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Old 01-19-2011, 10:27 PM
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Hitting for me because:

1) I'm not good at doing "nothing" -- I feel better with the active right arm thrusting versus trusting CF to make it happen.
2) Every other sport I've ever played was right handed -- it wants to be active.
3) I'm getting older and less limber -- hands right shoulder high is just easier. Plus, I've always hit the ball farther on 3/4 swings!
4) Everything I've read says hitting is more consistent -- I need that! I want that!

I started golf in my early twenty's and I think I was a natural hitter. My stock tee shot when I started was a 3 wood off the ground -- just beat down and out like hitting a baseball. Length was not an issue -- I was up with my college buddies who were hitting drivers. I've always hit irons well -- just hit down and out (sort of down and "through").

I got in trouble when I started to read about "sweeping" the ball and being left arm dominant and worst of all the dreaded -- POSITION GOLF! Yuck.

So, I'm trying to adopt what I understand to be the most consistent way of hitting a golf ball, a way that I naturally gravitated to when I picked the game up and the way that is most appealing to my sense of who I am and how I want to play.
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