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Golf tips:
Analyze Your Impact
By Hank Haney
I want to give you some tips on how you can analyze your impact with
the golf ball and what you can do to make it better. The only
purpose of the golf swing is to return the golf club to
the golf ball, squarely with the proper angle of approach so that
you can contact the ball with the center of the face and the ball
and the turf at the same time.
When you hit into the golf ball, ideally the back of your left hand
should be flat at impact. Your weight primarily on your left side
and your hands pressed forward. You are contacting
the ball and then the turf. Now how do you know if your impact is
not correct?
If your golf ball is flying too high you are hitting with your hands
collapsed. If the ball is too
low you have the clubface hooded too
much, maybe your left hand is bowed down too much
and the clubface is delofted. If you are hitting to the right you
are hitting with the side of your hand instead of the back of your
hand. If you are hitting to the left your hands are
turned over, cupped with the wrist forward or rotated over too much,
that is causing you to hit the outside part of the golf ball and
hook it.
Ideally the back of the left hand should be facing your target at
impact; that is your key. If you can return the back of the left
hand to face the target at impact you are going to have a
straight shot with the proper trajectory. Too high you are hitting
on the collapse, too low you are bowing it down too much. To the
right, with the side of the hand, to the left, turning your hands
over too much. Back of the left hand, square to the target at impact
and that is where your shots are going to go.
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