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A Great Golf Swing Drill

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Visualization works well with many sports and is one the best golf swing drills. I use this golf swing drill before every round of golf. This following golf drill will improve your balance during your golf swing.

1) You will have to keep your eyes closed during this golf drill since it will force you to focus on your swing, so no golf balls are needed.

2) With your eyes closed, start your golf swing but stop at the top of your backswing and focus in on having your weight on the inner part of your back foot.

3) Now complete your swing and stop during the top of your backswing and focus in on the fact that your weight should now be on the front foot.

Try this drill several times and each time reduce the amount of time that you stop at the backswing and the follow through. After some time, you will be able to sense when your balance is perfect. This drill is also a great way to reduce stress before a round of golf and it forces your brain to feel what a good backswing and follow through should feel like.

Most people will have trouble with this drill in the beginning because they never have stressed the balance points in their swing. Nevertheless, stick with it and you will notice that your golf swing will become more powerful and automatic.

Golf Swing Pace

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

In order to have a great golf swing pace, I found that you need to improve the rhythm and the balance in your golf swing. There are different golf swing drills that you can practice on the practice range.

1) Place five golf tees on the ground that are spaced about five inches apart.

2) Now hit each ball rather quickly trying to maintain your balance so that you strike the golf ball directly.

3) Repeat this particular drill four times in total while pacing your swing so that you will maintain your balance and power into your golf swing.

You will notice that after you have tried this drill, that you will have a better idea of how to maintain a great backswing to follow through because of the fact that you are maintaining a good distribution of weight from the front foot to the back foot. Try not to worry about where the ball is going during this drill, that will improve with time.