“The best psychologist in the world is a square clubface at impact,” – Ben Hogan
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Practice something about your game everyday. #CardioGolfChallenge
In my opinion, daily practice is the key to success towards any goal. Making 10 practice swings a day or exercising for 5 minutes everyday will get you playing better and in better shape than exercising or practicing for two or three hours once a week. First of all, it is always hard to find big chunks of time to do massive workouts or beat balls on the driving range. Secondly, the long workouts or practice sessions usually lead to fatigued swings, injuries and ingrained bad habits.
There is something to be said about the momentum of taking small daily steps towards a goal that is cumulatively better than taking big steps with less frequency.
Use the Cardiogolf ‘Shortee’ Club to practice everyday. If you don’t have room to swing a regular golf indoors or you can’t make it to the golf course or driving range, use the Cardiogolf ‘Shortee’ Club to practice anywhere and at anytime.
50 Cardiogolf Drills and Exercises
- Set-Up Practice
- Grip Practice
- Back Arm Only Drill
- Impact Drill
- Forward Lunge with Arm Extension
- Front Arm Only Drill
- Back Arm Only Drill on an Uphill Slope
- Hand Placement
- Squats with Arm Extension
- Back Arm Only Drill on a Downhill Slope
- Overhead Arm Reach
- Front Arm Only Drill on a Downhill Slope
- Alignment Drill
- Lunge and Twist
- Y to L Drill
- Side Flexion
- Wide Takeaway Drill
- Feet Together Drill
- Step and Swing Drill
- Wrist Hinge Drill Variation
- Posture Drill
Today we focus on a square clubface.
To be a consistent ball striker, you should strive to swing with a square clubface at all times, unless, of course, you are trying to intentionally curve the ball. Golf is a hard enough game hitting the ball straight, let alone fighting an open or closed clubface at impact.
Watch a good player swing and you almost always see a smooth, rhythmic start to their backswing. So what starts the club back? If you look at the swing as a series of circles, the clubhead makes the biggest circle, followed by the circle the hands make, followed by the circle the body makes as it turns back and forth. So since the clubhead has to travel the farthest, you want to start the clubhead back first.
Shake Hands Position-
- With a correct grip, swing the club back until it is parallel to the ground, the toe of the club will point up. This is a square clubface.
- The palm of your right hand and the back of your left hand (if you are right-handed) should end up in what we instructors call the “shake hands” position.
- Stop at this point and hold position for a moment.
- As you follow through, again the hands and wrists rotate so that when the club is parallel to the ground once again the toe of the club will point up again. Hold this position for a moment.
- If your hands roll to start your swing, then the clubface will be open. If you try to keep the clubface going straight back without any forearm and wrist arm rotation, then clubface is closed.
- Return to the start position. Repeat position for 8 to 10 repetitions.
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Karen Palacios-Jansen is a LPGA Class A Teaching Professional and a Certified Personal Trainer specializing in Golf Fitness. Karen serves as the National Vice President of the LPGA Teaching And Club Professionals Membership and has been voted as one of America’s “Top 50 Golf-Fitness Professionals” by Golf Digest Magazine and “Top 50 Instructor” by LPGA. Karen received the prestigious LPGA National Teacher of the Year award in 2008.
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