get him out and had to resort to trying to bowl at him and hurt him so he couldn't bat. The man was a genius and excelled at his sport by making practice HARDER....not by making anything easier.
A great lesson to be learned right there and worth evaluating for your own golf game.
Here is a video of Sir Donald Bradman in action.......
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I want to be clear about this notion.......I am in no way being disrespectful to any person mentioned in any of the pages.
I myself went through the same hardships as instruction changed and the equipment changed.
I learned these lessons the hard way myself and now I am seeing the same swing deterioration in these players mentioned and many others of today's era.
I pride my thoughts on the fact that I was a good player. Everything I have written on these pages is honest and true. Not based on guesswork.
BUT based on real life experience.
I see the swing from a different perspective now. I felt the swing from both sides of the coin and understand entirely where all this stuff has headed and why the true ball strikers swing in such a manner.
They may look very different in their full speed action but their intentions and logic are similar.
I know how to alter the swing back or train a swing towards the combination of dynamic power and precision and have devised a way out for players (any standard player) to head back or head towards the goal of ball striking excellence.
All the players mentioned in my critiques are great golfers....but in today's modern game there is really nobody talked with in hushed reverence when it comes to ball striking skills.
I am going to change that.........
Happy Golfing To Everyone..................................................................
########################################################
Contact me with any farther golf related questions at:
brad@bradleyhughesgolf.com
From time to time I will add selected questions to the site with my response.
You can follow me on TWITTER @bhughesgolf
please feel free to 'tweet' pages you like by clicking on the twitter or facebook
icons at the bottom of each page.
Thankyou for taking the time to visit my website. I trust everyone who visits my pages will learn something that will improve their game.
I hope to be able help many of you in person,
So book your lesson now and start your path to better ball striking & more
************************************************************************
I also have great experience and knowledge of ways to farther enhance your overall game by working on...............
short game and mental thoughts and imagery & course management
which will also help shave even more strokes from your score card
*************************************************************************
#########################################
IMPACT DOES NOT MEAN THE JOB IS DONE
Lets go and look at the impact and post impact region of the same three players shown on the previous page-- Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson-
On the previous page I highlighted today's traditional thought of an 'on plane' downswing and how they had the butt of their clubs pointing at the ball.
Let's take a look and see what happens as a result of this..........
Is it co-incidence that a steeper 'on plane' downswing gives cause to each player having to straighten and throw their trailing arm (right arm for Tiger & Ernie) off plane through impact and beyond causing the clubface to turn drastically post impact.
Isn't it painfully obvious that the steeper you come on the downswing the steeper and more vertical your shoulders will be at impact.
The body stalls slightly, the arms straighten and slap and then we see these beautiful looking finish positions that the player ends up and makes everyone go .."Wow, what a great looking balanced finish" ...BUT....the damage has been done long before that.
Depending on the amount of flip the clubhead can veer right.....OR....the clubhead can flip in a pronounced manner to the inside.
Either way.......
Both directions mean a loss of clubface control. And since we see it here at impact or beyond it probably means the loss of control happened even sooner than this in the swing.
The gap between the hands and the body has elongated at a rapid rate...again... showing a lack of control of the end result of the ball because the hands are working independently from the body.
They have to throw this trailing arm at the ball because the steeper downswing gets them 'stuck' and they have no where to go because of the speed they are wailing away at the ball with.
There it is.....the term... "STUCK"
How many times do we hear the commentators say "Tiger got stuck on that one."
Getting stuck is in reality....... very far from the explanation the commentators give for this terminology. That's a catch phrase and a lumped on term that doesn't describe what is really occurring.
This is the VERY reason we see such dreadful driving of the golf ball from players such as Tiger and Phil.
The steep swing, upright equipment, offers little choice but to go hand and arm slapping around impact and roll the face around with only minimal control of the outcome of the shot.
I can't blame the players one bit....this is what the game has become thanks to the powers that be allowing technology to run rampant with no resistance.
