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Nick Price Keys to Great Bunker Play

Nick Price Keys to Great Bunker Play

In this blog I am going to share my notes from 2004 from an old short game video on bunker play with Nick Price. 1. ''Good bunker players take a very shallow divot'' 2. ''Too many players get the club digging into the sand, they don't get the club open enough in the backswing and then release the club incorrectly in the downswing'' 3. ''It is important to keep the clubface open throughout the downswing and impact so the bounce of the club can be used.'' 4. ''The shallower the

Faldo Power Move - The Transition

Faldo Power Move - The Transition

Nick Faldo describes his sensations from the top of the backswing into the downswing and then impact. The sequence of movements that occur as you reach the top of the backswing into the start of the downswing is usually referred to as the transition. Ultimately every players transitional sequence will vary slightly but I think Nick Faldo does a great job in describing his feelings. '' I liked to feel the left shoulder and left knee move away together and pull away from a res

Looking off the Ball in the Golf Swing

Looking off the Ball in the Golf Swing

There is one universal peace of advice that most club golfers can't resist inflicting onto their playing partners and that is keep your head down. This swing advice seems the fix for pretty much every bad shot. Most advanced level players understand that keeping the head down is some what undesired and once they have hit the shot allow the head to release freely. Few even advanced players however really understand the importance of this move and the effect it can have on ball

Paul Azinger: 3 Drills To Stop Hooking

Paul Azinger: 3 Drills To Stop Hooking

Paul Azinger played his whole career with an extremely strong grip and closed club face position at the top of his swing. When he learnt how to hit a power fade using a more open shoulder position at impact and reducing the amount of face rotation through the ball he became a very successful player winning twelve P.G.A tour events and the P.G.A Championship. Paul Azinger thoughts on Pulling the ball or Pull Hooks '' When players are hooking or pulling it usually down to exces

Should your shoulders be closed or open at impact in the golf swing?

Should your shoulders be closed or open at impact in the golf swing?

There appears to be two distinct shoulder alignments commonly seen in great ball strikers, one where the shoulders are square or parallel to the intended target line the other where the shoulders are open or looking left. As a general rule if the player prefers to fade the ball a slightly open shoulder pattern is going to be more desirable and to draw the ball the opposite. The key is to match the players standard ball flight preference with a swing plane, shoulder alignment

How to spin your chip shots like Seve

Out of all the attributes of Seve Ballesteros game his shot making and short game will go down as one of, it not the best in history. Many of the players and coaches today learnt their short game knowledge and skills from either conversations with Seve or by watching him. As a child I got to meet him and watch him play a number of times but unfortunately I never got a short game lesson :) Below is an excerpt of Lee Trevino, another golfing 'great' talking about why Seve was a

The Victoria Institute of Sport and The Bann Lynch Golf Academy

The Victoria Institute of Sport and The Bann Lynch Golf Academy

In 2011 I spent the winter playing in Australia and based myself in Melbourne. While there I took lessons at the Bann Lynch Academy based at Yarra Bend. My main reason for going there was that its founders Steve Bann and Dale Lynch had established a golf program at the Victoria Institute of Sport which produced more P.G.A tour players than any other program of its kind. Graduates include Stuart Appleby, Robert Allenby, Jeff Ogilvy, Brett Rumford and many more. In this Blog I

Welcome to my Golf Instruction Blog

Welcome to my Golf Instruction Blog

I have been around professional golf since a small boy and was priviledged to grow up watching the best golfers play and practice. My first coach Peter Mitchell was a European Tour player who won a number of events. He taught me so much about golf and how to study the game to improve. In recent years I have worked with many top rated coaches from around the world in search of improvement and a greater understanding of the game. I have been keeping notes on golf for the last t

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