When it comes to playing this game well, you have to develop face control. Your hands control the face, and the face controls the ball. Every day you should set up a series of balls. Put a clubface in your hands and feel how your hands control the angle of the face. Take your grip and hit hooks, fades, low shots, and high shots. Do this all with the same grip and setup. Do it in slow motion, then gradually build speed. Do not try to do this at high speeds. That is not the drill. Get control first, then speed second.
It is important that you can feel the weight in the club and clubhead throughout the swing. To do this, turn the club upside down. Hold the clubhead end. Swing it a few times. Then turn it back to normal and swing. You will feel the weight in the club and clubhead and where it is in the arc. Do t...
Your lead hand goes on the club the way your arm hangs naturally. That is how your joints line up. You also need to have the club in your fingers. The back of the club rests in the second joint of the fingers. The trail hand goes on with the club also in the fingers and with the palm of the trail...
To begin, choke down on the club, so the grip end of the club is above your hands. On the backswing, make the grip end of the club point away from you and towards the ground. Come back to impact; the club shaft is pointing at your body. Go to just above waist high on the follow-through. The grip ...
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