The Amazing Angle demo day at the Golfsmith store, Sawmill Rd location, has been finalized! Saturday June 14, between 10 AM and 2 PM.
Come see the Amazing Angle, learn about “deliberate practice”, and register for a chance to win one of the most effective golf swing trainers on the market.
See you there!
“I have always maintained that excepting fools,
men did not differ much in intellect, only in
zeal and hard work.
—Charles Darwin”
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Seriously, deliberate practice with the Amazing Angle will bring you fantastic results with your golf swing.
Yesterday I had the pleasure once again of witnessing a hole in one!
Playing at Kinsale Golf and Fitness, my friend Dave Watkins knocked one in on hole #17, a very tough par 3 at 163 yards.
It was a great day, a little chilly but who cares when you get to play a great course with great friends.
Witnessed also by David Haley Jr. , and Ethan Tracy. Bonus, the beer also tastes better when purchased by the hole in one boy!
It is interesting to me that in light of Tiger’s back surgery and withdrawal from the Masters, that the pundits now seem to be rethinking what golf practice should be about.
The issue is, do you have to practice with the Navy Seals to be prepared to play the PGA tour? Respectfully, I am a big believer in staying in golf ready condition. However, 2 and 1/2 hours in the gym everyday could be overkill!
I heard the discussion on Morning Drive leaning towards “slow” practice!
Let’s work on and improve some key positions in your golf swing slowly and deliberately, especially impact, in conjunction with putting, chipping and pitching to lower scores!
It seems that we golf product consumers have been laboring under the false assumption that our drivers, (tee club), should have the center of gravity in the back of the club with a low loft of 8 or 9 degrees, and produce a high spin rate of 3200. The joke has been on us for many years.
Last night I attended a very informative presentation by the club designers and sales representatives at the Taylormade company.
Testing and experimentation now prove to my satisfaction that our drivers have been designed improperly.
In the old days, wooden headed drivers were 11 or 12 degrees in loft, to produce a functional ball flight. When metal woods came out, I was surprised to see that the physical lofts were much lower 7, 8, or 9 degrees, with tour players commonly playing 7 degrees.
Of course we all want to “play what the pros play”. However, in this case, playing a low lofted driver, we now know was harmful in terms of distance and directional control.
So, here is the take home. The magical numbers for producing maximum driver distances are 17/1700. A 17 degree launch angle accompanied by a 1700 spin rate, regardless of your club head speed will produce optimum driving results.
I always felt that we had been playing drivers with too little loft. If this is the future of golf, and I believe it to be true, you deserve to see if this new technology can revolutionize your game !
Because I am the worlds worst putter, I have experimented with every type of putter on the market to make more putts!
Here are 2 positive things that I have discovered while wearing the carpet out this winter. 1. There are many good putters on the market right now. How the putter looks to you personally is a serious consideration. How it feels when you strike a putt is also very important.
2. I have also figured out that I wasn’t really using my shoulders as most good putting instructors recommend. At some time in the past, I know I have used my shoulders correctly, but like most of the mechanical movements in the golf swing, my body evidently forgot what is was supposed to do. Seriously, if you feel that you aren’t making your share of putts, you may be over using your hands and arms!
Using your shoulders the correct way will feel very uncomfortable when you start reconstructing your stroke. Just hang in there and keep rocking your shoulders. It is truly a more consistent way to make a putting stroke. As I always tell my students, the inside, your shoulders, should be moving the outside, your arms and hands.
Check out this picture of the “fatso 5.0 Super Stroke” putter grip. You have no doubt seen tour pros using this grip. It seems to have helped me get my hands out of the stroke which leads me to use my shoulders more positively.
If you are not using a long putter, the fatso grip may be a favorable experiment to help you make more putts this summer!
Time to get started ! I hope this will be a great season for you and I. I am now 62 years old and like most other seniors, I am experiencing those inevitable happenings that occur in golf and life that we are not expecting and are certainly not happy about, (ie), loss of distance, being tired, etc.