They are using equipment that is designed around distance and not control.
They are using equipment that has been designed longer in the shaft and more upright in the lie angle. These changes were made by equipment companies to boost the ego of the average golfer who wanted distance and whose shot pattern was mainly a slice.
The longer shaft and delofted clubs made players think they were hitting the ball longer.
The upright lie angles made the player throw his hands at the ball in a steep motion to bottom the sole out at impact and it promotes a hand roll and only a quick fix to their slice problem and brought pulls, hooks, pushes and bigger slices into their repertoire.
In the process it ruined people's swings and the companies then thrusted the same clubs into the professional's hands so they could market them and sell them to the public.
A classic example of ill designed equipment being used. Professional's have adapted to the " junk " they are swinging and can play decent on occasion, but the swing deterioration has multiplied and this is a major reason we see player's having poor ball striking statistics and less consistancy.
They are being taught to come down 'on plane' (the wrong plane) and then roll their hands hard through impact also in an effort to match up to this poorly designed equipment.
AND
The golf courses are now longer, with wide open spaces where accuracy isn't as much of a premium as it used to be.
They are even cutting down rough now....saying that this gives the players a "unique opportunity to showcase their escape skills from predicaments".
The players swing skills have all deteriorated based on the combination of all these happenings.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I would love to see Tiger Woods be able to drive the ball from the tee like he used to. He used to win tournaments by lapping the field because he was in play from the tee.
He used a shorter heavier smaller club. He managed to swing it much more along the ball striking guidelines of excellence and he was still very long.
He would very much dominate again. ...as he is quite simply the best at the other facets of the game and has the ideal concentration and temperament to compete at high standards for extended periods of time.
He still has a decent iron swing for the most part, but that is eroding with the new philosophy and his stats show he is way down the list in hole proximity and percentage of greens in regulation from longer range iron shots (such as 150 yards or longer).....
Because you CAN'T have weight forward on your long clubs....It is only logic. Something these teachers DO NOT comprehend for some reason by telling any golfer otherwise whether it be Tiger Woods or John Smith.
When you continually work on the wrong things with your swing with the wrong set up of your equipment your muscle memory and your muscle tone fades.
Tiger is bigger and stronger than ever also from his working out.
The longer he goes this route with his mechanics , the tougher it will be for him to come back and dominate the game again.
He pretty much has no feel for the clubhead or for impact and beyond and this new swing stuff, which even started with the one plane business, has slowly but surely taken away HIS FEEL for playing golf.
He is even working on his short game and putting now which were always beyond compare.
You lose your feel for one part of the game by doing un-necessary motions with your swing then it filters into the finer touch areas.
As long as he doesn't get too far off track he would actually be a pretty easy fix...
After all he is Tiger Woods...and you just don't forget what to do
It's still in there somewhere but is being buried under the clutter of nonsense.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
LET'S SEE HOW THE OTHER PLAYERS WHO DON'T KEEP THEIR CLUB
'ON PLANE' COMING DOWN SIZE UP THROUGH IMPACT.
Jones, Trevino, Hogan, Snead, Player and Nicklaus
Right arm bent and braced......
No hand rolling the club.......
Shoulders Opening through the shot with rotation
NO SECRETS HERE......THAT IS HOW YOU DO IT
All these players worked out the true swing protocols and then knew how the swing was meant to feel which enabled them repetition of the motion.
ALSO TAKE NOTE :.....All these players had entirely different backswings
SIX OF THE GREATEST BALL STRIKERS EVER.
They can't all be wrong!!
*************************************************************************
TODAY'S SWING MISHAPS
I can show you pictures all day long of poor swing mechanics based around ill designed and ill fitted equipment.
I am in no way saying these are bad golfers. They are in fact some of the world's best players we have on offer today.
The problem is they are only scratching the surface of their abilities by swinging in such a manner.
