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Driver Timing
By Bobby Eldridge
Let's spend a couple of minutes talking about one of the three most abused and misunderstood golf swing fundamentals, timing. It's an important term but it's misused a lot. So, let me explain to you what timing is, and then it'll draw you a lot closer to understanding when you're 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. That's the definition, no more, no less.
Now, I have gone to the golf course many days where I've 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 it'll catch up with the arms and hands, and that will help that.
Now, how do you fix your timing? That's probably the most difficult question in the game of golf. How do you get your timing back? I believe that if you can't hit your pitching wedge, you probably aren't 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, let's say that your favorite club in your golf bag is your driver and you're driving the ball beautifully. Then go hit a thousand drivers. Or maybe it's a 5 wood or a 5 iron. Whatever club you're struggling with, stay way away from that one.
Go to the club that you're doing well with. And if you're 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 timing's off? I believe that your timing is off when your miss/hit pattern is not consistent. One's fat, one's thin, one's top, one's good, one's to the left, one's to the right. That's a great indication that your timing's 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.
About the Author
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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