Since my last post, I've been busy with lessons, play and work. I have been blessed with a good job, a great family, and the good fortune to play the greatest game.

In reviewing past posts, I need to restate the importance of set-up in playing golf. I can sum it up in the phrase, "Set-up dictates motion". When I see a player with bad posture and/or a bad grip, I look for the compensations needed to move the club back and through. There are patterns I have noticed which repeat in player after player. If a player has bad posture, the player can not rotate their body and will be unable to swing the club on plane.

Head position is an area I have covered for left eye dominant golfers but not right eye dominant golfers. As a right eye dominant golfer, I need to set-up with my head on top of my shoulders and my eyes level to the intended line of play. You can do this by standing up in front of a vertical line on the wall or the edge of a door. As you bend forward from the hip joint, trace the vertical line downward with your eyes. This will help set your head in the proper place.

Just like a left handed golfer, I need to have the ball and my hands closer to the target than my dominant eye. When I hit putts, chips, and pitches, I imagine my hands and the ball making a straight vertical line which goes through my left eye. Since I made the change, my chipping, pitching and putting have been outstanding. I never realized how often I mishit these shots. With solid contact has come better distance control and the ball rolls end over end which helps direction.

I have also been doing more dynamic flexibility training. I still do static stretching, but have included the dynamic stretching. There will be more on dynamic stretching in the future.

That's all for now.
Mike