Archive for 'Golf Insider'
Sure Hands
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by admin.
The hand is a complicated work of art made up of the wrist, the palm and the fingers. The hand complex contains 29 bones, 29 joints, 123 ligaments, 34 muscles, 48 nerves and 30 arteries — WOW! About a quarter of the motor cortex in the human brain (the part of the brain that controls all movement in the body) is devoted to the muscles of the hands.
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POWER in your arms
Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by admin.
Your target arm (left for right-handers) is the radius of your swing, and it controls the position of your clubface. At address, the target arm rests on top of the chest, and your goal during the swing is to maintain this arm-to-chest connection.
Your arms swing upward during the backswing and down from the top of your swing. Think of it as a surrender to gravity that drops your arms into the proper position to initiate the return to the ball. This is why it’s called the “downswing” and not the “around swing.”
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Golf – The shoulders
Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by admin.
Things you should know about your shoulders:
1. The shoulder is one of the most sophisticated and complicated joints in the body with the largest range of motion.
2. The wide range of motion comes at the expense of joint stability. With the odd angles and high stresses it’s easy to wear out your shoulders, so here’s an exercise to protect them:
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The learner’s grand SLAM
Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by admin.
When you pay attention to a particular area of your body, your brain sets about building “transmission highways” of instruction to that body part, even in the presence of severe physical injury. That is how choreographer Tamar Rogoff taught Gregg Mozgala, an actor with cerebral palsy, to dance ballet. She used a completely new pattern of motor movement that allowed him to “discover” individual body parts he had no command of before the intervention.
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Special delivery!
Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by admin.
The position of your body just before impact is important because at this late date in the swing you really have no time for correction. If you’re in the correct delivery position, you’ll hit a good shot. If you’re not, then it’s “scramble time.”
When your hands are thigh high on their way to impact, your lead arm should be extended over your trail arm, which is still bent.
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Roll to a coil
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by admin.
“Golf is best played on the inside rims of your feet.”
Jack Nicklaus said it, but he received this advice from his teacher, Jack Grout, who got it from Alex Morrison, the scion of much instruction that is accepted today. Morrison was one of the first to emphasize the importance of rolling the ankles in the golf swing.
How it works
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GET FIRED UP!
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by admin.
You hear this advice all the time: “Fire your right side” (left for left-handers). It means to aggressively transfer weight to your front foot while rotating your core through the ball.
This is good instruction, but to be effective, it must be applied correctly. Two of the reasons I’m wary of the “fire” concept are that it (1) is sometimes misunderstood and (2) is often performed incorrectly.
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Don’t Miss Your Connection
Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by admin.
It was golf instructor Jimmy Ballard who made the concept of “connection” popular. The idea is to keep the target arm in contact with the chest so it moves with the chest and not independent of it. Your target arm (left for right-handers) is the radius of your swing, and it controls the position of your clubface.
