Major Golf Lesson

All my students will find it helpful to know why the golf ball flies as it does. Whether the shot slices, hooks, doesn’t get off the ground, pops up or has no distance. These ball flights are laws and are based on the principles of physics.

Let me simplify what the club causes at impact to produce these effects. There are five causes that effect the pattern to your golf balls flight.

• Club head speed
• Club head path
• Face angle
• Angle of approach
• Center-ness of hit

Club head speed:

Or the speed to which the club head is traveling during impact. A no brainer, the faster the club head goes through impact the more velocity or speed the golf ball will have, providing you make contact (sorry, I couldn’t help it). If I throw a baseball with fast moving hands the baseball will have more velocity or speed. We call that a “fastball”. If  I toss the baseball underhand with slow moving hands, well, we usually reference that to “slow pitch softball”. So, more club head speed (cause) the more golf ball velocity (effect) which produces a shot that goes farther. [...]

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As most of you reading this have taken a lesson from me being private, semi-private, playing lesson, group or golf school, do you have a friend, family member or playing partner hesitant to take golf lessons with a teaching professional? Well, you might not be alone. According to NGF’s (National Golf Foundation) 2008 golf participation study, there were 29.5 million golfers in the U.S. ages 6 and above in 2007. Most who describe themselves as golfers have never tried lessons. There are several factors for the lack of enthusiasm regarding golf instruction. [...]

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While playing, practicing or taking a lesson, golf has it’s own language. A better player may understand this language while numerous beginners could be confused by “holding their thirty-three degree thorastic tilt”. I’ve written articles in the past regarding some common golf dialogue we speak during practice and play. This article is in relation to the lingo we articulate when getting prepared to make a swing. I’ve listed some common lesson lingo to help my students acquaint themselves with these terms. Understanding this lingo will simplify your preparation to making a swing. [...]

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