Addison Craig, head skilled at The Bridge Golf Club, reveals how a bowling ball can help get the correct weight switch in your golf swing.
Courtesy Addison Craig
Welcome to Play Smart, a common GOLF.com game-improvement column that can help you play smarter, higher golf.
Some golfers will go to nice lengths as a way to correct their golf swing. From making an attempt all types of training aids to doing one thing unorthodox, no matter how wild one thing could seem, if it’s efficient, it’s price making an attempt.
But have you ever ever practiced by utilizing a bowling ball? If not, it is perhaps time to at the very least give it a attempt.
According to Addison Craig, the top skilled at The Bridge Golf Club, he developed a drill that makes use of a bowling ball as a way to accurately switch weight within the golf swing to the lead aspect.
In at present’s Play Smart, we’re some pictures from Craig doing the drill, together with some instruction ideas that may show useful for your recreation. Check it out beneath.
Try this straightforward bowling-ball drill to help your golf swing
Craig says he developed this bowling-ball drill as a way to help gamers who battle with shifting their weight to their lead aspect.
Since virtually everybody has gone bowling earlier than, Craig says golfers have already got an concept of the movement of rolling the ball down a lane. It’s this movement that he desires golfers to concentrate on, which forces the posture to remain down towards the bottom.
“When we’re bowling, it’s all about staying down in our posture (feeling our chest pointed toward the ground like Nick Faldo at post-impact),” he says. “By doing this, our weight will be transferred onto our lead side.”
The pictures beneath present what the drill ought to appear to be.
Courtesy Addison Craig
Courtesy Addison Craig
Courtesy Addison Craig
Now that you just perceive the idea of transferring your weight utilizing a bowling ball, Craig says it’s time to place a membership again in your palms to really feel the distinction.
“Try to hit golf shots feeling like you’re staying in the right posture, transferring the weight over to the lead side,” he says.
Whether you’re truly bringing a bowling ball to the driving vary with you — that’s daring! — otherwise you’re simply planning to apply this within the consolation of your own residence, give it a attempt to get the texture you want in your golf swing. If it results in higher contact on the course, it’s not as wild as it would first seem.
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