Improve driver with 1 hand

A great way to improve your driver is to practice swinging with just your right hand only. Many people struggle with the driver because their golf swing does not support the club properly and they lose width or come over the top.

I have seen many of my students improve just by practice swinging with one hand. This drill forces you to support the club properly at the top with the right elbow and right hand underneath the shaft. This is the position that we want to achieve with both hands on the club, but many do not. Another great reason for practicing with one hand is the width that it creates in your downswing. If you are a player that has the club come down from over the top then the one hand swing will be good because of the extra weight that the club will feel like. In order to swing one handed your body must transition properly or you will stick the club in the ground. The lack of support with two hands will force the body to shift to the left to help the right arm start the club down. You will also notice that as you do this you will maintain width in the right arm and this will allow the face to be square through the impact area longer, causing straighter shots. Once you can do this drill with practice swings I encourage you to hit some balls with an eight iron. Try it slow at first, but as you practice this shot you will notice that you will be able to hit your eight iron over 100 yards in the air. After some success with this drill place both hands on the club but feel like your grip pressure with your left hand is a zero and try to sense the feeling that you had with only one hand.

One handed swings are a great way to improve your driver because it forces the club to fall on plane and it creates the proper feeling of width that you need to hit long straight drives.

Keep em Long and Straight,

CJ

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Why not making putts will make you a great putter

Too often I see players struggle on the putting green and get extremely upset and curse under their breath and say things that are negative to themselves. I often hear statements like “I can’t buy a putt today”, or “I’m terrible at putting.” Making putts is an outcome and that cannot be your main focus when you putt. This is as simple to understand as me taking you to the first tee and telling you I want you to shoot even par. This is an outcome as well and the process to shooting par is to hit the first fairway and first green and so on and so on. Making putts comes down to three areas. That is speed, roll, and break.

Speed in its simplest form is related to practice. If you were struggling with speed then I would encourage you to practice while working on speed related drills. Roll is related to technique and that is the area where an instructor can really help you by improving the path and face of your putter. To determine if your roll is good you should take a sharpie and draw a straight line on your golf ball. Titleist already places a line on their golf balls, however I encourage you to trace over that line with a sharpie to make it easier to see the ball roll. Now line up the ball at your intended line (obviously playing break if need be) and then to hit the putt. If your technique is good the line will roll end over end perfectly and will look like a solid straight line while the ball rolls. If your technique is not good then the line will wobble slightly and or you may not see it at all. If the line does not roll perfectly end over end then this is a clear indication that you need to work on the technique of your putting stroke. The final factor that goes into making putts is the break. Break is related to experience and this is one area that even tour players struggle with. I will guarantee that if you do not have proper speed control or proper roll of the ball then the break is the least of your concern. There are two areas of the putt that you can control and that is the speed and the roll. The next time you hit a putt I want you to evaluate the putt versus judging the outcome of the putt. Everyone needs to evaluate the putt based on the speed and the roll. If you hit the ball with the correct speed that you wanted and the ball rolled end-over-end then you hit a great putt regardless of the outcome. Too many factors can cause a putt to miss and living your life by makes and misses will provide you with a very frustrating life. The key to making more putts is to control what you can control and that is the speed and the roll.

I promise you, if you can roll the ball end-over-end properly and your speed is correct the outcome will be more favorable than not and your scores will fall dramatically.

Keep em Long and Straight,

CJ

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Right Hand Perfect Connection Grip

The grip is the only connection we have with the club and may be the most important area for you to focus.  The problem I have with golf instruction is that it is all-different in regards to the grip and every teacher has his own personal preference with the grip that they want.  The problem is that their preference is not what may be right for you.  Every person is different and is built slightly different.  I cannot tell you how many times I have taught people with flexible wrists, inflexible wrists, double jointed arms, arms that can’t straighten fully, and people with different size chests.  All of these factors amongst others effect what the proper grip should be for you.  It is physically impossible to put a person into a box and say that this grip is correct for everyone and you should use this grip. 

