Your grip is good, stance is good, posture is good, alignment is good and you have grooved your swing motion. You need to birdie this hole and your heart rate is on the rise. But, you are set up and ready to go, then, something happens during the swing and the shot goes arwy.
In many cases this can be the result of over gripping the club during the transition and on the downswing. This cause the swing to fall out of sync and changes the tempo and rhythm of the motion. The over the top move is often a result of this over gripping and the result is an less than ideal club path and very little control of the ball.
The first move from the top of your back-swing, as the leading hip is beginning to move and rotate into the shot, should be to allow the club and your hands to drop into the shot. When your hands have dropped and are about halfway down in your downswing unhinge and deliver the club-head squarely through impact. This is where professional long drivers use their ‘fast hands’ for maximum acceleration (in sync with very fast hip rotation). This will help insure that your club path is on plane and moving on the desired path through impact.
So lighten your grip pressure throughout the swing – Drop From the Top and accelerate through impact.
Charles Kallassy has trained, coached and worked with numerous PGA, LPGA, Nationwide Tour (now Korn Ferry Tour) tour professionals, world champion and top ranked long drivers, collegiate, junior and physically and intellectually challenged golfers. He has taught clinics, workshops and swing exhibitions to golf instructors, men, woman and juniors throughout the United States and around the world. Charles began instructing and training elite and professional athletes in 1981. His unique approach to his craft combines effort/shape movement analysis and individually tailored training, conditioning, swing and game development programs. In addition to his work with players from the PGA and LPGA he has trained and worked with athletes from the ATP (Association of Professional Tennis), NFL, NBA and US Olympic teams. In 1983, Charles began working extensively with professional golfers in the sports therapy and fitness department at Las Colinas Sports Club, then home of the Byron Nelson Golf Classic. Charles worked with many of the game’s legendary players and instructors and has developed keen insights into the challenges of analyzing, refining and maintaining peak golf and athletic performance. Charles’ unyielding pursuit of knowledge related to golf instruction and training has evolved into his unique and comprehensive approach to golf instruction and training. His approach to patterning the golf swing, through rigorous training, from putting to driving, allows the player to abandon complex and distracting thoughts while developing competition/tour ready mindset and confidence.
