Monday, 19 November 2012

Refresher with Lawrie Montague

Recently revisited the 'Golf Confidence' site via YouTube that was created by Oz golf instructor Lawrie Montague. I believe this is an instructor who is well worth some attention; his analysis of the golf swing (in a range of videos) is pretty spot on.

Lawrie covers the usual aspects of set up and body rotation, and does this well. However, he does even better when he explains the importance of not hitting AT the ball, but rather swinging from a solid braced position down and THROUGH the ball to a full finish.

Dropping the hands below the swing plane is the crucial first part of the downswing move that he emphasises - and he is a hands and arms advocate - maintaining that the body will react to this move. He does not advocate a lot of conscious lower body rotation or movement, other than noting that the knees do kick forward and end up together.

One of his major points (and he is excellent in explaining this) is that the angle between the club and the arm (the triangle created by the wrist cock) must be maintained for as long as possible in the downswing - and not thrown away by casting the clubhead. This is the creation of lag that promotes good distance and helps with solid contact and accuracy.

But I want to return in this refresher to the full finish concept. Many golfers tend to hit at the ball and fail to fully finish their swings (and I refer to full shots). This is also an occasional problem for even the best golfers. The key point is that a full finish of the swing is not just for decoration, it is the indicator of how successfully the golfer has swing the club. In my own game, I know there is a completely different feeling when I have swung fully to a finish and when I have not - and I know which one will have produced the better shot.

Anyhow, have a full swing and keep the magic triangle.

1 Comments:

At 26 March 2016 at 08:01 , Blogger Ben said...

Agreed. Just watch youtube on Lawrie Montague's golf instructions and he was GREAT!

 

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