IF they could learn what I have to offer and feel the true protocols of the golf swing, they wouldn't have to make golf a day to day proposition based on timing the clubhead into the ball.
They would enhance their shot making ability and ball control with much more regularity and not have to try to fix timing issues in their swing every few days in the hope of finding their ball striking again.
It is an all too common theme of over acceleration too soon in the swing because of too light equipment....combined with too steep a downswing... just giving way to the arm thrust and the stiffening of the legs and the hand slap and clubface roll that give these players limited control on a daily basis.
Some days they have it.... most days they don't. The key is too eliminate that possibility and bring the percentage rate into your favor of playing well more often and for longer periods of time.
My swing training and ideas will point anyone in the right direction to better ball striking on a more consistent basis.
If some of these players hit the ball more consistently and had overall better control of the ball day in and day out ... .then the sky would be the limit.
They are leaving SO MUCH on the table by doing what they are doing with their swing.
They have the instinct and the ability to play exceptionally well.....but if they would abide by the true swing protocols they would then have straighter drives.... closer iron approaches....and the opportunity to shoot lower scores more regularly and evaporate the higher scores from their score card.
The cherished ball strikers of days gone by (see below) all had the common theme of retaining their knee flex....and swinging on a shallower plane into impact....which allowed the right arm to stay quieter UNTIL well after impact.
This bred the consistency of their ball striking and allowed them to play much more flawless, easier hassle free golf without having to conjure up miracle shots and have to hole 25 foot putts on every green to salvage a score.
Shoulders open...right arm bent and in close...knees bent and used as a brace
*************************************************************************
The Finish and how it can dictate the swing.
The final part of the swing that tells us something and brings an insight into everything that happened previously is the position indicated below.
This is the point of the swing that shows all the incredible forces and correct sequencing throughout the golf swing that brings the shaft into a vertical upright position at this point in the follow through
From here we just fold into our finish---- whether it be a lasso style like Seve or Arnold Palmer......or a drop and slap of the club on our back like Jack Nicklaus or Greg Norman did.
The finished product of the follow through then becomes personal style from this point on... we don't have to look like we are posing for the cover of a golf magazine at final finish.
When I look at the modern golf swing and style it shows a different club and shaft position at this point and is a clear indication of over acceleration too soon with the hands.
All wonderful stylish looking finishes to the swing but unfortunately absent of the correct swing intentions that assist in ball striking prowess.
We see the club slowing down and folded at this position because of the energy of slapping the ball with our hands on the downswing and impact.
The acceleration process is out of sequence for all the reasons mentioned previously and all these players are relying on is a slap timing of the hands to try square the club at impact.
*************************************************************************
Conclusions:
The golf swing is a complex timing of events that all lead to a farther chain of events occurring. It's a chain reaction of one thing leading to another --
You can't stick the club in any of these positions without the correct forces being in position. They all need to blend.
That's why I teach the swing in segments so they become second nature without having to necessarily try or think about the last or the next sequence.
You learn - You train- You work- You reap the rewards
This is NOT a made up thesis about the golf swing. It is proven beyond a doubt based on the great ball strikers of history and also based on my very own feels of the dynamic swing I once had and the mechanical position swing that came along later on based on a false plane and faulty equipment.
Once one part is out of sequence the golf swing train can be derailed quickly and can cause a huge variation of shots that are indiscriminate in their nature.
My job as an instructor is to explain and teach and allow you to feel the correct sequencing. This will bring more of the desired results of your shot selection on a more regular basis.
Once my swing feels are entrenched in your system through purposeful training and understanding then ....the mystery of golf will slowly disappear.
The images on this page should really show that the swing IS NOT over once club strikes ball.
########################################################
bobcharlesequip from Golf Aus on Vimeo.
Listen and view a recent video of Sir Bob Charles - 1963 Open Champion
talking about equipment and the pros and cons of today's V's yesterday's clubs
This is a great testimonial about equipment from one of the game's greats.
