How do you get to a desired impact position during a full swing. Click the link for videos for the full swing.
All tour players have a slightly different style. The one thing they all have in common; they return to the same correct impact position.
What is the correct impact position? What are the characteristic of it?
- your weight is for 60 to 70 percent on your left foot (for right handed players)
- you have a forward leaning club shaft.
- your club face is de-lofted and square.
- your left wrist is flat or slightly bowed
- your right wrist is bend backwards
Your real focus needs to go to the role of your hands and what you have to do with them to result in this correct impact position.
Two important aspects create this correct impact position.
The first one is twisting the club face and the second one is moving the handle.
Because your club face has to be ‘open’ at the top of your back swing and also be open at the top of your follow through you have to make a twist with your hands so that your club face makes a rotation of 180 degrees in difference. If you don’t do this your club face will be 90 degrees open the moment you hit the ball and it will go to the right.
From the top of the back swing you have to do two things:
You have to rotate the club face 90 degrees to impact and you have to keep on moving the handle of the club. If you don’t continue to move the handle and you stop somewhere at you right leg, your hands will twist and that creates a very closed club face and as a result you will hook the ball.
The other mistake can be, that if you keep on moving the handle and forget to twist your hands in time you will create an open club face which results in a slide.
Exercise to twist your hands correctly…
If you do these two characteristics and you film yourself and look back at the footage it looks like ‘you’re holding the handle’, but this is surely not the case. You hit the ball completely relaxed and don’t hold anything.
This creates a perfect impact position and a dead straight ball flight.
Take a look a the video. Made by Josh Zander. Teaching professional at Stanford University Golf course.
(The mentioned website on the video doesn’t exist any more.)