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Tom's Featured Tip: 3 Tweaks For Improvement
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
This issue I'm offering three simple tweaks that I have made to my game that I'm sure will help most of you with your game. Experiment with them and I'm pretty sure you'll like them, enjoy.
- Chipping - Ball Location
For most of this season I had not been getting the ball up and down as well as I've wanted to.
So I went over my own swing notes from the past few years and discovered that my ball position had crept up to about an inch too far forward in my stance. I moved the ball back - in my narrow stance - to just about inside my back foot and my chipping has improved dramatically. I think I had been nonchalantly playing the ball at or beyond the low point of my swing arc and that was causing a lot of chips to come up short.
- Hovering - The Jury Is In
Without a doubt, hovering the driver in the air instead of resting it on the ground behind the ball has increased my swing speed, kept my swing on plane better, and has produced consistent draw curvature with my drives most of the time. It has also produced good results with my irons, but the hovering with the irons needs to be just slightly off the ground.
It took me about a month to feel real comfortable with it, but after you do you'll love the results.
Give hovering an honest try over the winter with your indoor practice sessions and I'll bet you convert.
- Putting - Aiming With the Line On The Ball
I am still experimenting with an "outside the box" type of line on the ball, but I'm referring to a traditional straight line that most players use to aim their ball at their target line. Research has shown that this type of line doesn't really produce better results than not using the line.
The reason is that it's difficult to see the veridical line of putt to the target from normal putting posture. (Verdical means truthful, not illusory.)
After I learned of the study blowing away the line on the ball theory, I started experimenting with a non-traditional line on the ball, and also setting up with the ball in a position so there's nothing pointing to the hole on the part of the ball I see when I'm standing over the putt.
I'll write about the non-traditional line after my research is done, but for now I have had excellent results with nothing on top of the ball when I putt.
Here's how that works for me.
Instead of aiming the line on the ball at the target, when I set up I now aim the aimline on my putter at the target, then keep the face square to the line at impact. It's easy to do with a mallet putter with good aimlines on it, or with a two ball putter or something similar. If you putt with a blade, just concentrate on keeping your putterhead square to your aimline.
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Tom
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Tom's Bonus Tip: Chipping Practice - Practice Missing
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
Actually practice missing chips long, short, left, and right, and your actual target oriented chipping will improve, guaranteed!
Precision missing is actually a variation of precision target practice, but it registers in your brain as feeling and gauging swings that miss long, short, left and right.
I think it helps you develop feel for proper aim and swing length or power depending on your style.
It will work for putting too, especially if you have a chronic mistake pattern..
Try it, you'll like it.
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Tom
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