Hitting Through the Golf Ball to Improve Your Drive

Once the swing gets down to the so-called hitting area correctly, the chance of its going wrong is very slight. That is because, the swing through the golf ball is only a continuation of the first movement of the downswing, the movement that brings us to the hitting area. By the same token a swing which reaches this area in the wrong position has no chance to get straightened out.

Yet, golf being the strange game that it is, there is still the possibility of the good swing going off the track at this latestage.

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In both the good swing and the bad, though, when the flaws appear they appear for basically the same reason-trying to"help" the club head get to the golf ball.

They will appear in the good swing when the player loosens his left-hand grip slightly and collapses his left elbow. As the result of these actions there comes a peculiar body movement, asort of heaving action, as though the player were trying, with the body, to help the swing or help hit the golf ball. It is a very strange contortion indeed. Women, especially, are given to it.

In this movement the loosening left-hand grip and the collapsing left elbow have the effect of bringing the club up sharply instead of letting it go down and through the golf ballas it should. The left elbow crooks and bends out to the left, toward the target. This suddenly shortens the radius of the swing, and since the straight left arm has been performing the function of a constant radius all through the swing, there is nothing for the club to do but come up.

The horrible result is a badly topped shot. The club, coming up at impact, makes contact on or above the horizontal center line of the golf ball, the ball's "equator." How badly the shot is topped depends only on how much the club is brought up by the elbow action and the shortening of the radius. It is a dead certain way to bounce or dribble your shot into any brook, pond, or ditch that happens to be immediately in front of you.

So try to hit through the golf ball and you'll see straighter and further golf drives.

Hitting Through the Golf Ball to Improve Your Drive

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