[Vikram]

Good question.

Because most people are trying to hit it much farther than they actually can the startdown is invaribly too quick to allow the pivot components to get into proper place and in sequence.


I ask them to address the ball with a very narrow stance, picture a child on a swing with their eyes shut and move the club head at the same speed as they think the child would move. They get the picture right away. You see, the child swinging is a slow movement the image can be easily related to. I think every adult as a child has experienced a swing and has had fun while on one so the picture is the easiest to assimilate.

If not then imagine a huge clubhead and a child sitting on it. you dont want the child to get left behind either way, whether you are swinging back or forward. You should be able to keep him sitting on that clubhead and make him swing like a normal swing.

Simple questions like where will the child be almost motionless?? At the end of the backswing for sure. Where will he be moving the fastest? At the bottom of the swing of course. You dont want him to be left behind in the downswing so how would you swing down?? Smoothly I guess. Ask for a replication of action (Mechanics) to what sensation it produces ( Feel) and you get an unhurried start up smooth transition and sustained accelleration. "Let mechanics produce and feel reproduce." HK.
The moment the thought of a child is pictured every thing becomes rhythmic from fear not to hurt the little being from falling off. Thats how i try and put it through and beleive me it works, always . Build up the tempo from there and within ten minuites you got flow, rhythm and gradual accelleration. All you need is a stationary post and you have a swing on which you can build.

Another thing that really works is the water bottle drill where I make them swing a 1/4 full of water bottle, cap up at address, from start to finish without the water being allowed to touch the cap anytime in the swing. Ive managed to attatch one to an old shaft so its quite like the real feel one should get. If you follow the bottle with your eyes in a back and forth continous motion for three or four fairly slow swings and are succeeding in keeping the water from hitting the cap, shift the focus to the hands for the next four swings. You'll be presently surprised at the way the hands behave - The way they should.



Its a different thing if I see the same student swinging at his normal hasty fashion two days later at the range. Thats a seperate issue altogether, Its called mental INdiscipline and impatientce. Hugely rampant and the most highly practiced element in the ametuer golfing world..

Vikram