How can I improve my golf swing? Part II
Written By
Bobby Eldridge
Founder of Golf Swing Fixes
If you haven’t read Part I, you can at How Can I Improve My Golf Swing?
You have to keep a couple of things in mind. If you don’t hit the golf ball straight there are four misses to the right (slice, push, push hook or a push slice) and there are four misses to the left (hook, pull, pull hook, pull slice). The reason I am telling you is so you can see that you have to be very careful with your diagnosis from the start.
The very first question you have to ask yourself if you are going to learn how to improve your golf swing is, what does the golf ball do CONSISTENTLY when I mishit it? Believe it or not your golf ball does one or two things consistently when you don’t hit it well. If you don’t hit it solid and straight then it will have a pattern to the mishit shots.
Let’s move on to the next thing you can look for. If you don’t hit the ball solid you will either hit the top, middle or too much of the bottom of the ball. In other words you either hit the ball thin or fat.
You can not believe how much information I just gave you for you to begin to properly diagnosis your mistake. Another 10 million dollar question, what do you do with this info?
Let’s start with the curve. The grip and the club path control the curve of the ball. If your ball curves to the right too much-turn both of your hands to the right an inch or so. If the ball curves to the left too much-turn both hands to the left an inch or so.
Let’s move on to the impact zone. The posture plays a huge roll in whether or not you hit the golf ball solid. If you stand too tall you are going to hit a lot of thin shots, if you are bent over too much you are going to hit a lot of fat shots. If you swing the club too much from the inside you will hit the ground behind the ball or top it to the right and if you swing the club from the outside too much you will hit the ball to the left, top it or hit it fat.
This is the coolest part. You only make one or two mistakes, not 50. It seems like every amateur golfer I talk to thinks they make 100 mistakes and it just isn’t true. The next time I hear from you I want you to say “let me tell you how I improved my golf swing”, instead of “how can I improve my golf swing”?
