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		<title>Left Elbow Points At Target</title>
		<link>http://golfswingthoughts.com/2012/04/27/left-elbow-points-at-target/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://golfswingthoughts.com/2012/04/27/left-elbow-points-at-target/' addthis:title='Left Elbow Points At Target ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>An easy Swing Thought. I was at the driving range and met a guy selling &#8220;birdie ball&#8217;s&#8221;, a neat practice device (looks like a small ceramic tube that aerodynamically acts just like a ball but doesn&#8217;t go far and won&#8217;t &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://golfswingthoughts.com/2012/04/27/left-elbow-points-at-target/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://golfswingthoughts.com/2012/04/27/left-elbow-points-at-target/' addthis:title='Left Elbow Points At Target ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><h3>An easy Swing Thought.</h3>
<p>I was at the driving range and met a guy selling &#8220;birdie ball&#8217;s&#8221;, a neat practice device (looks like a small ceramic tube that aerodynamically acts just like a ball but doesn&#8217;t go far and won&#8217;t break too many things).</p>
<p>He asked me to try the birdie balls. He noticed my draw and I told him I was having a heck of a time getting rid of it.</p>
<p>He then told me what he considers the best kept secret in golf &#8211; Keep your left elbow (if you&#8217;re right handed) facing the target &#8211; from set up through the swing. It&#8217;s helping me a lot.</p>
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		<title>No &#8220;UP&#8221; in The Golf Swing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Best Golf Tip Ever!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://golfswingthoughts.com/2012/03/13/bestgolftip/' addthis:title='The Best Golf Tip Ever! ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>from http://undercoveragent.hubpages.com/hub/Do-just-1-thing-for-a-great-golf-swing I tried this last Sunday and was amazed at how well it works. Instead of concentrating on my back and forward (down) swing, I followed the advice on the following article: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; &#160; What every golfer should know. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://golfswingthoughts.com/2012/03/13/bestgolftip/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<address>from <a href="http://undercoveragent.hubpages.com/hub/Do-just-1-thing-for-a-great-golf-swing">http://undercoveragent.hubpages.com/hub/Do-just-1-thing-for-a-great-golf-swing</a></address>
<p>I tried this last Sunday and was amazed at how well it works. Instead of concentrating on my back and forward (down) swing, I followed the advice on the following article:</p>
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<h2>What every golfer should know.</h2>
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<p>Golfers everywhere are searching for a great golf swing that works for them. Little do they know, they already have a great golf swing. It&#8217;s already set up inside them.</p>
<p>The perfect golf swing for each golfer is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">their own unique golf swing</span>.</p>
<p>Sometimes it takes a trick to find that golf swing.</p>
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<h2>How come a golf swing fails?</h2>
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<p>Golfers just don&#8217;t know how to get out of their own way. They TRY to make the golf ball fly monster distances, distances that simply are not necessary. That&#8217;s their ego playing golf and that surely is the death of a golf swing.</p>
<p>Golf, like all other individual sports requires the player to have faith in themselves. Trust what you got. Tiger Wood&#8217;s golf swing is very little use to you, if you haven&#8217;t got his physical specifications, his fitness and flexibility, his mental outlook and tempo, discipline to practice, his work ethics, his resources and (not or) his preparation for every shot let alone every game. Use what you got, but use it wisely.</p>
<p>Perhaps golfers shouldn&#8217;t grow up, watch the kids play because they naturally make the swing work. They simply don&#8217;t care how it works, they just get in there and do it and it works. It&#8217;s not about supple young bodies. It&#8217;s about &#8211; let it happen.</p>
<p>They love to just do. It all comes unstuck when they start to copy, when they start to TRY.</p>
<p>So how can you get back to just letting it happen?</p>
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<h2>Just 1 thing. Do you believe it?</h2>
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<p>Do just 1 thing for a great golf swing.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that a bit too hopeful. Surely if you went to a Golf Pro you would get a whole series of lessons, wouldn&#8217;t you? Not just 1 thing.</p>
<p>Yes, and so you should.</p>
<p>How on earth will &#8216;just 1 thing&#8217; make any substantial difference?</p>
<p>How can an online golf swing suggestion make any difference? I mean seriously, the Under Cover Agent doesn&#8217;t know anything about you.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s got to be all smoke and mirrors, a trick.</p>
<p>Yes, you are correct, it is a trick and you are going to play it on yourself.</p>
<p>You are going to play the trick on your conscious mind and that is going to allow your golf swing to happen as it should.</p>
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<h2>The 1 thing.</h2>
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<p>If you are only going to do just 1 thing to get a great golf swing, this is it.</p>
<p>Think this swing thought throughout your whole golf swing -</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>HOLD THE <a class="zem_slink" title="Golf stroke mechanics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_stroke_mechanics" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">GOLF SWING</a> FINISH, HIGH.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s it, that the 1 thing.</p>
<p>I picked this lesson up from a golfer who had really struggled with her golf. She considered that if she knew what the golf swing should look like at the finish, then everything else would be taken care of to get the swing to that point. She said she couldn&#8217;t think fast enough to cope with all the other things she had been told to do. Her swing thought was &#8220;<em>Hollywood Finish, Hollywood Finish</em>&#8221; over and over again.</p>
