Inside Golf - September 2010

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September 2010

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The Hit: Part 9
The Full Swing / 1, 2, 3 Exercise

FROM a stable stance and grip make a slow and smooth practice backswing and transition into a downswing.

This transition into the downswing has the hands and arms releasing downward and then outward towards the ball as the hips and shoulders respond to this “hands initiated” action.

The wrists fully uncock and the clubshaft moves fully into line with the left arm. Make sure the arms drop down close to the body as the wrists fully uncock (feel the gravity). Repeat this abbreviated practice swing two times. On the third practice swing make a full release of the clubhead through the ball to a complete and balanced finish.

Repeat this “ 3 practice swing set” several times before introducing the ball. When the ball is introduced hit the ball on the count of 3 after the first two abbreviated swings.

PeterCroker
How to Complete the Full Swing /
1, 2, 3 Exercise

How you do this full swing exercise is almost as important as what you do in this key exercise. It is through this exercise where you finally discover a Natural Swing for yourself. There are 5 principles that you need to apply in order to ensure success with this exercise.

1. Keep Your Attention Out There

When you hit a ball and it does not go
perfectly, the wrong thing to do is put your
attention on yourself and get analytical and
try and work out what went wrong. Keep
your attention out there (on clubhead and
ball – not hands, arms, or body) and just hit
another shot and don’t allow your attention
to come off of what you are doing (hitting
that ball) and back onto yourself. Providing
you have been following the previous Croker
Golf lessons and done the drills at each step
it is now time to make that “leap of faith” and
complete this exercise fully. The way out is not
to ‘figure out’ what went wrong in any missed
shot. The way out is to fire the clubhead to a
complete finish over your left shoulder until
it is a smooth unencumbered motion and put
that same swing on a ball. You just step back
and fire some more practice swings in one
attention span and then walk up to a ball and
fire the clubhead the same way. Keep at it until
the balls just start going well.

3. Don’t Change When the Result is Poor
Anatomy of Failure

Anatomy of Success

1. Mistake

2. Back up & fire the clubhead until you expect the next one to go well

3. Fire the clubhead through another ball to a complete finish.

4. Complete Every Shot
Every full shot should finish with you having
fired the clubhead over your left shoulder and
you looking out over your right arm, watching
the ball fly to the target. It may seem that the
reason the shot didn’t finish is that you didn’t hit
it well when in actual fact, the only successful
viewpoint is just the opposite - the shot didn’t
go well because you didn’t finish it!

Please visit our You Tube video demonstrating this exercise to gain further insight and certainty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2xoRtp79nQ;

Peter Croker has been a PGA member since 1971 and has given lessons with his Croker Golf System to professionals including Vijay Singh, Arnold Palmer, Rocco Mediate, Fred Funk, Olin Browne, and Bob Charles. Peter is an invited speaker at the 2010 Srixon PGA Coaching Summit in October. Based at The Dunes Golf Links, he delivers schools, individual lessons, and has an “Online Lesson Program”- www. crokergolfsystem.com