Whenever I put up some kind of post of myself practicing trying to improve my impact, a lot of people comment that I should not be "chasing a position". Well, leading the club through impact (rather than having the club pass your hands before impact) not only looks cool it also gives the golfer a HUGE mechanical advantage!
Recently Dr. Sasho MacKenzie (the world's leading golf biomechanics expert) used his state of the art computer system to do forward dynamics modeling to see the difference in a LAG IMPACT and a FLIP IMPACT.
Recently Dr. Sasho MacKenzie (the world's leading golf biomechanics expert) used his state of the art computer system to do forward dynamics modeling to see the difference in a LAG IMPACT and a FLIP IMPACT.
He then added very small variations (similar to a normal human muscle timing variations) to all the muscles involved in the golf swing and ran the simulation of a flipped impact 1000 times and a lag impact 1000 times and found that the lag impact was VASTLY MORE CONSISTENT than the flipped impact.
The results were so stark that anyone who is not actively doing everything they can to make sure the hands are leading the clubhead through the shot (on all shots short and long) is simply not doing what they need to do to get better.
The results were so stark that anyone who is not actively doing everything they can to make sure the hands are leading the clubhead through the shot (on all shots short and long) is simply not doing what they need to do to get better.
So what I am working on in my full swing has become very simple
- LEADING though impact (hands leading club consistently through the impact zone.)
- FACE ANGLE
- STRIKE QUALITY (AKA Low point control)
- HEAD LEVEL CHANGE (My personal flaw that I think directly effects how much leading I am getting through impact)
- CLUBHEAD SPEED (doing Sunday and Tuesday Night BBG Speed workouts)
Frequent BBG Guest BERTIE CORDLE, did his own study of 450 golfers and found that 84 percent of Amateur Golfers hit the ball with a flipped impact and. Stunningly he also found that 51 percent of pros (mixed with club pros and tour pros) hit the ball with a flipped impact.
BOCIERRI GOLF tested the DST golf Impact line and found that golfers who consistently practiced with the DST impact line improved their distance and accuracy.
So it's all there.
- Sasho proved that a lag impact is crucial to being able to hit the ball where you want.
- Bertie Documented that nearly all club golfers have this problem. (If you look closer at the picture the number of bad impacts raises from 84 to 92 percent)
- Bocierri Golf showed that the DST products help improve this critical component of an effective golf swing.
A word about the few PGA Tour pros that earn money and sometimes even win with (perhaps despite of) a flip impact position. Look into the strokes gained tee to green, around the green and putting stats and you'll see where they are making their career. It's not from ball striking.
Finally, consider the golfer thinking about turning pro.
If getting on the PGA Tour is like an ant climbing this.
If getting on the PGA Tour is like an ant climbing this.
Then getting on the PGA Tour with a flipped impact is like an ant climbing this.
Possibly doable but a hell of a task.
The papers referenced here are on the front page of http://www.dstgolf.com
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