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PurePoint Golf Instruction Golf Instruction Tip –
Full Swing
Fortunately, if there’s one really great thing that’s
happened in golf instruction tips in the last, maybe ten
years, people aren’t writing about it as much, people
aren’t talking about it as much, but it’s still
important.
It’s, “What does the head do during the golf
swing?”
Now, up until ten years ago, every time someone hit a shot
and topped it, the golf instruction tip everybody would
give was, “You lifted your head. You need to keep
your head down.”
Well, here’s the great news. That wasn’t always
the case. It was sometimes, but not always the case.
But let me tell you what role the head plays because I
have a golf instruction tip that is equally as important.
You should not keep your head down throughout the entire
swing. That would be just as wrong as if you were lifting
your head up in the downswing.
So, there’s a very fine combination of what the head
should do. So, here we go.
As the golf club swings back, the head hasn’t moved
at all and your eyes are on the back of the golf ball. Now,
in the downswing, as the arms unwind and the left hip starts
to get out of the way, the golf club’s going to swing
to the bottom of the hip.
At that point, the speed of the right arm is going to start
to pull you around.
So, the speed of the arms and hands are what pull you up
and around. So, you can keep your head down as long as you
like without forcing it down, and then the speed of the
arms and hands coming past the golf ball turn you and pull
you through.
So, here is the golf instruction tip again, keep your eye
on the back of the ball, swing your arms up and down, and
let the speed of the arms turn your head as you turn through.
Thanks, and I hope that helped you.
Bobby Eldridge is the Head Instructor for the PurePoint
Golf Academy where he teaches "The Simple Golf Swing"
theory. You can check out PurePoint Golf instructional DVDs
at http://www.golfswingguru.com/index15.htm
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