Feburary 1, 2002

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One of our subscribers, Chris emailed me a question for Sensei Mark Anthony, and Mark was gracious enough to answer it for us.


Chris you wrote:


As I start the swing forward I look up causing my left shoulder to swing up and to the left. This leaves me with my weight on my right foot(back) causing very few sweet spot hits, poor shots, with no distance. I tell myself on the back to stay down and swing through but I lose my concentration and very seldom do it. I have been playing golf for about thirty years and this recently developed. About 2 years ago I developed the shanks. I finally got rid of the shanks but developed the above fault and also lost a great deal of distance. Two years ago I could easily hit a pitching wedge 120 to 130 yards. Now I am lucky if I hit it a hundred. Is their a drill to cure this problem and also give me a little of my distance back. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Chris M. Ozark, Al




Mark\'s Reply...

Chris,
What you\'re doing is what I call PEEKING. It\'s simply because you\'re so intent on ball flight that you look up before you make contact. HEAR THIS...Preoccupation with ball flight is the root of all swing flaws!

There\'s a drill in my video Tao of Golf called THE NO-PEEKS DRILL. Try this. At the range, after a few warm up swings with a wedge, setup and hit some WITHOUT watching the ball fly. Hit 10 or 20 and have a friend give you feedback only after you finish your allotted balls.

The other thing that you\'re doing is an EASY fix. You have a lazy right side. There\'s a drill in the video called WALK-THRU SWINGS. All that is, is when you finish your swing, you take a single step through toward the target. It\'s kind of hard to visualize sometimes, but if you\'ve seen me do it on the video you\'ll know what I mean.

One thing about that drill is that it cured my terrible chronic banana slice in a matter of a minute. Literally a MINUTE. If you don\'t know my history, I summarize.

I took up golf in 1989 and was hooked! However, I had such a slice, that my driver would only go about 150 yards. This was a wicked banana, let me tell you! I would consistently shoot on the high side of 120 for 18 holes.

Well, in the early spring of 1992, I was given a 10 minute lesson by a driving range owner. In less than ten minutes, my slice EVAPORATED and I was hitting a driver 250 yards straight as a die!!!! That season, (September) I broke 80 for the first time. The next season, I had a USGA handicap of 8!

That\'s an abbreviated version of \"my story\" By doing the walkthrough swings, I beat that damn slice. You\'ll see Gary Player do it all the time on TV if you watch the Senior PGA Tour...

Hope that helps.
God Bless
Mark


Thank you Sensei Mark for your lesson and help.

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If anyone else has any questions for Sensei Mark, please send them to Richard@thinkandreachpar.com

Until next time.

Good golfing.

Richard