Another Rainy Day in Texas

As I type the rain continues to come down. This June will be the wettest in history for this area. In June of 2004, the course received 13 inches of rain. Yesterday's rain put the total for 2007 over 13 inches.

Despite the rain, I have been working with students. This morning is a good example of finding the dominant characteristics and having the student use them when swinging a golf club. In this case the club was a putter.

The student is left hand dominant, right eye dominant, and wants to swing right handed. The first use of the left hand to swing the putter produced good results but, the putter was not swinging on plane.

We next moved to letting the leading side (his left) slow throught impact. When this happened, the putter began to release and the putter began to swing on plane.

Two posts ago, I talked about the heel of the club and the leading side of the body slowing as the club goes through impact. You may feel the toe of the club going faster than the heel through impact. This also happens with the putter. The same thing also happens when you chip and pitch.

The student began to hit very solid putts. The ball also rolled smoothly. The key to consistant putting is solid contact. After several minutes of practice, the student was showing signs of becoming an excellent putter.

In today's earlier post, I mentioned several PGA Tour players who were inefficient in their swings. The poster boy for inefficiency is Jim Furyk. The level of hand eye coordination required to find the golf ball with his swing is beyond anything I can muster. It is hard to imagine what records Tiger Woods would post with an efficient swing.

Thanks,
Mike