JOHN: Some golfers can be re-trained to do this and some can't. You don't really know until you or the teacher starts trying to remedy the problem. The whole matter of a good release through impact comes from being able to start the downswing with some other part of the body than the hands, so the hands can remain more passive and can stay in a "cocked wrists" position during the start of the downswing.
I remember that Gary Wiren's company, Golf Around the World, used to sell what looked like a large "beanbag" that you lay on the ground where the ball would be, and the golfer would swing the club to hit the bag with a straight arm to club position. There are also devices that have 4 big fins sticking out from the bottom of a pole/rod/shaft to create air resistance that helps prevent the dominant hand from flipping the clubhead past the hands. But at the end of the day, the golfer has to be told to repeatedly practice holding the wrist cock angle intact while starting the downswing - over and over practicing the start of the downswing while consciously holding that angle intact until later in the downswing. TOM -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 9:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: ShopTalk: Swing faults Tom: Thanks for that advice, was exactly what I was looking for. Any good drills to retrain to get into this position? John >JOHN: > >I would tend to disagree with Dave T that this is an equipment problem >for the golfer to generate such high Launch and high spin. As a former >teaching professional with a decent swing knowledge that was enhanced by >my time spent with Chuck Cook during the time I got to design Payne >Stewart's last set of clubs, I have really been spending a lot of time >studying the relationship of the swing to fitting. > >We see high launch and high spin a LOT with golfers who release the club >early and allow the clubhead to pass the hands before impact, thus >causing a lot more dynamic loft at impact. The ideal impact position >has been recognized as being to achieve a straight line from the top of >the forward shoulder, down the arm, down the shaft to impact. If you >have a golfer who is achieving a 17* launch angle with 4800 rpms of spin >on a launch monitor while using a relatively normal lofted driver, then >I am going to bet dimes to doughnuts that he is allowing the wrists to >flex forward at impact, which is causing the driver to immediately move >on a dramatic upward angle of attack to contact the ball with a lot more >dynamic loft at impact. > >In such cases there is NOTHING an equipment change can do to really get >these numbers down. Sure, you can go with a VERY low loft driver to >help, but at the end of the day when you see a "wrists flexed forward" >impact position with a golfer, the golfer is going to have to somehow >retrain his swing to get closer to this straight line position at impact >before any real improvement in dropping the height of the shot will >happen. > >TOM WISHON -- Thanks! John Muir skype: jhmuir AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 810.923.7396 http://clubmaker-online.com http://gripscience.com http://elevongolf.com