A FINAL WORD ABOUT EQUIPMENT
Many of my students and people I talk to just in general conversation find it very amusing that I try to get them to practice with old style blade clubs that have flat lie angles and persimmon woods.
Their belief is.."I can't hit those"
That IS NOT THE POINT......IF you learn to hit them then just think how much easier your regular equipment will become to use!!
I have stated many times you need feedback from your swing. The lighter, upright perimeter weighted equipment deteriorates your swing and doesn't allow your hands and brain to feel the mistakes that have occurred throughout the swing and the strike of the ball.
To gain improvement you HAVE to make the playing field more difficult.
It amazes me that people all want to take the easy way out. They use horribly designed clubs that insist on no good basic movement. Their swing evolves from a pile of dirt into a pile of rubble.
They blame lack of improvement on their clubs and go buy the newest latest greatest equipment to hit the market thinking those clubs will hold the 'golden ticket' inside them somewhere and help them improve. They waste thousands of dollars and are still blankly staring at square one.
If you were a mathematician and all you ever saw pass across your desk was questions that involved 4 + 4 or 5 + 2...how would you gain knowledge?
I always think back to the most remarkable cricket player the world has ever seen.
Sir Don Bradman was an Australian cricketer who finished first class test cricket with the unbelievable batting average of 99.94 runs per innings.
This means he made 100 runs EVERY time he went in an batted. No-one has come even remotely close to approaching that figure and no-one ever will.
When Bradman was growing up he used a cricket stump or a branch of a tree to practice. He would hit a golf ball up against a wall with the stump/branch which was about 1/10th the size of a regular cricket bat.
He made the act of striking the ball more difficult .... once he could do that well... when he had a regular size bat in his hands and the regular size cricket ball was coming at him from a bowler's delivery ...it looked like a watermelon to him.
He was so good, the other teams couldn't get him out and had to resort to trying to bowl at him and hurt him so he couldn't bat. The man was a genius and excelled at his sport by making practice HARDER....not by making anything easier.
A great lesson to be learned right there and worth evaluating for your own golf game.
Here is a video of Sir Donald Bradman in action.......
bradman from Golf Aus on Vimeo.
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I want to be clear about this notion.......I am in no way being disrespectful to any person mentioned in any of the pages.
I myself went through the same hardships as instruction changed and the equipment changed.
I learned these lessons the hard way myself and now I am seeing the same swing deterioration in these players mentioned and many others of today's era.
I pride my thoughts on the fact that I was a good player. Everything I have written on these pages is honest and true. Not based on guesswork.
BUT based on real life experience.
I see the swing from a different perspective now. I felt the swing from both sides of the coin and understand entirely where all this stuff has headed and why the true ball strikers swing in such a manner.
They may look very different in their full speed action but their intentions and logic are similar.
I know how to alter the swing back or train a swing towards the combination of dynamic power and precision and have devised a way out for players (any standard player) to head back or head towards the goal of ball striking excellence.
All the players mentioned in my critiques are great golfers....but in today's modern game there is really nobody talked with in hushed reverence when it comes to ball striking skills.
I am going to change that.........
Happy Golfing To Everyone..................................................................
########################################################
Contact me with any farther golf related questions at:
brad@bradleyhughesgolf.com
From time to time I will add selected questions to the site with my response.
You can follow me on TWITTER @bhughesgolf
please feel free to 'tweet' pages you like by clicking on the twitter or facebook
icons at the bottom of each page.
Thankyou for taking the time to visit my website. I trust everyone who visits my pages will learn something that will improve their game.
I hope to be able help many of you in person,
So book your lesson now and start your path to better ball striking & more
************************************************************************
I also have great experience and knowledge of ways to farther enhance your overall game by working on...............
short game and mental thoughts and imagery & course management
which will also help shave even more strokes from your score card
*************************************************************************
