I won\u2019t say this for sure, but I\u2019m willing to bet you have a personal swing flaw\u2014one thing that you do wrong, not because you don\u2019t know better, but because it makes sense, or it feels right, or feels good, whatever. It\u2019s wrong but you do it anyway. <\/p>\n
You get it fixed, start playing better, and then your swing goes south again, and guess why? You\u2019re doing that thing<\/i> again. <\/p>\n
That personal flaw will haunt you for your entire golfing career. Even touring professionals have one, and they spend time on the range combatting it.<\/p>\n
If you have one, and you know what it is (if you don\u2019t know, start looking, because it\u2019s there), what to do?<\/p>\n
There are two ways to deal with it. If the flaw is a matter of poor technique, you can create a new technique. If the flaw is the result of a personal tendency, it is easier to build in a compensation than to correct something that would be difficult to change.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll use myself as an example of each kind.<\/p>\n
My pet swing flaw is to take the club back too far inside. This results in swinging the club into the ball from too far inside, which leads too often to a duck hook or a weak push. <\/p>\n
By taking the club back slower (new technique), I remind myself to take it back straighter and this flaw goes away.<\/p>\n
My other flaw is that I do something that makes my hands turn over through impact, leading, again, to right-to-left ball flight that I don\u2019t want. The number of corrections I have tried felt artificial or forced. <\/p>\n
I finally solved the problem by agreeing to let myself keep doing whatever that is I\u2019m doing because that\u2019s just what I do, and trying to change it gets me nowhere. <\/p>\n
A compensation is in order, then, and the simple compensation I came up with is to open the clubface about two degrees at address. <\/p>\n
What I get out of that is a straight shot or a baby draw. The ball doesn\u2019t go way left unless I just lose my head, which happens, but seldom enough that I can live with it.<\/p>\n
So there you have it. Two ways to fix a persistent problem and become a better golfer in spite of yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I won\u2019t say this for sure, but I\u2019m willing to bet you have a personal swing flaw\u2014one thing that you do wrong, not because you don\u2019t know better, but because it makes sense, or it feels right, or feels good, whatever. It\u2019s wrong but you do it anyway. You get it fixed, start playing better, … Continue reading Your Personal Swing Flaw<\/span>