Golf diary 4/22

Lessons learned today:
1) Keep head still while back swing and down swing. You head moves up naturally when you hands pass the initial position and when your right arm leads your head up. This is very important, which is the #1 priority to hit a solid ball.

2) Check your back swing.
-- When your club is parallel with the target line, check your wrist. Make sure it is not pointing down ward, which is a weak position.
-- clock your wrist all the way to the top.

3) Down swing to the initial postion, which is the impact postion. This is a very important check point. Most of time when you slice the ball, your hands are not at that position. How to ensure this?
Compact swing:

• your arms should free fall while down swing. When you anxious to hit a long ball, your arms swing out wards, causing slice.
  

• check point: Your right elbow should be at the right hip when your hands at the hitting position.
• When you begin to down swing, your arm fall independent of of the body first. You can imagine a minor "C" move, like tennis. So the club plane is little less steeper than the back swing plane.

4) Swing after hitting the ball. Use your left leg as the pivot point. Your body is behind the ball, swing by extending your arms as much as possible along the target line. Your left leg straightens up while swing, even can "snap" a little bit to gain more power.

5) Relax Relax Relax. Don't use too much power. You don't have to swing too fast to gain distance. The distance of the ball is decided by the speed of the club head, NOT how fast you swing the club.