KenL
Tour Rookie
What does "fanning the club on the takeaway" mean?
Just hit the ball!
Just hit the ball!
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Canary_Yellow
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That logic only works if what you do without thinking about it isn’t rubbish!
KenL
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Pardon.
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Great advice. If you aren’t already, you should be a golf coach.
Depreston
Club Champion
It means he’s adding loads of loft and if he persists with just hitting the ball it will go miles right or if he throws in some compensations high and weak
KenL
Tour Rookie
Lend us some of your wisdom then.
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Why? Homer already has a solution. I don’t believe he was asking for any advice.
KenL
Tour Rookie
OK then.?
Canary_Yellow
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When a golfer posts on a forum, does it make a sound?
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Depends if he’s on ignore or not ?
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Speith does an interested practice (3/4) swing these days, nothing at all like his actual swing but just a trigger motion to set his mind for what he wants to do when he does swing to hit.
phillarrow
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Ditto. Not for the same issue but the same principle of grooving a feeling using a shorter/slower swing. I have no idea how true it is but I've heard/seen/read that doing things like this repeatedly in slow motion helps groove the correct feeling when swinging normally. Doing this is certainly helping me when it comes to reducing how much I swing over the top with my driver. Not perfected yet by any means, but a lot better.
Barking_Mad
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When you go to the driving range do you practice your entire routine or do you just stand and hit balls? If it's the later, go through your entire routine from standing behind the ball, to address and then hitting it. Hit a bucket of balls. Then do the same on the tee.
If it helps, count yourself in. 1,2,3 go.
bobmac
Major Champion
Disagree.
Fanning the club on the takeaway can lead to many problems so should be avoided in most cases
Foxholer
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Try to avoid thinking about the swing at all. You've confirmed everything by the 'practice' one(s), so have confidence and avoid any tension in the real swing. Think of something pleasant unrelated to the swing - or to golf even.
Otherwise, think of something that's a desirable result of a good swing as opposed is a cause of one - like 'finish high' or 'finish balanced'
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IanM
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In the book "The Inner Game of Golf" (Tim Gallwey) he says that to keep the voices in your head quiet during the swing, say "BACK" to your self (or out loud) on the backswing and "HIT" as you go to hit it!
While you concentrate on saying that, you can be thinking of anything else!
While you concentrate on saying that, you can be thinking of anything else!
bobmac
Major Champion
You can't really generalise.
Some people like to clear their head and try and think about nothing while others prefer at least one swing thought, maybe two.
I have two
Some people like to clear their head and try and think about nothing while others prefer at least one swing thought, maybe two.
I have two
RichA
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I'm quite often thinking about stuff that's not even golf related, which probably doesn't help me.
