Basically everyone who has been kind enough to help me with my golf swing has said the same thing. Your hanging back and not shifting your weight to your left side properly. As of late during my practice sessions I have begun using a baseball bat, swing it first and then duplicate the feeling using a golf club.
My trademark when playing CYO baseball all those years ago was that I all ways seemed to hit the ball directly back to the pitcher dead straight. Why cant I duplicate this in golf when its what I want to happen? Some of my BB coaches actually began working with me to get me to pull or push the ball one way or the other before I either killed a pitcher or was an easy out.
I have to assume that incorporating a baseball bat into my pre shot routine on the course is against the rules. Something else that bothers me is that in baseball I was always able to see the bat make contact with the ball. If I didn't, I knew that I had pulled my head and was lucky to hit it at all. As much as I try I can not seem to do this with the golf ball. I cant help but feel that my inability to do this has something to do with my military golf off the tee. Left right left right. (happy Gilmore moment) left right left right.
I don't know if you're allowed to carry a baseball bat on the course!! However, there would be nothing to stop you adding the same idea to your pre-shot routine, by using a club in the same way, or even two clubs.
In the summer just gone I used to swing two clubs as part of my routine, to help me find my tempo. Might go back to that come to think of it - I hit a lot less "snatch" shots when I did that.
My trademark when playing CYO baseball all those years ago was that I all ways seemed to hit the ball directly back to the pitcher dead straight.
So you're the batter who kept knocking me off the mound, eventually relegating me to right field, where I had time to get the glove in front of my face!
Good post, though. I have the same problem seeing the club hit the ball--I don't. I can't figure out if I close my eyes at impact. turn my head away, or what. If I'm hitting the ball well, I don't worry about it; but when things start to go sour, I do.
Funny. All these years I have been trying to get out of the "bad habits" brought on by playing baseball for nearly 30 years. I constantly fight lurching forward with my golf swing.
My buddy the former hockey player and I are constantly telling each other to STOP LURCHING!
When I was a kid, I saw some old film of Ty Cobb and his practice of raising his forward foot off the ground and then launching himself into the ball. I copied that move, so imagine what I've had to overcome in the "lurching" department!
November 18th, 2004, 09:50 AM
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