Last time, I talked about correcting a slice by not dropping your right shoulder (for right handers) which should help several duffers out there! I know that this worked for me...at first. Then something else went wrong; as it usually does in golf; I started hooking the ball and not just a little! Every once and a while I would hit a severe "duck hook" and it took a while to figure out what I was doing wrong.
Of course, if I had a lot of cash just lying around I would probably visited my local golf pro, however we don't have such a thing where I live; so I was out on both counts. Finally, I discovered that in my 'over-thinking things' I had come up with the idea that maybe I should be square (my shoulders that is) with the target line when I made contact with the ball, which was a no no. That was causing my arms to get ahead of my hip turn which caused the hook. After going back to my normal hip turn things straightened right out again.
The good thing is that I learned something during my slice and hook experiences...I now know how to shape my shots where as before the only thing I knew was to hit straight ahead. Now if I need a little fade to turn a corner or to fight the wind I just drop my right shoulder ever so slightly during contact with the ball, and if I need a little draw I just stop my shoulder turn a little before my hip turn. I don't know how the pro's go about teaching such things but all I can tell you is that it works for me.
So until next time I will be hitting them long and straight and using my Kiss Putt to keep my putting stroke tuned up. Happy golfing my fellow duffer's!
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