Technology has changed the amount of information available to teachers over the past decade in amazing ways. The use of video to pressure mapping, measuring ground force, data tracking, ball flight monitors and more has provided a ton of information to use or not use. Unfortunately most of this equipment is fairly expensive and most local PGA professinals only have access to one or two of these technologies to help thier students. Trackman is one
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Playing in a charity tournament recently I was reminded how often players hit a shot offline and have no idea why it went “that way.” I hear my weight was back, didn’t finish, chicken wing along with many other reasons for a misdirected shot. Swing errors do cause the ball to fly offline but most players could use a better process of understanding why the ball went the direction it traveled before going through a
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Practice your eye dominance
In my recent book, golf for the other 80% I covered the different type of swings for cross dominant and same sided golfers. As discussed in the book golf is typically taught for players that are cross dominant even though it is estimated that over 80% of the population is not cross dominant. Right handed, right eye players should have a smaller shoulder turn and a different motion to start the downswing. One of the
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I am happy to announce golf for the other 80% is now available on amazon. This golf book is two parts. Part one is how your eye dominance should dictate how you swing. Part two is swing and scoring principles along with the mental game. Years of research went into this book in the attempt to understand why most players don’t improve. Eye dominance and how you should swing explains why many players can’t get
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