How to Cure the Contact

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HermanKoh, 2 months ago Log in to Reply

Hi Paul,

I really like this tip. My problem has never been topping but hitting it fat with woods. Why is it that I hardly ever hit fat shots with my iron but more often than not with my woods. Apart from getting of my back foot to cure this problem has it got anything to do with the length of the club? Tq.
- Paul Wilson, 2 months ago Log in to Reply
  
  Herman,
  
  I did a tip on this here:
  
  Drop Kick: http://ignitiongolf.com/cure-drop-kick
  
  Same as a fat shot with an iron.
  
  It is not he length of the club. It is the path you are swinging at. If you are coming in at it too much from the inside it will hit the ground. To attack too much from the inside would mean your whole upper body would be tilted too much to the right in the downswing. If you get off the back foot this causes you to not tilt too much. So you need to be working on feeling the weight coming off this back foot better, not sliding laterally in the downswing but turning instead, and just feel your whole upper body not angled too much right in the downswing. All of these things will be good for you to work on.
JohnBabb, 2 months ago Log in to Reply

Paul –

Thanks for this series. It helps a lot to see swing flaws in this organized way.
In today’s round, I worked on loose wrists by doing practice swings with early, aggressive release. It seemed to help not only direction and distance but also contact.

Much appreciation,
John
- Paul Wilson, 2 months ago Log in to Reply
  
  John,
  
  Glad you are liking this series. This really is great information to know so you can fix your own swing. The hard part for people is remembering it. This is why I kept it simple.
GerryCarriere, 2 months ago Log in to Reply

Hi Paul
This tip is so,so true, especially the part about slowing down. You gave me a couple of tips a few weeks ago to stop a slight urge to use my arms in the follow through causing pull shots. That helped a lot. Your tip: “touch your leg/ touch your head” also helped. I then remembered one of your earlier tips about slowing down and pretending to hit shots half the distance. The results of what feels now like a slow motion swing has given me fabulous results.I am hitting all my clubs better and straighter. The distance I am getting with my woods is also a huge suprise. Great tip. Thanks again. Gerry
- Paul Wilson, 2 months ago Log in to Reply
  
  Gerry,
  
  All of those things you mentioned are the opposite to what you were doing. Interesting how that works isn’t it. Glad you are on track now.
LottaLiljegren, 2 months ago Log in to Reply

The thin shots is part of what I´m struggling with..Has been to the range two times the last week and maybe, just maybe the winter training inside my head and in my living room has done something good!!
I try to do the swing “your way” and when I look at the video I shot the other day I can see that I´m not swinging my club way behind my back like I did before, it really feels like I´m not doing the whole back swing now, but I do. I don´t know if my problem with buckling my arms has been cured because I just can´t see it on the video (to much clothes). But now I´m able to stand in the right length from the ball which I could n ´t do before! I will try your tips to slow down…even if I find that difficult! Can´t wait to get on the golf course again…..
Thanks for all the tips!
- Paul Wilson, 2 months ago Log in to Reply
  
  Lotta,
  
  The winter practice should have done a lot of good. You did all this without the ball. Now you are aware of your positioning and your swing positions should be starting to look better. Sounds like it is. Keep up the good work. Oh yeah, just because you can go outside does not mean you stop your indoor practice. Keep doing it.
RaymondCHASTEL, 2 months ago Log in to Reply

I experience the problem you touch on with my 3 Wood from the Fairway ,surprisingly not so with the 5 Wood ,and never , never with the mid irons or the hybrids 20 ,23,26 dégrées .
M’y driving is beautiful :250 yards straight ,straight, straight!
So I have developed a ” complex ” with this ” damned ” 3 Wood !
In short I Hit the shot “thin ” and the ball flight is too low . If I “pause ” at the top of the backswing ,it doesn’ t happen !
This would confirm exactly what you demonstrate,trying to hit the 3 Wood to “hard ” .
Do you agrée,or is it also that my weight tends to stay on the right foot too long ?
- Paul Wilson, 2 months ago Log in to Reply
  
  Raymond,
  
  When do you usually hit a 3 wood?
  
  1. Why you are trying to get to a par 5 in 2 shots.
  
  2. When you are trying to make up for a bad tee shot.
  
  These are 2 situations when you are trying to hit the ball a long way. What is your thought when you are trying to hit the ball a long way? Arms and hitting is the thought. So in these situations you have to tell yourself to swing a little easier.
  
  When you stop at the top you are slowing down and taking your arms out of the swing.
  
  Watch:
  
  Topping Fairway Woods: http://ignitiongolf.com/cure-topping-fairway-woods/
DucVu, 2 months ago Log in to Reply

Paul,

Thanks for the tips. I’m a pretty analytical person, so your approach is really helpful. My big issue is certainly “trying” to hit the ball. I find the balance btwn being tight and loose somewhat difficult. I feel like if I’m too loose my whole form just goes to heck. I know the main point is to have loose wrist, but for the most part “control” everywhere esle. Any added advice on trying to find the right balance?

Duc
- Paul Wilson, 2 months ago Log in to Reply
  
  Duc,
  
  I would be working on very specific positions with the arms like hinging in the backswing, touch the head in the follow through and releasing the club down and through impact. You could throw some lag drill etc. in their too. All of these things require you to feel the arms as you are working on them. Once you get them then you are turning them off. When you play turn them off too. You cannot work on perfect positioning just by turning your arms off. If you do it will take you a lifetime if not longer to get it.
  
  Just use the red nav bar at the top of each page to search out the sections you are working on. SWING TIPS > FULL SWING > THEN ARE OF THE SWING
  
  So help your progress along by setting these specific positions and turning them off later. This is how I got it many years ago. I never turned the arms off until 1999. At this point I had been playing for over 20 years.