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So Why Not Just
Do it Right?
For
late-beginning golfers, for those who did not learn to swing as kids,
the transition move has proven almost impossible to learn. Most older
amateurs decide to take lessons after deeply ingraining a fundamentally
poor swing. They find it nearly impossible to change.
Teaching
pros despair of teaching the transition weight shift because too many
students play much worse during their learning process and blame the
instructor! Many golf books suggest drills to learn the transition
weight shift.
The
most popular are, "baseball," in which the golfer takes a normal stance
and backswings horizontally like a baseball batter, exaggerating the
weight shift to the back foot, then makes the "step in a bucket" weight
shift to the front leg, and then swings through pivoting around his
front hip. Next is another "baseball" like drill in which the golfer
starts with with feet together and the club vertical in front of his
body, wrists fully cocked.
The
backswing is done WHILE the golfer strides toward the target. AFTER his
weight has shifted to and settled on his front foot he pivots forward
swinging and finishing around his front hip. Other suggested transition
training drills use a heavy club, the idea being that its very
heaviness forces the golfer to make the transition weight shift, much
as we would be forced to do while swinging a heavy implement (like
Harvey Penick's Weedcutter).
A
visit to any driving range and/or discussion with any experienced
teaching pro will elicit the news that essentially nothing works.
Either the drills don't really ingrain the transition weight shift
move, or the average amateur will not persist sufficiently to
permanently change his golf swing. The bottom line is that only a few
elite amateur golfers make the transition weight shift.
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