001 Golf Loopy Texas Flash Cards
Reference: Golf Loopy master text 3
The spine tilt: I was leaning the wrong way. Tilt slighty upper body to my right and my hips one golf ball over to my left. This forms the backwards “K” (L side straight; R side shoulder lower.
DS:
Correct tilt = Shirt buttons point to inside left knee. Make sure that your hips, shoulders, arms and eyes stay square to the target line.
Remember you tilt your spine by gently shifting your hips to the left one ball width; not by leaning upper body to the right. Do not shift your head away from the target.
Ball Position:
- Place R heel exactly level with the back of golf ball.
- Place L. heel next to your right. Your heels will be precisely 2 Balls apart.
- Now step with Right foot to proper position.
Externally rotate Right arm so elbow points slightly to the right then grip the club with Right hand. This will help keep swing on plane. (For your Right arm, external Rotation means rotating your upper arm at the shoulder, such that your elbow joint turns clockwise.)
Note: At address both elbows should be turned a little clockwise via upper arm at the shoulder.
Role of your left hand:
Your left hand is primarily responsible for face angle at impact. Always step up to the ball after already taking your left grip first.
Look at the ball, but do not turn your head toward it. Keep eyes and body parallel to the target line.
- Place Right heel level to back of ball.
- Place left foot 2 balls space next to right foot.
- Now step to perfect stance with your right foot.
- Now do your spine tilt with left hip one ball toward target.
- Keep your head still.
NOTE: Your left foot determines the position of bottom of your swing arc, since you will be over your left side at impact.
Driver setup is a different setup.
For straight and normal distance, use your normal setup.
- For more distance but less accuracy, move ball a bit more forward by 2 golf balls.
- Tee up so 1/3 of golf ball is above driver head.
- Widen stance another 5 inches by moving right foot.
- You do not hit up on the ball, you just have a positive attack angle at impact. 5 to 6 degrees is perfect!
- Hit dead center sweet spot for extra 20 yards.
Spin.
You create spin from hitting ball below its center of gravity. Spin creates lift and ball stays in air longer. Spin also creates drag and slows ball down. A high lofted club will launch ball higher with more spin. (Not good for high swing speeds)
NOTE:
- With driver you want high launch with low spin.
- Gear effect is side spin (draws and fades)
- Do not hit up on the ball with driver.
- For max driver distance you want to hit the ball with a positive angle of attack.
- To get positive angle of attack, you must impact ball after the bottom of swing arc, just after it starts to move upwards! Your swing shuld be same as your normal swing. It will be flatter because of the longer club. Swing sequence and timing will be the same.
Timing and Tempo.
Ref: School of golf.
Tempo is time of your entire swing from start to finish. Some people swing fast (Quick Tempo) some swing slowly (slow tempo)
Slow Tempo works best for me.
Timing. This is speed up and slow down of different parts of your swing.
NOTE In order to play great golf you must develop a consistent position for the bottom of your swing arc.
Every good golf swing is inside to square to inside. Practice this feeling then develop your swing around it. Never try to manipulate impact through swing. It is much too fast!
TIP: When your transition movement of stomping your weigh into left heel and the hip back movement into your left glute, this tracing with grip on DS target line combined with transition movement equals inside to square to inside automatically!
Driver Note: How to hit with positive angle of attack. Since you place the ball forward 2 golf balls, using a proper setup and stance, the driver will swing down to ball, then be level for a split second, then start upward in the follow through. When it starts back upward is when your are setup for your positive angle of attack!
NOTE: On drills you should be constantly reaching, performing the drill more naturally, with less thought. You should get in the habit of checking your setup each time your practice (and every actual golf shot as well).
Moving your pelvis independently of your shoulders is crucial for a good golf swing, especially in the transition and down swing.
Pelvic Disassociation. Remember start Take away with pelvis before turning shoulders! A great drill to get the feeling of using your obliques is swing drill 202. Pelvic Disassociation. This is crucial for a good golf swing. Concentrate on using only obliques to rotate your pelvis. You will use this in your swing. Next practice core disassociation. Swing drill 203.
Drill: Slowly turn upper torso to the right then to the left without moving pelvis and maintaining posture. After practicing this drill you will be able to turn your shouldeers 45 degrees each way.
Turn with weigh shift.
Swing drill 204: Turn with weight shift. You should be able to shift 70% of your weight unto the inside of your right ankle. You never shift your weight to outside of right foot.
In this drill and in real swing, make sure yo aren’t using swinging shoulders to perform this weight shift.
NOTE: This is a weight shift only, not a shoulder turn.
- Pull with your obliques.
- Hands stay in front of sternum entire drill. Do not swing your arms around.
- Do not raise your shoulders upward!
- All takeaway hands remain in front of sternum! Also thumbs over toe line.
- On Take away feel like you are holding a glass of water and do not spill the wter with any off line movements.
NOTE: To locate swing plane path, use a line from ball through my right elbow. This is my plane. Now align on the plane following target line with grip on DS.
Ref: The end of takeaway.
- On takaway, club head should be just a little outside your hand’s path.
- At the end of takeaway, your hands should be over your toe line.
- NOTE: Figure 5 shows with A-B labels what happens if TA is too steep or too shallow. (Points << or >>)
NOTE: Perfect takeaway.
- Stay in posture
- Shoulders remained back and down
- Shoulder truned 45 degrees, hands stay in front of sternum
- Hips have hardly moved.
- Weight shifted 80% inside right ankle.
- Both arms stayed straight
- Hands level with pocket and over his toe line
- Club head just outside hands.