The perfect connection grip was founded upon solid biomechanics and personal body structure to determine what is the best grip for YOU!  I do want to give applause for all those instructors that have taught that the left hand should hold the club in the fingers since this is correct.  In regards to the grip being strong, weak, neutral, we will discuss that in another article, but for today I want to focus mainly on the right hand.  Many instructors leave the grip there and say that you should hold the club in the fingers of both hands and that is DEAD WRONG!  The grip is in the left hand fingers and more in the palm for the right hand.  The proper way to determine the right hand position is to hold the club at a 45-degree angle in the air and with the right hand make your hand flat and place your right index finger pointed down the shaft.  At this point you will feel that your right elbow is low.  Now simply slide your right hand down until the lifeline of your right hand sits slightly on the side of your left thumb.  Take your normal grip, whether that is the interlock, the overlap, or the 10-finger baseball grip.  This will produce a grip that will feel a lot more together than before and puts the wrists in the position to set the club properly so as to maximize the clubhead speed and give you the best control of the club. 

The grip is so important to swinging the club properly and everyone’s body is so completely different that I encourage you to determine what is the best grip for YOU.    Our previous article focused on the left hand grip and it showed you how to place your left hand on the club so that your joints fall into their natural alignment. You can read it here.

This is the key to the perfect connection golf swing and that is a swing that is easy on the body and tailor made for your body.  Any other instruction that does not take into account your shape, body structure, its weaknesses, and strengths will never allow you to achieve the results that you want. 

Keep em Long and Straight,

CJ

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Manage your scores and (anger) on the course

Too often I see players scores range in strokes of 10 or more shots per round from a good round to a bad round. If this happens to you then you can be assured that you are not managing your round to the best of your ability. In regards to managing your rounds, this will be a first in a series or articles that we will discuss the key ingredients to managing your round. These ingredients range from course management, Chipping course management, distance control, wedge distance control, fixing your swing mid round, Go to shots for the Driver, Go to shots for the irons, and many more.

I have a student that I currently work with and we try to play at least once a week during the summer and it has been amazing to see the difference in this player’s game this year. He now refers to me as his bobble head sitting on his shoulder when he is planning a shot. This player has shot under par several times, but maintains about a 5 handicap and would often shoot in the low 80’s when things didn’t go his way. I understand many readers would love to play bad and shoot in the low 80’s on a bad round, but it’s all relative. This player played baseball at a high level in college and was a pitcher. I needed to relate his golf game to his pitching skills and once we were able to find the connection between the two he has been playing much better and does not shoot in the 80’s anymore. Golf is similar to a lot of other areas in your life, whether it’s sports, business, or your personal relationship. The key is taking what you learned in those areas and applying them to your game. I’m sure all of us have had a fight with our spouse. Sometimes it can be something stupid and small that sets us off, and after an hour of arguing we settle down, listen to our partner, understand where their coming from and resolve the issue. If we did this immediately then the argument may not have happened and we would have saved a lot of harsh words or stress in our live. This is similar to golf. When we hit a bad shot we get upset and lose control and 4 or 5 holes later when we calm down we start to play better golf, but the damage to our score has already been done. The student that I play with every week took this to an extreme. Three years ago he would get so angry and throw clubs that on one occasion he banged his club on a tree and it snapped and came back and went through his right bicep. This is a funny story now, but that is how upset he would get when he hit a poor shot. We played last week and he hit a bad shot and instead of trying the miracle recovery shot he played safe (because of my bobble head he told me) and ended up hitting a 50 yard wedge to 6 feet and made the putt for par. I was really proud of the steps he has taken to control his anger and control his game, even though he beat me on the hole and it cost me 50 bucks, but that’s another story. This player is not perfect yet, but is learning how to play the game the proper way. High scores on holes come from a bad shot that is followed by a bad mental mistake. Next time you hit a bad shot, take your medicine and don’t try to make up for a bad shot with one swing. A bogey will not kill you and I am sure many of you would love to trade the triple you just made for a bogey. This will change your mental outlook of the hole and you will walk of positive sometimes after a bogey and it won’t take you 4 holes to calm down.

Keep em Long and Straight,

CJ

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The CJ Roll

Many times in golf you have to be imaginative. When I am teaching chipping I explain my 5% rules which really gives people a different view of green design and really gives them a great understanding of course management in regards to chipping and pitching. One of the shots that I teach my students is the CJ Roll. This is a great shot when the pin is sitting on top of a razorback, or the top of a hill.

