address position

Most golf instructors are basically very good naturally talented golfers who have played the game since they were very young.
However because of this natural ability I believe that they fail to understand that most golfers do not have this natural gift and have to learn the basic principles of the golf swing.

For example, they did not need to be taught to to watch the ball with intensity so that they actually see the club head strike the ball -- they did not have to be taught to use the power of the hips to lead the rotational movement of the compact upper body unit during the down swing movement as it rotates around the central core of the spine -- they did not need to be taught to keep the head behind the ball position until well after the ball has been struck, and so on.

Naturally talented golfers do most of these things automatically and therefore assume that all golfers perform the golf swing in a similar manner and this is why many of the points that I make within my website will never be considered by these golf instructors.

This is where my website is different, I began playing at a late stage and for many years I struggled with my game, but eventually I identified certain aspects of the golf swing that has dramatically improved the quality of my game, such as the things I mention above.

Of all the things that I have learnt to develop, using the left shoulder as a controlling element of the upper body unit, keeping the head firmly held in the original address position and in the Fixed Frontal condition until well after the ball has been struck has been very effective but most of all it is by teaching myself to watch the ball until the precise moment the club head makes contact and not allowing the right heel to lift off the ground until the club head strikes the ball which has had the most dramatically effect.

As I said these are just a few items that are never mentioned by these golf instructors, but I can assure you that if you can learn to perform these basic principles, the quality of your shots will improve dramatically.

These are aspects of the golf swing that these naturally talented golfers do automatically but once you are made aware of these basic principles, you can also acquire these skills.

Do these top instructors give advice to their students on watching the ball?

If you asked every golfer of the world if they watched the ball during the down swing movement, every one would say yes.

However although all golfers watch the ball during the down swing movement, the better class golfers watch the golf ball almost until the club head makes contact with the ball, but they also focus on the back edge of the golf ball.

The top professional and top amateur golfers actually see the physical contact between the club head and the ball with nearly every shot, whilst also focusing on a more defined area of the back edge of the golf ball.

The very best golfer, i.e. Tiger Woods only very rarely fails to actually see the physical contact between the club head and the ball, whilst focusing on a definite point on the back edge of the golf ball.

So my analysis is that the longer you are able to maintain your focus on the back edge of the golf ball as the down swing movement is performed and actually see the physical contact between the club head and the golf ball, the better golfer you will become.

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