To combat these inevitabilities, I have done quite a bit of work at the gym this winter doing golf specific exercises, and a significant amount of work on the elliptical, accompanied by regularly applied “slow and deliberate practice” with the Amazing Angle.
Since “golf fitness” has become such a hot topic with tour pros, I have decided to devote some time to this subject as it results to both golf and life, throughout this golf season.
Today however, I am going to state exactly how my first practice session will be conducted. In the next post I will comment on how and how much
the preparation improved my abilities over last season.
To begin, I will be starting the session with a dozen full swing reps with the Amazing Angle, slowly and deliberately ! There will be an effort to create more club head speed by focusing on post impact and a balanced finish. For everyone out there also starting practice soon, I believe it is super important to get off to a good start by trying to focus on moving club head speed from early in the downswing, (incorrect), to later in the swing, impact and post impact. Slow and Deliberate practice can help you focus attention on these positions.
The ball striking portion of this practice will only contain 60 practice balls. Starting out you seniors especially should treat your golf muscles with care.
1) Will devote about 10 practice balls to the line drill with a wedge, chipping mode, concentrating on impact position and “forward divot”. Get the idea in your head early on that the back of the ball will be struck first creating a divot that occurs consistently in front of the line.
2) 10 balls devoted to a pitching stroke, same idea of creating back of the ball contact.
3) 10 balls devoted to full swing mode with pitching wedge.
4) 10 balls devoted to mid iron full swings. Picturing the images of these swing sequences will be very helpful before actually hitting balls.
5) 10 balls devoted to your favorite hybrid.
6) let the “big dog” eat on your last 10 practice balls.
For this practice session especially, I will focus on paying attention to “back of the ball” contact during each of these segments, while trying to get my speed to occur later in my swing.
The next post will provide details of my results. We will see how “slow and deliberate” practice pays off! For those not familiar with the concept of deliberate practice, check out my website. http://www.amazinganglegolf.com.
Here is a look at the head position from address through impact. Notice that the head starts at address slightly above the horizontal line in the circle. In the second photo you can clearly see that the head position has moved below the line as the shoulders coil into the end of the backswing. It is clear then that as you wind up the backswing, the coil effect is heightened as the torso posture is maintained, never allowed to release up. Movement of posture up in the backswing is a ” killer move” !
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In the next 2 photos appreciate "lag" maintenance, and the "knee bowing effect". The knees are driving forward and the Amazing Angle "contact ball" has stayed connected to the forearm. The most frequent “killer move” by high handicap players is a “throwaway” of lag, represented by a disconnection of the “contact ball” at this point. Practice with the Amazing Angle at this critical point in the golf swing will improve consistency and quality in the distance and accuracy of your shots.
Please practice slowly and deliberately and visit http://www.amazinganglegolf.com for more information about the Amazing Angle swing training system !
When you “practice”, are you improving ? I think it is important to be more focused and structured, to make the most of your practice time. At the range, I see golfers that start out with a few wedges and then go right to their driver for the rest of the session, hitting ball after ball like a “machine gun”.
I believe that my next statement is universally true for golfers ! If you had a bad driving round yesterday, you can’t wait to get to the range, get that driver out and “find out” what the problem was. The eternal question is, do you accomplish anything if your answer to the problem is to be a ” machine gunner” at the practice range ?
In golf just as in life, sometimes you have to take a step back and look at reality. What is the most efficient way to practice? If you are a high handicapper and you don’t have a real plan to improve, you should reevaluate the way you practice.
We all know that golf is a hard game, especially if you are a beginner or a high handicapper. When you are out there playing, what “can” go wrong, probably “will” go wrong. If you have built your house with a sloppy foundation, you might want to consider rebuilding the foundation.
If you are serious about making a positive change in your golf swing, you should consider the Amazing Angle swing training system!
“Slow and deliberate” change is the way !
Keith Haley Golf 