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To put your golf club in position for a powerful, repeatable downswing, you need link your arm swing and body turn on the backswing. Swinging the club too far around your body or picking it up too steeply forces you to compensate somehow on the downswing to get on a path for solid contact.
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Flipping your wrists through the impact area in your golf swing produces inconsistent contact and leads to fat shots, thin shots and high, weak hits. Essentially, flipping means your lead wrist -- the left wrist for right-handed golfers -- breaks down, allowing the clubhead to pass your hands before impact.
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Just about every golfer wants to hit the ball farther. Unfortunately, you might be confusing hitting the ball far with swinging hard at the ball, a mistake that can cause you to lunge at the ball with your upper body on the downswing.
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One of the controversial aspects of Tiger Woods' golf swing is the way he straightens his left leg before impact. The schools of thought on Tiger's move differ between whether his motion provides more power, or leads to leg and knee injuries like the ones Tiger has suffered.
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Skilled golfers swing their clubs on a repeatable route around their bodies. Golf instructors such as Jim Hardy call that route “the swing plane.
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There is no sound in golf quite as satisfying as the solid thwack of the ball fully compressed against the clubface. Unfortunately, you won’t hear that sound if you make contact off the toe of the club. Even worse, you'll also lose power and accuracy.
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A snap hook is a mishit that can plague any golfer, tour player or weekend duffer alike. A radically closed clubface -- one that points to the left of a right hander’s target -- causes the ball to spin low and left, running hard toward trouble.
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