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If your lead hip is not starting to press forward at the top of your swing, your transition will not generate a powerful hit. All too often we lock our head and hips at the top of our swing and let our arms take over. That early arm action freezes our body so that we swing with our weight on our trailing foot. Your hip press or bump will start your weight shift to your leading foot.

When you complete a relaxed practice swing (before your muscles tense up for the main event), it’s so easy to allow your weight to start shifting to our leading foot. Unfortunately when we step forward to the ball your focus often changes. We all tend to think about putting a little more power into our swing. That extra power causes us to rush the start of our downswing – – – BEFORE we start to shift our weight to our leading foot.
To help you create a smooth transition, Clay at TopSpeedGolf.com made the following recommendations:

This image shows a light hip BUMP during the transition. It allows you to stay over the ball and to start opening your hips.At address: Stand nice & tall (but still in an athletic position). You want to begin by standing as upright (with knees bent) as you can and still reach the club to the ball. You’re going to want to squat lower as you launch down in your downswing, so starting with nice posture can keep you from feeling too low to the ground in the downswing.On the backswing: Activate your hips. If you rotate your hips in the backswing, not only does it help you load up on your leading foot, but it gives your hips momentum to open up through impact as you launch into a standing position.During the Transition: Push your lead foot into the ground (as you bump your hip forward). Newton’s 3rd Law says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So, by pushing into the ground with your lead foot, it pushes your lead hip back (and open). This gives you room to swing through the ball. Opening your hips at impact allows you to power through your ball as you either launch your drives or skim some turf with your irons after the ball.As you follow through: You need to keep a shoulder tilt through impact. Your trailing shoulder should be tilted down. Focusing on this will ensure you’re staying in your athletic posture through impact.

When you get this right it feels like y o u a r e s w I n g I n g in s l o w m o t I o n. You can feel the leading edge of your club effortlessly power your ball up your target line. Practice with GOLFSTR+ to keep you leading arm straight through impact. Buy one today at www.GOLFSTR.com

Golf Truism #38 The nearest sprinkler head will be blank.

 

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MyGolfSpy Ball Lab is where we quantify the quality and consistency of the golf balls on the market to help you find the best ball for your money. Today, we’re taking a look at the Mizuno RB Tour. An overview of the equipment we use can be found here. To learn more about our test process, how we define “bad” balls and our True Price metric, check out our About MyGolfSpy Ball Lab page.

It’s perhaps not entirely accurate to say the point of the Mizuno RB Tour golf ball is to be different. However, it’s absolutely true that Mizuno made a conscious decision not to produce something akin to a Pro V1.

The RB Tour (and the RB Tour X) is a low-launch/high-spin offering. It’s overstating it a bit to call it “unique” but its space in the ball-fitting world is where not everyone plays … at least not at retail.  It’s a tail end of the bell curve offering where the only legitimate performance comps are the Volvik S4 (perhaps the most extreme example of a low launch/high spin golf ball) and what now is the prior Gen of the Kirkland three-piece ball.

It’s not a performance spec for everybody but it will definitely work for somebody.

Tiger Woods and his son, 11-year-old Charlie, will play together in a televised father-and-son tournament, putting a spotlight on how golf is a part of life in the Woods family.

 

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The 2021 European Tour schedule, which contains 42 tournaments in 24 countries and has been designed to reduce travel where possible, will only have four Rolex Series events.

 

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In this week’s lesson, I’d like to show you how my competitive players mentally prepare using an effective pre round mental routine.

The game doesn’t start on the first tee. By the time you get to hit that first shot, you should already be in your best competitive mindset and ready to play. You don’t want to wait until you’re several holes into your round to find it.

This is what a pre round mental routine can help you with. It’s about using mental game triggers to:

· activate your “optimal performance state”

· get you feeling confident and believing in your abilities

After her father-in-law died unexpectedly on Saturday, U.S. Women's Open front-runner Amy Olson had to make the tough decision to continue playing. Her second-place finish showed what it means to be resilient.

The Best Last Minute Holiday Golf Gifts 

If you didn’t think ahead during Black Friday/Cyber Monday, or just need a few stocking stuffers, we put together a few great last minute gift ideas for the holidays. Most sites will let you know the last possible day you can order to get your gifts delivered on time.

Last Minute Deals:

Wilson: 20% Off All Golf Items

Use promo code WGOLF20

Example Deals:

– Wilson Staff Model Golf Balls– $35.99
– Men’s Wilson Staff D7 Forged Irons (2020 Most Wanted Player’s Distance Iron)- $719.99
– Men’s Staff Model Wedge– $103.99

Callaway Golf Preowned: Up To 40% Off Wedges & Putters

Even if your wedge game will never be close to Phil’s you can at least emulate his short game prowess with a Mack Daddy wedge or Odyssey putter. At Callaway Golf Preowned you can find pretty much every used Callaway product available at a discount.

There is a lot of cool gear in the golf equipment world that doesn’t always fit neatly into Most Wanted Tests or Buyer’s Guides. You still want to know how it performs. In our We Tried It series, we put gear to the test and let you know if it works as advertised.

What We Tried

The Peloton bike.

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Dave Wolfe – Though most of you know me from the putter corral, I am also quite fitness-focused, especially as I move into my second half-century of life. I’m keeping the body moving so the body will keep moving.

A Bike On a Golf Site?

I know this seems like a stretch to be talking about a home exercise bike on My Golf Spy but hear me out. Professional and serious amateur golfers know all kinds of fitness activities can improve their games.

 

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December 14, 2020

NCGA Annual Meeting Raffle Winners

 

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