this is easier said than done , esp with driver-tee....instructor tell me " to force yourself to see the tee after you swing" ...kind of works ...but at the course : some sort of "mental handicap takes over" and there I am again topping drives....any other ideas or swing thoughts ..... guys?
To help with keeping your head in place, not lifting it up, try hitting flop shots and don't look up until you hear the ball land on the green. Watch the club head CUT the grass, and keep looking at the grass where the ball was before your swing. Do the same thing with your bunker practice, and don't look up for a few seconds at least. Works wonders for curing you of raising your head before inpact and making poor ball contact.
It has sort been alluded to in the replies to this thread, but I'm going to explicitly say. The advice about "keep your head down" is explicitly wrong. You actually want your head up, or at least your chin up, so that you can make a full shoulder turn.
What the advice giver is trying to tell you is to not thrust or jerk your body up while trying to hit the ball. This is a very common error -- after all, you think I want to ball to go up in the air, so I have to HIT UP! But, golf is a a game of contradictions. You actually really want to hit down. The loft on the club will do the work of getting the ball in the air.
Thrusting and jerking the body up are also signs of overswinging. Slow the swing down, and stay in control. Golf is also a game of contact -- pure contact with a slower swing will almost always beat out off-center contact with a faster swing. Especially when you learn about how quickly the springiness of the clubs goes down away from the sweet spot. It is far more important to hit the sweet spot of a club than it is to hit the ball hard. And, since it is easier to control the club at slower speeds, another of golf's contradictions seem to come through, that is to swing slower to hit the ball farther.
First off, Bignose is right about the chin up thing.
Second, if you are moving your head at all, its because of some other flaw. Let's face it, your head is connected to the rest of you. Your head moves because of a change in spine angle or straightening from the waist or knees. So don't think about your HEAD, think about what's causing it.
Think rotate around an axis, think coil and uncoil, get the up and down motions out of there.
First off, Bignose is right about the chin up thing.
Second, if you are moving your head at all, its because of some other flaw. Let's face it, your head is connected to the rest of you. Your head moves because of a change in spine angle or straightening from the waist or knees. So don't think about your HEAD, think about what's causing it.
Think rotate around an axis, think coil and uncoil, get the up and down motions out of there.
let me re ask this way : Best tip for keeping head still! ( not standing up --out of posture)
i heard somebody say feel like a huge nail spike is going thru your buttocks to the ground!
for me, to keep my head down is to feel my follow through after impact. my right shoulder feels the pull on to the left towards the target (i am a righties). A drill I use is to keep my eye on the ball looking down through my right shoulder.
watch tiger's head after impact, you'll see what I mean.
First off, Bignose is right about the chin up thing.
Second, if you are moving your head at all, its because of some other flaw. Let's face it, your head is connected to the rest of you. Your head moves because of a change in spine angle or straightening from the waist or knees. So don't think about your HEAD, think about what's causing it.
Think rotate around an axis, think coil and uncoil, get the up and down motions out of there.
yeah, ur right , i think my teacher has me keep the head still so i do not stand up ( and slice)
To help with keeping your head in place, not lifting it up, try hitting flop shots and don't look up until you hear the ball land on the green. Watch the club head CUT the grass, and keep looking at the grass where the ball was before your swing. Do the same thing with your bunker practice, and don't look up for a few seconds at least. Works wonders for curing you of raising your head before inpact and making poor ball contact.
even forcing myself today to not look up till i hear the sound after impact helped out a lot with the shots...thanks
Believe me, once you banish this problem, it won't come back. You'll be on to bigger and better flaws like over the top or getting stuck, etc...
Like I said in my first post. Think rotate around the axis created by your spine angle. The legs move only because your hips pull them while you're turning. Your neck is the joint that allows your torso to rotate and your head to stay still. I wish I could give you some sort of visual here... I'm Italian and always talking with my hands...
October 1st, 2007, 10:10 AM
this is easier said than done , esp with driver-tee....instructor tell me " to force yourself to see the tee after you swing" ...kind of works ...but at the course : some sort of "mental handicap takes over" and there I am again topping drives....any other ideas or swing thoughts ..... guys? 
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