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How To Break 80 Newsletter
December 27, 2006
"The Web's Most Popular Golf Improvement Newsletter"
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In this issue we'll discuss...
1) Putting In the Wind
2) Locking in Your Grip
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1) Putting In the Wind
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Putting in a strong wind is harder than it seems. With the wind buffeting you from all sides, rippling your pants and blowing in your eyes and ears, you can easily lose concentration and balance. Your can also lose your sense of rhythm. The result: Your feel for distance and your sense of direction go askew.
Here are five keys to putting in the wind:
1. Check your stance
2. Take a neutral grip
3. Place your eyes over the ball
4. Keep your hands ahead of the ball
5. Square up your body.
While some golf instructors, like Davis Love, Jr., don’t recommend changing your stance or posture, others recommend widening your stance for more stability and bending over the ball more to compensate for the new stance. Try both approaches to see which is more comfortable and use that whenever you’re putting in the wind.
Otherwise, keep your putting set-up and swing the same as before. Take a neutral grip with your thumbs pointing straight down the shaft. Place your eyes directly over the ball. Keep your hands slightly ahead of the ball. And make sure you square up your body, with your feet and shoulders parallel, and the clubface square, to the target line.
To help you stay steady over the ball, try this simple drill. Next time it’s windy, go to the putting green, take your stance, and hit putts taking your putter back the normal length for the distance you face. Hold it in that position for 10 seconds before beginning the forward stroke. Do this several times.
After several such strokes, hit putts holding in the backswing position for seven seconds, then five, then three, then one, and finally take your normal stroke.
This drill helps you regain your rhythm, increases your sensitivity for distance, and improves the consistency of your ball-putter contact. Next time you feel yourself losing your rhythm and feel on a windy course, use the drill on the side of the green before putting.
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Locking in Your Grip
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Many recreational golfers employ an interlocking grip. Used by golfing great Jack Nicklaus, the interlocking grip is sound golf. It’s also more complex than both the overlapping and the baseball grips. Like those, it’s designed to get your hands to work in harmony during the swing.
Unfortunately, some recreational golfers complain that their hands don’t seem to function properly during the swing or that they simply feel uncomfortable on the club. This may be do to gripping the club incorrectly.
Below is a simple test to determine if you are gripping the club correctly using the interlocking technique: It’s also a good way to see how the grip feels if you’ve never used it before.
Hold the club vertically in front of you. Place your left hand on the club as you would when taking your grip. Now place your right hand on the club by sliding the right little index finger between the index and middle fingers of the left hand. With that accomplished lower the club to your address position.
If for some reason your hand is turned too far under the club in a strong position, start the process all over. Unless you correct this error you will be prone to a duck hook or a block. Neither is good.
Grip the club gain this time with the little finger of the left hand only partially interlocking with the fingers of the left. When you lower the club at address position, you’ll find the palm of your right hand facing the target, as it should be.
Grip the club gain this time with the little finger of the left hand only partially interlocking with the fingers of the left. When you lower the club at address position, you’ll find the palm of your right hand facing the target, as it should be.
This grip is neither “strong” nor “weak,” It works in harmony with the left hand during the swing. Practice gripping the club in this manner frequently until it becomes ingrained.
Of all the swing changes you will make, this one will probably be the most difficult because it will feel the most awkward. Practice is the only way to make it second nature.
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If you want to truly discover the secrets of shooting like the Pros and creating a more reliable and consistent swing, check out:
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Also, for past issues of this newsletter and some of my most
Until next time, Go Low!
Jack
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About the Author
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Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book
"How To Break 80 and Shoot Like the Pros!". He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicaps quickly. His free weekly newsletter goes out to thousands of golfers worldwide and provides the latest golf tips, strategies, techniques and instruction on how to improve your golf game.
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