"hit with chest" on greenside pitch shots

Don't swing all-arms on greenside shots.

On the backswing, if your chest moves away from the ball, your shoulders and arms also move.
If you chest moves back toward the target, your shoulders and arms will follow.

Golf Diary (6/14/2007)

1. Down swing's plane is a little shallower than the back swing's plane
2. Right hand's wrist is bowed at the follow through (golf digest, don't understand yet)
3. Hand's pressure
4. flat left wrist
5. right hip doesn't collaps until the end of impact.

Reread Tiger Wood's book about driver swing

1) Shift weight
2) turn hip. His hip is almost fully turned when his hands are at chest's height during down swing, at which point, his shoulder is still square with the target line.
3) arms movement along with hip and shoulder turn. He makes sure his arms are EXACTLY in front of chest during down swing. Because he has a faster hip and shoulder turn, he has to guarantee his arms can align with hip/shoulder move.

Golf Dirary (6/9/2007) Rancho Canada

• Complete weight Shift
• snap the left leg (straighten left leg as least)
• Complete follow through

Good things:
Driver:
1) Arms swing faster.
2) Hip turns faster
3) check point at impact is better, club head is square.

Putting:
1) stand up more, arms are straight.
2) align with the hole better.

The problems of today's game:
Driver:
1) left leg failed to stand firm and not even mention snap the left leg for
extra length.
2) Follow through needs improvement

Iron:
1) flat wrist problem getting worse. Haven't gotten the habit yet. It has ruined
at least 10 shots. Need to go back to driving range to improve.
2) hip clappsed too fast, causing opening up the club face. Need to practice against the wall.
3) mixed up iron shot and driver. high number Irons are to hit down. Drive is to hit up. Low number iron is to hit flat.

Chipping:
1) hit down, not hit up.
2) change the grip a little bit. have progress at the beginning, worse later. need to practice.

Golf Diary (6/7/2007)

18 holes today at SV Municipal golf course. A few lessons:
1) When playing wood, remember two points:
- Lazy arms: Arm moves faster than body. To activate this memory, do some practice swing
before hitting the ball. When arms are lazy, many times hit a right sliding ball.
- Lazy hip: hip should be cleared out at the early stage of down swing. Failing to do that would cause the opening up the club head, sliding right.