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 Age: 35 Current handicap: 13 Lowest handicap: 9 Plays: Once a week Practices: Occasionally Ailment: No matter what I do, my body is always aimed well right of my target. Do you have anything that could help with my alignment? Prescription: Most great players have good alignment because their address position and head position are level. You rarely see a great player with a funny head tilt. Players can check their eye alignment by using a hat or the frames of their sunglasses. The bill of the hat or frames of the glasses should be parallel to your target line at address. Then, when swiveling your head to sight your shot, the bill of the hat or the frames should swivel along the plane line. The most common mistake we see occurs as players look up to sight their target line. While doing so, the hat tilts and their right ear gets closer to their right shoulder, so when they look back down at the ball, their eyes perceive the target line to the right of where it actually is. *** Patient: Male Age: 62 Current handicap: 16 Lowest handicap: 8 Plays: Twice a week Practices: Rarely Ailment: I used to be a pretty long hitter, but my distance is fading. I'm healthy and still relatively strong. Is there something I can do to generate more swing speed? Prescription: The longest hitters have the biggest shoulder turns. We tend to see older players lose shoulder turn in the backswing, which makes them try to create power on the downswing. Increasing your flexibility will definitely help your clubhead speed. The second part of the equation for distance is solid contact, also known as compression. There's no replacement for square clubface contact with the ball and the clubface traveling down the target line. To get a feel for this, place two shafts on the ground on your target line. The shafts should be parallel to each other like railroad tracks. Using the visual of the lines will help you get the clubface traveling down the target line longer with square contact. |
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