Off-Seasons Essentials for Your Game-

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Learn and review the most important swing fundamentals and key swing positions off-season to improve your on-course strategy in-season.

Whenever you take lessons and try to make a swing change, it is important to remember a few points that will help you with the transition.

  1. Practice the swing change, but try not to overdo the new move or motions that your pro suggests.  What happens to a lot of people after a golf lesson, it that they exaggerate the new move and that may throw off  tempo and timing.  You may actually hit the ball worse after a golf lesson.
  2. Be patient and rehearse the move without hitting a ball for several sessions until you are comfortable with the new move.  Rehearsing the new move without hitting a ball will help ingrain the new move into your swing and then it will feel  more comfortable and natural when you actually hit balls.
  3. Finally, try not to stress out about your score for the first few rounds after a lesson,  it may take several weeks before you own the new motion.

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Off-Season Practice-

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.

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Today we focus on alignment-

Alignment is the easiest fundamental to work on, and probably one of the most neglected principles of golf. This can be practiced indoors as well as on the driving range. A good shot is useless unless it is going toward your intended target.

First, you align the clubface square to your target line, and then you align your body. One of the biggest mistakes I see, as a teacher, is when people line up their body to the target first, then set the clubface down to the ball. This sequence usually makes people misalign their bodies, causing them to twist and turn inappropriately to get the ball to the target. Do not make the mistake that 90 percent of higher-handicappers do by not taking the time to align the body correctly.

The easiest and most effective way to practice your alignment correctly is to set-up in an alignment station.

Alignment Drill

  1. Place a club  or alignment rod down on the ground, pointing it parallel to your target. With a secure grip and stepping forward with your back foot, set the clubface down behind the ball with the leading edge perpendicular to your target line.
  2. Then set your front foot into position and adjust your back foot into place so that both are parallel to your target line.
  3. Your feet, hips, knees, shoulders and even eye line should be parallel to your target line. Avoid aiming your body at the target. This closes you off and promotes an inside-out swing or makes you hook the ball excessively.  You may even come over the top on the downswing to pull the ball back towards your target.
  4. Practice hitting to targets in an alignment station  so you can teach yourself to aim correctly.

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