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Lets spend a couple of minutes talking about one of the three most abused and misunderstood golf swing fundamentals, timing. Its an important term but its misused a lot. So, let me explain to you what timing is, and then itll draw you a lot closer to understanding when youre struggling. Timing is your ability to swing your arms and hands back to the golf ball as your hip turns out of the way. And the reason it has to turn out of the way is so the arms and hands can pass your body and wrap around you. Thats the definition, no more, no less. Now, I have gone to the golf course many days where Ive hit the ball beautifully, solid, straight right. So, my timing was off a bit because my body was turning out in front of my golf club and that was sending it off to the right. Now, the correction would be to slow the bottom half down and speed up the top part. There have been days where my timing has been off because the arms and hands were quicker than the bottom. How do you correct that? Speed up the bottom and itll catch up with the arms and hands, and that will help that. Now, how do you fix your timing? Thats probably the most difficult question in the game of golf. How do you get your timing back? I believe that if you cant hit your pitching wedge, you probably arent hitting your 5 iron and your 5 wood and your driver. So, I love to send people out to the practice facility to hit thousands of pitching wedges and work on their golf swing fundamentals. That, to me, is the easiest way to find your timing. Now, lets say that your favorite club in your golf bag is your driver and youre driving the ball beautifully. Then go hit a thousand drivers. Or maybe its a 5 wood or a 5 iron. Whatever club youre struggling with, stay way away from that one. Go to the club that youre doing well with. And if youre not doing well with any of them, then go to a pitching wedge. Now, the next question most difficult after that: How do you know when your timings off? I believe that your timing is off when your miss/hit pattern is not consistent. Ones fat, ones thin, ones top, ones good, ones to the left, ones to the right. Thats a great indication that your timings off. Find your favorite club and go to the practice tee and hit ten thousand of them and remember when you hit the golf ball to think of the golf swing fundamentals. Thanks and have a great day. |
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