<p>This lady plays off the men&#8217;s tees and for cash. She took mine very easily.</p>
<p>Disclaimer: If you haven&#8217;t aimed in the right direction, your ball still won&#8217;t go in the right direction. Under Cover Agent says there is more than 1 thing to playing great golf. This is about your golf swing, not your golf game. There is a massive difference between those two subjects.</p>
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<h2>How does it work?</h2>
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<p>If you think &#8216;hold the golf swing high at the finish&#8217; throughout the whole swing, you will have let your sub-conscious mind do its job. <em>Take the club back, then forwards through the ball position with reasonable force. </em></p>
<p><em></em>You will not have been able to think all the sabotaging thoughts, you will not have been able to try any of those fan-dangled tips. Your body will work at its very best for you. It will have navigated itself around those old injuries, that one leg shorter than the other. That&#8217;s the important stuff your sub-conscious mind takes care of, your conscious mind doesn&#8217;t factor in or does at the expense of everything else.</p>
<p>Thinking the swing thought has given the conscious mind some work to do and it will go do it with extreme enthusiasm. You will end up in that position of holding the golf club high over your target side shoulder, and you will be looking straight down the flight path of the golf ball.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s where your golf swing should finish up, your sub-conscious will be pretty much delivering you those results, if it is left alone to do so.</p>
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<h2>Just 1 thing?</h2>
<p>HOLD THE GOLF SWING FINISH, HIGH.</p>
<p>Will that alone produce a great swing, a great game?</p>
<p>No, it will sure help your swing, but to play great golf takes a bit more than 1 thing.</p>
<p>If that great golf swing is made with the wrong golf club selection or pointing in the wrong direction, then the ball will go where you don&#8217;t want it to. Now that&#8217;s not helpful to playing good golf.</p>
<p>The golf swing is important and together we will look into the many aspects of it. We&#8217;ll also look at the other stuff which will make the whole game simple and get great golf results.</p>
<p>Good golf is easy to play, bad golf takes a lot of effort, is frustrating and exhausting.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s play easy, good golf.</p>
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		<title>The myth of hitting the ball in front of you</title>
		<link>http://golfswingthoughts.com/2010/02/28/ball-in-front-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://golfswingthoughts.com/2010/02/28/ball-in-front-myth/' addthis:title='The myth of hitting the ball in front of you ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>We are all taught to hit the ball in front of us.  Unfortunately that is a misconception that causes so many problems. It&#8217;s one of the main optical illusions of golf. I could never understand how to keep the grip &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://golfswingthoughts.com/2010/02/28/ball-in-front-myth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://golfswingthoughts.com/2010/02/28/ball-in-front-myth/' addthis:title='The myth of hitting the ball in front of you ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p>We are all taught to hit the ball in front of us.  Unfortunately that is a misconception that causes so many problems. It&#8217;s one of the main optical illusions of golf.<span id="more-48"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://golfswingthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/CamiloVillegasSwing.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-49" title="CamiloVillegasSwing" src="http://golfswingthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/CamiloVillegasSwing-199x300.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="300" /></a>I could never understand how to keep the grip in front of the head while trying to hit the ball in front of me. Believe me, I&#8217;ve tried. It can&#8217;t be done and is very frustrating..</p>
<p>Then, after so many years of hacking, I had an ah-ha moment. The pros DO NOT hit the ball in front of them.  Well, they do, but only in relation to their lower body. However, in relation to their upper body (that&#8217;s the part that has the arms that have the hands that hold the club) they&#8217;re actually hitting closer to their right side (for right handed golfers.)</p>
<p>Therefore, the upper body turn is one of the most critical parts of the swing. You have to be turned so you are almost facing the target when you make contact with the ball. I.e., the ball is about at your side (in relation to the upper body) at contact.</p>
<p>Having said that, you now know how to keep the grip ahead of the clubhead at contact.  And, you now know one of the main points of  power.</p>
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		<title>Power from Keeping arms close to your body</title>
		<link>http://golfswingthoughts.com/2010/02/18/keeping-arms-close-to-your-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://golfswingthoughts.com/2010/02/18/keeping-arms-close-to-your-body/' addthis:title='Power from Keeping arms close to your body ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>If you have heel contact or the occasional &#8220;hosel-rocket&#8221; try getting your hands closer to your legs and body through impact. www.mcdanielgolf.com.  I started working this concept and it did help my swing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtBmoIQY1yo]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://golfswingthoughts.com/2010/02/18/keeping-arms-close-to-your-body/' addthis:title='Power from Keeping arms close to your body ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">If you have heel contact or the occasional &#8220;hosel-rocket&#8221; try getting <span style="text-decoration: underline;">your hands closer to your legs and body through impact. </span> www.mcdanielgolf.com.  I started working this concept and it did help my swing.</p>
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