The CJ Roll is performed basically the same way a draw in golf is hit. You will start with a lob wedge or sand wedge for this shot and at address you want to close or hood the face a bit. This is the same technique you would use to hit a draw with your irons in the full swing. This is great with a lofted club because you can still hit it hard enough to fly the ball a good distance, but it takes the spin off the shot and keeps the ball from checking, but rather the ball will run up the hill and stop on top of the hill close to the flag. From this position you want to swing the club a bit to the inside and as you swing through you want to release the face to the ground. This feeling is that your left hand knuckles will release, or roll through the shot and will face the ground just after impact. This will again take the spin off the shot and the ball will fly a tiny bit from right to left in the air and then will softly release towards the hole.

Being imaginative in golf is a must. If you understand the basics of ball flight, you will be able to apply those principles to other areas of the game, including short game. The CJ Roll is a great simple shot for a difficult pin location. Practice this shot first and you will have another shot in your bag to save par from a difficult situation.

Keep em Long and Straight,

CJ

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Use the line for improved putting

Perhaps the biggest mistake I see in putting is a faulty alignment. Every golfer goes through periods where they can’t seem to line the putter up correctly, but this is a problem that can be fixed very easily.

The easiest way to improve your putter is to take a sharpie and draw a straight line across the label of the ball. This is a habit that the best players in the world use on every putt and one so common that Titleist put a line on their balls already. The USGA has even deliberated over making this practice illegal. If it has gotten to that point and that much recognition, I would strongly urge that you use this to your benefit. I would still recommend however that you use a sharpie and color over that line so that it will be easier to see and easier to line up your putter to that line. Once you have a line on your ball, stand behind the putt and read it as you would normally. From there bend over and line up that line to the highest point of the break that you think the putt will travel along. From here the putt becomes a straight putt. All you need to do is to align the putter with the line on the ball and your alignment is fixed. This is one reason why I suggest to my students to use a putter that has a line on it already. Virtually every manufacturer out there makes a putter with a line on the top of the putter and this makes your job of lining up that line to the line on the ball even easier. Once you have these lines aligned to each other your only focus becomes the speed of the putt.

Using the line is a habit that most top players use, but one that most amateurs don’t. Learn from the best and use the line on the ball and the line on the putter and you will find yourself holing more putts.

Keep em Long and Straight,

CJ

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Back To Basics – Alignment

One area of the game that is so simple yet so confusing to me as an instructor is the alignment. What I mean by this is the chicken or the egg theory. Which came first? There is no real answer to this question just the same way that alignment and swing problems work hand in hand. Are you coming over the top because your aimed right, or are you aimed right because you are coming over the top? My first lesson with LPGA Tour Player Brittany Lang revolved around this same question. Brittany was in high school at the time and was aimed 40 yards right of the target, but remarkably she hit it at the flag every time. For those that may not know, Brittany is an exceptional athlete but struggles from the same problem as the average golfer. Our first lesson, and my hope for her was to give her good fundamentals so that when she went to college she would be easy to fix if her swing ever left her. I am happy to say that we accomplished this goal and the alignment was the easiest fix. To achieve the proper alignment in golf is to simply take a minute or two before you ever hit balls and follow these simple rules.

1. Lay a club down first right behind the ball and point it at your target.

2. Lay a second club down parallel to the ball target line along where your feet will be.

3. Pick up the ball target line club and you are ready to setup.

4. Setup with your feet, knees, hips, and shoulders, parallel to the club on the ground.

Once you have the proper alignment you may feel as though you are not aimed correctly. This is a perfect tell tale sign that your alignment and swing are off.

The simplest fix in the golf swing is without a doubt alignment. This is one area of the swing that is often overlooked and can create a whole network of problems in your swing. Too often I see people hit the ball 10, 20, 30, yards off line in their mind, but it is exactly where they are aiming. Imagine what your mind is telling your body when you hit the ball that far off line supposedly. You will create a flaw in your swing if you do not have the proper alignment. You may also fix a major flaw in your swing once you achieve proper alignment. Lay a club on the ground and take the first step to improving your game.

Keep em Long and Straight,

CJ

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