One of the most important questions you need to be able to answer in golf is “how far do you hit your clubs?” In order to know which club to hit in a certain situation, you need to know your distances. Until now, it has been almost impossible to accurately gauge these measurements on your [...]
Read MoreWhy Stack & Tilt® by: B. J. Hathaway I was recently approached by a student and asked this question: “You are a well-respected teacher with a brand recognized in over 22 countries, why would you get involved with Stack & Tilt®?” The method, if one chose to call it that, has indeed endured more than [...]
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Photo by Augusta Golf Instruction by: B. J. Hathaway If patience is a virtue, then a lot of golfers are in serious trouble. Now I am not saying golfers are bad people, on the contrary, they are some of the finest people that I know, but patient is another story. It’s usually the [...]
Read MoreI know what you’re thinking, why are you comparing me to Rory?! Well let’s take a minute and look at today’s news story about Rory McIlroy and a few swing changes he apparently began working on a few weeks ago. The word is he’s working on posture and swing plane- now why would a player [...]
Read MoreAre you tired of aiming WAY left just to allow that slice to hit the fairway? If you’ve tried other tips and still have trouble this video will show you how to focus on your finish position and get the club face square earlier and give you a real feel for making the corrections you [...]
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The movement of the body (pivot) is another often misunderstood part of the golf swing and yet one of the most important elements effecting movement and balance. With all of the popular catch phrases that are used like “turn your hips first” on the downswing it’s easy to see how this part of the swing [...]
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The swing plane is often misunderstood in the golf swing yet it’s one the most critical elements that control the quality and direction of ball flight. Think very simply of the swing plane as being the angle that the shaft travels on from start to finish, just the same as the shaft sits on an [...]
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Compress the ball with the club’s true loft At Augusta Golf Instruction, we have been asked many times what my hands should be doing at impact. At times, golfers develop misconceptions of what it should look like at impact and how it feels. Obviously, the most important part of the golf swing is the moment [...]
Read MoreOne of Trackman‘s laws concerning the “Smash Factor”….. Generally speaking, to maximize ball speed, it is more important to improve centeredness of impact than to increase club speed. So in AGI terms, it is much better to find that fine line where you have high club head speed while maintaining center of the face contact. If [...]
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When Mr. Homer Kelley wrote his popular book The Golfing Machine he listed the three Essentials to a good golf swing. In this post we take a look at the first Essential -maintaining a steady head in your golf swing and why that is important. I think one of the reasons that many golfers have [...]
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