Mystery Meat
Ben Hogan Fan
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- #326
That's what I am saying about thinking about it differently. I wouldn't have described it the way you just did. I have a different way of seeing it. I do not see what I would call hands always in front. I see what I call a pivot starting before you hit and finishing after you have hit. I actually DO see what you mean on the turn being less on the backswing than the finish. I never focus on the back of the ball so that isn't an issue. I don't really get the slamming the club down concept works with the woods though. I don't want my driver hitting the ground. Honestly, for me, the irons were strictly about finding the correct spot in my stance to address the ball so that I was hitting it just before the club reached its arc peak.
Focus on a spot 3 to 4 inches in front of the ball with irons , and I focus on a spot 10" inches in front with the driver . Don't worry about forcing hitting down , just focus on this spot and not the ball . Took me a few weeks , but once i got it .. Than I had it . Once I go over the spot I think swing left . That is it , the setup was ingrained .. Etc .. Now I look and swing left . All I do , the rest takes care of itself. It's awkward, but it gives me some great results . The left is your pivot after the strike . By focusing on spot it doesn't allow me to overturn on backswing . This gives me the feel of hands always in front of me . The setup helps me with the down part without forcing it . Only manual thoughts are look ahead and swing left. The slight weight left setup and wider stance does the down for me. Ball placement ( mid stance irons /left instep driver ). I stand slightly more effect , and I aim slight left. Miss is just just slight left .. Flight is straight to baby fade or draw depending on center of strike .. Most if not all results are dead straight , and club longer and straighter than years past .
that is my list , all I do