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WHY YOU NEED A SOFT BY GOLF WORLD

RIGHT ELBOW AT ADDRESS TEACHING PANELLIST
LUTHER BLACKLOCK

Because the right through 90 degrees. your right hip. This country every single
hand is placed At the top of your simple adjustment day is a piston-like
further down the swing, some 60 permits your swing straight right arm
grip than the left, it percent of your to rotate slightly to and high, arched
is obvious that your weight should be on the inside and wrists. From this
shoulders should your right foot. enables your wrists very wooden
not be parallel to While your left and forearms to address position,
the ground. In fact, arm should form a function freely. you’re obliged to
the whole of your fairly straight line at One of the most lift the club outside
right side should be address, your right common faults that the line, ensuring
a little lower than elbow should be can be viewed at a downswing that LEARN FROM
the left to help your relatively soft and driving ranges up cuts across the TIGER
shoulders coil fold down towards and down the ball through impact.

Top of the backswing
positions don’t get much
better than this. Tiger has
coiled his left shoulder
underneath his throat
through a full 90 degrees
while his right knee has
remained beautifully flexed
to harness the motion. And if
you drew an extended line
from the butt of the club
through his sternum, you’d
find it intersected perfectly
with the golf ball – a sign that
Woods has swung in his ideal
biometrical plane. Power and
accuracy are the result

DRILL: THE RECTANGULAR TAKEAWAY

This exercise teaches you the importance of good connection in the backswing. Take your normal
grip and then slide your right hand down the shaft until you form a perfect rectangle with your
arms and chest. Now practise turning to the top of your backswing while maintaining the shape.
You can only achieve this if your arms and body move together. If you lose the connection and
swing only with your arms, your perfect rectangle turns into a parallelogram!

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