Jessica Marksbury
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If you happen to wrestle to make pure contact with the ball, GOLF Prime 100 Instructor Tina Tombs has a easy drill you’ll be able to apply to assist.
In a video posted to the LPGA Professionals YouTube web page, Tombs explains that training good contact pays dividends in each a part of your sport, from tee pictures to approaches and close-range chips.
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The drill Tombs proposes is easy: draw a white line within the turf (a white foot powder does the trick) perpendicular to your ft. Ideally, you’d have an alignment stick on the bottom to verify your goal is sound. The thought behind this drill is to determine the low level, or backside arc, of your swing. Take some swings and work on constantly brushing the grass throughout the white line.
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“After I know that I’m very comfy at hitting the white line, then I do know I’m all the time going to make good contact to the ball,” Tombs says. “This is a vital elementary in golf. If I can hit the ball constantly on the middle of the face and on the backside of the arc, I’m going to hit superb pictures. So once you apply this with out a ball and you’ll hit the white line, you’re going to get plenty of confidence in hitting the ball strong.”
As soon as you’ll be able to hit the white line constantly, Tombs says you’ll be able to transfer on to hitting balls. Place a ball instantly in entrance of the white line and take a swing. You must discover that you simply brush the white line the identical manner with the ball there as with out it. One other advantage of the road drill is the visible it provides you of your clubface alignment.
“You’ll additionally discover right here when you’re establishing whether or not the membership face is straight or crooked, perhaps aimed to the correct or to the left or straight. So that is one other manner that you should utilize this white line to goal your membership face,” Tombs says.
As Tombs demonstrates hitting the ball on the road, she says she notices that she missed the road only a contact with the underside of her arc, however nonetheless hit the ball within the middle of the face, leading to a reasonably good shot.
“Even once you miss it only a tiny bit and also you hit that white line, you’re going to make nice contact,” she says. “And even your misses are gonna be pretty much as good as your greatest pictures.
“So bear in mind: Be pretty much as good as your misses and you’ll play nice golf.”
Take a look at a full video of Tombs’ tip above, and for extra ideas from Tombs, click on right here.
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