• Clubhead Weighting Facilitates Fades and Draws

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    Every Club is Toe Weighted

    Clubhead weighting facilitates fades and draws as all clubs from driver to wedge are toe heavy allowing any club to be released or to held off as dictated by the path. The following picture, with Brian Yamamoto, shows how the toe of the club naturally hangs down when held out in front.

    A toe weighted club when swung in to out releases quiet easily as it is trying to fly off on a tangent. The only reason it doesn’t do this is from the inward pull of the body turn. This is how one can arrive at hitting a draw, a shot that goes from right to left. With this the ball will go further but at the sacrifice of some amount of control. With the next picture we see Brian demonstrating a perfect draw …

  • Purpose of the Backswing

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    Purpose of the backswing is two fold, to put the club at right angles to the line of the shoulders and to create momentum so that the arms and legs will coordinate. Momentum results from arm swing and as long as the arms swing the arms and legs will automatically coordinate. This means that one can swing slow to slow, medium to medium or fast to fast.

    Doing this satifys a time IQ that all golfers posses. Because every swing takes a set amount of time, if one swings slow to slow the swing will naturally shorten and if one swings faster back, or more medium to medium the swing will lengthen so as to satisfy one’s time IQ. This is how arm swing controls the legs and reflects how the golf swing is a hard wired program just like …

  • Forward Shaft Lean in Golf

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    Source of Forward Shaft Lean

    Forward shaft lean in golf swing is made possible from the three power connections of grip to club, arms to body and feet to ground, resulting in body turn, and it is this body turn that creates  the shaft lead. You don’t do it. This means that the focus in any golf swing should be to capture and maintain these three power connection rather than trying to lean the shaft at impact. If instead if ones focus is on trying to lean the shaft with the arms, it is done at the expense of these all important connections. Here’s why.

    The first power connection is grip to club and here one grips the club for impact. The faster the hips are the more the clubface and shoulders are opened at impact. This means that a …

  • Clubface Determines Path

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    A Cure for the Slice

    Clubface determines path meaning that when the face is closed, open, or square, the path will be in to out, out to in or down the line to hit the ball at the target. This can be demonstrated with any tennis racket or golf club as one can swing left of the target as hard as one wants too but as long as the face is at the target with the moment of impact, the ball will go to the target. One can also swing to the right but again as long as the face is at the target with the moment of impact, the ball will go to the target.

    Anytime one swings out to in it’s required to hold off the release so as to square the face, otherwise if one does release …